Moving into Her World

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Namaste all esp Eric/Kanda,

 

Eric your comment about "transform" hits home and aligns closely

with what Swamiji said last weekend.

 

He said and I paraphrase

 

" We should chant/pray not because we have a laundry list of wants -

I want children, I want wealth, I want food grains, I want ....

 

But we should chant/pray because we want to move away from our world

into Her world. "

 

Thank you for the reminder.

Jai Maa

Latha

 

 

, "ecjensen_us" <ecjensen_us>

wrote:

>

>

> OM NAMAH SIVAYA

>

> it strikes me that the key to your post is the word transformed.

it

> seems the devotee is transformed is by realizing that it's not

> prayer so GOD knows what the devotee want from Him/Her, but prayer

> so that the devotee knows what GOD wants from Him/Her.

>

> prayer for us to do GOD's will, not for GOD to do our will.

>

> JAI MA

> , "Latha Nanda"

<lathananda>

> wrote:

> >

> >

> > Yes I have seen Fickleness in my life especially in Sadhana.

> >

> > Once upon a time, a few years ago, there was a girl that was

> wanting

> > a lot of things in her life.

> >

> > She wanted to get good grades at school - so she chanted

Saraswati

> > Stotras

> >

> > She wanted to get some money - so she chanted a stotram from

> > Adishankara

> >

> > She wanted to get a good husband - so she underwent some fasting

> on

> > certain days of the week.

> >

> > Then someone told her that according to her horoscope, Muruga

> would

> > help - so she prayed to him.

> >

> > Another said , Hanuman is a kind compassionate God and so she

> found

> > a few verses to dedicated to Hanuman.

> >

> > And then another said ... you mean you arent chanting to Lalita

> the

> > compassionate mother ? And what about Vishnu - he who is the

> perfect

> > Purush ?

> >

> > What about the local Gods and your family deities ...

> >

> > The list went on and on ..... and I was biting more than I could

> > chew and I said "ENOUGH ALREADY "

> >

> > What I just said is an experience of my own ficklness (and

greed?)

> > in my sadhana...

> >

> > It is not that one shouldnt pray to all the Gods ... it is just

> that

> > my mind was fickle - thinking to get this from one and that from

> the

> > other ... without realising that the most beautiful prayer is

one

> in

> > which the devotee is transformed .

> >

> > So since then, I still pray to a lot of Gods and Goddesses - as

my

> > time and fancy allows for - and sometimes wish that Saraswati

> would

> > give me a good singing voice - but I am glad to say that I am

> > following Swamiji's advice of allowing my sadhana to

> > expand "organically".

> >

> > Jai Maa

> > Latha