Guest guest Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Todays' verse: 142. All of existence becomes mesmerized. All bonds are released. It is the cause of the Love of the King of Gods (Indra). All beings in all worlds are controlled (by it). Comments: The Guru Gita to me is a song of love. True love, that love that transcends. We one feels loved, one becomes mesmerized by their lover. There is a childlike freedom that knows no fear and one is willing to do anything for their Beloved. In offering this text to our Gurus yesterday did you experience any of the above? Is it by accident that this is the verse that follows the very next day of that offering? My mind does not intuit anything but pure love being able to achieve those results. Please share your thoughts. KaliaDo You ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2005 Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 Dear Kalia, I like your comment very much and especially the 'childlike freedom that knows no fear' which comes from being totally caught up in feeling loved. At first, the opposition between 'mesmerized' and 'all bonds are released' puzzled me. As I understand, the Sanskrit word 'moha' often refers to something like 'being bewitched' and 'not seeing reality as it is', which being 'mesmerized' also seems to imply. To me, 'being mesmerized' is the opposite of freedom: the mouse mesmerized by the snake cannot run away. But then, 'all bonds are released' seems to point to the opposite: it seems to imply that all bonds caused by misinterpretations of reality are released; we realize we were caught in something unreal and thereby become free. But then I saw it as a play of words: instead of being bewitched by the illusions the world offers us, we let ourselves voluntarily become bewitched by the Guru Gita, which, although also part of the world, draws our attention away from that world and makes us have our eyes only on the Guru. And with our eyes on the Guru, who'd want to run away? In the Guru, we see everything; there is nothing but the Guru. Thus our bonds of desire for things of the world are released. may we all become free and fearless, with love, Henny , Kali Kali <kaliananda_saraswati@y. ...> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Todays' verse: > > 142. All of existence becomes mesmerized. All bonds are released. It is the cause of the Love of the King of Gods (Indra). All beings in all worlds are controlled (by it). > > > > Comments: The Guru Gita to me is a song of love. True love, that love that transcends. We one feels loved, one becomes mesmerized by their lover. There is a childlike freedom that knows no fear and one is willing to do anything for their Beloved. > > In offering this text to our Gurus yesterday did you experience any of the above? Is it by accident that this is the verse that follows the very next day of that offering? My mind does not intuit anything but pure love being able to achieve those results. > > > > Please share your thoughts. > > > > Kalia > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2005 Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 Kalia, It seems apparent that this verse is talking about the Guru Gita, yet I do not think it is in the sense of the text itself. I think it it talking about the Guru Gita in the sense of it being the manifestation of the gurutattwa, the pure consciousness, the being, consciousness, and bliss that perfection in the practice brings. That state is that which mesemrizes all existence, releases all bonds, controls all, and is the cause of love in all creation. So, in a sense, it's tying together the text, the Guru, and the practitioner, as One Perfected Truth. Jai Maa! Chris , Kali Kali <kaliananda_saraswati> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Todays' verse: > > 142. All of existence becomes mesmerized. All bonds are released. It is the cause of the Love of the King of Gods (Indra). All beings in all worlds are controlled (by it). > > > > Comments: The Guru Gita to me is a song of love. True love, that love that transcends. We one feels loved, one becomes mesmerized by their lover. There is a childlike freedom that knows no fear and one is willing to do anything for their Beloved. > > In offering this text to our Gurus yesterday did you experience any of the above? Is it by accident that this is the verse that follows the very next day of that offering? My mind does not intuit anything but pure love being able to achieve those results. > > > > Please share your thoughts. > > > > Kalia > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2005 Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 Well said, thanks. May we all realize that we are free. Jai Maahenny_v_i <HvI (AT) SoftHome (DOT) net> wrote: Dear Kalia,I like your comment very much and especially the 'childlike freedom that knows no fear' which comes from being totally caught up in feeling loved. At first, the opposition between 'mesmerized' and 'all bonds are released' puzzled me. As I understand, the Sanskrit word 'moha' often refers to something like 'being bewitched' and 'not seeing reality as it is', which being 'mesmerized' also seems to imply. To me, 'being mesmerized' is the opposite of freedom: the mouse mesmerized by the snake cannot run away. But then, 'all bonds are released' seems to point to the opposite: it seems to imply that all bonds caused by misinterpretations of reality are released; we realize we were caught in something unreal and thereby become free. But then I saw it as a play of words: instead of being bewitched by the illusions the world offers us, we let ourselves voluntarily become bewitched by the Guru Gita, which, although also part of the world, draws our attention away from that world and makes us have our eyes only on the Guru. And with our eyes on the Guru, who'd want to run away? In the Guru, we see everything; there is nothing but the Guru. Thus our bonds of desire for things of the world are released. may we all become free and fearless, with love,Henny--- In , Kali Kali <kaliananda_saraswati> wrote:> Dear Friends,> > Todays' verse: > > 142. All of existence becomes mesmerized. All bonds are released. It is the cause of the Love of the King of Gods (Indra). All beings in all worlds are controlled (by it). > > > > Comments: The Guru Gita to me is a song of love. True love, that love that transcends. We one feels loved, one becomes mesmerized by their lover. There is a childlike freedom that knows no fear and one is willing to do anything for their Beloved. > > In offering this text to our Gurus yesterday did you experience any of the above? Is it by accident that this is the verse that follows the very next day of that offering? My mind does not intuit anything but pure love being able to achieve those results.> > > > Please share your thoughts.> > > > Kalia> > > > > > Discover Use to plan a weekend, have fun online &; more. Check it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2005 Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 Henny, Your comments about mohana are well said. Everything you said is right on the money. Mohana is both an experience and a grace of shakti. It is expressed as one of the benefits of chanting the Siddha Kunjika Stotram (though by no means limited to that). It is a kind of drunkeness, almost, in which the mind becomes numb to everything but the experience of worship. It's an odd juxtaposition of slowness and instantaneous apprehension, of stupidity and clarity, of disconnection and connection. It is a kind of blissful drunkeness in which the body and the things "outside" are enveloped in fog, and only the object of worship and the method of worship remain in perfect clarity. It is part of the experience of being one-pointed. Jai Maa! Chris - "henny_v_i" <HvI@S...> wrote: >instead of being bewitched by the illusions the world offers us, we let >ourselves voluntarily become > bewitched by the Guru Gita, which, although also part of the world, > draws our attention away from that world and makes us have our eyes > only on the Guru. And with our eyes on the Guru, who'd want to run > away? In the Guru, we see everything; there is nothing but the Guru. > Thus our bonds of desire for things of the world are released. > > may we all become free and fearless, > with love, > Henny > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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