-what is spiritual? to Gauri

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You have such a big heart and you do me great kindness, Gauri!

I am so blessed to be among you....

 

much love to all!

sal.

 

, " gauri_108 " <gauri_108 wrote:

>

> Namaste Sal!

>

> Wow! your post had me laughing and crying all at once!

> You are great!

>

> , " sal. " <salpaulsen@> wrote:

> >

> > Peace to you, Eric,

> >

> > IMHO, both your questions, to paraphrase, " should I stay or

should I

> > go " are truth. You, in your experience, on your Path, at that

> > present moment, were protected . Your faith determined you were

> > protected. Your wife, in her experience, on her own Path, in

that

> > present moment, may not have felt so protected.

> >

> > I may be going out on a limb, here, but Swamiji teaches/models

what

> > he does in the moment. That is his Path. I would venture to

guess

> > that he also is also extremely protected and he trusts that

> > protection. He teaches how he became protected. He teaches us

the

> > ultimate in personal protection. But he would never judge right

or

> > wrong what another would do. How would we know what he would do

if

> > he was in an asan in the midst of a tornado...and all of the

sudden

> > any particular form of God said, " Hey, Swami, you'd better get up

and

> > go to the basement. " Swamiji would always, always follow that

> > protection. (Is the vibrational energy of a mantra stronger than

> > that of a tornado? Now there's a cool question! But as usual, I

> > digress...)

> >

> > It was spiritual for you to stay. It would also have been

spiritual

> > to break the puja and serve the God in your wife. Perhaps she

was

> > the form of God that was telling you to get your tail

downstairs.

> > The rest of us do not know nor can we judge. Whatever it was you

did,

> > you trusted your ultimate intuition.

> >

> > Once one enters the thought seed, " should I " , there enters the

> > equally, yet polar seed, " or shouldn't I " . The space lying

between

> > those two thought seeds is now conflict. You are no longer

acting in

> > the spiritual present moment, but in this foggy abyss of mind,

> > thought, time and ego. What should " I " do? Doing one

automatically

> > conjurs up a hypothetical consequence for not doing the other.

There

> > now exists this new dimensional twist called, " what if? "

> >

> > Faith and trust in the universe get thrown out the window.

> >

> > What if your wife had come upstairs to rattle you back to reality

and

> > your roof blew off and she went with it, leaving you perfectly

placid

> > and peaceful in your puja? What if you went downstairs and now

felt

> > guilty for breaking your asana? Silly to ask, but what if?

> >

> > The householder in me says we ditch the should I, shouldn't I and

> > what ifs, and just do. That is spiritual.

> >

> > And Wendy? You know I don't have to tell how cool it is to get

all

> > that love when that beautiful boy's tummy is full...you get

hugged

> > and told that that was the best dinner he's ever eaten (even if

it

> > was just mac and cheese), and you KNOW all is right in the

universe!

> >

> > I guess this means y'all know that this mother hen would have

been

> > right down in the basement with her chicks under her

wings...telling

> > them they were safe.

> >

> > love to all,

> > sal.