Guest guest Posted January 7, 2002 Report Share Posted January 7, 2002 Namaste Everyone; my humblest respects to my Gurudeva, Jagat Janani, and all the assembled devotees here in this chat group and beyond, I am feeling very good today because I feel that balance is once again being stored to my life. Madathil Nair, thank you for your kind words, I accepted it as a message from Maa telling me that the storm of the last two months is over! I'd like to know a bit about each of you actually, so please tell me a bit about yourselves. You all know a bit about me. By the way, I will stop using slang terminology. It's very juvenile, and it was my subconscious mechanism for keeping people from getting too close to me. I now see that Maa's lower right hand mudra holds validity; I really do have nothing to fear. My humblest pranaam to you all, love brother Shyam. ____ Send your holiday cheer with http://greetings..ca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2002 Report Share Posted January 9, 2002 Hi friends! I am Madathil Rajendran Nair, age: 55, married with two daughters, working in Kuwait in an administrative job. I am in this country since 1976, which means I have spent 26 years of my 55 years' existence on the globe in Kuwait. I hail from Palghat in Kerala. Nevertheless, if you ask me where I belong I would like to borrow from Sankara and proudly answer " Svadesho Bhuvanathrayam " , because I " know " that that is the TRUTH about everyone. I am a devotee of the Universal Mother - call Her Meenakshi, Kamakshi, Visalakshi, Mariamman, Matha Amritanandamayi or by any other name. I have organized a small prayer place in my house where I have pictures of all these so many forms of mother housed. It is a virtual Mahila Samaj! The only exceptions are the male minority of Guruvayoorappan and my favourite Hanumanji. Despite my many failings as an ordinary human being (which of course do not hurt anyone), I endeavour to see Maa in everything, for I " know " that there is nothing other than Maa (Consciousness). I always call out to Her - Amma, Amma .... and I can feel her close by me listening and protecting. That awareness keeps me happy and kicking (to use a slang with all apologies). If you all can bear with me, permit me to narrate one of my dreams. I was in my village and an elephant of my childhood days was passing by. The poor animal was just a bag of bones - totally famished and suffering. I embraced his trunk and tried to console him saying " " Call Amma, call Amma! She will take care of you. " He was in tears and I tried to wipe his eyes. It was then that I realized that he was pressing his head against me and my back was against a wall. An elephant is an elephant no matter how emaciated he is and the pressure of his temple was already hurting and suffocating me. I was in great pain and I could hear my ribs break. The vedantic thought that I cannot be different from what I experience suddenly occurred to me and in a split-second it dawned on me that I was the elephant, I was his temple, I was his tears, I was the pressure on my chest, I was the noise of my ribs breaking, I was my pain and what not. I called out " Amma, Amma! " and woke up weeping and continued to weep for a while longer to the utter consternation of my bewildered wife. (She does not like my " eccentric affair " with Maa. A bit jealous too because the poor lady rightly feels that I am devoting more time to " Her " .). The tears I wept then was tears of unfathomable joy because I could immediately surmise Christ's thoughts as He was being crucified. I am my crucifiers, I am the cross, I am the nails, I am the blood, I am the pain and if I am the pain, can that pain hurt me?! So, he looked down upon his tormentors and smiled! Can there be a better explanation for Christ's smile? Please don't misunderstand me. The intent of narrating this dream is not to claim Christ's greatness. I only want to say that a vedantin perhaps undestands Him better. I also thought that it may be of some help to our Shyam. Shyam, can you meditate visualizing Mother as your ailing heart and the pain there? From my experience, that should help. Often I visualize her in each and every atom of my body, in my pains, in all the sounds I here, in all the thoughts that flash across my mind, etc. Then there is no scope for the " I " thought which is the sufferer. Only Maa remains! Shyam, I am not promising a medical miracle. Only that if you endeavour as I mentiond above, you sure will be able to live better with your complaint. Let us leave the miracle part to her. She should bring it about. Shouldn't She? I have not received any manthradeeksha from any Guru. I do not know if I should. In my present circumstances, such a possibility is just remote. Let my elders in the forum advise me. My humble pranams to everyone. Forgive me if I have indulged. Jai Maa! M.R. Nair --- Shyam Wazir <bhairavi99ca wrote: > Namaste Everyone; > > my humblest respects to my Gurudeva, Jagat Janani, > and > all the assembled devotees here in this chat group > and > beyond, > > I am feeling very good today because I feel that > balance is once again being stored to my life. > Madathil Nair, thank you for your kind words, I > accepted it as a message from Maa telling me that > the > storm of the last two months is over! > > I'd like to know a bit about each of you actually, > so > please tell me a bit about yourselves. You all know > a > bit about me. By the way, I will stop using slang > terminology. It's very juvenile, and it was my > subconscious mechanism for keeping people from > getting > too close to me. I now see that Maa's lower right > hand > mudra holds validity; I really do have nothing to > fear. > > My humblest pranaam to you all, > love brother Shyam. > > ____ > > Send your holiday cheer with > http://greetings..ca > Send FREE video emails in Mail! http://promo./videomail/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2002 Report Share Posted January 9, 2002 Mr Nair You mentioned you are a bhakta of hanumaan do you have an audio rendition of the hanumaan sahasranaam. It is difficult for me to just recite it and this would help. Look forward to hearing Pria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2002 Report Share Posted January 9, 2002 Group, A few threads back, some friend asked " why they are writing books then.. if one has to keep manthras secret " . And another respectable friend noted " without a guru one may do mistakes in prayer, which may yield bad/unexpected results " . *Guru* has been heart of many discussions.. atleast for those who try something without a Guru :-) Well.. can respectable members of this group quote some lines from authoritative scriptures about " Guru (as a person sitting in front of you) is a MUST... (to learn spiritual things) " I am not a learned person, I just want to know what scriptures say.. Forgive me for any mistakes in this mail. Sincerely, U- , Madathil Nair <madathilnair> wrote: > I have not received any manthradeeksha from any Guru. > I do not know if I should. In my present > circumstances, such a possibility is just remote. Let > my elders in the forum advise me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2002 Report Share Posted January 11, 2002 Hi Priya! I don't have the sahasranama. I chant the chaalisa, Anjaneya ashtothari, Apaduddharana Hanumat Sthothram and one other Hanumat sthuthi beginning Sarvarishtanivarakam ....... I chant these in my own style as I have found that the expected intonations are beyond me. Before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and my incarceration in Baghdad, I used to chant some other Hanumat manthras given by a friend. In retrospect, I am afraid my chanting such powerful manthras without proper guidance had caused my imprisonment in Baghdad and related uncertainties. However, I am very happy that Hanumanji helped me tide over that difficult period unscathed. I have long forgotten those manthras! As for my other prayers, I start my early mornig and evening prayers with Ganesa sthuthi followed by some devi sthothras (particularly about Meenakshi and Bhavani), 11th chapter of Devi Mahathmya, Bhadrakali sthuthi, selected verses from Soundarya Lahari (each repeated ten times), Lalitha Sahasranama, Devi Navarathnamalika sthothram, Annapoorna sthothram, Mahalakshmi sthuthi, Kanakadhara sthothram, Mahalakshmi kavacham, Syamala Dandakam and navagraha sthothras (I am an astrologer; so I need planetary grace in abundance!). One or two chapters of Devi Mahathmya are also read every morning together with Argala sthothram, keelakam and kavacham. During the entire process, I endeavour to visualise Mother as the consciousness that pervades and lights up everything including my body, space and time. Although it is very difficult to keep such visualization steady, my efforts nevertheless give moments of extreme ectasy. Amma's grace! Thanks for your interest, Priya. Thanks to those Bhakthas who have been very kindly forthcoming with their views on the need of a Guru for doing saadhana. My doubts on this subject still linger because we know of realized souls like Maatha Amrithanandamayi Devi, Bhagwan Ramana Maharshiji, Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsaji et al, who did not have a formal guru in their lives. Further, Bhagwan Ramana Maharshiji had often commented that anything, be it animate or inanimate, can be a guru if it can kindle the interest of the sadhaka towards the absolute. From the vedantic point of view, one's guru is one's own projection. So, once one starts seeking, the grace of the guru should necessarily come. Right? Is it then really necessary to worry about from which direction or source the blessing is coming. Can't Mother herself help her Bhaktha in this regard in whatever form she likes? Jai Maa Madathil Nair " Priya Iyer " <pria7 Re: another wonderful day! Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:05:25 -0000 Mr Nair You mentioned you are a bhakta of hanumaan do you have an audio rendition of the hanumaan sahasranaam. It is difficult for me to just recite it and this would help. Look forward to hearing Pria _______________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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