Guest guest Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Namaste Sir what you said makes a lot sense and it was marvellous but i have some small doubts Leaving astrology aside and those who do not have a guru how can they chooose a particular form of GOD bcoz in second part of AGHORA, Vimalanda, said choosing right deity is very important, as the analogy he gave of a person who is greedy and worships LAKSHMI , may increase his greed One thing more we have so many deities that on diwali i would like to worship Lakshmi and Kali in navaratri (nowadays) we would worship Durga on janmashtami we would fast for KRISHNA an on MAHASHIVARATRI for SHIVA like this with hte change in festival the deity changes though everybody knows GOD is ONE but it becomes difficult to get out of this mould and if i didnt worship her may be that GOD/GODDESS may become angry I Know,this is my foolishness but stiil this thing hangs in the mind One thing more Suppose if i choose a deity and something wrong happens (materiallistically) what should i consider that my deity was helping me to clear my DEBTS/WRONG DEEDS or the NATURE was telling me to change the DEITY as I am not fit for that DEITY and sometimes you feel o what am i doing does this really works and one thing more what if we go on doing our pooja and someday something like what happened to Pt. GOPI KRISHNA JI happens to us also though he says in his book that he read a lot about yoga and stuff like this At any stage i do not want you people to get offended but these are my doubts which are there in my mind i will not say much now bcoz in Swami Sivananda's KUNDALINI YOGA on the last page he says " the shastras are endless and there is so much to be known turn the gaze. draw the indriyas.still the mind.then dive deep into the divine source and realise the infinite bliss " ********************************************************************* * i ll give one small personal example here around 26 or 27 dec.2007 i started chanting 2 mantras (one kar mala each) in morning and evening and on 9 january 2008 my parents met an accident though my father suffered small injuries my mother suffred fracture in shoulder and Leg and she is still undergoing treatment and will have to undergo one more operation in this month and in February and March i got placement in 2 companies (i m doing MCA in india) where most of my friends have not even got one and let me tell you i m not very intelligent so sometimes even now i consider whether my choosen deity is correct or not so everyday in the end of my pooja what i ask GOD is to help me find the right path ********************************************************************* ** regards jitender , " Narasimha P.V.R. Rao " <pvr wrote: > > Namaste, > > > Makes you wonder about the Divine connection between all these > > supremely elevated souls! > > Earlier, I was exerting discretion in sharing personal accounts, but She has > been making me drop guard of late, for whatever reason. I will continue in > the same vein for a little more time. > > I had a dream a couple of years ago early in the morning. In the dream, > there was a big ritual fire. My guru Manish Pandit and I were sitting in > front of the fire. He was teaching me some pranayama techniques in the > dream. Suddenly, he changed into somebody else that I could not recognize. > It was not anybody I had seen before. > > I mentioned this dream to my guru after a couple of weeks. First he said he > did not know who the other person was and said he would've probably known if > I had mentioned the dream soon after it had happened. I left it there. > However, when we talked in the next weekend, he referred to my dream and > said he had an idea who it was. He gave me a name and asked me to search on > the internet for his photo and see if he was the person I saw in my dream. > It was a guru from the lineage of Paramahamsa Yogananda (before him). Though > he is apparently well-known, I was not knowledegable about this lineage and > did not see his picture before. I searched on the internet and found a > photo. Interestingly, the photo was very close to the person I saw in my > dream. The person that Manish transformed into in my dream looked like a > slightly younger version of that photo. > > When I confirmed this to Manish, he only smiled and said, " Narasimha, there > are so many links between various lineages. Leave it for now. " > > Of course, I do not know much about kriya yoga or about the lineage of > Paramahamsa Yogananda. Our lineage of this life starts from Dattatreya. We > have a special attachment to Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and his lineage and got > a lot of our knowledge, inspiration and perhaps experience from them. We do > not have any direct link to the lineage of Paramahamsa Yogananda. But, > Manish thought there were some other indirect links. Moreover, he guessed > who I saw, even though I myself had no idea who I saw, and he guessed > correctly. That should count for something! > > I will not be surprised if there are indeed subtle connections between > several lineages that seem disjoint today. > > By the way, Swami Vivekananda also appeared in the prison cell of Sri > Aurobindo (who wrote brilliant commentaries on Veda and Upanishad) and > imparted him some Adwaita knowledge to Sri Aurobindo. > > * * * > > An interesting coincidence is that a swamiji from Puri contacted me within a > few days after I saw that photo. His guru and Paramahamsa Yogananda were > co-disciples of the same guru (Yukteshwar Maharaj). He is the keeper of > some astrological knowledge that his guru received from Yukteshwar Maharaj. > He visited me after a month, discussed that knowledge and spent a day at my > house. Thus, some small connection was made with a representative of that > lineage soon after the dream. After all, some karmik debts may have been > there... > > * * * > > I want to make one thing clear. > > Some things I mention like this may give the impression that my guru has > some psychic abilities or siddhis. That may indeed be true. But he always > downplays those things and attaches no importance whatsoever. He says, > " Narasimha, I am a useless person and lower than dirt and capable of > nothing. It is all Her power. She is the connection between every entity in > this universe. She may choose an idiot like me as an instrument sometimes > and do something using me. I have no special abilities of any kind. Any > coincidences you find are just Her grace and not due to me. " > > I realized in time that this simplicity, humility and lack of ego is not > fake. I also realized that this lack of ego is what enabled him to do things > that sound impossible or difficult. In fact, I realized that many great > saints in the past were like this. Several magical things happened through > them, but they did not find any pride in them and retained their humility > and sense of surrender to their chosen form of god and believed that god > was the doer of all things and they were mere instruments. > > The day you also start believing that, not for the sake of lecturing or > posturing, but from the deep cores of your heart, your sadhana will bear > fruit. > > Best regards, > Narasimha > > Do a Short Homam Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/homam > Do Pitri Tarpanas Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpana > Spirituality: > Free Jyotish lessons (MP3): http://vedicastro.home.comcast.net > Free Jyotish software (Windows): http://www.VedicAstrologer.org > Sri Jagannath Centre (SJC) website: http://www.SriJagannath.org > > > - > " Dinesh Nambisan " <dinesh > > Monday, September 29, 2008 5:54 PM > Yogananda (Re: Dharma) > > > , " Narasimha P.V.R. Rao " <pvr@> > wrote: > > > > Dear Lakshmi, > > > > The Yogananda I mentioned is different. Swami Yogananda is one of > the sixteen monastic disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, along with > Swami Vivekananda. He was forced to marry, but never slept with his > own wife. Swami Vivekananda once said " if any of us (disciples of > Ramakrishna) conquered lust completely and in all respects, it is > Joginder (Swami Yogananda) " . There is no question of Swami Yogananda > being accused of drinking and having women etc. > > > > Paramahamsa Yogananda is a sishya of Yukteshwar Maharaj and from the > lineage of Mahavatar Babaji. They practice kriya yoga. I do not know > much about him. > > > > For what it is worth, you can read more about Paramahamsa Yogananda in > his free+online autobiography, > here http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Yogi > > There were interesting links between Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and > Paramahamsa Yogananda:- > For example, one of the top disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was > Mahendranath Gupta (not sure if he was one of the 16 monastic > disciples that Narasimhaji refers to) aka Master Mahasaya, who wrote > " The Gospel of Ramakrishna " > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahendranath_Gupta), and was the > sanskrit tutor to Paramahamsa Yogananda as well; the latter devoted an > entire chapter to him in his > book : http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Yogi/Chapter_9 > > Elsewhere in his autobiography Paramhamsa Yogananda also mentions an > anecdote of a disciple to whom he gifted a silver cup, who as a young > man was told by Swami Vivekandana that the Guru in his life would > present him with a silver cup in the future. > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Yogi/Chapter_47 > > Makes you wonder about the Divine connection between all these > supremely elevated souls! > > Best. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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