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]]> By: ramgiri http://blog.skillsforawakening.com/blog/the-true-meaning-of-guru/comment-page-1#comment-383 ramgiri Mon, 03 May 2010 21:43:38 +0000 http://blog.skillsforawakening.com/?p=210#comment-383 Dear Nadja, You are right that the great sages lived quite a simple life - and I would love nothing more for myself than sit in a little hut in the Himalayas serving the people who would find me there. But who would find me there? Now there are so many people awakening everywhere that the teachers have to go to them. And since all I want to do is pass on the great gift of my guru's love which he has given me so richly, he has put me into a different situation. I am working with Mary* because it needs to be made clear that desire itself is not bad, it just depends where it is directed to. There are relative and absolute goals. The relative goals of this world need to be satisfied to some extent so we can see the absolute goal. (Maharajji said 'To the hungry God comes in the form of bread') In the end fulfillment of worldly goals always turns into its opposite of course: you lose the money or the dream partner, or you get sick in your mansion and die. As you know only the goal of spiritual freedom can bring us absolute fulfillment, true lasting happiness and immortality. Mary attracts people who are success seekers and many of them have had a spiritual awakening of some kind and may not know clearly what it means and how to use it. It seems to me that I can be of service to them. That is at least my hope. All of us are equal in the eyes of God. The difference is the wisdom and love we manifest in our lives. This is where the great hunger is, the hunger many feel but don't yet know what it is. It lives in them as a dissatisfaction, an indistinct yearning, and because they have been taught to fill that hunger with 'stuff' (material success), that's how they try to silence that yearning. It will of course never work. They need guidance toward the one true Source that alone can fulfill their hunger. So I find myself in a place where I can offer them help. Perhaps some of them will take advantage of it. (* Mary and I have a plan to create a series of seminars to help people to distinguish between relative and absolute success and how to use their drive toward that higher aspiration as well) Dear Nadja,
You are right that the great sages lived quite a simple life – and I would love nothing more for myself than sit in a little hut in the Himalayas serving the people who would find me there. But who would find me there? Now there are so many people awakening everywhere that the teachers have to go to them. And since all I want to do is pass on the great gift of my guru’s love which he has given me so richly, he has put me into a different situation.
I am working with Mary* because it needs to be made clear that desire itself is not bad, it just depends where it is directed to. There are relative and absolute goals. The relative goals of this world need to be satisfied to some extent so we can see the absolute goal. (Maharajji said ‘To the hungry God comes in the form of bread’) In the end fulfillment of worldly goals always turns into its opposite of course: you lose the money or the dream partner, or you get sick in your mansion and die. As you know only the goal of spiritual freedom can bring us absolute fulfillment, true lasting happiness and immortality.
Mary attracts people who are success seekers and many of them have had a spiritual awakening of some kind and may not know clearly what it means and how to use it. It seems to me that I can be of service to them. That is at least my hope.
All of us are equal in the eyes of God. The difference is the wisdom and love we manifest in our lives. This is where the great hunger is, the hunger many feel but don’t yet know what it is. It lives in them as a dissatisfaction, an indistinct yearning, and because they have been taught to fill that hunger with ‘stuff’ (material success), that’s how they try to silence that yearning. It will of course never work. They need guidance toward the one true Source that alone can fulfill their hunger. So I find myself in a place where I can offer them help. Perhaps some of them will take advantage of it.

(* Mary and I have a plan to create a series of seminars to help people to distinguish between relative and absolute success and how to use their drive toward that higher aspiration as well)

]]> By: Nadja http://blog.skillsforawakening.com/blog/the-true-meaning-of-guru/comment-page-1#comment-381 Nadja Mon, 03 May 2010 17:41:32 +0000 http://blog.skillsforawakening.com/?p=210#comment-381 Isn´t your guru experience what it is about? I was so surprised, that you were going to take Mary´s seminar. Nothing against it. Just in my mind you are much further along the road, not the other way round. I have the feeling that great sages lived quite a simple life. They wouldn´t put their energy into getting a strong vision of their desires (be that money, dream partner etc), rather than accepting the desire and letting it dissolve in love. Love, Nadja Isn´t your guru experience what it is about? I was so surprised, that you were going to take Mary´s seminar. Nothing against it. Just in my mind you are much further along the road, not the other way round. I have the feeling that great sages lived quite a simple life. They wouldn´t put their energy into getting a strong vision of their desires (be that money, dream partner etc), rather than accepting the desire and letting it dissolve in love.

Love,

Nadja

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