Datta Parenting Teens

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Carolin (and other Datta parents),

 

Jai Guru Datta!

 

I read your Email & enclosed a section below.

It has also been very difficult for me in knowing how to balance my

relationship with my daughter (16 1/2) and son (20 1/2). I want the

best for both of them ... And, knowing how great Swamiji is for me I

would like that blessing for them also... I asked the 2nd priest at the

Baton Rouge temple , Shastri, who has two daughters, about being the

parent of a teenager and he said to "advise... but I can't make her

decisions...". As I have progressed in my relationship with Swamiji

over the years, I have come to be more aware on a deeper and deeper

level that Swamiji is "doing everything within me anyway".

As a REIKI master and a healer I am well aware that God is "doing all

the healing". As a healer and Reiki master, I am merely a channel for

"God's healing energies". I am at my best as a healer when I just step

back further and further and "get out of God's way" so to speak. Step

back and let "Swamiji/God work the miracles" and sometimes I am

priviledged to catch a glimpse of a miracle taking place"

 

So, lately I am trying to tell myself I need to do the same thing as a

parent and get into "non-doership" as a parent and just "step back" and

let myself relax into knowing that "Swamiji and God are really doing the

parenting anyway". I have not mastered this yet............But when I

let myself remember the Reiki/healing miracles I have priviledged to

occasionally catch a partial glimpse of then I know that my daughter is

definitely in "good hands" as I "surrender to letting Swamiji do the

parenting thru me".

 

Be sure and obtain the "Raga Sagara" Video and CD. It is so moving for

me to watch that video of Swamiji's concert before over 50,000 souls.

The serenity of Dr. L. Subramanyam as he plays the violin before Swamiji

is very moving for me. I listen to the 3rd song on that CD perpetually

lately.

 

May Swamiji's love grace all Datta parents, sons, and daughters.

 

Sri Guru Datta!

 

Visudha (Charles Streightoff)

 

 

from your message..............

 

The night after Sri Swamiji´s Darshan in Munich I had a dream:

Sri Swamiji had been dining out in a restaurant with His Devotees.

The Dinner was already finished, and everyone was rising from his/her

seat

in order to leave. I was one of the Devotees. I noticed that on our

table, there were a few glasses that

weren´t yet fully empty. So I asked Sri Swamiji whether I should empty

mine, He nodded. I then asked

Him whether I should empty a few more, He said: No.

 

My dream interpretation:

 

The "Dining Out" is incarnation on Earth.

Everyone is already rising from his/her seat: everyone (already) wants

liberation.

 

The glasses which aren´t empty yet. The individual karmas.

 

I have to empty my glass: I cannot escape my karma.

 

I shouldn´t empty any other glass:

others, e.g. my daughter have to finish their karma on their own, I

cannot prevent my daughter from

having to have her own experiences in life, even in case there should be

some bitter experiences for her.

(She is 15 and thinks she knows everything better than I do ) - - -

 

I still haven´t had the opportunity of attending any of Sri Swamiji´s

Concerts, nor have I ever been to

India. Yet I am very glad about Sri Swamiji´s having come into my life

and I hope to be able to attend..