Guru in UK

[Guest guest]

Dear Sendhil:

 

Your story kind of reminds me of the words to a song: "You don't know what you've got until it's gone"! (Karma, of course, is the great Helper. One way it helps us ( I believe) is by keeping us from teachings until we are ready for them. At least, that's how my search for Truth unfolded.)

 

In any event, if you are unable to locate a Guru in the UK, please don't delay your spiritual progress any longer. Read the Gospel (and other books by Ramakrishna's devotees) and meditate and practice Japa. The inner Guru with then become your guide.

 

Jai Ramakrishna,

Brad

[Guest guest]

Dear Brad,

 

Thank you for the kind words. I have been reading the Bagavad Gita

and in that Lord Shri Krishna advises that Devotional Service or

Bhakti Yoga is the best in this age of Kali. But he also mentions

that Dhyana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Jnana Yoga are all steps to the

ladder of liberation in which the highest step is Bhakti Yoga. Raja

Yoga is advaitam which proposes that God and atman are the same and

realizing the self is realizing God. But dhvaitam says that all

humans are eternal servitors of the Lord and we have to pray and

devote ourselves in trying to reach the lotus feet of the Lord. I'm

attracted both ways which inherently mean different things. To learn

Raja Yoga is a practical method of trying to realize the self or

experience God within ourselves. I started practising Pranayama

according to the words of Swami Vivekananda. But he has strictly

warned that it needs a Guru from whom only we can learn safely.

Performing pranayama itself will raise the Kundalini energy present

in the Muladhara. So I had to stop it otherwise it could lead to

insanity (also mentioned by Swami Vivekananda). Even for devotional

service we need a Guru who can always guide us whenever we go astray.

I hope that I will meet a Guru one day who will show me the way till

then I will continue to devote myself to praying to God.

 

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

 

Sendhil