From: Balakrishnan Shankar (balakrishnan_sh@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 15:02:19 PST
From: "Balakrishnan Shankar" <balakrishnan_sh@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Enough said! Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 18:02:19 -0500 Message-ID: <F56VCl6s9hYLoR1O0V700012323@hotmail.com>
Namah Shivaya!
Chandrika wants me to apologise to you on her behalf- She meant to send
this to the other email list where they are discussing something else!
She has gone home now, so she wanted me to send you all this explanation
on her behalf.
Jai Ma
bala
>From: "Chandrika Sharma" <Chandrika_Sharma@uml.edu>
>Reply-To: amma-l@hindunet.org
>To: amma-l@hindunet.org
>Subject: Enough said!
>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 14:33:11 -0500
>
>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
><< Chandrika_Sharma.vcf >>
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