Mahabharatham : ( 08/06/2013. )

---------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, July 07, 2020.5:42. AM. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 8. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. This doubt will come at the last moment, at the critical point when everything is ready to strike the match. When the fire is going to be ignited, at that very moment the spirit doubts. “Doubts are our traitors,” says Milton in a passage. Our enemies are our doubts, and finally we have a doubt after everything is clear; and that final doubt crushes down all that we have done up to this time. Finally the doubt comes: Is it after all going to bring anything, or am I going to lose everything under the pretext of going to gain God to attain salvation? This doubt will not present itself in the earlier stages. The most ferocious enemy always comes later; the lesser powers are released earlier. In every war, in every battle, the minor powers are used first and the powerful reserv...

============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, May 17, 2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The leader of the Pandava forces, from the point of view of military strategy, was Arjuna. It was he who finally agreed that war was the only way—there was no way out. But it is he who became diffident, in contradistinction to the spirit of valour which he exhibited earlier. There is a great mystical situation before every seeker also. Every one of us is convinced that God is All. Who is not convinced? We have read the scriptures; we have listened to the Srimad Bhagavatam; we have attended satsangas; we have heard so many sermons from Mahatmas. We agree that the realisation of God is the ultimate goal of life and nothing else is worth attaining, but t...

=========================================== =========================================== 20/04/2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The decision is taken by God Himself—man cannot take the decision. And Sri Krishna took up the lead in this path of what decision is to be taken finally.  *Is the universe as an object to be retained, even in a subtle form, or is it to be abolished altogether?  **Is it to be absorbed totally?  ***And do we have to see to the deathbed of the entire objective existence, or is it necessary to strike a lesser note and come to an agreement with factors which are far below this level of extreme expectation?  Yudhishthira was wavering, he could not come to a conclusion; and we too are wavering. It is not easy for us to love God wholly, because that would mean the acceptance of the necessity to dissolve the whole w...

================================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07/04/2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 5. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The Udyoga Parva, which describes in a beautiful manner the assembly of the princes of the time in the court of Virata, goes further into greater detail of the contemplations of these princes.  *There are difficulties in the decisions to be taken—what is to be done?  **There are various opinions coming forth from various parties. Whenever a personality faces the world, the universe in front of it, it has various interpretations of it. Are we to make friends with it?  ###Are we somehow or other to adjust ourselves with it, to make its law our own law?  ####...

======================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26/02/2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 4. Post-4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #I am just giving an outline of the situation, which goes deeper then the ordinary psychological level. It touches the borderline of the spirit, and yet has not entered into the universal spirit. That situation is a terrible situation indeed, where we have lost everything that we can call our own, and lost our grip and hold over things which are near and dear to us, yet have lost also our grip over that which we are seeking. ##This is exactly the condition of being left adrift at sea. “I am at sea,” as they say, which means there is no succour. We are just sinking because there is no suppor...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03/02/2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 3. Post-3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. There is such a thing called the sorrow of the spirit, though it may look like an anomaly. How could there be sorrow for the spirit? Yes, there is some kind of situation in which our deeper self finds itself in its search for the Absolute. These are all interesting stages that are in mystical theology and the yoga of the advent of the spirit. Some of the songs and poems of the Vaishnava saints of the south, the Alvars, particularly the Nawars, and some of the rapturous expressions of the leading Shaivite saints, will be enough examples to us of the inexpressible and intricate spiritual p...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 25/12/2019. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 2. ======================================================================== 2.2.1 "God helps us, it is true, but He helps us in His own way—not in the way we would expect Him to work". There is a logic of His own, which is not always expressed in terms of human logic. Sri Krishna was there, alive, even when the Pandavas were tortured, almost, in the forest, but we do not hear much about his movements during this period of twelve years. There was, however, a mention of his casual visit to the Pandavas, where he expresses in a few words his wrath, his intense anger against what had happened. “Well, I am sorry that I was not present. I would not have allowed this to have happened if I had been present.” That was all he could say, and that was all he did sa...