Guest guest Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Om Namah Shivaya: Please allow my two cents, By no means take this as authoritative. Others may have a different tack. Flute means instrument to this Son. To get Krishna be Gods instrument. Your take on Sw. Ramakrishnananda was fascinating. When I came for my first Darshan in '96 the Swami was glowing and shining. I thought he was really something that day. I never saw the Swami appear that way again. Namah Shivaya, GeorgeSon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Ammachi, GeorgeSon <leokomor wrote: > > Om Namah Shivaya: > > Please allow my two cents, By no means take this as > authoritative. > Others may have a different tack. > > Flute means instrument to this Son. To get Krishna be > Gods instrument. > > Your take on Sw. Ramakrishnananda was fascinating. > > When I came for my first Darshan in '96 the Swami was > glowing and shining. I thought he was really > something that day. I never saw the Swami appear that > way again. > > Namah Shivaya, > > GeorgeSon Ramakrishna Swami and Rao Swami (Amritatmananda) always appear to me as glowing big-time. That I can't see the other swamis glow so much does not mean I am criticizing them; it simply means I can't see their physical bodies glow and no more. perhaps there's a reason, and I am willing to wait till eternity to find it out; in the meantime I am not bothered. Regardless, I enjoy the presence of every swami; i feel intuitively feel they all are able to transmit great inner joy. Jai Ma! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Thanks for all your responses on this. An instrument in the hands of the Lord -- exactly. "Make me a channel of your peace" was one of the first reflections I got on the advice - it just reminded my friend immediately of the Prayer of St. Francis. I too have thought of the imagery in terms of the subtle energy centers of the body. Although remain incredibly lazy about maintaining either a hatha or an IAM practice that might refine my awareness of them. "Suffering" from the self-indulgence of a Venus dasha, for I think another few years at least. Perhaps why Amma said in response to my curiousity about the paucity of my sadhana, "Don't worry about what you can't do, just do what you can." Becoming like a flute I think is fundamentally a prescription to get emptied out and hollow inside, like the shell of a conch. Free of ego. Free of clinging attachments that would obstruct the flow of air / of energy. And just open. Swami Amritaswarupananda was speaking in a new angle on this during last Fall's U.S. programs. He was talking about the pipes that water flow through, and not being frozen like ice but open to the flow. Sometimes, however, I think I could pour a thousand cases of spiritual Drano down my emotional sink of a Mind and still not "allow" the clogs dissolve. Here's to many more jumping flowers, crashing pictures, subtle glows, and all the affirmations a disciple could ask for to know, to really really know, "Amma is with you." Jai Ma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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