Faith

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Namaste, Everyone,

Last night Shree Maa was reading & Swamiji was translating

from M's diary of Ramakrishna.

Ramakrishna was talking about faith. He said that if you don't have faith like

a

child, then you can't get to God. In seeing the form of the faith of a child,

God has compassion.

 

The question being discussed was how could God incarnate as a human

being, how was this possible?

Ramakrishna then talked about faith. He also gave several analogies with

cows. If a cow eats from various sources of food, to doesn't give good milk; if

a cow is eating here & there, it is not the right food. Or: if a cow moves all

over the place, the milk it gives splashes here & there, but if a cow stays in

one place it give a fine stream of milk.

 

Have the faith of a child! As long as you have faith, then your wisdom will

increase--from this child faith comes great wisdom, not from

cleverness nor intellectual understanding. The incarnation of God cannot be

found explained in science books, one must believe the statements of great

souls who have realized God.

 

Jai maa

Nitya

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A child holds on to the Mother's hand fully knowing she

has utmost love for him/her and she will do any sacrifice to protect

the child. The child unconsciously avoids having a similar faith in

any other human. Only mother is automatically chosen. Similarly

humans are free to choose their deity and cocentrate on one form and

stick to that form.

One should feel the Presence of the form every second

by one's side, not merely in a temple or puja room but everywhere.

Then what we do becomes His/Her Deed and we live in His/Her Presence

happily in full bliss.

balaravinitya_ma <nitya_ma > wrote:

Namaste, Everyone,Last night Shree Maa was reading & Swamiji was

translatingfrom M's diary of Ramakrishna.Ramakrishna was talking

about faith. He said that if you don't have faith like a child, then

you can't get to God. In seeing the form of the faith of a child,God

has compassion.The question being discussed was how could God

incarnate as a human being, how was this possible?Ramakrishna then

talked about faith. He also gave several analogies with cows. If a

cow eats from various sources of food, to doesn't give good milk; if

a cow is eating here & there, it is not the right food. Or: if a

cow moves all over the place, the milk it gives splashes here &

there, but if a cow stays in one place it give a fine stream of

milk.Have the faith of a child! As long

as you have faith, then your wisdom will increase--from this child

faith comes great wisdom, not fromcleverness nor intellectual

understanding. The incarnation of God cannot befound explained in

science books, one must believe the statements of great souls who

have realized God.Jai maaNityaTo from this group, send an

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Bala's Blessings

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Dear List,

One of the texts that has been so important to me is

the "Jnaneshwari" (Poet-saint Jnaneshwar's commentary on the

Bhagavad Gita..the commentary was orginally written in 1290 and has

been translated by a number of people). In the 12th Chapter,

entitled "The Yoga of Devotion", the text reads (trans.):"if you are

incapable even of practice, be intent on My work; even performing

actions for My sake, you shall attain perfection". Jnaneshwar

comments: "Realize that only the supreme Self, by whom the whole

universe is created, knows what is to be done and what is not to be

done" and, also, "Whatever action you perform, surrender it

wholeheartedly to Me and do not consider whether it is great or

small"..but, most of all...this commentary, "Your life should be

conducted like the water which flows quietly in the channel made for

it by the gardener".

I have contemplated this last commentary so many times as I tried

to let go of "doing" my life and allow myself to take refuge in the

understanding that, without my trying to run things, life would

unfold as it should. Faith, to me, means really believing, accepting

and TAKING REFUGE in the awareness that the supreme Self is "doing

my life" not me. It has become an answer to questions such as "how

much practice "should" I be doing? How "should" I resolve this or

that issue? How "should" I balance action and contemplation? etc.

Having Faith in the "gardener" requires a different

approach...instead of thinking or trying to figure it out or taking

someone else's word for it, Faith requires us to sit quietly and

listen to what appears out of the Silence. It teaches us to attune

ourselves to what seems to be moving in our lives, to stop

questioning the unfolding of our karmas so much, to be open to the

constant presence of Grace, to learn to listen to the Wisdom arising

from within us. Having Faith that we ARE manifestations of Supreme

Consciousness and that That is within US, not "outside" somewhere,

something that "someday" we will "attain". With this Faith, sadhana

becomes simply a way of removing the veils that cover the Truth.

sadhvi