Guest guest Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Dear Friends, Yesterday, it was the 4th anniversary of my father's passing away. I have put an article on the blog about him. Namaste and love to all Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 , Harsha wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Yesterday, it was the 4th anniversary of my father's passing away. I > have put an article on the blog about him. > > Namaste and love to all > Harsha Namaste, Harsha - and thanks for letting me into the group. Your father looks like a nice fellow - I didn't get along with mine too well. It is all in the past now, I am friendly with him (although we still don't talk much, as he lives far away - also, he's never been that fluent in English, as Turkish is his first language). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Harsha wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Yesterday, it was the 4th anniversary of my father's passing away. I > have put an article on the blog about him. > > Namaste and love to all > Harsha Hi Harsha. My Father died 6 days before Christmas in 1995. He was old when I was born and I was young when he died. Though my father accomplished many great things in life, as a dad, he was rather neglectful and abusive. I know he did the best with what was handed down to him through the forces of Karma, so I forgive him. I suppose all the drama stories of time/space decay into Timelessness like a canceled soap-opera whether the story was good or bad (or in between)... so either way... Blessings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Dear David, Thanks for sharing. I don't know how we decide whether any story is good or bad. Sometimes things that seem bad at one time, seem good at another. The opposite can be true as well. It's all a mystery. Mahatama Gandhi's father I think was 40 when he married.his fourth wife who was 18. Gandhi was born to them shortly after in 1869. Gandhi's own marriage was arranged when he was 13 to Kasturba who was12. Gandhi has stated that he was completely overwhelmed with lust for his wife all the time. Three years later when Gandhi was 16, his father was ill and dying and Gandhi was attending to him most of the time. One of Gandhi's uncles relieved him for the night so Gandhi could get some rest. Gandhi went to his bedroom and seeing his wife was overcome with desire and made love to her. He was in bed with his wife when a servant came and informed him that his father had passed away. Gandhi felt immense guilt and shame about that for the rest of his life. So, stories are stories. All of our stories are build with many different threads of love, hate, shame, guilt, fear, revenge, and God only knows what else. Ultimately, like Gandhi, we all face the same challenge. The challenge of self-acceptance and self-forgiveness. Perhaps we can only give to others what we have first given to ourselves. Lots of love Harsha David wrote: > Hi Harsha. My Father died 6 days before Christmas in 1995. > > He was old when I was born > and I was young when he died. > > Though my father accomplished many great things in life, > as a dad, he was rather neglectful and abusive. > > I know he did the best with what was handed down to him > through the forces of Karma, > so I forgive him. > > I suppose all the drama stories > of time/space > decay into Timelessness > like a canceled soap-opera > whether the story was good or bad (or in between)... > > so either way... > > Blessings > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Harsha wrote: > stories are stories. All of our stories are build with many > different threads of love, hate, shame, guilt, fear, revenge, and God > only knows what else. Ultimately, like Gandhi, we all face the same > challenge. The challenge of self-acceptance and self-forgiveness. > Perhaps we can only give to others what we have first given to ourselves. Dr. Phil says we have to give to OurSelf what we perceive to have been denied us from others. Normally I'm not into the militaristic tough guy guru approach but that sentiment seems to make sense. :~) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 omkaradatta wrote: > Namaste, Harsha - and thanks for letting me into the group. Your > father looks like a nice fellow - I didn't get along with mine too > well. > > It is all in the past now, I am friendly with him (although we still > don't talk much, as he lives far away - also, he's never been that > fluent in English, as Turkish is his first language). Hi Tim. I heard you weren't posting anymore. (other than to your own start-up group). Did you mean just not posting to NDS only? Anyhow, I see you are posting here so welcome either way. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Blessings and to my father too, who moved on 11/2 years ago ______ Posted through Grouply, the better way to access your like this one. Check out Grouply at: http://www.grouply.com/?code=post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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