Your philosophy is well presented as always and I agree. But I have
to march to my inner drummer.
Loving your Master is divine. There comes a time when each of us must
accept the world as it is and become detached. The Master is
automatically in a Catch-22 when he is dispatched to earth, however,
a realised Guru is a big boy, and can handle it. Mere mortals handle
criticism all the time. He is, after all, God-realised and above
whiny human squeaks. The disciples are the ones who suffer, perhaps on his
behalf, or have the experience for him/her in oneness or an effort to
accept humanity and become a better person. Life is all one
experience after another neither good nor bad.
Former students who are obviously hostile are not bad people.
They are misguided, as you point out.
Oh, that bugaboo free will. To ask them to come up to a higher
standard is noble, but do you think if they rejected the Highest,
they will self-reflect and with a big "Halleluja", see the light and
stop the pettiness? I doubt it. If it did not happen under the
Master's umbrella, it won't happen when they are out in the storm. It
just is what it is, as the young generation is fond of saying these
days.
Sri Chinmoy says in Q&A: Meditation in Action, "Right now the outer
world is not ready, but a day will come when the outer world and the
inner world will progress perfectly together." He also says "We have
to accept the world as it is now. If we don't accept a thing, how can
we transform it?"
That one cares shows that that person has unity with the human
condition. This is the higher path.
Your heart is in the right place, AM, but I think all of us need to
leave the heavy lifting to the Best, the Supreme.
Definitely a far cry from perfect,
Palyati
P.S. Please keep us reflecting. Of those who have gotten a thread
going, you are the most successful of them all for quality and
quantity
Your philosophy is well presented as always and I agree. But I have
to march to my inner drummer.
Loving your Master is divine. There comes a time when each of us must
accept the world as it is and become detached. The Master is
automatically in a Catch-22 when he is dispatched to earth, however,
a realised Guru is a big boy, and can handle it. Mere mortals handle
criticism all the time. He is, after all, God-realised and above
whiny human squeaks. The disciples are the ones who suffer, perhaps on his
behalf, or have the experience for him/her in oneness or an effort to
accept humanity and become a better person. Life is all one
experience after another neither good nor bad.
Former students who are obviously hostile are not bad people.
They are misguided, as you point out.
Oh, that bugaboo free will. To ask them to come up to a higher
standard is noble, but do you think if they rejected the Highest,
they will self-reflect and with a big "Halleluja", see the light and
stop the pettiness? I doubt it. If it did not happen under the
Master's umbrella, it won't happen when they are out in the storm. It
just is what it is, as the young generation is fond of saying these
days.
Sri Chinmoy says in Q&A: Meditation in Action, "Right now the outer
world is not ready, but a day will come when the outer world and the
inner world will progress perfectly together." He also says "We have
to accept the world as it is now. If we don't accept a thing, how can
we transform it?"
That one cares shows that that person has unity with the human
condition. This is the higher path.
Your heart is in the right place, AM, but I think all of us need to
leave the heavy lifting to the Best, the Supreme.
Definitely a far cry from perfect,
Palyati
P.S. Please keep us reflecting. Of those who have gotten a thread
going, you are the most successful of them all for quality and
quantity