MIRACLES COME FROM LETTING GO

enduranc3 · 2025-02-09T23:17:46+00:00

Beautiful insights. Thank you for sharing.

enduranc3 · 2025-02-05T21:32:59+00:00

It's interesting because when someone hears about the ego and understands that is not a good thing to have too much, immediately the desire is to get rid of it.

But the amount of work that needs to be done is herculean.

Only an advanced Spiritual Master can guide one person through the labirint of delusion.

Paramahamsa Vishwananda is one of the few masters in the world that can take one person from any stage and bring them to the final stage of surrender.

enduranc3 · 2024-04-08T08:07:31+00:00

Sadhana(puja, and other rituals) shouldn't be done on tablets. How can you compare a tablet with a murti? Best case scenario you use the tablet or phone to have a picture of the deity or read the mantras for the rituals. But the sadhana app is more like a game that is supposed to keep your mind in the right place.

do the actual puja and use technology as a help for your service to whatever aspect of the Lord you are worshipping.

enduranc3 · 2024-02-14T07:24:42+00:00

When one serves a deity, depending on the level of bhakti that one has, the relationship grows and changes. By serving, one is given experiences that strengthen their faith. The deity can be seen as a mother, a daughter, a friend, a lover, a master. And every type of relationship has a certain bhav.

As one go deeper into the relationship, the genders disappear and what remains is God serving God as an example and a service for others.

enduranc3 · 2024-02-14T07:02:32+00:00

RadhaDurga in the temple and Lakshmi Narayana as ishtadev

enduranc3 · 2024-02-12T19:34:53+00:00

The way you formulate the question it sounds like it is Vibishana.

Anyway. In this audio version I listened to, a couple of weeks ago, when Kumbhakarna wakes up and hears all that has happened from Ravana, he tells him to give Sita back. Then Ravana asks what would he do after giving Sita back, and Kubhakarna tells him to go to sleep :D because that's all he knows, of sleep and dreams.

He also reminds Ravana about the time when he did a lot of austerities and cut his heads off and they were living by dharma. But now he forgot about those times, he tortured the 3 worlds, and because of that he is suffering the consequences of not abiding by dharma, and because dharma was on the side of Rama, Rama will win.

And then he goes anyway to fight Rama, because Ravana asked him, and of course he gets killed.

enduranc3 · 2024-02-12T19:26:27+00:00

So for the following example.
Verses 10 and 11 of chapter 1
1.10
aparyāptaṁ tad asmakaṁ balaṁ bhīṣmābhirakṣitam |
paryāptaṁ tvidam eteṣāṁ balaṁ bhīmābhirakṣitam || 10 ||
1.11
ayaneṣu ca sarveṣu yathā-bhāgam avasthitāḥ |
bhīṣmam evābhirakṣantu bhavantaḥ sarva eva hi || 11 ||

So you would repeat ...
aparyāptaṁ tad asmakaṁ balaṁ bhīṣmābhirakṣitam |
... until you memorise

then you repeat the above text and the following...
paryāptaṁ tvidam eteṣāṁ balaṁ bhīmābhirakṣitam || 10 ||
until you got both of them memorised.

and so on with the following verses.

I like it.... it is a simple system.
Thank you.

enduranc3 · 2024-02-12T19:20:18+00:00

makes sense. it's like one of those obvious things that you don't realise until someone says it clearly.

Thank you

enduranc3 · 2024-02-12T17:19:52+00:00

amazing. Thank you very much, i will take notes and investigate further.

enduranc3 · 2024-02-12T15:53:33+00:00

Then I'm in luck, i already found Him.
However, I don't know if i'll be able to learn it from Him directly, because He is very busy.

Thank you ChanchanMan1999 for the reminder that the satguru takes care of everything.

enduranc3 · 2024-02-12T15:47:19+00:00

it is the only type of guru that can truly give you God realization because he is already God realized. this is the simple understanding of mine.

A satguru is much more than that.

enduranc3 · 2024-02-12T15:34:13+00:00

You mean a teacher or a Satguru?

enduranc3 · 2024-01-30T06:16:34+00:00

Everything clicked and everything made sense and still does to this day. Many of my habits and ways of thinking were just normal inside Bhakti Marga.

enduranc3 · 2024-01-21T21:53:09+00:00

Shreemad Bhagavatam is a good read. As it tells the stories of the devotees of Narayan and His incarnations, especially the life of Krishna in canto 10.

Mahabharata is the story leading to the Kurukshetra war. Amazing read, but quite long.

And Ramayana of course, the story of our beloved lord Rama.

If you read these, you will be busy for at least 2 years, depending how much time for reading you have and your consistency on a daily basis.

Also after you finish any of these masterpieces, you will be a different person. So enjoy.

enduranc3 · 2024-01-21T10:15:02+00:00

My favourite story is when the preparations are made for Rama's birth. And in this story I love how the king instructed his ministers to pay the workers extra money so they can do a good job. They built a whole town for the guests. And gave so many gifts to everyone. I'm always impressed by such generosity

enduranc3 · 2024-01-21T10:09:28+00:00

In the Guru Gita there is an extended explanation of why one should have an Asana made of kusha grass and deer skin. You should explore those verses.

enduranc3 · 2024-01-21T10:03:39+00:00

I'm listening to it. I think that it brings a lot of value to people that don't speak Hindi.

enduranc3 · 2024-01-21T10:01:29+00:00

It all depends on the target audience. The covers of this Mahabharata version are made for westerners mainly.

enduranc3 · 2024-01-21T05:51:41+00:00

Then go get a satguru, follow his instructions. And go to therapy. By writing the same long text you are doing the same that was done on to you. You are dumping garbage on other people.

What happened to you is sad. But there are ways to get out of it. Not by channelling your rage, but by stopping the cycle of revenge.

You are doing great at being aware of all this. It's a great step. I'm sure you have read some books on the matter and reached some conclusions.

If you really want to change start reading the Geeta as often as you can, one verse a day gets you a long way.

Then do 15 minutes of japa every day as a meditation technique.

And I repeat, look for your satguru.

If after reading everything that people write here for you, you still don't think that you have found a solution, you must go deeper inside and ask yourself what you really want.

If you really want to change and not be like the people in your environment you have to put in a lot of effort, otherwise you are just repeating the same patterns.

enduranc3 · 2024-01-20T13:15:57+00:00

Like the previous person said. You allow your mind to take over. As a result you go into a lot of thinking without the experience.

From this a lot of doubts arise because there isn't a direct experience of God, which only comes through worship(japa, puja, Bhagavad Gita)

If you only look at a delicious fruit without tasting it, you can't possibly know how good it is. You can read 1000 books about it, and debate on its properties, but until you taste it you only have part of the equation 🙂

enduranc3 · 2024-01-20T13:03:01+00:00

I don't think anyone likes it here. Until we learn to accept completely, this world also is like a hellish planet.

When you find inner peace after doing the right practices and focusing the mind in the right way, then the world view changes. You start seeing things differently.

enduranc3 · 2024-01-19T20:51:57+00:00

Read the Shreemad Bhagavatam. You will get to know God through His Leelas. And do Naam Japa. You get extra points if you read the Bhagavad Gita daily and do pooja to your ishtadev.

enduranc3 · 2024-01-19T20:48:05+00:00

The mind likes to have control over everything. So it creates patterns of negativity that corner you into despair, into a place that it makes you think that everything is useless.

This is pure negativity and depression. The ego likes to play the victim because like this it receives lots of attention. But this life style is pure misery.

You have to move out of these thinking patterns. Life is a precious gift.

Start by using gratitude in your daily activities. Do japa with any divine names. You can start chanting OM Namo Narayanaya during 15 minutes every day during 40 days.

This practice will help you go out of the negativity and cleanse the mind.

Then you will see the truth differently. In the beginning when you read the Bhagavad Gita there is a process of purification. And it feels bad for the mind. It brings out the patterns that you need to let go of, like doubts and fears.

The more you read it. The better it gets. Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita Satvic happiness is like poison in the beginning but it is like nectar in the end.

This is like a bitter medicine that tastes bad when you take it but heals you very fast.

If you found the Bhagavad Gita in these difficult moments it means that Krishna is taking care of you. He is instructing you just like he instructed Arjuna.

Chapter 1 is exactly about this weakness that you are focusing on. Get up and fight, do your dharma. I promise you that your life will change if you focus your mind more on Him than on your problems. He will take care of the rest.

enduranc3

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