From: Chandrika Sharma (Chandrika_Sharma@uml.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 11:33:11 PST
Message-ID: <3A313776.160F8567@uml.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 14:33:11 -0500 From: "Chandrika Sharma" <Chandrika_Sharma@uml.edu> Subject: Enough said!
My dear Divine Sparks!
I agree wholeheartedly with those who want to move onto to more
enlightening topics. After all, that is what this group is for!
I think it is time I shared a very precious letter written to me in
1968, by my Gurudeva, a TRUE Krishna Bhakta.
My dear Divine Child!
Whatever he may do or whatever he may say, a Godman always lives next to
God – Krishna, lives on Him and for Him. And Krishna discloses to him
His true Nature, which is unalloyed Love. He makes his love
understandable and enjoyable mostly through its effects viz. His
glances, His smiles, His deeds and His talks. Through His Divine Power,
these effects have assumed the forms of Gopis, cows, fruits and
flower-laden trees, creepers and Jamuna. He takes the Godman round these
effects of His Love, and shows to him with justifiable pride how they
love Him, because they are the effects of His Love. But the Godman is
blessed to feel that the Love of the Gopis for Krishna takes its roots
in Krishna. This Divine Love is the Godman’s mainstay. He is delighted
to find that this Love has no change or end. He finds it sweeter,
broader, and pleasanter than everything known. He finds the roots of
this love in the Blue Boy of Blessed Brindavan. He needs nothing but
Krishna. He needs Krishna. He cannot breathe without Krishna seated in
his heart. Sometimes, fear that he may lose Krishna or that he may lose
his sweet and keen appetite for Krishna’s Blissful company overtakes
him. Then he cries; he prays; and chants God’s Names. Krishna pities him
and installs him in His soul. Krishna cheers him up and says, “Look!
This soul (which you call I or mine) is Myself. Dwell here. Do not quit
this seat. You will have my eternal company and enjoy it.” As soon as he
is thus made a soul-dweller, he is fear-free. This soul-dwelling enables
him to detect similar soul-dwellers in the nooks and corners of the
world, and to enjoy their company despite Space and Time that separate
him physically from them. You are a soul-dweller. You know all
soul-dwellers of all times and ages.
When I said you are opaque, I meant you are not ostentatious, showy. No
one can find out that you are Godminded. That is good. That develops
Godmindedness. God likes it. Krishna therefore belongs to you. He may
have shown me to you as a soul-dweller. Surely, I am not Krishna. It is
a sacrilege to think so. I am, at best, an onlooker of Krishna as the
Lover and the Beloved of the Gopis. I want to become a Gopi, while
alive. That is, I want to become a Jivanmukta. All my senses should
always contact Krishna and Krishna alone. If Krishna grants it, He will
be pleased, I will be pleased, and all soul-dwellers will be pleased.
Crores or pranams to all your dears and nears. In the Blissful Love of
the Blue Boy of Blessed Brindavan,
Jai Sri Krishna
(This is the kind of madness we need to aspire toward! Dear Siblings,
please I beg of you, let us keep our eyes focused only on AMMA for
divine guidance! Let us not give into the temptation of being distracted
by anything else. Life is too short. One does not yell and scream upon
entering a dark room. One simply flicks the light switch! It is that
SIMPLE! Are we not the most fortunate of humans? Swami Ramakrishna said
that three things come together very rarely - 1) A human birth 2) A
spiritual longing and 3) proximity toa living Satguru.
We have all three - I am very confident of this. Let us focus only on
the divinity of of our chosen deity. Swamiji says, at some point, even
the yearning to grow spiritually should drop. What CAN we insignificant
beings achieve? How FAR can we go? But, God in His infinite COMPASSION
has granted us one thing - we can cry to Him. So, I pray to all of you -
with the approach of Christmas, let us join our consciousness in the
Child JESUS as well as the BABY KRISHNA. Let us uncover that INNATE
INNOCENCE and DIVINITY that sparks in each of us.)
Jai Ma!
Chandrika
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