Posted November 19th, 2005 by doriscott20002000(#15925)
I am sorry to made you throw mud on yourself to open my eyes. Maybe
I should have said I don't understand why people change their
attitude. As you said, it's 'human' nature... that is to be accepted
as spirituality is not something to be understood but something to
be felt. This truth became more then clear to me after watching the
movie "Passion Of The Christ."
I found the following question and answer, Part 7, from 25-26
January 1995 appropriate to the discussion.
(Unofficial)
Question:"Is the spiritual life easier or less strict today than it
was in ancient days?"
Sri Chinmoy:"....When I initiate a disciple, I only offer light to
the disciple's soul, and then it is up to the vital and the mind to
accept the light from the soul. Again, if that person decides not to
become my disciple but wants to go somewhere else for different
blessings,no harm! We are all one family.
Today everything is cheap-as cheap as water. Again, water is life.
If we do not have water, we die. But in terms of strictness, there
is no comparison between the spiritual life two hundred or four
hundred or seven hundred years ago and twentieth century
spirituality! In many, many ways we have made the spiritual life
simpler and easier. We cannot say that God-realisation has become
like instant coffee; that we will never dare to say. But we have
made it very, very easy. Because of the kinds of world problems,
sufferings, imperfections and weaknesses found in the twentieth
century, God uses His Compassion aspect infinitely more than His
Justice aspect."
Regarding your own experience in Manhattan I am sure I wouldn't
even dare to sit down and close my eyes peacefully, not to speak of
remaining quiet in such an impossible situation.
I will keep your 'story' inside the very depth of my heart.
"Each spiritual master
Can write down
Not thousands, but millions of pages
Of his heart-crying
And soul-smiling stories."
I am sorry to made you throw mud on yourself to open my eyes. Maybe
I should have said I don't understand why people change their
attitude. As you said, it's 'human' nature... that is to be accepted
as spirituality is not something to be understood but something to
be felt. This truth became more then clear to me after watching the
movie "Passion Of The Christ."
I found the following question and answer, Part 7, from 25-26
January 1995 appropriate to the discussion.
(Unofficial)
Question:"Is the spiritual life easier or less strict today than it
was in ancient days?"
Sri Chinmoy:"....When I initiate a disciple, I only offer light to
the disciple's soul, and then it is up to the vital and the mind to
accept the light from the soul. Again, if that person decides not to
become my disciple but wants to go somewhere else for different
blessings,no harm! We are all one family.
Today everything is cheap-as cheap as water. Again, water is life.
If we do not have water, we die. But in terms of strictness, there
is no comparison between the spiritual life two hundred or four
hundred or seven hundred years ago and twentieth century
spirituality! In many, many ways we have made the spiritual life
simpler and easier. We cannot say that God-realisation has become
like instant coffee; that we will never dare to say. But we have
made it very, very easy. Because of the kinds of world problems,
sufferings, imperfections and weaknesses found in the twentieth
century, God uses His Compassion aspect infinitely more than His
Justice aspect."
Regarding your own experience in Manhattan I am sure I wouldn't
even dare to sit down and close my eyes peacefully, not to speak of
remaining quiet in such an impossible situation.
I will keep your 'story' inside the very depth of my heart.
"Each spiritual master
Can write down
Not thousands, but millions of pages
Of his heart-crying
And soul-smiling stories."
-Sri Chinmoy
from:77'000 Service-Trees, # 4216 [unofficial]
Doris