To Tanmaya - about doing battle

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Dear Tanmaya,

 

you wrote:

> We are all given the challenge of being killed by the

> worldliness of those who surround us-and whom we may love dearly-or

>else destroy them (as they know themselves to be) by calling out

>their inherently Divine nature.

 

and in doing so helped me understand something that I did not get

before: 'destroy them (as they know themselves to be)'. Yes. And this

also applies to fighting our internal enemies, destroying our own

erroneous ideas about ourselves. You may not be a spiritual teacher,

but you sure taught me something of spiritual importance:),

 

with love,

Henny

 

 

 

 

 

 

, "ty_maa" <ds.james wrote:

>

>

> Dear Manoharan,

>

> Don't place me too high on the holiness scale, I am not a sage or a

> spiritual teacher;

> Sri Maa and Swami Satyanandaji are our revered Gurus---and, you will

> find that

> some value them even more highly than that.

>

> We can, however, think of ourself, and everyone else, as

inherently

> Divine,

> since God is the Soul of our Soul. The Gita is eloquent on the

subject

> that Krishna

> is the Paramatman, the Absolute Divine, residing within the

innermost

> Soul of all.

>

> Sri Ramakrishna taught that "the Heart of a pure souled-devotee is

God's

> drawing-

> room, as it were." He also repeatedly said,

> "Bhagavata-Bhakta-Bhagavan"; that is,

> the Creator is Divine, the Sruti is Divine, and the Devotee is

Divine.

>

> In the Gita, Arjuna was faced with the terrible dilemma of having to

> kill his gurus,

> family, and friends, or else abandon his dharma and be destroyed by

> those whom

> he loved-which Sri Krishna would not allow.

>

> Many wise people view the Battle of Kurukshetr as the life

circumstance

> of every

> sadhaka. We are all given the challenge of being killed by the

> worldliness of

> those who surround us-and whom we may love dearly-or else destroy

them

> (as they know themselves to be) by calling out their inherently

Divine

> nature.

>

> The seeming violence of the Gita and the Chandi has puzzeled, and

even

> offended,

> many devotees who think of themselves as sattvic, and beyond all

that.

> But it is

> the very Sannyasins of India who are most devoted to the Gita and

> Chandi. Because

> it is they-as the "professionals"-who are most responsible for the

> uplift of humanity.

>

> Sri Ramakrishna saw Narendra, the young Swami Vivekananda, as "an

> unsheathed

> sword; Maya cannot approach within ten feet of him!". That sword is

> divinely offered

> to every devotee.

>

> The challenge of the Gita comes to us all. With that sword of

viveka,

> discrimination,

> with the sword of puja, worship, one must keenly divide the asuric

> reality, the unreal

> reflection, from the Real, and ceaselessly invoke the Real, the

Divine

> Soul, the

> Paramatma, God Absolute, within the universe, and within every jiva.

>

> Most affectionately.

>

> Tanmaya

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

, Manoharan Sukumaran

> <manoharan191@> wrote:

> >

> > ds.james@

> >

> > Dear beloved Tanmaya,

> >

> > It was very much interested to read your mail that ritualistic

> worship gradually merges into the Gayatri mantra, and that the

Gayatri

> merges into Om. Then, that Om merges into the Silence of God

> realization.

> >

> > Can you please tell me what is that ultimate God realization?

Who

> is that ultimate Supreme God? Is it Krishna, as he proclaims in

> Bhagavad Geeta? I would appreciate your reply.

> >

> > With Love

> >

> > Manoharan

> >

> > Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:46:37 -0000

> > "ty_maa" ds.james@

> > Re: 492--Q&A WITH SWAMIJI-- Adding deities to the altar

> >

> >

> > Dear Alan,

> >

> > Sri Ramakrishna taught that ritualistic worship gradually merges

> into

> > the Gayatri mantra, and that the Gayatri merges into Om. Then,

that

> Om

> > merges into the Silence of God realization.

> >

> > Sri Ramakrishna also taught that a spiritual aspirant climbs the

> > stairs on the way to the roof of his house, as it were, by

> renouncing

> > the stairs one by one. When he arrives at the roof, he discovers

> that

> > the roof is made of brick, lime, and brickdust. Having gained

that

> > understanding, he then descends the stairway, realizing that

each of

> > the stairs is itself also made of the same brick, lime and

> brickdust.

> >

> > As the Creator breathes, the Many merge into the One, and the

One

> > re-emerges as the Many. What one does with this Truth depends

on

> > one's temperament as well as where one is in terms of spiritual

> > evolution.

> >

> > The only thing to be avoided, of course, is the fundamentalist

> > intolerance of having neither experience of the One, nor respect

for

> > the Many.

> >

> > Respectfully,

> >

> > Tanmaya

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > Mail

> > Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

> >

>