To Iswari on Krishna Das' writing

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Iswari wrote:

 

I've read today some beautiful words of Krishna Das, writing about his

experiences with his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, and I hope no one minds if I share

them here, because there is something universal in them about the guru's grace

that I feel we can all appreciate:

 

"He didn't teach, he didn't tell people what to do, in the sense of

spiritual practices....All I can tell you is, when I got there and took one

look at

him, I couldn't even remember my name. You know? I never sat again. I never

did another asana(yoga posture). All that stuff fell away because I was seeing

Love...He allowed me to be who I was in relation to him, and he just kept

playing with me...Something that was causing me to self-destruct was allowed to

start to blossom, only to be uprooted by his Grace....By surrender we get

ourselves, we don't lose ourselves. By surrender we find strength-strength to

be

in the moment; strength to face the things that need to be faced; strength

to trust our own hearts. It's the path from the outside into the inside. We

must learn to trust our hearts, and the way we learn that is by betraying

ourselves over and over and over, by settling for less. Finally we reach a

place

where we can't do that any more, no matter what. That's when we learn to trust

own our own hearts, to trust ourselves. There's no path outside of us. We

are the path; our lives are the path. Being open doesn't mean to be vulnerable.

When you're open, nothing can hurt you....Did I find Maharaj-ji or did

Maharaj-ji find me?"

 

 

 

Dear Iswari ~ all this that you wrote of Krisna Das writing about his Guru,

Neem Karoli Baba, is incredibly beautiful. In fact, it is almost as if Baba is

doing the speaking, which I imagine, Krishna Das would say he is. Every day,

when I take my nap, I fall asleep listening to the Love of Baba come through

that voice. I copied the whole thing to print out so I can read it again.

Was this part of something larger like a book, or was it on Krishna Das'

website?

If there is more, I'd love to read it.

 

Also ... :::feeling quite humbled::: I really really really needed to read

this right now ... all of it, but especially the part about Love, the part

about falling apart to discover yourself, and the part about surrender. One

thing I'm pretty sure of is that where there is anger, there can neither be love

nor surrender. In a way, I feel like Krishna Das' described ~ reduced to

rubble. In another way, I feel a sense of newness, as like a little sprout

pushing

through the dirt.

 

Jai Ma , Jai Baba ~ Linda