Re: When I was very young..
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Vannakkam Atanu:
Good friend? I suppose how serious the comment was would be an indicator.
I remember being chided by a colleague for living in a condo, instead of a house. We had made the choice for my wife to be a stay at home mom. So I thought, "You ______, don't you realise it is because we can't afford it?" It's tough when you are on the poor side of a rich to poor insensitive comment. But the good thing is the memory is harsh enough to perhaps change your own behaviour to not be that way yourself.
BTW, I believe that what you say when you are very young before really getting an intellect constructed in this lifetime, the words can be indicators of the immediate past life. But I would never read to much into it.
One of my sons looked at me when he was about 2 or so, and told me he came from a tree. I believe a friend of mine who passed a way in a tragic accident came with me from his funeral. I swear I saw him up in a spruce tree looking down at his own funeral. But who knows? Many would say I have a vivid imagination.
Aum Namasivaya
Namaste EM
At that time my friend was close enough to warrant disclosure of my wish to him yet he was not my best friend. I was not very young either. He looked at me aghast, incredulous that one can have such petty ambition. He particularly had high ambitions. But his comment had no effect on me.
What impacted on me profoundly was something else. I became very ambitious for fame through professional work -- such as through publishing papers etc. in professional journals. I worked very hard and made many enemies in my mind. Then suddenly destiny drew me to Shri Ramana's teachings and I read Shri Ramana saying that craving for fame was not better than prostitution. Now I was aghast. At that time, I considered fame through good work to be the ultimate good aim -- at least better than craving for money and power. It took sometime to understand Shri Ramana's core teaching.
Om Namah Shivaya
Last edited by atanu; 05 July 2010 at 01:29 PM.
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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