Guest guest Posted March 20, 1999 Report Share Posted March 20, 1999 At 04:34 AM 3/21/99 -0000, you wrote: The aspirant begins by loving the Guru. <<<< Yes, perhaps while the guru is sexually abusing the ten year old girl in the back room, unknown to himself. >>>> The Guru is the only means to this aspirant; the Guru is his light, his soul, his understanding. The Guru is Shaktipat; the Guru is all there is; all there needs to be. He worships the Guru. <<<< Why not comfort your fellow man instead, who suffers in pain, who starves to death. Why not volunteer at a food bank. It will do ten thousand times more good. >>>> The aspirant has now realized that by loving the Guru, who is one with his essential Self, he has in fact loved himself. He understands that by humbling himself completely at his guru's feet, he was merely subjugating his finite ego so that the eternal Self could be realized. He is amazed at the simplicity and profoundness of the whole process, and wonders in amazement at how the ego ever had such impact on his entire understanding. <<<< And while he sits there in self-centered absorption, his neighbor tortures his dog to death. The yelps of pain of a fellow living creature are not heard in the self-absorption of the aspirant. >>>> This is the course Bhakta Yoga, which leads to liberation, Moksha. <<<< It leads to stimulation of nerve-endings, the same type of feeling as one gets from masturbating 4 or 5 times per day. >>>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 1999 Report Share Posted March 20, 1999 Marcus, > There seems to be quite a bit of confusion here regarding Bhakti. >Bhakti is not a title; Bhakti is not a name; Bhakti is not a state; >Bhakti means: Love; devotion. Bhakti is execution of the will. >Bhakti Yoga will now be explained so that there are only >misunderstandings among the ignorant, the bound. The aspirant begins by >loving the Guru. The Guru is the only means to this aspirant; the Guru is >his light, his soul, his understanding. The Guru is Shaktipat -snip- Thank you so much... This is beautiful. Love, Dharma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 1999 Report Share Posted March 20, 1999 Dharma, There seems to be quite a bit of confusion here regarding Bhakti. Bhakti is not a title; Bhakti is not a name; Bhakti is not a state; Bhakti means: Love; devotion. Bhakti is execution of the will. Bhakti Yoga will now be explained so that there are only misunderstandings among the ignorant, the bound. The aspirant begins by loving the Guru. The Guru is the only means to this aspirant; the Guru is his light, his soul, his understanding. The Guru is Shaktipat; the Guru is all there is; all there needs to be. He worships the Guru. In time the aspirant begins to identify with the Guru. After receiving Shaktipat from his Guru, he focuses on his Guru only. This dharana is no different from one pointed meditation; it differs only in that it is continuous. In the next phase the aspirant indentifies so completely with the Guru that he sees no difference between the two; they become one and the same. Attaining this understanding, the aspirant now sees that there is no difference in anything, anywhere. There is only Shiva, only God. This world is only God in action, his energy. There are those who understand (above Maya), and those who do not (below Maya). Both above and below contain varying degrees of understanding, or lack thereof. The aspirant has now realized that by loving the Guru, who is one with his essential Self, he has in fact loved himself. He understands that by humbling himself completely at his guru's feet, he was merely subjugating his finite ego so that the eternal Self could be realized. He is amazed at the simplicity and profoundness of the whole process, and wonders in amazement at how the ego ever had such impact on his entire understanding. He now has a profound respect for the Maya Shakti and Matrka Shakti. Once these were his master by his own choice, but he now assumes Lordship over his magnificent energies. Everything is just as he left it before willing himself into ignorance. Maya is still hard at work within him, pervading the Universe by his own might; Matrka still confounds the bound souls; all is as it should be. This is the course Bhakta Yoga, which leads to liberation, Moksha. With Bhakti Marcus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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