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like daniel boone said:

 

'i wasn't lost, i just didn't know where i was for a few days."

 

steve c.

 

, "SVS" <svs_here> wrote:

> Many of us are in the same position as the traveller. We know

where

> we are - sometimes dissatisfied, disappointed and experiencing

little

> peace of mind.

> And we know where we want to be - at peace, fulfilled and living

life

> abundantly" Like the traveller, we are not lost - we just need

> directions. It may not take much to find the high road to success,

> but to reach it we need an agenda for the present. We need

directions

> for today. We need a purpose.

> Listen to the advice the president of Lincoln University gave to a

> group of incoming students: "Your life cannot go according to a

plan

> if you have no plan!"

>

> So plan your minutes always.

>

> Regards & Have a Nice and Wonderful day Today and Every Day

>

> SVS

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Namaste, SVS,

 

Thanks for your thoughts--you remind me of what Swamiji often says,

"No one plans to fail, they just fail to plan..."

Recently, Swamiji was making a commentary on Chandi path, chapter

two; he talked about goals, as he often does--how so very important they are.

 

In Chapter two, the generals in the army of the ego are mobilizing and

attacking the Goddess (being manifested from the divine lights of all the gods,

and armed with weapons they have all given to her), who has been created to

challenge the Ego, now ruling the three worlds.

 

Someone asked Swamiji about the Ego (Mahisasura) coming to attack once

he hears the commotion of joy and worship of the Goddess.

 

Swamiji said, "Every time the munis (holy people, wise ones) start to worship,

the ego gears up to attack.....expect a conflict at that point..."

 

In other words, as soon as we earnestly direct our attention to worship,

instead of gratifying the ego in some way, the ego comes forward more

strongly (attempt to keep things status quo), and the "generals' amass and

gain momentum.

These Generals are enumerated in the Chandi in chapters 2 and 3:

they include:

 

Devoid of Clear Understanding (Chiksura)--the first to attack

Fickleness (Chamarash)

Haughtiness (Udagra)

Great Deceiver (or rationalizer) (Mahahanuh)

Want of Resolution (Asiloma)

Memories (Bashkalo)

Wandering To and Fro (Parivaritah)

Hypocrisy (Bidalakho)

 

All of them we are all very familiar with--they are the generals, the class of

thoughts that attack when we begin focus on Divinity.

 

A question arose, regarding one of the generals, Mahahanuh:

"How do you know when you are rationalizing vs. just disciminating?"

 

Swami replied, "Go back to the goal...now you have criteria by which to

discriminate."

He also said,

"Enlightenment is a battle we fight with every breath."

 

Having the goal--the laksha--as our anchor, I believe, to which we can return

again and again as we grow more adept in recognizing the generals, our

tendencies--allows us to hone and sharpen, to become more efficient, and to

spend less time being run by any of the generals, wandering away from our

goal.

 

We become adept travelers, armed with wisdom, spurred by love, and

oriented with our true desire or goal. Perhaps our goal is less an anchor, and

more of a compass.

 

Sea metaphors work well for me.

 

Nitya

 

 

 

 

 

 

, "SVS" <svs_here> wrote:

> Many of us are in the same position as the traveller. We know where

> we are - sometimes dissatisfied, disappointed and experiencing little

> peace of mind.

> And we know where we want to be - at peace, fulfilled and living life

> abundantly" Like the traveller, we are not lost - we just need

> directions. It may not take much to find the high road to success,

> but to reach it we need an agenda for the present. We need directions

> for today. We need a purpose.

> Listen to the advice the president of Lincoln University gave to a

> group of incoming students: "Your life cannot go according to a plan

> if you have no plan!"

>

> So plan your minutes always.

>

> Regards & Have a Nice and Wonderful day Today and Every Day

>

> SVS

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