Rahu & Ketu

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Dasanudas

 

Mani's posting make me realize something which i missed when i commented on your

nice email

 

<<It is also known even to children on the street in India

that Radha-Krsna bhaktas attain liberation from material existence.>>

 

I consider myself a Radha-Krishna bhakta but i am not liberated from material

existence. I have to pay my bills, my debts & my health goes up & down, in fact

i am a rascal. In fact it is my feeling that i will be liberated in one million

years from now (if i am lucky). Krishna says that one in a trillion gets

liberated. I think that we should clarify this, some Radha-Krishna bhaktas are

already liberated from birth, others like me are struggling for liberation &

others, does not matter how many rounds they chant (like me again) do not have

the chance. The chanting & devotion should be pure otherwise it is noise only.

We are like conscripts, learning the art, not masters.

 

I had an argument the other day with a lady that was telling me that a couple in

England CAN give liberation at a cost of £300. Liberation is not a cheap thing,

it cost more than that, it cost your full surrender. She said "but there are

already many enlightened people thanks to them". So i ask what enlightenment

means for her "do they flash like a light bulb?" We should ask those questions

what liberation really means?

 

To me the path to liberation starts when we surrender to Divinity within our

hearts, then help comes and guru appears. Initiation is just the "official"

beginning of our path. Some people believe that just because they received

initiation they are "liberated" & they commit all sort of sins, like looking

down on people that are "inferior" to them.

 

That is inmaturity, i have seen many "liberated" people ending badly after

making a mess of people's lives. Do they get a reaction for their acts?. Of

course, even in science, we learn that every action has a reaction.

 

I heard that one day an spiritual master saw in the street a tramp (man living

on the streets) giving his own coat to another tramp that needed protection from

the weather. That guru said to his disciples, bring me that man, he is a real

devotee, even if he do not has much on him, he is given away his own protection

to help his brother in the street. That ex-tramp is now living in an ashram.

 

That is love, helping others disregarding what. What is the point of being

"liberated" if we do not have any love? Love comes from the heart, we do not

learn it, it is there, within the heart. Some of us may have that love hidden

by the dust of our ignorance, but in time, with love & devotion, that ignorance

will dissapear and discover the love within us all. We are born from nectar,

from His love, that is why we have love in our hearts. Lets learn to display

it, with discretion of course. But do not tell me that this or that have love,

i want to see real LOVE and that is the monopoly of the Lord our God, anything

else is just cheating.

 

Natabara Das