Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 Dear Lynne and everyone, I can totally identify with the struggles that you have mentioned - on the one hand the pleasures of the world pull us down, but there is the small, lone voice that urge us to look higher. The simplest remedy that I find is to physically BE in an environment that encourages all the qualities that I am trying to cultivate. So it is easy ... I stay at the Mandir on the weekend, and I am up real early on Sunday, doing all my practices, feeling on top of things... Then I come back to my world of work and it is the same old same old... Waiting for inspiration , trying to motivate myself and succeeding sometimes ... Does that mean that I have to always be physically present at the Mandir to be regular with Sadhana ? More realistically I would say that I need to cultivate that attitude that I have "automatically" at the Mandir , in my "real" world. But HOW ? What can we do to keep the fire of inspiration burning ? Any ideas , anyone ? JAI MAA Latha , "yogalynne" <omgirl@p...> wrote: > Hari Om Beloved Satsangha Members: > > I confess: I have tamasic tendencies, too! Like Shadvi said, I > guess we all do. I set the alarm for 5:30 because my mind thinks > that is the earliest I can possibly get up. When the alarm rings I > am wide awake but there is a latent fear that keeps me under the > covers. Like some darkness in me that I am afraid to face. Months > ago someone here mentioned that this may be birth trauma. I'm not > really sure what that means--don't we ALL have birth trauma? Maybe > the enlightened ones who choose to come back to serve others don't > experience this fear of the dark like I do, but some days it can > stall me for an hour! Sometimes I just call out for Her to help me > get up and that works eventually. Sometimes before I go to bed I > remember to ask Her to help me get out of bed and that has helped > alot lately. The sankalpa helps alot, too. I've been trying to > imagine the flame of shraddha, faith, burning away the fear. This is > an image that works for me. I ask WHO is afraid and of WHAT! > > I struggle with keeping the physical body pure through sattvic > foods. I have to take min-sankalpas to eliminate refined sugar from > my diet. This is SO HARD for me! I'm not sure if not eating the > sugar is what makes me feel so great or the knowledge that I actually > fulfilled the sankalpa! > > Swami Satchidananda once was asked "Why is it so hard to do what I > know I am supposed to do (with regard to practice)?" He was giving > satsang and he paused, removed his glasses, filled the whole room > with love, and said: "Because what you are trying to do is a > difficult thing. You have chosen a beautiful, yet difficult path.." > He went on to say that we could spend all our time satifying our > senses and ego but we CHOOSE this path--the path of saddhana, > devotion, praise of the divine and so forth. Much like what Sahdvi > said in her last post. I remember this when I get to rock bottom... > > Best Love, > Lynne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 our mind. our mind creates everything. so all our thoughts matter. ALL. so if we think, i am in a mundane world, there we will be. so all this, all of it is ours. if we dichotomize the world and spirituality, this can either help or hurt. but we will feel friction. this is not necessarily a bad thing. peace, love, understanding, TAPAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! steve , "Latha Nanda" <lathananda> wrote: > Dear Lynne and everyone, > > I can totally identify with the struggles that you have mentioned - > on the one hand the pleasures of the world pull us down, but there is > the small, lone voice that urge us to look higher. > > The simplest remedy that I find is to physically BE in an environment > that encourages all the qualities that I am trying to cultivate. > > So it is easy ... I stay at the Mandir on the weekend, and I am up > real early on Sunday, doing all my practices, feeling on top of > things... Then I come back to my world of work and it is the same old > same old... Waiting for inspiration , trying to motivate myself and > succeeding sometimes ... > > Does that mean that I have to always be physically present at the > Mandir to be regular with Sadhana ? More realistically I would say > that I need to cultivate that attitude that I have "automatically" at > the Mandir , in my "real" world. > > But HOW ? > > What can we do to keep the fire of inspiration burning ? > > Any ideas , anyone ? > > JAI MAA > Latha > > > , "yogalynne" <omgirl@p...> wrote: > > Hari Om Beloved Satsangha Members: > > > > I confess: I have tamasic tendencies, too! Like Shadvi said, I > > guess we all do. I set the alarm for 5:30 because my mind thinks > > that is the earliest I can possibly get up. When the alarm rings I > > am wide awake but there is a latent fear that keeps me under the > > covers. Like some darkness in me that I am afraid to face. Months > > ago someone here mentioned that this may be birth trauma. I'm not > > really sure what that means--don't we ALL have birth trauma? Maybe > > the enlightened ones who choose to come back to serve others don't > > experience this fear of the dark like I do, but some days it can > > stall me for an hour! Sometimes I just call out for Her to help me > > get up and that works eventually. Sometimes before I go to bed I > > remember to ask Her to help me get out of bed and that has helped > > alot lately. The sankalpa helps alot, too. I've been trying to > > imagine the flame of shraddha, faith, burning away the fear. This > is > > an image that works for me. I ask WHO is afraid and of WHAT! > > > > I struggle with keeping the physical body pure through sattvic > > foods. I have to take min-sankalpas to eliminate refined sugar > from > > my diet. This is SO HARD for me! I'm not sure if not eating the > > sugar is what makes me feel so great or the knowledge that I > actually > > fulfilled the sankalpa! > > > > Swami Satchidananda once was asked "Why is it so hard to do what I > > know I am supposed to do (with regard to practice)?" He was giving > > satsang and he paused, removed his glasses, filled the whole room > > with love, and said: "Because what you are trying to do is a > > difficult thing. You have chosen a beautiful, yet difficult > path.." > > He went on to say that we could spend all our time satifying our > > senses and ego but we CHOOSE this path--the path of saddhana, > > devotion, praise of the divine and so forth. Much like what Sahdvi > > said in her last post. I remember this when I get to rock bottom... > > > > Best Love, > > Lynne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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