Linda and all about sankalpa

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Namaste Linda and all family: In my experience, it takes concerted

effort to keep on the straight and narrow path. One makes a sankalpa,

and so many different desires and emotions and thoughts arise to take

one's attention away from the commitment.

However, the effects of repeating a mantra over and over, or chanting

the Chandi, etc, usually propel one through the distractions to victory.

Keep going forward, Maa has told me this over and over. If you fall

down, dust off, get up, and begin again. Don't beat yourself up, just

thank God for the chance to begin again, and go forward.

Maa is with us, and She knows we struggle with our ego, but, She

supports us through thick and thin, and NEVER stops sending us love

and strength.

 

Jai Ma Jai Swami

 

vishweshwar

 

 

 

, nierika wrote:

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> vish wrote:

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> ...As Ramakrishna says: be like a mudfish at the bottom of a pond.

> Sitting in the mud, yet never dirty.

> Repeating the mantras over and over, ultimately, mantra will take away

> the mind, and the great ego, and lead us to samadhi.

> By chanting the mantra so often, we are developing deep grooves in our

> mind and hearts. The mantra begins to become the primary thought,

> while other thoughts and emotions begin to capture us less and less.

> For example, I was drifting into a negative emotion. I caught myself,

> Durga's mantra popped into the forefront of my mind. Immediately I

> felt calmer and the mind settled down...

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> Dear vish ~ thank you so much for sharing your experience with

sankalpa and

> also sharing a peek through the window at life at the Devi Mandir.

For me at

> least, who has never been there, these " snapshots, " like talking

around the

> dinner table about sankalpas, are wonderful and enriching. I think,

for me,

> this is because concept and practice are put in the context of your

everyday

> lives. Several summers ago, after I had been introduced to the

Chandi Path and

> the Durga mantra, I was going through a very difficult time, in an

abusive

> relationship. I chanted the Durga Mantra constantly, and only

through Her

> Grace and Maa and Swami did I survive and manage to extricate

myself. However,

> one wants spiritual practice to do more than just save one from a bad

> situation; one wants spiritual practice to build on top of itself,

as you describe, so

> that is representative of indwelling of Spirit. Jai Maa Jai

Swamiji ~ Linda

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