(To Visti)ratna and sambandha (Vistiji's Lecture on GemStones- questions

[Guest guest]

Dear Bharatji,

 

> To a person who is accepting and meditative (not doing

meditation), Saturn

> does not attack, Mars cannot cause problems, Rahu-Ketu salute it.

Ma Shakti

> protects in a major way.

>

 

 

Yes of course this is true. But there are some qualifications to

these statements, which I have also found to be true for myself - a

sort of cold water splash in the face if you will.

 

I believe a person who is accepting and meditative can overcome all

kinds of problems using just that approach only if he has burned

enough karma that it doesnt present him with impossibly hard

situations for his current level of detachment. Otherwise there will

be a huge relapse into attachment..

 

Thats the theoretical statement, an analogy explains it better: For

example, if you have heart trouble and you resolve to start working

out from today to improve your heart condition. Ten days into this

working out, your heart again gives you trouble (e.g. heart attack

or such). You must resort to medicine to stabilize yourself before

again continuing on your heart strengthening workout routine.

In fact, you probably will need to take some medicine even in order

to do some workout well after the heart attack is over.

However, 2 years into the routine, and simply the routine itself

will be enough to deal with the triggers that would otherwise have

culminated in a heart attack.

 

The cold water splash for me is - I havent reached that level. I

find that when I try to be detached, for sure I have some good

experiences. But life does seem to need me to deal with other

things. My detachment leads to a lack of interest in things that are

necessary for me to do (for the well being of my wife, kids, parents

etc). And then things go out of control, and I have to come back

with a bang (with lots of angers and frustrations in the process) to

deal with the situation. I know that of course I should summon the

energy to perform my duties even without being attached to them. But

that is easier said than done. The ability to summon energy (mental

I mean) to perform a task while being detached from it is the end

goal, almost the gold at the end of the rainbow. Before you reach

it, in order to reach it, you must remain attached enough to do your

duties..

 

When some Gurus say that it is not for everyone to renounce, or

perhaps not the right time to renounce, the above is what I make of

it for my life.

 

And hence my interest in a gem. I am hoping a gem is like a medicine

that helps lessen the impact of heart attack like karmic situations,

so that I can continue my working out (meditative nature building)

until that nature finally gets strong enough for me to be able to

discard the gems altogether..

 

Sundeep