Detachment 101

[Guest guest]

I love all the talk about detachment. Thank you all for being here. You're like

a virtual light in a dark virtual cave.

 

All modes of perception are limited by our minds. The less thought-full we are,

the more we can perceive, and the more we perceive the more active our minds

tend to be. (That's the trap of Mind) I think this explains why Swamiji is so

very succinct. He understands that if he gives us too much to "think" about we

may very well miss the point completely.

 

The idea, "I am not my mind, my mind is just a quality of who I am" is not

something that can be mentally conceptualized. It can only be experienced.

 

Luckilly, most on a spiritual path are blessed with at least one "mind blowing"

experience.

 

Often we try to rationalize away that experience. Or our mind tries to own it

and say, "OH I DID THAT!" But if we look in our hearts we know that our mind had

nothing to do with the experience, and in fact was merely a witness to it.

 

That witnessing state is the key to how the mind should be. For in reality the

mind owns nothing, does nothing, and accomplishes nothing. It is merely a

witness to Mother's actions in her universe. That witnessing state is also

called surrender and its nothing more than a mental attitude. Swamiji calls it

Bhava, an attitude of awareness.

 

We must experience it to know it. We can talk all day long until we are blue in

the face and not truly have any idea what it is, because the mind simply cannot

comprehend it.

 

For those who've experienced this state, stop owning it, stop defining it, stop

looking for it, stop caring about it, and simply ask Mom to bring it back again.

As Nandu said not in so many words, stop talking about it till you're blue in

the face and start complaining about it to mother until you're blue in the face.

 

Complain to Mom?

 

That comes back the Mew Mew Mew of the little kitten for its mother.

 

As Maa sings in one of her songs, "Who else can we cry to Mother!"

 

We must cry to her, complain to her. Kick and scream and throw rightous temper

tantrums until she yields to us and shows us herself by manifesting within our

hearts and within the hearts of all those around us.

 

As we go through life on the rollercoaster of Maya, we must recgonize that we

can't control the hills and valleys, can't keep from getting wet as we dive into

the oceans of emotion, desire and fear. All we can do is whine to mother to make

it stop, realize we can't do anything about it and cry to Mom, "Please Mom! Take

it all away! I only want you! I only need you! I only love you!"

 

In time she will come and reveal more and more of herself to us and slowly take

over the controls of our lives, not only showing us the proper way to chant her

name and her mantra, but also showing us how to love her various forms and how

to lead our lives as expressions of her majesty and grace.

 

Nandu's biggest point is that we must form a direct relationship with Maa (or

Shiva or Vishnu for those who feel for them) within ourselves. That relationship

will be the basis for all spiritual progress (I use that word loosely). Once the

relationship is established and the basis for that relationship set in stone,

then she will begin to grant us our wishes, she will remove obstacles, drink up

desires, destroy the demons of our minds, and restore King Good Thoughts to his

throne.

 

Jai Mai. Jai Shiva. Jai Vishnu.

 

Brian

 

 

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