RE: How does one become more sattvic?

[Guest guest]

>>>" and also would have read that one

needs to go

> beyond the three gunas to realize God. This is great, but as an

aspirant what I

> need right now is to learn how to prepare and purify myself for

sustained

> sadhana, so looking forward to suggestions in this direction.

>

> Thank you all for your valuable input and thoughtful suggestions.

>

> Jai GURU

> Nanda"<<<

 

Dear Nanda and Group,

A couple of things caught my eye in this post, Nanda. "one needs to

go beyond the three gunas to realize God" and also, "how to prepare

and purify myself for sustained sadhana". Ultimately, I think it is

true that we go "beyond the three gunas to merge into complete oneness

with God but, until that time, we should understand that the three

gunas are simply the "matter" from which creation is formed. Every

single thing in Creation is a mixture of the 3 gunas in varying degrees

and each of the 3 gunas has its place in all of Creation. When Shiva

descends through Shakti into Creation and the Causal body moves into

what ultimately becomes the human experience, part of the template is

understood to be the 3 gunas. The 3 gunas are part of the reason we

walk around in bodies. For me, understanding this process in my own

life, in the life of Nature in the life of the planet (the Natural

process of Shristhi, Sthtiti and Samhara..Creation, Maintenance and

Dissolution) is very very helpful not only in a "high philosophical

way" but in a very down to Earth grounded acceptance of my humanity.

If you look at your own day, you can see the ebb and flow of the

3gunas and, also, understand that they are interdependent and

necessary to one another. So, again, for me, thinking about the

underlying meaning of the 3 gunas helps me to realize that rajo guna

is simply an "energy" and tamo guna is also an "energy" and sattva,

the same. None of them are bad or good in and of themselves. I

understand what you mean by "being more sattvic" and "purification"

but I have to say that I think that the more practice we do, the more

this happens as a natural result of the practices. All of the

practices have a naturally purifying effect on the physical and mental

systems and, through our intention, we can become more and more aware

of that fact. I don't think we can "do" anything to "go beyond the

gunas", that happens as the result of the Grace of God. We

CAN "prepare ourselves" but, to me, much of that preparation is

learning how to let go of trying to control the process so much and,

instead, relaxing into the pure love of the practices. This allows a

sense of "spaciousness" to arise instead of the contraction of trying

too hard to be "spiritual". Grace needs space! The more of it we can

create in our lives, through our unrestrained love of the Divine, the

more things will "happen". At least this has been my experience, after

years of turning like a top, trying harder and harder. When I relaxed

into the joy of it, I began to understand the possibility of something

I had only read about.

best love,

sadhvi

[Guest guest]

GRACE NEEDS SPACE. perfect. we have to carve that out until we live in

spirit only. WOW.

 

this is a LIFETIME of work. so we don't expect to build rome in a day.

 

many hours lifting rocks in the hot sun.

 

lifting, moving, lifting.

 

RISE OH ROCK!!!!!!!!!

 

raj bingoananda

 

, "nityashakti" <sadhvi@p...> wrote:

> >>>" and also would have read that one

> needs to go

> > beyond the three gunas to realize God. This is great, but as an

> aspirant what I

> > need right now is to learn how to prepare and purify myself for

> sustained

> > sadhana, so looking forward to suggestions in this direction.

> >

> > Thank you all for your valuable input and thoughtful suggestions.

> >

> > Jai GURU

> > Nanda"<<<

>

> Dear Nanda and Group,

> A couple of things caught my eye in this post, Nanda. "one needs

to

> go beyond the three gunas to realize God" and also, "how to prepare

> and purify myself for sustained sadhana". Ultimately, I think it is

> true that we go "beyond the three gunas to merge into complete

oneness

> with God but, until that time, we should understand that the three

> gunas are simply the "matter" from which creation is formed. Every

> single thing in Creation is a mixture of the 3 gunas in varying

degrees

> and each of the 3 gunas has its place in all of Creation. When

Shiva

> descends through Shakti into Creation and the Causal body moves

into

> what ultimately becomes the human experience, part of the template

is

> understood to be the 3 gunas. The 3 gunas are part of the reason we

> walk around in bodies. For me, understanding this process in my own

> life, in the life of Nature in the life of the planet (the Natural

> process of Shristhi, Sthtiti and Samhara..Creation, Maintenance and

> Dissolution) is very very helpful not only in a "high philosophical

> way" but in a very down to Earth grounded acceptance of my

humanity.

> If you look at your own day, you can see the ebb and flow of the

> 3gunas and, also, understand that they are interdependent and

> necessary to one another. So, again, for me, thinking about the

> underlying meaning of the 3 gunas helps me to realize that rajo

guna

> is simply an "energy" and tamo guna is also an "energy" and sattva,

> the same. None of them are bad or good in and of themselves. I

> understand what you mean by "being more sattvic" and "purification"

> but I have to say that I think that the more practice we do, the

more

> this happens as a natural result of the practices. All of the

> practices have a naturally purifying effect on the physical and

mental

> systems and, through our intention, we can become more and more

aware

> of that fact. I don't think we can "do" anything to "go beyond the

> gunas", that happens as the result of the Grace of God. We

> CAN "prepare ourselves" but, to me, much of that preparation is

> learning how to let go of trying to control the process so much

and,

> instead, relaxing into the pure love of the practices. This allows

a

> sense of "spaciousness" to arise instead of the contraction of

trying

> too hard to be "spiritual". Grace needs space! The more of it we

can

> create in our lives, through our unrestrained love of the Divine,

the

> more things will "happen". At least this has been my experience,

after

> years of turning like a top, trying harder and harder. When I

relaxed

> into the joy of it, I began to understand the possibility of

something

> I had only read about.

> best love,

> sadhvi

[Guest guest]

So I asked Maa when I saw her last week..."Maa, how can I be more

sattvic.."

 

Maa stopped, looked at me thoughtfully and asked "you are not

sattvic ?".

 

and I said "No Maa"

 

And Maa said "Do your Karma, and tell Chandi Maa that everything is

Her doing"

 

So Simple - given knowing the heart of devotee."

 

Dear Nanda,

THANK YOU for passing this along!!!! I can so easily see Shree Maa

saying this....so simple! so clear! ...just cutting through all the

mental chatter. What a gift to turn on the computer this morning and

find this message. Jai Chandi Maa!

 

sadhvi