Showing posts with label spiritual teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spiritual teachers. Show all posts

Friday, June 3, 2011

sharada

Sharada was the youngest of the three siblings. Older brother sathyanarayana was the unofficial head of the village while the younger of her older brothers’ suryanarayana was a kind of spiritual guru. He claimed vision and self realization.


Sharada being more aggressive and gregarious of the three always felt if she was a boy she would have beaten the boys in terms of fame, name and money. But true to the Tulu tradition, she was married off at the age of twenty three, to Satish, the quite university teacher who was five years her senior.

During one of her evening walks to the local temple she saw a crowd and a person talking.

“We are here on this earth to realize our Karma’s, from here we move on to the next plane.”

The voice was very reassuring.

“Excuse me”

“Yes,”

“I am troubled will swamiji listen to me?”

“Of course, he is here to guide us all come, meet him.”

The room was cool with fragrance of sandalwood wafting from a nearby lamp. Behind Swamiji was the framed picture of his guruji. Beside him sat men and women in white.

“Even if it troubles given by your mother-in-law, daughter-in-law. It is your Karma that is making you experience this. If you have lost a child, remember this has happened to greater souls like Yashoda and Devaki, but when the time was right they gave birth to the divine mother and Lord Krishna.”

Sharada felt that swamiji had recognized her and was addressing her specific trouble. She felt very calm and ordained for greater heights like yashoda and Devaki. As she came out she was handed the pamphlet of the ashram. They had courses on spirituality. She knew she had found her calling.

From the beginners to the advanced, to healers Sharada moved on, she gave profound discourses to the women of the neighbourhood, who looked up to her and spiritual enhancement. Supriya lost her father; Sharada’s spiritual guidance helped her out of the loss. Sherpa had in-law trouble the Karmic cycle explained by sharada took her ahead. Shraddha, Savita so on so forth. But Sharada’s circle did not go beyond this.

She knew to attain her ambition, it was like a being a big fish in a small pond. She needed to find the pond that will get her to be the right size of fish. But the pond had to have the water canals to take her to the bigger rivers.



Wednesday, February 2, 2011

a karmic kourtsey


Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery so live in today, nice thought, philosophy and the anthem of the great contemporary spiritual seekers. (That’s an other muse all together)
Another favorite is the cause and effect the Karmic Law, it looks like Newton had his realization through every action has an equal and opposite reaction,
Tell me about yesterday being history as clean up after a weeks retreat of a baker’s dozen.
Tell about good Karma after I have just cooked 24 meals for a dozen and half of people.
Maybe yesterday being history is a good enough excuse for amnesia, while Karmic accounting takes care of recuperation.
To me a scar is a trophy of a challenge overcome, one more scar is more trophy, an acknowledgement of my endurance power even if I have to lick my wounds and blow my trumpet.
Maybe I should thank my maker for not making me spiritual. J

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

about avatars and yugapurush

Just thinking about avatars and yuga purush’s.
Most spiritual teachers come as teachers and their voices. Preceded by people who in turn have woken the leader.
Maybe that is what an avatar is all about, from matsya to Krishna have not laid down precepts, they have only awakened that something, or spoken to someone who asked.
That seems to be the key, since we have turned a deaf ear to all the precepts and principles laid down by God, we have lead crusades and waged war in his name instead of understanding and assimilating what he said he has chosen to be silent. Until we ask him.
Even after that we need to have the courtesy of listening to him and the courage to assimilate it into our nature. That probably is the answer to many of our questions.
Why is that we do not have the faith in God, he is omnipotent he will not make a defective piece. May be He has sent us imperfect as being awakened to perfection is realizing God?