To Sadhvi ji: Day 4

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

 

"there is incredible bliss in the freedom of letting go but we cling

with great desperation to our attachments...In my experience, the

bliss comes when the layers have been peeled away but, many times,

not DURING the "peeling process"... those layers are who "we" think

we "are"...letting go of them can be a huge challenge for all of us

and the challenges are peculiar to our own individual incarnated

karmas."

 

Jai Kali Maa, dear Sadhvi ji!

The above that you wrote is IT in a nutshell! How clearly you have

expressed it! i thank you for these very wise insights! It is TRUE,

it is TRUE, it is TRUE!!!

Your sister dissolving in Maa's Light,

muktimaa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

> Dear Kaliananda and Eric,

> I hope you don't mind my responding to your post..

> "I remember telling Swami Satyananda about the topsy turvyness in

my

> world and when He suggested what was wrong I responded "since I

> stopped the mantra all was well." Swamiji never responded but

today I

> know that I was very very wrong to stop to this day, this child is

> still seeking Mother's forgiveness for this error and trying to get

> back to the place where this soul once was. "

>

> ***this is very interesting to me ..that you wrote to Swamiji and

he

> did not respond because I had a similar experience a few weeks ago,

> asking him about something of great personal importance regarding

my

> practice and having no response (after he had earlier talked to me

> about the very same subject with great enthusiasm). After I thought

> about it, I realized that I knew the answer on a very deep level

> already and that I was being directed to that knowledge. Told,

maybe,

> to "grow up" a little..it was time to do that. When I read this

> excerpt from your post, I though about that experience...but I was

> also confused by what you said

> afterwards..about "wrongness", "forgiveness" and "trying to get

back

> to a place where your soul once was"..I wondered what you mean by

that

> and I was confused that you had held onto the feeling of having

made a

> mistake for so long. I think perhaps I don't understand what you

have

> said but I found it very troubling.Pardon me if this seems "rude",

I

> don't mean to be that but I don't understand what you said in this

> post to Eric regarding your feelings.

>

> "Eric, please do not make this same mistake, stay with the mantra,

ask

> the Goddess for strenght to take you over this hurdle you cannot

get

> to Lakshmi without first embracing Kali. Ask your Guru's guidance,

> ask ShreeMaa or Swamiji for help but do not give up this

opportunity.

> You already have the support of the group, take the support of

someone

> much much spiritually stronger than the entire forum."

> This seems like very very good advice to me...Kali is incredibly

> powerful and her "job" is to cut away illusions.She will not stop

> until she has done so..it can get very very difficult and it can

also

> be very very ecstatic...two points of a "pair of opposites"...there

is

> incredible bliss in the freedom of letting go but we cling with

great

> desperation to our attachments...In my experience, the bliss comes

> when the layers have been peeled away but, many times, not DURING

> the "peeling process"... those layers are who "we" think

> we "are"...letting go of them can be a huge challenge for all of us

> and the challenges are peculiar to our own individual incarnated

> karmas.

> with love,

> sadhvi

>