To Ardis on expectations

[Guest guest]

Ardis wrote:

The Hindu concept of ³no attachment² is akin to this. If you have

noattachment to the past and no attachment to the future, you can

only live inthe present with no expectations. You are liberated

while living. You arefully alive in the moment. The opening is made

for the Divine to act inyour life. In fact, you are the Divine and you

realize your Oneness withGod/Goddess/All That Is.

Oh, Ardis ~ if you knew how much I needed to hear this, it would

astound you. Thank you so very much for everything you write. Jai Ma

~ Linda

[Guest guest]

Talking about Non attachment I give below an excerpt from the article

by Dadaji which appeared in Values magazine in the 1970s.

 

Prathiba - Sahaja - Samarasa

 

"There are three Sanskrit words which form much of the essential

structure upon which realisation and liberation depend. They were

much used by Dattatreya and constantly repeated in the Tantrik or non-

Vedic Agamas. Oddly enough, they are rarely used in Hindu life

today, though they exist as words in most Indian dialects. None of

the 3 can be easily translated into a single English word, but

fortunately the language is rich enough to convey the meanings with

even greater intensity.

 

Man is born with an instinct for naturalness. He has never forgotten

the days of his primordial perfection except inasmuch as the memory

becomes buried under the artificial superstructures of civilisation

and its artificial concepts. Sahaja means natural. It not only

implies natural on physical and spiritual levels, but on the mystic

level of the miraculous. It means that easy or natural state of

living without planning, design, contriving, seeking, wanting,

striving or intention.

 

 

What is to come must come of itself. It is the seed which falls to

the ground, becomes seedling, sapling and then a vast shady tree of

which the Pipal or Ashvattha is a classical example and used in

wisdom teaching. The tree grows according to Sahaja, natural and

spontaneous in complete conformity with the Natural Law of the

Universe. Nobody tells it what to do and how to grow. It has no

svadharma or rules, duties and obligations incurred by birth. It has

only svabhava, its own inborn self or essence to guide it.

 

 

Sahaja is that nature which, when once established, brings the state

of absolute freedom and peace. It is when you are in your natural

state, in the harmony of the Cosmos. It is the balanced reality

between the pairs of opposites. As the Guru of the Bhagavad Gita

says: "The person who has conquered the baser self and has reached to

the level of self mastery: he is at peace, whether it be in cold or

hot, pleasure or pain, honoured or dishonoured." Thus sahaja

expresses one who has reverted to his natural state, free from

conditioning. It typifies the outlook which belongs to the natural,

spontaneous and uninhibited man, free from innate or inherited

defects. "

 

Jai MAA !!!

 

 

 

, nierika@a... wrote:

>

> Ardis wrote:

>

> The Hindu concept of ³no attachment² is akin to this. If

you have no

> attachment to the past and no attachment to the future, you can only

live in

> the present with no expectations. You are liberated while living.

You are

> fully alive in the moment. The opening is made for the Divine to

act in

> your life. In fact, you are the Divine and you realize your Oneness

with

> God/Goddess/All That Is.

>

>

>

> Oh, Ardis ~ if you knew how much I needed to hear this, it would

astound

> you. Thank you so very much for everything you write. Jai Ma ~

Linda