Guest guest Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 - WayOfEagle2 Ammachi Friday, August 20, 2004 2:47 PM Love is all there IS It all depends how we react to certain situation and if we do our part. Yes, but I'm inclined to believe that we must also understand that, while we may think we are 'doing our part,' we should also know that 'we' cannot do anything without grace enabling us. I can't even choose to draw my next breath or swallow my next bite of food...can I truly affect outcomes? This is more rhetorical than anything else - I cannot even answer this for myself, let alone anyone else. I do know, though, that about the time I start feeling good about my 'effort', a little voice starts whispering that my ego is once again giving me credit where/when it is not due! If we just stand there and moan and groan then yes .. the laws of Karma MUST be fulfilled. Amma in many of the books written about her has shown what we must do to to gain the grace of the God/Goddess. Again, just a personal perspective. There has indeed been a lot written about what Amma says we must do, but She also apparently has charged 'us' (many of her children) with not even understanding what the 'real' Amma offers; we prefer to go from 'holy place to holy place' and settle for hugs, etc. while ignoring, or not seeing, the bigger picture. But how many follow what Amma gives? Feeling naughty! Could that figure be determined by the number of us that are self/God realized? (-: Many go to see Amma to see what they can get from Amma and NOT what she has to offer and that is liberation from the cycle or birth and rebirth once we do our part. Granted that even I at times fall in the world of matter. But I have found that when our thoughts are with Amma she will come 100 feet to us while we take a few steps towards Amma. Amma is ever near to us as our heart and as close as our soul. Problems will always be there for that is the nature of living on this planet. But it CAN be dreatically reduced once we put our faith in Amma. Again, just asking rhetorically: are problems reduced by our faith in Amma or do we begin to realize that they truly are part of the lila and mean nothing whatsoever in the greater scheme of things? Or, alternatively, do we move past the duality of good/bad, problem/blessing to the knowledge that life just is? I wish I knew. Oh it is not easy there for we interreact with many and each have their own thoughts and ideas and all that and many times it is not what we think or feel and just want to lash out. BUT ... no matter what occurs if we do it in friendship and love understanding that we are just actors and actresses playing our parts where one day the curtain will fall then understanding THAT and KNOWING that ALL is One and nothing is different from you or I or it or whatever than life will be much easier in our path. Love is the essence of everything in the Universe and Amma herself is the essence of love. Thank you for forcing me to think. Namaste, Snehalata Namasté Alexander Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! Ammachi/ b.. Ammachi c.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 We all have our paths in life .. no one is above or below another. Nothing or anyone is different from one another except the road that we travel ... which will eventually lead to our meeting the end together into Oneness. ... Bob Dylan said it nicely when he once said ... "What's good is bad and what's bad is good we'll find out in the end that ALL is One" If I sound rhetoric then it is because if I said black is black and white is white then we don't see the grey inbetween. The greatest gift to mankind is is Love. For love is the OM of Creation. BUT ... we also have the FREE WILL to decide which path one will follow. Hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes are the result of man's inhumanity to man. Man's inhumanity to animals. Man's inhumanity to the Earth's resources. The answer to this all this lies within oneself. But unless one knows or sees or feels the EGO (Edging God Out) will always think it knows best when in reality it is just phantom of a dream that is just an illusion where the sleeping I AM needs to be awaken. Namasté Alexander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 - WayOfEagle2 Ammachi Friday, August 20, 2004 5:34 PM Re: Resopnse to waiting/Love We all have our paths in life .. no one is above or below another. Nothing or anyone is different from one another except the road that we travel ... which will eventually lead to our meeting the end together into Oneness. ... Bob Dylan said it nicely when he once said ... "What's good is bad and what's bad is good we'll find out in the end that ALL is One" Yes, this was my point exactly! I really do believe all is one - that there IS only one. And I certainly agree with your thought on different paths-that's been my contention all along. If I sound rhetoric then it is because if I said black is black and white is white then we don't see the grey inbetween. I snag a bit here - IMHO there can't be grey, nor can there probably even be black or white as individual entities. I think it's true that when we reference one, we simulatnaeously reference the other. These seem to be the dualities I bump head with all the time - for me, at least, it's more of a yin/yang thing: two dissimilar halves constitute the whole. The greatest gift to mankind is is Love. I think mankind is, at its most elemental, love. My thought on this is that, when we get to the end, there is nothing but OM. Even if we look at OM from the simple vibratory principle, man, God, rocks, serial killers, everything is the same 'wave,' just different 'frequencies.' I'm not sure if I think love is a gift or our only, essential reality. For love is the OM of Creation. BUT ... we also have the FREE WILL to decide which path one will follow. I truly WANT to believe that we have free will, but I am not one hundred percent convinced. This may sound convaluted and if so, I'm sorry but don't know how else to explain my thoughts. If we are to work off karma accrued during previous lives in this lifetime -but we have no memory of the previous life- can we be sure that we are acting with free will now or are we simply doing what we were 'sent' here to do? If, as some contend, the soul chooses the body and the tasks it needs to accomplish, it would seem that a lot is predecided. If we believe that all is one, can we do anything that is not according to the will of That That Is? I've wondered about this in respect to man's greatest scientific breakthroughs as well - great minds have often prepared themselves for great discoveries thru their studies, etc., but often credit the final breakthroughs to associative 'leaps.' How much of what we consider to be free will choices are actually reflections of our times and places? Did Judas use free will or did he do what he had been put here to do? When such good comes out of such seeming treachery, I am not sure what to think. I'd really like to hear other thoughts on the free will issue. (and please note that the use of 'great' and 'good' are simply convenient, not my opinions!) Hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes are the result of man's inhumanity to man. Man's inhumanity to animals. Man's inhumanity to the Earth's resources. I can't comment on this because I have no clue. Again, if all is One, I'm not sure about assigning 'negative' connotations to anything; (when the sky caves in on my head over this one, I won't even be surprised!!!). Sometimes I feel like we want it both ways-can all is one coexist with cause/effect or does one preclude the other? The answer to this all this lies within oneself. But unless one knows or sees or feels the EGO (Edging God Out) will always think it knows best Some days I'd actually be glad if I thought my ego knew best- at least I'd be sure of something! Namaste, Snehalata when in reality it is just phantom of a dream that is just an illusion where the sleeping I AM needs to be awaken. Namasté Alexander Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! Ammachi/ b.. Ammachi c.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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