All you need to do is to trust God / forgiveness...

[Guest guest]

---- Original message ----

>Date:   Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:03:30 -0000

>   " Grant " <g-ssummerville

>Subject:   All you need to

do is to trust God

>To:  

>

>

>

> The Teachings of Bhagavan

> Sri Ramana Maharshi

> in His Own Words

>

> CHAPTER ONE

>

> GOD

>

> If there be true surrender, there can be no

> complaint or frustration.

>

> Devotee: We are worldly people and are afflicted by

> some grief

> that we cannot get over. We pray to God and are

> still not

> satisfied. What should we do?

>

> Bhagavan: Trust God.

>

> D.: We surrender but still there is no help.

>

> B.: But if you have surrendered, it means that you

> must

> accept the will of God and not make a grievance of

> what may

> not happen to please you. Things may turn out

> differently from

> what they appear. Distress often leads people to

> faith in God.

>

> D.: But we are worldly people. We have wife,

> children,

> friends and relations. We cannot ignore them and

> resign ourselves

> to the Divine will without retaining some trace of

> individuality.

>

> B.: That means that you have not really surrendered,

> as

> you say you have. All you need to do is to trust

> God 1

>

> 1 Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, 43

>

 

yes!

 

 

Hunters

Trap monkeys

Putting food inside

A buried

Narrow-necked

Gourd.

 

Grabbing the food

Unwilling to let it go

The monkey's fist

Clenched by desire

Is holding

The monkey

Trapped.

 

My friend,

Why do you hold on

To past grudges

And memories

Of whatever wrongs

You may have

Suffered?

 

Why wait for the hunter's net

And his hard blow to the elbow

To release the hold?

 

Be magnanimous

As befits your

True

Nature.

 

Forgive – and by forgiving

Open your generous hand

Walk away

And roam

Free.

 

 

 

in love,

yosy