To henny on the guru's feet and being liberated in form

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henny wrote:

....yet in the text it is said that these syllables rise in the heart.

I have an image in my mind of the feet of the guru being in the

heart, as the first glimpses of Truth you 'see' when rising in

consciousness (or the clouds of ignorance lessen) and which you then

hold onto for dear life, lest the 'ocean of hell or the sea of

conflict and confusion' take you down. But that's just an image. To

be liberated in form: what does that mean? If the bindu is the point

where form manifests and also dissolves, being established in the

bindu must mean total freedom to 'come and go', never identified with

a specific form, yet able to use form as an 'instrument for

expression'.

Dear henny ~ you amaze with with your very coherent, yet innocent,

understand of so much of what we talk and learn about. So I want to

honor that because I think much of what you write about comes from an

intuitive understanding, and ultimately this is what we all want to

achieve anyway. There is a long, revered tradition in Hinduism in

honoring the Guru's feet, or even the Guru's sandles. Sometimes, one

a Guru has had mahasamadhi, the sandles will preserved for worship.

And I have read before about picturing the Guru's feet within your

heart. Now what an image! Swamiji or Maa, or both (!) blissfully

walking about in our hearts, leaving the indelible imprints of their

feet in the form of Love, Encouragement, Compassion, Support, etc. I

think what you wrote about being liberated from form explains it

perfectly.

Jai Maa , Jai Swamiji ~ Linda