Individual Journey

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Since Charles Alexander Eastman, 1858-1939, named Ohiseya (Winner),

of the Wahpeton Dakota, was raised traditionally as a Woodland Sioux

by

his grandmother, Uncheeda, until he was 15 years of age, he was

fortunately able to be deeply grounded in the Native

Spiritual

traditions, language, culture, and oral history of his people before

receiving a white man's education and eventually becoming a

physician,

autobiographer, lecturer and teller of legends.

 

The profound depth and wisdom of his Native traditional background

shines through in the legacy of his beautifully written words.

 

'Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the

Great Silence alone! What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The

Holy Silence is His voice!'

 

I was reminded of Shri Mataji's voice as She spoke with such loving

depth about the individual inward journey.

 

" Every moment remember that your movement has to be inward. When

you

move inward you forget your ideas of outer glories. It is an

individual journey towards God. When you meditate and when you reach

there, then you beome collective. Before that it's an absolutely

individual journey within. It's an absolutely individual journey.

 

You should be able to see this - that in this journey nobody is your

relation, nobody is your friend. You are absolutely alone,

absolutely

alone. You have to move alone within yourself. Don't hate anyone,

don't be irresponsible, but in a meditative mood you are alone. No

one

exists there, you alone, and once you enter into that ocean, then

the

whole world is your own manifestation. All the children become your

children and you treat all people with equal understanding. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - 1988

 

 

http://www.indians.org/welker/ohiyesa.htm

http://www.indigenouspeople.net/ohiseya.htm

http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/authors/eastman.html