Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:17:48 -0000
To: am-global@earthlink.net
Subject: Dhya'na: Fearful to Fearless
From: RB_MAURYA@ecectronic...
Baba
"Ba'ndhan chinr'e beriye elum kave keno ke ja'ne..." (PS 3526)
Purport:
Baba, by Your grace You have done everything. You have shattered all my
bondages, brought me out of that magical net of maya, and lifted me up onto
Your divine lap. Amazingly, You released me from the otherwise
insurmountable grip of maya. Baba, it is impossible for me to understand
exactly how You did it. But by Your grace, You have smashed all the
bondages and brought me out. You graced me and attracted my entire mental
flow towards You so I did not get pulled towards the magical allurement of
avidya maya. Baba this is Your causeless grace on me. How it happened I do
not know-- but now, by Your infinite compassion I am in Your eternal shelter.
Baba, the moment You brought me under Your shelter and made me deeply
attracted towards You, then from that very time You became my everything.
After that no longer did I did pay heed to any obstacles-- or any crude
worldly attraction. Instead by Your grace I moved swiftly towards You. By
seeing this situation, some concluded that I was imbalanced, mad, and
crazy. In their own way they tried to pull me back into their negative way
of living. But by Your divine attraction I did not pay any heed to their
call; nor did I get affected by the useless comments of those ignorant
people. Baba, by Your grace now I am safe under Your shelter.
Baba, by Your Supreme direction You have taught me what is important in
this life. By Your fathomless grace, You changed my mind: by Your grace You
have made me a member of Hari Pari Mandal*. You graced me and showed me
how to offer my entire unit being at Your alter. In this magnificent
display, You brought me under Your divine shelter and I got You. Baba, by
Your grace, You made all those crude desires drift away from my mind and by
Your grace now I am blissfully floating in the high tide of Your eternal
form of divinity. Baba, each second of my life is like a divine oblation--
giving the flowers of my heart and mind. Each and every moment I am
offering everything to You in the form of Guru Puja. Baba, by Your grace my
whole existence surrenders at Your lotus feet...
* Hari Pari Mandal= Literally means 'circle of devotees'. In the deeper
sense it is that highly devotional state of mind where all one's longing
and desires are racing towards His Supreme Self, towards Baba. When by His
grace one has accepted Parama Purusa as the only Goal of their life then
each and everything they do is done to please Him. In that blissful
atmosphere, the bhakta is just closely revolving around His Cosmic
Nucleus-- not at all distracted by anything else in this created universe.
So when one is in that deeply devotional flow of Hari Pari Mandal by Baba's
grace they are totally ensconced in Him and moving in His divine flow.
== DHYA'NA: FEARFUL TO FEARLESS ==
Namaskar,
In many places Baba guides us that that dhya'na is our highest practice
which has no comparison.
Baba says, "Dhyana is the unbroken flow of the mind-stuff, or citta, in one
continuous stream, like the flow of oil, where all the propensities of the
mind are fixed on the Goal." (CC-1, pg 11)
Baba says, "Dhya'na yoga which elevates human beings through constant
self-analysis, obliterates the very existence of the non-spiritual, and
expedites one's elevation into the supreme spiritual stance." (MVNS, p.92-3)
By these sadhana teachings it is clear that dhya'na is that distinct
practice which leads us unto Him.
FEARFUL LOVE TO FEARLESS LOVE
In this following passage Baba vividly tells us that sadhana-- dhya'na- is
the process of yojana't-- whereby we move from the stage of fearful love to
fearless love for Him.
Baba says, "Yojana means unicity with Him. The final goal of a Sa'dhaka is
to become one with Him....The spirit of sa'dhana' is to get oneself unified
with the hub of this universal wheel, not united but unified."
"Now this sa'dhana' which is sa'dhana' for complete merger, for
unification, starts with fearful love. Love must be there. Unless and until
there is love, there can not be unification. So love must be there but it
starts with fearful love and ends in fearless love : and the space between
fearful love and fearless love is the space of sa'dhana'. What is
sa'dhana'? Sadhana' is transformation of fearful love into fearless love."
"When this attraction is for any non-integral entity, or for any small
entity this is called ka'ma. When that attraction is for that integral
entity, and the integral entity is only one and that one is Parama Purus'a
-- it is called Prema."
"Yojana't starts with fearful love and ends in fearless love and the
process of transformation of fearful love into fearless love is called
sa'dhana' (Intuitional Practice)."
"Sa'dhana' starts with fearful love:..One name of God is Bhiis'an'a because
everybody is afraid of Him. Everybody starts their sa'dhana' with fearful
love but that sa'dhana' ends in fearless love -because unless and until one
becomes fearless one cannot become one with Him." (SS-18; Salem, Madras,
D.M.C. 9-12-64)
Namaskar,
Rambabu
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For those who are soon-to-be mother:
Parama Purusa BABA says, "Foods which are highly acidic, such as acidic
citrus fruits, overripe pineapples, overripe jam, cottonseed flour and
spicy pickles, should be carefully avoided as they may harm the fetus."
(SC-20)
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