Guest guest Posted July 26, 2000 Report Share Posted July 26, 2000 Hi everyone, Will you please bear with me while I figure out this new email system? I believe I just mailed an unfinished post to the list--but since I had veered off topic to the subject of cats, I will finish it in a private email... Love, Jill ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Re: () Author: "LC" <jyotish at OFFICE 7/26/00 10:49 AM .> A few weeks ago >we met up in Chicago to see Shri Anandi Ma. I got shaktipat >initiation from her; she told me it would help steady my kundalini >experiences. It was an incredible, beautiful experience, producing >lots of rapid growth and change. And Dirk and I got to swim in Lake >Michigan, to boot. What fun. So that is my story. I am lucky to >have met Dirk, he is a great friend. >The retreat went very well. The pictures are on the >files. You would have absolutely loved it Jill! >I am going to look at those pictures. I am jealous now, that I >didnt get to go this year. Ah, maybe next time. Love, Jill Hello Jill and Everyone: I too am a bit jealous about missing the retreat especially after seeing those pictures...you all look so sincere and peaceful.Thank you for sharing them with us. Next summer I will not be so accomodating to out of town visitors and will hopefully make it to the next retreat Jill I'm glad you received Shakti Pat especially from somone as loving as Ma....it would be wonderful for you if the kundalini energy would be smoother for you. I attended a Guru Purinma celebration that was wonderful....on Saturday evening we chanted with Swami Chidvilasananda in total darkness and one could see the universal energies that are her, surround her and are us all....finally, a knot that has been in my heart for quite a while came broke free and the lingering resentments that I have felt towards my changed living conditions are gone...I could not have asked for anything more. So for many these eclipses have represented times of breakthroughs as well as challenges. On a more mundane note....Jill, I have a very sweet and spoiled cat named Shanti. Now my son who is finally escaping from Florida has had to drop off his dog to stay with us while he gets himself moved and settled downstate. Problem....I have not seen the cat out and about since the dog (big huge dog) got here...it's been two days....any way to move this forward or is it best to let it be? Thanks. Love, Linda _____ <http://click./1/7140/9/_/520931/_/964615947/> <http://adimg./img/7140/9/_/520931/_/964615947/468x60new2.gif> _____ // <//> All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at www., and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. This menu will also let you change your subscription between digest and normal mode. _____ <http://click./1/7144/9/_/520931/_/964623277/> <http://adimg./img/7144/9/_/520931/_/964623277/468x60new7.gif> _____ // <//> All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at www., and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. This menu will also let you change your subscription between digest and normal mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2000 Report Share Posted July 26, 2000 ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Re: () Author: "LC" <jyotish at OFFICE 7/26/00 10:49 AM Hello Jill and Everyone: I too am a bit jealous about missing the retreat especially after seeing those pictures...you all look so sincere and peaceful.Thank you for sharing them with us. Next summer I will not be so accomodating to out of town visitors and will hopefully make it to the next retreat Jill I'm glad you received Shakti Pat especially from somone as loving as Ma....it would be wonderful for you if the kundalini energy would be smoother for you. I attended a Guru Purinma celebration that was wonderful....on Saturday evening we chanted with Swami Chidvilasananda in total darkness and one could see the universal energies that are her, surround her and are us all....finally, a knot that has been in my heart for quite a while came broke free and the lingering resentments that I have felt towards my changed living conditions are gone...I could not have asked for anything more. So for many these eclipses have represented times of breakthroughs as well as challenges. Hi Linda, I wrote a response to this earlier but I lost it in my new, bumbling computer methods. Thank you and Holly for your warm welcome back! I am glad to be here. Thanks for sharing your experience above. It sounds like it was really wonderful. I find when those breakthroughs happen, I think, why didn't I do this before? It seems so simple and suddenly peaceful, what was the obstacle? But sometimes they are there and it seems there is nothing you can do; then suddenly it happens and it seems so easy. It's such a great peaceful release when it does happen. I had never had an experience before like with Anandi Ma. Ever since that meeting there has been this pervasive, supportive awareness of her presence. What a lovely thing this is. I feel this whole continuous circle of energy going through me and connecting me to everything. I feel long-present blocks of anxiety cleared and swept away. It's a very nice thing, to have that sense of connection and spiritual support that Anandi Ma gives. Love, Jill // <//> All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at www., and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. This menu will also let you change your subscription between digest and normal mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2001 Report Share Posted March 9, 2001 Hi Michael and Linda, Thank you both for these stories. Michael, I was thinking of the Tolstoy story while I was out running this morning. Tolstoy's irony is so heartbreakingly sad and funny. I was thinking about my own preoccupation with kundalini processes -(why am i sad? why can't I have some more of those blinding ecstatic states? Why does this process bring ongoing trouble?, and on in this pathetically self-absorbed vein) and the Tolstoy story gave me a fresh laugh and step out of myself. Jill LC wrote: Hi Michael, Thank you for sharing the Tolstoy story. A woman that did her yoga teachers training with me is an avid meditator and yoga practitioner. During her 5 or 6 hours of sadhana each day she will have incredible visions and moments of intense crying and profound love. Every year she travels to India and looks to buy land to teach yoga to poor Indian woman. One year she and a friend spent three weeks at an ashram in the northeast of America. After driving home to Atlanta her friend had to travel farther south to her home in Florida and while traveling her car was hit at a traffic light and totaled in the downtown area of Atlanta. Naturally, she called her friend who is a resident of Atlanta. The friend drops her off at the office of a lawyer who will arrange for her to get a rental car and tells her I have to get back to my home to do my own sadhana and just leaves her there. It isn't until the woman gets back to Florida that she realizes that not only was her car totaled but that serious injury was done to her back and neck. However, I do not know if the physical injuries can even compare to the hurt she felt at her friend's "detachment". Yes, the woman in the car accident got the opportunity to face fears within herself, yes, she rose above the pain and, yes, she realizes that nothing really can hurt the true self. I just wonder if she could not have grown through the experience of love coming from a teacher of spirituality? Linda >Hello Linda, >thanks for your lucid words which have struck some chord within >me. I don't think the Lord Buddha, or the Lord Jesus, or any of >the great ones, ever encouraged their disciples to speak much of >their spiritual attainments, or states of enlightenment. Rather, >they stressed the importance of the practical virtues, plus >meditation or prayer. >Tolstoy wrote this story about a Russian countess who went to see >a tragic opera in a Moscow theater. The play on the stage seemed >to move her deeply, and repeatedly during the performance she was >heard sobbing. When she left the theater the whole set of her silk >handkerchiefs was soaked with tears. Coming out into the street, >the countess looked for her coachman; she found him, slumped down, >on the seat of the coach. After giving him a sharp upbraiding for >sleeping in her presence, she had another servant open the door >for her when suddenly with a thud the coachman fell from his >seat onto the snow-covered sidewalk. While waiting in the icy >winter night for the end of the tragic opera, he had frozen to >death. >Michael Sponsor <http://rd./M=180521.1330919.2943190/D=egroupmail/S=1700060955:N/A=6051 55/*http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=LG9425KJ&url=/jump/camp aign> Click Here! <http://us.adserver./l?M=180521.1330919.2943190/D=egroupmail/S=17000609 55:N/A=605155/rand=406813542> /join </join> All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at www., and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. This menu will also let you change your subscription between digest and normal mode. Terms of Service <> .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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