Guru Seva and willingness

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Dear Steve,

 

I liked very much what you wrote about "playing softball as puja" if

you had to, if Maa asked you to.

 

IMHO, and I have read this also by Lee Lozowick in a book called 'As

It Is' , Guru Seva does not always mean offering to the Guru what

you do well, though that is good too.

 

It simply means doing what is needed at that moment and giving it

your best because it will please your Guru.

 

It means forgetting that "I am not good at doing this ..." and

instead "You want me to do this for you, now let me see how best I

can do it for you"

 

It means open and WILLING ... so that we are open to the Guru's

ideas and pushing our opinions and thoughts to the background.

 

And I think that when the magic happens, when we are willing to

stick our necks out, whether we know what we are doing are not ...

the task becomes possible, we get the ability, we earn it because we

forget our little selves and choose to be the instruments of a

greater force.

 

Truly I believe in the Dayak proverb ,

"Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; but where

it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses."

 

Jai Maa

Love

Latha

 

 

 

 

 

 

, "Steve Connor" <sconnor@a...>

wrote:

> hi all, i added a bio, but alas, i mispelled the word "say" (it is

> just too difficult) so i need to be able to change that ok.

>

> i also like what rosie said about why she does the puja -- it is

> because shree maa asked her to. this is guru seva, it is not at

all

> conventional as it involves the contemplation and enactment of

love

> via the living ishta deva. so her answer is profound. i declare,

if

> maa said "play softball" i would do that same as puja. now don't

get

> me wrong, i am not a drone or a worker bee or a cult person, or

anti-

> intellect, or not discriminating. this has to do with connection

to

> the guru, to who you believe is the guru for you. think of, for

> example, a parent's interest in his/her child's interest, etc. we

> are interested becasue they are interested. it is our interest in

> them, primarily. the actions are sort of a scaffolding for the

form

> love takes.

>

> i didn't read latha's post yet, but i bet that is also very good.

>

> steve