Guest guest Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Gloria Lee path ; namo - Ben Hassine Typed from Day by Day with Bhagavan, pages 81 - 83 Mr. Joshi asked: I am a householder. I have dependants and obstacles in the way of my spiritual progress. What should I do? Bhagavan: See whether those dependants and obstacles are outside you, whether they exist without you. Joshi: I am a beginner. How should I start? Bhagavan: Were are you now? Where is the goal? What is the distance to be covered? The Self is not somewhere far away to be reached. You are always that. You have only to give up your habit, a long standing one, of identifying yourself with the non-self. All effort is only for that. By turning the mind outwards, you have been seeing the world, the non-self. If you turn it inward you will see the Self. After this discourse, Lokamma began singing a Tamil song. Bhagavan at once said: "Mother used to sing this song very often. This repeats the very same thing we have been talking about now." Thereupon I asked Bhagavan who the author of the song was. He said: "Avudai Ammal. She has composed a great many songs. They are very popular in those parts (Madura and other nearby districts). Some of them have been published. Still so many remain unpublished. They have been handed down orally from generation to generation, mostly through women, who learn them by heart, hearing them from others and singing them along with those who already know them." I learnt now that Bhagavan's mother was illiterate. Bhagavan told me that, in spite of it, she had learnt by heart a great many songs. The song and its meaning are given below. How did the Self that ever is Awareness -- bliss, How did It till now behave As if It had begotten this? Wonder of wonders, beyond understanding Is your strange fear, My Swan, my dear, Your fear of me! Mind learning, knowing and forgetting, Body begotten, begetting and then dying, Whence these impurities in Purity? Bigness, smallness, class, rank, sight and seer -- Why these darkling waves in the full deep sea of bliss? No need for speech or vow of silence; No coming or going; no beginning, end or middle. Nor light nor sound; no quality. No separateness and hence no fear. Oh wonder of wonders, The things that seem In a dream! In and out, high and low, and all the ten directions Lost in light illimitably vast, Unbroken, unsupported, full and calm, Pure Awareness, Bliss immutable, The once-remote, long -- longed -- for goal Now here, joy, joy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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