Guest guest Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Hello everyone, peace and joy to you. A little while ago, this was posted: Sara means an ocean. Sva means one's own. Ti means the personification or embodiment. Sarasvati is the embodiment of one's own ocean of experience. I have been curious about it ever since, it is a beautiful truth to me and makes me feel wonder at what it might feel like to truly realize that statement. What does it mean, to embody one's own ocean of experience? What is your understanding/experience/wonder about this truth? How do you apply it to your everyday life? Thank you, Jennifer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 Now you have me thinking about it. I resently found a depiction of Saraswati that looks like my mother. So now I use it on my altar. That in itself has changed my conception and experience with Saraswati. Interesting how we read the meaning of these mantras sometimes but don't always dig into the meaning til someone outside us draws our attention to it and opens our eyes. Guess Saraswati has desided it's time to dig a little deeper. Thank you for voicing her direction. This is going to take time and thought. Just off the top of my head now by what you discribe as the meaning I see all my experiences and the see a clear membrain surounding everthing and everyone that is envolved with my experiences and then I see Saraswati as that embodiment that holds it all together as my personal experience here. I'll save this email and see later how my experiences change this thought. Thanks for posting. Devijrholm1007 <jrholm1007 wrote: Hello everyone, peace and joy to you. A little while ago, this was posted:Sara means an ocean.Sva means one's own.Ti means the personification or embodiment.Sarasvati is the embodiment of one's own ocean of experience.I have been curious about it ever since, it is a beautiful truth to me and makes me feel wonder at what it might feel like to truly realize that statement. What does it mean, to embody one's own ocean of experience? What is your understanding/experience/wonder about this truth? How do you apply it to your everyday life? Thank you, Jennifer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Thank you so much for your response! When I read your experience of the Saraswati that looks like your mother, I thought, " Why don't I have a picture of my mother on my altar?! " Because, my mother is for me an embodiment of unconditional love. All my life, no matter what else was going on, I have known beyond a doubt that my mother would love me no matter what I did. So just now I jumped up and put a picture of her on my altar! Thanks for that. And I love the vision that you shared of the 'membrain of experiences'. One of the contemplations that has been running for me about this meaning is that the spiritual practices that Shree Maa and Swamiji offer us, wrap us in love and light when we do them. Thus in every moment that we are engaged in the beauty of singing Chandi, or chanting mantra, or contemplating the teachings, we are adding love and light to our ocean of experience, which we then embody in our everyday life as the effects of the practices 'dust' our thoughts, words and actions with that love and light, which is then transmitted to every being that we come in contact with. It's stunning to think of, isn't it? Thanks for connecting in wonder, Jennifer , devi <student61754 wrote: > > Now you have me thinking about it. > I resently found a depiction of Saraswati that looks like my mother. > So now I use it on my altar. > That in itself has changed my conception and experience with Saraswati. > Interesting how we read the meaning of these mantras sometimes but don't always dig into the meaning til someone outside us draws our attention to it and opens our eyes. > Guess Saraswati has desided it's time to dig a little deeper. > Thank you for voicing her direction. > This is going to take time and thought. > Just off the top of my head now by what you discribe as the meaning I see all my experiences and the see a clear membrain surounding everthing and everyone that is envolved with my experiences and then I see Saraswati as that embodiment that holds it all together as my personal experience here. > I'll save this email and see later how my experiences change this thought. > Thanks for posting. > Devi > > jrholm1007 <jrholm1007 wrote: > Hello everyone, peace and joy to you. A little while ago, this was > posted: > > Sara means an ocean. > > Sva means one's own. > > Ti means the personification or embodiment. > > Sarasvati is the embodiment of one's own ocean of experience. > > I have been curious about it ever since, it is a beautiful truth to me > and makes me feel wonder at what it might feel like to truly realize > that statement. What does it mean, to embody one's own ocean of > experience? > > What is your understanding/experience/wonder about this truth? How do > you apply it to your everyday life? Thank you, Jennifer > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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