Guest guest Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Namaste: Tanmaya and I had a conversation about family recently. He remarked that Maa and Swami put great emphasis on rejuvenating the concept of family. Maa and Swami teach the importance of the family as the joining of Shiva and Shaki. They urge each family to establish a Temple in their home, and perform worship daily. One family at a time, they seek to bring peace to this world. Simple, yet profound. They seek to change the trends of time, to teach this generation to value the core principles of family, love, devotion, sacrifice, and worship. Jai Ma Jai Swami vishweshwar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 Peace to all! Shree Maa and Swami are indeed the highest examples of spiritual teachers, their wisdom is so simple, so pure. You are very fortunate to be there to experience their love within a voice's reach.... Vish and Tanmaya, I would be grateful to hear more about your family conversation, how your devotion to teachings and practices have impacted your family's spiritual quest, particularly your children. I ask because we (and I say that as a collective global community) seem to have lost so many of our children who have become so disenfranchised with organized religion as a whole. Actually it really began with our generation. No matter how we try to give them a solid religious foundation, the sheep still go astray. We started to ask, " Why? " Do you think it would better serve our children (and ourselves, actually) to teach first the Divinity that is within each of us, and that all life is sacred? I've had a far easier time teaching my children that they are kind, compassionate, loving/loved beings than I have had teaching them to be good Lutherans. My daughter and I flipped when we were told by her youth minister that we could not be Christians if we believed in reincarnation. Scripture lessons are lost in literal translation to my children with autism. I've seen first-hand that true spirituality and religion really have very little to do with each other. (For example: several very devout Christian world leaders having no other choice but to invade another nation(s) to fight terrorism - where in Christ's teachings taught war is the answer? Nowhere that I'm aware of. Isn't Holy Wars an oxymoron? But I digress....) I look forward to hearing about your real-life experiences with your children. How have you " inspired the fire " in them? respectfully, sal. , " inspectionconnection108 " <inspectionconnection108 wrote: > > Namaste: Tanmaya and I had a conversation about family recently. He > remarked that Maa and Swami put great emphasis on rejuvenating the > concept of family. Maa and Swami teach the importance of the family > as the joining of Shiva and Shaki. They urge each family to establish > a Temple in their home, and perform worship daily. One family at a > time, they seek to bring peace to this world. Simple, yet profound. > They seek to change the trends of time, to teach this generation to > value the core principles of family, love, devotion, sacrifice, and > worship. > > Jai Ma Jai Swami > > vishweshwar > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 Namaste: My wife and I believe that all children should be taught that God is within them, and, they should be given a technique to experience that reality. And, the second component of conscious child rearing is that as parents, we have to " walk the walk, and talk the talk " , or it is all just a sham. If we give our children a firm foundation, and they grow up and decide to walk away from the formal aspects of the teaching, then, we have to have faith that they will intuit the right way to live. We have to take the long view of life, and remember that each soul incarnates with their own karma and thus, we can try our best, but, ultimately they will follow their own hearts, not necessarily ours. WE lived in an ashram in Iowa for many years, and our son went to a school which taught consciousness based education, then we met Maa and eventually moved to Napa to be with Her and Swami. At every step of the way, we reinforced the notion that all life is one, and all hearts share the same love, and it is better to focus on the similarities than the differences in people. Those core lessons, our son has imbibed them into his daily life. Now, my son knows how to perform puja, and has participated in many homas-sacred fire ceremonies, and served Maa and Swami personally, but, today he wants no part of any ceremony. He calls himself a Hindu, and he lives like a Hindu-accepting every religion as a valid path to God, and he loves, and is loved by, all he meets, and everyone is his friend. Isn't that what we all want for our children? Dogmas and intellectual rantings take the joy out of spirituality, and leave one dry and cold. If we can accept that each child has their own karma, and has to find their own way in this world, then that acceptance helps create peace in the family, and that peace radiates into our world. Jai Maa Jai Swami vishweshwar -- In , " sal. " <salpaulsen wrote: > > Peace to all! > > Shree Maa and Swami are indeed the highest examples of spiritual > teachers, their wisdom is so simple, so pure. You are very fortunate > to be there to experience their love within a voice's reach.... > > Vish and Tanmaya, I would be grateful to hear more about your family > conversation, how your devotion to teachings and practices have > impacted your family's spiritual quest, particularly your children. I > ask because we (and I say that as a collective global community) seem > to have lost so many of our children who have become so disenfranchised > with organized religion as a whole. Actually it really began with our > generation. No matter how we try to give them a solid religious > foundation, the sheep still go astray. We started to ask, " Why? " > > Do you think it would better serve our children (and ourselves, > actually) to teach first the Divinity that is within each of us, and > that all life is sacred? I've had a far easier time teaching my > children that they are kind, compassionate, loving/loved beings than I > have had teaching them to be good Lutherans. My daughter and I flipped > when we were told by her youth minister that we could not be Christians > if we believed in reincarnation. Scripture lessons are lost in literal > translation to my children with autism. I've seen first-hand that true > spirituality and religion really have very little to do with each > other. (For example: several very devout Christian world leaders > having no other choice but to invade another nation(s) to fight > terrorism - where in Christ's teachings taught war is the answer? > Nowhere that I'm aware of. Isn't Holy Wars an oxymoron? But I > digress....) > > I look forward to hearing about your real-life experiences with your > children. How have you " inspired the fire " in them? > > respectfully, > sal. > > > > , " inspectionconnection108 " > <inspectionconnection108@> wrote: > > > > Namaste: Tanmaya and I had a conversation about family recently. He > > remarked that Maa and Swami put great emphasis on rejuvenating the > > concept of family. Maa and Swami teach the importance of the family > > as the joining of Shiva and Shaki. They urge each family to establish > > a Temple in their home, and perform worship daily. One family at a > > time, they seek to bring peace to this world. Simple, yet profound. > > They seek to change the trends of time, to teach this generation to > > value the core principles of family, love, devotion, sacrifice, and > > worship. > > > > Jai Ma Jai Swami > > > > vishweshwar > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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