Hari Om
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Namaste,
I Have added another item to my list of maya. This notion of suffering as a driver and cornerstone of spiritual development. Some take 'tapas' as spiritual hardship to suffering. Tapas , is that of heating up, of purification. Like the blacksmith as he heats up and fires gold and the impurities are removed by this process and the pure gold remains.
One sisya asked my teacher, 'did Christ suffer ?' - He responded 'anyone that says I and my Father are One does not suffer.'
For me this whole sufferng thing has distorted ones view of spiritual progress. For the native on the path, is suffering possible ? - sure. Yet its ala carte, its on the side. How much of the suffering is that of ones own making from past actions? To this I do not know, as ones actions over eons is unfathomable ( so says Krsna, Bhagavad Gita 4.17)
So adding to the list: [ please add to the list your ideas and assumptions]
- That suffering is needed for spiritual advancement;
- That the earth is rotating at over 1,000 mph and I do not feel the wind in my face. That I cannot, though my senses, feel this movement.
- That I see the sun go from east to west, yet one tells me it is me that is moving.
- That I have grown over time but cannot point to any one moment to measure the difference.
- That my nature is Infinite, yet I would have never discovered this notion on my own, without the help of the Tradition as a guide.
- That people are genuinely good and satvic, yet will kill their own kind when provoked.
- That we love dogs and cats and invite them in our homes, but will eat a cow for supper.
- That we are compelled to pursue happiness, yet it is within us, and look elsewhere for this miracle.
- That many on this earth will kill in the name of the Lord
- That some on this good earth think that the 'truth' (satyam) can be measured with numbers and by science.
- That we are Whole and Full yet we feel incomplete.
- That we acquire finite things to bring us joy and it only burdens us with more things to take care of.
- That one group believes their God is better then another's and that He/She is qualitatively and quantitively different.
- That we are told we have been here before, yet we cannot remember the occasion or the time spent.
- That some think the veda's are book and should be read as such , as if it was written by man And - that the world is as we are... if one is having a good day , then all is well. If one is having a bad day, then the world is dark, yet the only thing that changed was the persons view of life.
- That many may think actions we perform on our own perhaps even in our own home, behind closed doors only impact and travel no further then the doer of that action. As if a bell was rung, and the vibrations stay secluded to ones property (ether of the body or the home).
- In the Mahabharata, a Yaksha asks Yudhishthira (also known as Dharmaraj) , What is the most unbelievable thing in this world?Yudhishthira answers, That people perpetually die in this world, but man acts and lives as though he will never die.
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