To Linda on Chandi thoughts

[Guest guest]

Dear Linda,

 

thank you for your thoughtful response and for the illustrations from

the Chandi. I certainly share your amazement. The one from Chapter 4

blew me away when I first read it : the mystery of Divine Love, not

annihilation, but transformation; nothing is lost (it reminded me of

Origines' teaching of the final redemption of all, which was rejected

by the Church. Even though I have forgotten most of what I learned

about the History of the Church I always remembered this because I

felt it must be right).The second text you quoted I did not remember

at all and I am glad you took the trouble to bring it to my attention.

It is such a powerful image! You are right, the 'secret' that 'there

is no other' is part of the Western tradition as well. East and West

do meet.

 

you said:

>But when a person truly "sees" and experiences this Oneness, any

>desire to run amuck vanishes. Why would you want to harm your own

>Self after all?

 

this is beautiful, Linda. Why indeed?

may we truly see and experience,

 

with love,

Henny

 

 

, nierika@a... wrote:

 

>

> Brian wrote:

>

> "It certainly is playful from her perspective to lop the heads off

of the

> demons of negative thought, but from the perspective of those

asuras, its

> life and death -- A VERY SERIOUS MATTER!"

>

>

>

> Then henny wrote:

>

> "Wow, Brian, that is a terrifyingly clear answer to my question.

Thank

> you. I take refuge in the arms of the Divine Mother"

>

> Dear Brian and henny ~ having just chanted the Chandi for the first

time,

> and after having read it 3 or 4 times, there are two passages that

relate to the

> above, and each time I read them, they amaze me. One thing is they

show the

> Love of the Divine Mother. Second, they show that, like the

propellers we

> think our ours, everything is really the Divine Mother.

> Here are the two passages:

>

> In the old version of the book, Chapter 4, verse 19

>

> "Why is it that your one glance does not reduce all thoughts to

ashes? So

> that being purified by the weapons, these thoughts may be raised to

the higher

> worlds. You are so benevolent that you think for the welfare of even

your

> enemies."

>

> The Modified Secret, Verse 29 and 30

>

> "In front of the Goddess, on the left side, one should offer worship

to the

> severed head of the Great Ego, who attained complete union with the

Goddess."

>

> Like many Western Mystical traditions, "secrets" have hidden this

same truth

> ~ that, despite appearances, everything is God/dess. The reason it

is kept

> secret is because it is possibly dangerous for someone not on a

path. They

> might think, since it is all One anyhow, I can run amuck. But when

a person truly

> "sees" and experiences this Oneness, any desire to run amuck

vanishes. Why

> would you want to harm your own Self after all? Jai Maa ~ Linda