To Gauri about EMS Sankalpa goal

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Gauri wrote:

 

That is a fabulous way to go about the EMS sankalpa.....I was doing

the Sukra mantras today and the thought of 200+ seemed so daunting to

me that the thought of quitting right there and then crossed my

mind. Like you, though, I realized that I didn't have to do it all

today. I really like your idea and shall adopt it...

 

 

Dear Gauri ~ I'm so glad my idea helped make the EMS sankalpa a bit less

daunting. I was daunted from the first day I saw the materials on the

site, and I didn't really understand what the numbers meant until just a few

weeks ago. They were so daunting that I thought surely they must be group totals,

like the 20,000 of the MM Mantra for May. Then I learned that, no, they were

for every individual to achieve ... and I like to remember these words that

Swamiji so often uses, "according to your capacity." But even then, I thought

I will never complete it, so I will have a smaller goal, and get there first,

and then see. Now I have reached my goal of chanting 1/3 of the malas for

Surya and Mangala, and about half way to 1/3 for Saturn. : )

 

I realized that the way I was approaching it ~ to say as many malas for the

particular day associated with the planet ~ was never going to get me there

because, once I realized that it was I alone responsible for chanting the

planet's malas, How wuld I get to Sukra (with almost three times the number to be

chanted, compared to some of the others) or to Buddha? Now that I have

reached my own goal for two of the planets, I can concentrated on planets with

more malas left to reach that 1/3 point. It may seem a little goofy, but I

realized I needed a goal that was possible for me. Then if I reach that goal, I

can set another one ... to reach the halfway point for all of the malas.

 

Anyhow, it was becoming something I was rushing through, rather than

something I was doing as prayer or as spiritual food to embibe. I needed to make it

sadhanan again.

Jai Maa , Jai Swamiji ~ Linda P.S. and celebrations and joy to those who

have completed the sankalpa. You all rock!