A place to remember

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People have all different motivations, coming from their feelings about

what is right and wrong, their perceptions of what is true and false.

 

I got into astrology. I quickly saw full determinism. Already having

basically memorized the Gita, read the Mahabharat four times, read the

Bhagavatam once over, and some parts many times...I knew that full

destiny understanding did not hamper the understanding that all perceive

free will.

 

All have maya, illusion. That is basic. Free will is part of this

illusion. That I am free.

 

Early in my dealings with Jyotish, I predict the divorce of a friend way

in advance, and so it happens, and that his wife would become certain

way, and so it happened.

 

One friend, making so much money each month, living like a king, way in

advance I warn him of times coming when it would be not so, and now it

is not so.

 

I saw the yoga that burned my daughter before knowing Jyotish, and using

simple dashas, saw it again coming into play. I waited, and told nobody.

Then the call came, the car crash had happened, and the child with the

yoga for damage to the head, so clear in his chart, lay at the hospital

with smashed head. His transits, my yoga, all operating as they should.

 

As I drove to see my near dead son, I am praising Krishna in my heart

and mind, and part of me, is not sad at all, nor afraid, nor surprised,

but rather in wonder, at the perfect hands that cradle us all, bringing

us slowly towards Himself.

 

Those who I know with Saturn in the midheaven, the careers build slow.

Those with strong well placed Venus enjoy the good life. Those with

Mercury in Aries show quick wit, and so on it goes. Everyone, all that I

know and see, act exactly like their charts speak to me.

 

But they, the souls, resistant to God, ignore the truth, that they are

in God, that God is in control, that all is good, that we are being raised.

 

Millions of years ago, we were dinosaurs, large bodies, small brains.

Now we have large brains and small bodies, and we span the globe in

complex communications like this one. Now we become aware of each others

faiths, and secrets locked from us for thousands of years are now sold

in Borders bookstore. Secret parts of the Himalayas, the subject of only

lore a meer 50 years ago, are now routine stops on tourist routes, you

can go there and return to any part of the world, safely, comfortably

(almost) in less than a week's trip, returning with pictures, and books

explaining everything to you in your native tongue.

 

I see the souls getting raised, becoming aware, surrendering to the

truth, slowly, but surely.

 

Jyotish, a special gift of knowledge, shows us indeed, we are in God,

parts of God, parts of the whole, a plan in place, only surrender is

required, letting go to God's flow.

 

My son, the winner of many awards for sportsmanship in many categories,

who has to race bicycles with the next age group up to be challenged at

all, the one with the perfect body, the weight lifter, the most handsome

one, the darling of the girls at his school, the straight A student, the

one that rebounded from massive head damage in way too short of a time,

who went right back to snowboarding, wrestling, and bike racing, that

one, has never fished, never hunted, never eaten an egg, nor a fish, nor

any meat whatsoever, conceived by two young members of a "cult", in

poverty, but in faith, strong faith.

 

I see my parents, and all my relatives, and my friends relatives, and

our past presidents, all suffering from senility, dementia, in old age.

I also suffered mental trouble already, and know therefore, it was based

on attachment and fear. I know too that hard core rememberence of

spiritual truth is what is saving me.

 

I remember 3 old Gurus I've known in India- Prabhupada, Sridhar Maharaj,

and BP Puri Maharaj, all of whom were mentally crisp to the last breath

as much as they ever were, never showing any signs at all of being

senile, fearful, or dementia. What am I to think?

 

I know that if you live your life in knowledge Divine, then you don't

have fears, because the greatest fears, you've already faced, and lived

according to the solution throughout your life. Know God in prosperity,

and he'll know you in adversity. Invite Saturn into your life, and he

won't need to force himself.

 

Knowing all these things, and more, so many things, heaps and piles, all

proving to me the same thing over and over, that God consciousness is

good, that it is real, that it is needed, and knowing first hand that

the fine old fashioned Vedic approach, works so very well, but knowing

that few got to see it as I did, few get to taste it and be taught it as

I have, then what am I to think but, "let me try to share it".

 

So I give my life to that, and I try, ever so hard, on and on. As I get

older, the feeling of wanting to share it intensifies, as I feel, I have

hardly begun at all. So this is the real reason to sharpen the tools,

oil the gears, rev up the engine, of the worship, rememberance,

practice, and dissemination mechanisms inside myself. Sri Caitanya said:

By my order, become Guru, and deliver the land. Whomsoever you meet,

tell them about Krishna. And always remember you are a servant of the

servant of God.

 

Many write to me, and have various motivations, to do it this way or

that. But I can see who is a bit desperate to know and taste devotion to

God now, and who is still seeing in ways of this world, through relative

eyes related to this bodily illusion. As a steward or guide, one who

knows something, one having tasted and thus knowing the thing directly,

I have to stay on track, to try to make it spread, that more pure thing,

that thing that will give them that rare gift of Divine Love and

Service, Surrender to God, the sweetest thing of all.

 

Many play with Jyotish, and some see it as a map that can be changed,

others see it as possibilities, and others think it has no connection to

God. There are so many ways to see anything and everything. But I know,

that the family who held it and gave it to us, that they were close to

Krishna, and Krishna is real, and this life is temporary. That which we

see shall vanish, so we believe in that which we cannot see. They taught

that. The reasons to believe in Krishna and call out to Him, are much

stronger than our attachments and illusions based in shifting sands here

in this plane, wherefrom our friends dissapear, so we hear, in phone

calls we loathe, and hope in veign to never receive.

 

Remember, remember, that you are a soul. So many things try to convince

us otherwise, distract us into taking this life more seriously than our

souls. So rare it is to find a place, an abode, where the truth alone is

spoken.

 

GJLIST was started by a weak hand, a shaky one, certain unto himself, as

to what is true, but knowing that there are few to none to stand by and

say, yes, go on, do it that way, stand firm with that flag, and if you

fall, we shall hold it, and it will never go down. Few have committed

their lives to defending God consciousness as their all in all without

wavering. But there are some, and many wish to be, many think, yes, soon

I shall be, I am considering it, therefore soon I shall be strong, soon, soon.

 

Going backwards, into desire, I know there awaits me nothing but

anxiety, fear, hopelessness. I cannot fool myself longer. Forward, there

is also a different type of fear. When we stand in THAT doorway, we look

back and feel regret as to what we are leaving. We look forward and

aren't sure, what we shall be receiving. But when we step forward into

that unsurity, but with faith as our guide, and knowledge too, though

not empirical, inferable, so onward we step, and when we do, at each

step, we realize, I left nothing, and am gaining everything. The doubts

exist in the doorway, in the unsurity, of not taking the "leap of

faith". That is where doubt lives, in the heart of the one who can no

longer go back, but is not yet practiced in going forward.

 

Sri Caitanya leaped forward, and spread that to a few, who showed it to

a few, who showed it to a few, and it never died, and it reached me. I

have lived with big-steppers, leapers of faith, who still carried that

feeling, that came down from that one who was the embodiment of that

leap, who was that leap, personified. This is sampradaya. It is knowing

a taster, it is having them shake you, look you in your eyes, and thus

initiate you, in that leaping, and you're changed forever.

 

Sampradaya means disciplic succession. Knowledge is one thing, but

spiritual courage another, and there, there is no substitute. One may

learn from books, but never from books will you feel what it feels like,

to talk to one, who has leaped and lived, and who laughs harder than

you, is stronger than you, happier than you, with less than you, who is

the same all the time, strong and able, never sad, never fearful, always

cheerful, even with nothing. Then you know, from their association, what

real spiritual life is. That is Guru. That is Sampradaya. That is

initiation- it's those few moments, when you realize, Oh my God, this

Person is Really Spiritual, no fake, no gimics, only realized soul, the

real thing.

 

Krishna says: "Just try to approach a real Guru, who can teach you the

truth, from having seen it themselves". The word he uses is "Tattva

Darshini", or one who has seen the truth. There is no faking it, though

some do, and they have followers, for some time anyway, before both

sides of the false transaction retire to more real realities. But that

doesn't happen with the real, rather, they are solid til death, with no

fear, for they prepared lifelong.

 

Knowing all this, how can I care for lesser considerations? It may not

be easy, the first splash of an unfamiliar cold shower, but after some

time, you are swimming with the adjusted, one of them, and knowing that

you will be, they push you in, knowing you will survive and prosper.

 

Those who can hear it, hear it, those who cannot, well they have their

ways of adjusting and going on. For all of us are parts of God,

learning, growing, and all is perfect, for there is only God, and His

guiding hands, are all that is.

 

Hari Om, Hare Krishna,

 

 

Raghunandan das

 

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