cont'd--One more time

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Thanks El for the pointer. What i really liked about Swami

Paramatmananda's devotional account is that how Maharaj gives him a

fruit and takes a huge pair of cymbals and starts to sing a

devotional song to his Guru. This is called tradition, not something

that we see very often in American satsangs. If it was an American

guru, how would he make up for the lack of tradition? He'd probably

give the Swami a fruit bar, listen to a meditation CD by the musician

Ananda Dass (referred to as Shirley by her old friends) and meditate

for 15 minutes (timed by a beeping stopwatch) and leave the satsang

just in time to watch his favorite tv show, the Osbournes on MTV (not

to be taken seriously, just humor.)

 

Hur

 

Nisargadatta, " elizabeth_wells2001 "

<elizabeth_wells2001> wrote:

> " He then got up and taking a

> > huge pair of cymbals,

> started to sing devotional songs in

> praise of his Guru. " (SNM from below)

>

> Yes. Guru with a Capital G.

> El

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> Nisargadatta, " elizabeth_wells2001 "

> <elizabeth_wells2001> wrote:

> > Yes, Hur, Øne More Time!

> >

> > " Until you leave your body, may you have full

> > > devotion and surrender to your Guru. " (SNM

> > from below.)

> >

> > Guru with a capital G,

> > is not a person, not a personality,

> > not even a Teaching. El

> >

> > " I doubt any of you see me how I REALLY am! "

> > (SNM from Consciousness and the Absolute.)

> >

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> > Nisargadatta, " hurg " <hurg> wrote:

> > > " I felt fully satisfied and peaceful and thought that I could

not

> > > possibly receive anything more than Maharaj had told me. I

> > thought

> > > of going back to Arunachala the next day. I mentioned it and

> > asked

> > > him for his blessing.

> > > 'If you feel like that, then you may go. Do you know what my

> > > blessing is for you? Until you leave your body, may you have

> > full

> > > devotion and surrender to your Guru.' Maharaj looked at me

> > > compassionately. Moved at his kindness, I started to cry but

> > > controlled myself. Even then a few tears trickled down my

> > cheeks.

> > > He smiled and gave me a piece of fruit. He then got up and

> > taking a

> > > huge pair of cymbals, started to sing devotional songs in

> > praise of

> > > his Guru. I bowed down to him and went to rest in my room. "

> > >

> > >

> > > " On the Road to Freedom:

> > > A Pilgrimage in India, Volume 1 "

> > > by Swami Paramatmananda Puri

> > > Published by,

> > > Mata Amritanandamayi Center

> > > San Ramon, California

> > >

> > > http://nisargadatta.net/SwamiParamatmananda.html

> > >

> > > Note: Swami Paramatmananda met Ammachi a few months

> > after his

> > > encounter with Maharaj.