Chandi Class Today

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Namaste Friends!

 

Some points from Swamiji's class today.

 

Love

srini

 

Customs and congenialities of learning

 

1. Bring attitude of highest respect. Srim. Sh mean shanti, peace

 

2. Listen to the Guru with total equanimity.

 

3. Do not debate or show off.

 

4. Learn with attitude of peace. The first qualification of a true seeker.

 

5. Don' go empty handed to the Guru. A flower, wood for havan, fruits

or sweets to feed devotees asa token of your sense of privilege.

 

6. Always bow down with all of your energy and consciousness.

 

7. Wait for the Master to invite you to be seated.

 

We all know how to become realized. The only thing that prevents us

from becoming and remaining in self-realization is our attachments.

 

q & a:

 

1. Is it custom to directly give the flowers or fruits to the Master,

or, rather, is it perfered to bring the gifts to the temple and

arrange the flowers or fruits in the Temple and not place them at the

feet of the Master?

 

Every temple has its own procedures. Observe and ask someone who would

know. Don't put them at the feet as the flowers cannot be used for

puja. Ask the Guru, can I put them on the vase, organize them for you,

or give them to you, etc.?

 

2. My mind says nothing would suit me more than to give up all

attachments but in reality there is family responsibility and all that

comes with it. How does one with family let it ALL go?

 

You don't. No way. What you do is make it an offering to the Goddess.

Goddess you gave me this family. I don't give up my responsibilty. I

give up my attachment to my responsibility. I am serving God by doing

this puja. This is the Puja God gave you. I am doing this cheerfully

and happily. That's the way

 

3. How to be unattached while living in the world?

 

Use one hand to do work of world and with the other grab on to God and

dont let go. Maa says be like a fish in the mud. It's in the mud but

nothing sticks to it. Be efficient. Don't waste time and respurces and

offer these to God. That efficiency is a sadhu.

 

4. At what age should we start reflecting on our detachment?

 

As soon as possible. The moment you wake up.

 

5. The whole idea of sacrifice. What the birds are doing seems like

sacrifice to me, or the law of reciprocal maintenance, whereas humans

are attached and want something back. Isn't the whole manifested

universe about sacrifice?

 

Yes it is. When we realize the importance of sacrifice we live in

peace. Yajna means the union between the fire that burns outside and

the fire inside the ajna chakra.