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Re: Is it your dream life?

rummuser — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:42:29 -0000

I had even forgotten that I had written this post! Sure sign of creeping senility!
I am not surprised that you are totally lost. The terminology is Sanskrit and needs to be translated. Would you like me to elaborate?

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Re: Is it your dream life?

Paddy Bloggit — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:51:15 -0000

Me .... I'm totally lost

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Re: Is it your dream life?

Padmini Natarajan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:16:35 -0000

Hi Karen

I really don't see where the connection of my being a spoilerd younger sister comes into the discussion!

Anyway that too is Maya. Ramana's Maya:)

I think one way that I would put Maya is like an Impressionist Painting.

There are layers and layers that are colours, shapes and moods. It is all in the experience of the viewer. What the painter put in is his cognizance.

What I see, you see or somebody else may see is conditioned by their own experience.

When I see the sun blazing away, I feel that heat within me.
When I see the cool moon, its beauty flowers in my heart.
When I taste good food it is because of an individual reaction of my salivary glands, my body's make up.
When I hear music it resonates to some memory within me and makes it pleasant or unpleasant.

So that is why I said that all experriences are within me--my senses are but antennas to the world.

The Ashramas are stages in life from the joyful but ignorant child to the student (Brahmachari) and then the Grahastashtram (Householder) and the Vanaprastha (Hermit or somebody who withdraws from material life and gets back in touch with nature) and finally total renunciation (Sanyas) where all bonds between family, friends, material possessions, longings, desires are subjugated in the search for oneness with the divine or creation.

I hope that you are convinced. Please do holler for more explanations though I am not really a philosopher. I am but a wordsmith!

Regards

Padmini

Re: Is it your dream life?

Ramana Rajgopaul — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:08:50 -0000

@Karen Putz / DeafMom: Karen, I could not have put it any better. It is brilliant. No you need not run off to google or any of your Indian friends. Nice to know that you have so many! Padmini is my sister, a much spoiled and indulged youngest of four siblings, the other three being males!

Re: Is it your dream life?

Karen Putz / DeafMom — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:52:17 -0000

Ok, resisting the urge to run over to Google or call my friends, Sarita, Anil, Raja, Poorna or Ramesh...

Here's what I'm taking from this, Ashrama are stages in life to be experienced. One does not know if what we're experiencing is real. Life is both outside of us and within us. One must take all the experiences of every stage and accept them as they unfold, for sorrow and joy are within us and are to be embraced.

Do I still need to run off to Google?

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Re: Is it your dream life?

Ramana Rajgopaul — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:54:04 -0000

@Padmini Natarajan:

Absolutely in agreement.

Re: Is it your dream life?

Padmini Natarajan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:49:30 -0000

Here is my view.

Ok! At 65 you dont have to worry about Brahmachari in the Grahsthrashtram mode.

Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev says everything is within you. All that you experience in the world is your own, within you. When you perform all your actions with joy then there is no limit to what you can accomplish. Targets that seem difficult to achieve can be easily left far behind when activities of daily life are performed in a state of joy.

The five senses only give you the maya of experiencing something in the outside world. Actually the experience is within you. So what the world seems outside is Maya. That is what all realised Gurus say.

However you also have to be a realised soul to accept this theory and to take joy and sorrow in the same spirit--then, as my friend asks, what is the difference between myself as a human and a buffalo?

Re: Is it your dream life?

Padmini Natarajan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:48:50 -0000

Ok! At 65 you dont have to worry about Brahmachari in the Grahsthrashtram mode.

Re: Is it your dream life?

Ramana Rajgopaul — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:38:14 -0000

@Sarika:

You may well be right! Actually she was quite zapped with that perceptive!

Re: Is it your dream life?

Sarika — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:34:48 -0000

Being an Indian, I understood every word you have written. But I am quite sure the comment must have left that lady heading over to Google or Wikipedia to understand what you had written.