To Tom ... one more try

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Tom wrote:

 

....FACT: When you glorify someone who isn't worthy, you hurt both them

and you. The difference is if you serve someone who may not be

complete, but DOES know the way, as described in Swami

Paramatmaananda's autobiography, part1 (then you benefit).

 

What one person sees as invalid or unnecessary criticism, the

discriminitive sadhak sees as fact-finding rather than blind

acceptance.

 

 

 

Dear Tom ~ :::sigh::: Your first sentence in the "FACT" session is quite

clearly a judgement and not a discrimination. I am quite perplexed by your

determination to bash these folks.

 

When I was in my early 20's (now I am really dating myself), I was

struggling with some very heavy karmic issues, resulting mostly from growing up

in a

severely abusive home, but some resulting from the overlayering I received as

a Catholic (my mother converted and took all of us along, en masse), which

left me feeling like my nature was inherently evil, particularly as a woman. I

was also dealing with a lot of rage, which didn't come out as such, but came

out to me as haunting and terrible images and thoughts. It was like being

tortured constantly.

 

At that point in my life, I began to read some books which proved to be very

important to me. One was "The Wisdom of India and China," which took me some

steps along the road to healing; one was "Be Here Now," which did the same.

Even Star Trek helped me. Then I learned TM, and in my mid 30's, I was led, by

my sister, to Amma. In any case, I guess the point I am making is one

person's nasty storm is another person's fruit growing rain. (I don't much like

rain, so I have to remind myself that it's a good thing, especially in the

southwest.)

 

I have learned a great deal from Linda Johnsen's books, and more recently,

from my beginning to read actual Indian scriptures, most notably the Bhagavad

Gita and the Chandi Path. I long for more, but have to fit purchasing these

into my fairly pathetic disability income.

 

I realize by this time that anything I say will not matter, since it is so

clear you mind is made up. But I am glad for all the teachers, helpers,

animate and inanimate, who have helped me turn from untruth to truth, which, in

my

case, is decidedly Eastern.

Live Long and Prosper ~ Linda