Fwd: Take my Sorrow Please. (I'm not kidding)

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GuruRatings , " Uncle Sophie " <unclesophie wrote:

 

 

 

GuruRatings , " Venu " <akvenugopal@> wrote:

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> GuruRatings , " Uncle Sophie " <unclesophie@> wrote:

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> One important point that some westerners miss

> about the Indian Guru is that often what he

> tells is specific for the particular audience

> and a particular context. Here is one example :

> One day a western disciple was sitting near Sri

> Nisargadatta Maharaj. A group of illiterate

> villagers happened to visit the Guru, at that

> time. Sri.Nisargadatta Maharaj tells them :

> " I am greater than any Guru alive or dead. I

> am greater than Sri Krishna ! " .

> The westerner was agast to hear this. Sri.

> Nisargadatta Maharaj turns to the westerner

> and tells him : " This is not meant for you.

> This is exclusively meant for the benefit

> of the villagers !! " .

> Imagine that one sentence alone is taken out

> and printed in a book : " I am greater than

> Sri.Krishna ! " What will a reader feel if he

> reads, Sri. Nisargadatta Maharaj boasting

> like this ?!

> Swami Vivekananda was an extra ordinary scholar

> of Vedanta, probably second only to Adi Sankaracharya.

> The essence of the Vedanta, he expresses as

> follows : " You are neither your body nor your mind.

> You are a Soul immortal and Spirit free, blessed

> and eternal !! " .

> With love and regards

> VG

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Thank you VG.

 

I also thank you for this snippet;

 

" Like two birds of golden plumage, inseparable

companions, the individual self and the immortal

Self are perched on the branches of the selfsame

tree. The former tastes of the sweet and bitter

fruits of the tree; the latter, tasting of neither,

calmly observes. " (Mundaka Upanishad 3:1:1)

 

I have only just discovered it this moment.

Fortuitous backtracking.

 

I've had birds on the brain, and here they are...

 

How beautiful this Sanskrit you quote.

 

Uncle Sophie

 

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