1998/04/17  11:58  
 kundalini-l-d Digest V98 #302 
  
kundalini-l-d Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 302
 
Today's Topics: 
  BE WILLING FOR ANYTHING               [ "Ed Jason" <lobATnospamlineone.net> ] 
  Re: Walking Through Walls             [ Richard Wentk <richardATnospamskydancer.co ] 
  Re: Snaky stuff                       [ Imtgxxx <ImtgxxxATnospamaol.com> ] 
  Re: Lost Among the Nadis? Come out a  [ Ann Morrison Fisher <annfisherATnospamstic ] 
  Re: Lost Among the Nadis? Come out a  [ Ann Morrison Fisher <annfisherATnospamstic ] 
  Re: help! what's happening to me?/re  [ "Gloria Lee" <samyanaATnospamhotmail.com> ] 
  Re: all that enlightenment my $.02    [ David Bozzi <david.bozziATnospamsnet.net> ] 
  Re: Snaky stuff                       [ "Ed Jason" <lobATnospamlineone.net> ] 
  someone needs our help                [ SuZZie <suevtATnospamearthlink.net> ] 
  Re: Snaky stuff                       [ Dan Margolis <margolisATnospamtransbay.net ] 
  Re: childhood kundalini (was RE: kun  [ Druout <DruoutATnospamaol.com> ] 
  Re: Lost Among the Nadis? Come out a  [ Harsh Luthar <hlutharATnospambryant.edu> ] 
  list list.....                        [ GEMINI <drf140ATnospamemail.psu.edu> ] 
  Re: childhood kundalini (was RE: kun  [ David Bozzi <david.bozziATnospamsnet.net> ] 
  Re: help! what's happening to me?/re  [ Mystress Angelique Serpent <serpent ] 
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:00:09 -0700 
From: "Ed Jason" <lobATnospamlineone.net> 
To: "Germaine" <ghornsbyATnospamtallships.istar.ca>, 
 "Kundalini list" <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: BE WILLING FOR ANYTHING  
Message-Id: <199804170840.JAA29492ATnospamboober.lineone.net> 
 
forwarded by Lobster
 
BE WILLING FOR ANYTHING 
 
By Bill Ferguson 
>From "Miracles Are Guaranteed"
 
To maintain the experience of love and to have life be miraculous, you 
need to be able to flow with whatever happens. 
 
Often this is very difficult because certain circumstances reactivate a 
great deal of hurt and feelings of not being okay. You don't want to 
experience these feelings, so you fight and resist any circumstance that 
may reactivate them. 
 
The moment this happens, you get upset. You stop flowing with life and 
close down inside. You lose the experience of love and your ability to 
see what needs to be done. Usually you make your situation much worse. 
 
By avoiding these feelings and resisting your circumstances, you destroy 
love and create a life of suffering. 
 
To restore the experience of love and to have a life that works, you 
need to be free inside. Stop fighting your circumstances and make peace 
with them. Make peace with the truth. Then do whatever you need to do. 
 
The best way to make peace with a circumstance is through a process 
called letting go. 
 
Letting go is giving up your demand for how life should be and 
surrendering to the truth of how your life is. Letting go is giving your 
circumstances full permission to be in your life. You don't have to like 
your circumstances, just give them permission to be there. 
 
If there is any circumstance that you can't be at peace with, there is a 
nerve that is being struck, a hurt that needs to be healed.
 
So look over your life. What circumstances can't you be at peace with? 
What are you unwilling to have happen? What are you unwilling to lose 
tomorrow? What are you unwilling to experience? 
 
Look for any area of life for which you are not willing. Then notice how 
irrelevant your unwillingness is. Your unwillingness certainly doesn't 
stop your fears fro happening or keep you from losing what you don't 
want to lose. 
 
Make a list of any circumstance that you can't be at peace with. Then 
work with your list until you are willing for each circumstance to be in 
your life. Let go and set yourself free inside. Then do whatever you 
need to do. 
 
To let go and make peace with your circumstances, take the following 
steps: 
 
1. Find the specific circumstances you are avoiding or resisting. 
 
2. Find the hurt, the emotion and the feelings of being not okay that 
   you don't want to experience. 
 
3. Be willing to experience these feelings. 
 
4. Give the circumstances permission to be in your life. 
 
5. Take whatever action you need to take. 
 
Work with each item on your list until you are totally willing to 
experience anything life has to offer. 
 
Remember that being willing is just a state of mind, and that your 
actions are totally separate. Being willing is the process 
that allows you to be free of the fear and upset that keep you from 
seeing what needs to be done. 
 
The more you let go and make peace with your life, the more you can 
create a life that works. 
 
Sometimes the process of letting go can seem very difficult. You can 
make the process much easier by trusting. 
 
Trust that you will okay no matter what happens. When you know that you 
will be okay, you have nothing to fear and letting go becomes relatively 
easy. When you don't trust that you will be okay, circumstances become 
threatening and letting go can be very difficult. 
 
Trust is something you create. Trust is a choice, a declaration. "I will 
be okay no matter what happens. I trust, just because I say so." 
 
The more you trust, the more you let go and the more your life works. 
 
Trusting is also telling the truth. You really will be fine no matter 
what happens. Life is only threatening when you resist. 
 
Look at your life. Have you ever had a situation you didn't survive? Of 
course not. You have survived everything. Tough times have only been 
tough because you resisted your circumstances. 
 
So stop resisting. Be willing to let go of your life and trust. Trust, 
knowing that whatever happens is for your highest good. Trust that you 
will be fine. 
 
Here is a prayer that is very powerful. 
 
"God, I give you my life, my heart and my soul. I give you my 
relationships, my property and my health. You can take them all forever. 
Whatever you have planned for me is fine. I totally trust you." 
 
To be totally willing for anything, you have to let go of your life, but 
once you do, you gain a life that will exceed your dreams. 
 
Life becomes miraculous. Fear and upsets begin to disappear. You stop 
creating resistance and opposition against yourself. You live in harmony 
with the world around you, and life becomes effortless. You express love 
and receive love in return. You enter the garden of Eden. 
 
When you are willing to lose your life, the only change is inside you. 
Everything you enjoy is still there. Only now you can appreciate your 
life like never before. When you are willing to have nothing, you become 
very thankful and appreciative for everything you have, and you have a 
lot. 
 
Learning to let go and make peace with your life is a major step toward 
being free inside and having a life that works. 
 
Be Prosperous 
 
Most of us sabotage our own prosperity. We limit our financial growth 
and set up ourselves for frequent upset. 
 
If you made a list of everything you wanted, and received everything on 
your list, before long, you would have a new list of wants. 
 
You can never get enough of what you want because the void you are 
trying to fill in inside yourself, not outside. 
 
Until you heal this inner void, you will continue to sabotage your 
prosperity. Instead of building an estate, you will overspend. Instead 
of creating a life of abundance, you will create a life of fear, upset 
and insufficiency. 
 
To heal this inner void, find the core issue that drives your insatiable 
wants. 
 
To heal your issue, you need to make peace with this aspect of you. 
Allow yourself to experience the feelings of being a failure or whatever 
your issue is. Allow yourself to experience the hurt. 
 
Then be willing to have nothing. 
 
When you can have nothing and still be happy, you will be free. You will 
have control over your wants. You will be free of fear and upset over 
money. You will be more creative, more effective and more able to have 
what you want. 
 
Are you willing to have nothing? Are you willing to be homeless? What 
would you have to experience if you lost everything? What aspect of you 
would you have to face? Find the experience you are avoiding and be 
willing to experience it. Continue to work with this until you can have 
nothing and still be happy. 
 
Once you are truly willing to have nothing, you will deeply appreciate 
whatever you have. You can then experience true prosperity. 
 
True prosperity is appreciating what you have, being free inside and 
going for your dreams. 
 
If wealth is one of your dreams, go for your dream with all of your 
heart. Just make sure you have fun in the process. Make sure the process 
of becoming wealthy is a game rather than a matter of survival. Keep 
your focus on being free inside. 
 
Live a simple life that works. Spend less than you earn. Be free of 
financial upset and go for your dreams. 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:31:08 +0100 
From: Richard Wentk <richardATnospamskydancer.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: Walking Through Walls 
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At 18:43 16/04/98 -0600, amckeonATnospamhsmail.nfld.k12.mn.us wrote:
 
>So... not only did I not believe that the wall was solid, I didn't even 
>know there *was* a wall to have any beliefs about! I had assumed that like 
>many of the movie theaters I had been to that there was an aisle on either 
>side of each row of seats. This particular theater had rows of seats with 
>only a center aisle and one end of the row was actually attached to the 
>wall. 
> 
>I had heard the same thing stated above by Mark Collins and in many 
>different ways from other people. And in the aftermath of my failure to 
>walk through a wall, I remember thinking "Well, there goes that theory..." 
>
 
Yes indeed - these 'you create your reality' merchants really crack me up 
sometimes.
 
Reality is. It has a mind of its own, and if you smack into it, it hurts. 
 
Deal with it.
 
If you don't believe me, come and visit me by walking through one of my 
walls sometime. I promise a small but worthwhile reward for the first 
person on the list who manages this. 
 
(And doing it in the astral doesn't count. Sorry. :) )
 
Yes, I know there's another level where this isn't true (etc, etc, etc) but 
how many of us are anywhere near that level? To pretend we are when we're 
not seems foolishly rash and naive to me, akin to trying to run a marathon 
when you've barely learned to walk. 
 
R.  
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:36:55 EDT 
From: Imtgxxx <ImtgxxxATnospamaol.com> 
To: blal0004ATnospammaroon.tc.umn.edu 
Cc: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
Subject: Re: Snaky stuff 
Message-ID: <1e3fd55.35374ce9ATnospamaol.com> 
 
Lobster wrote: 
Real qualities: kindness, generosity, truthfulness,  lack of learnt opinions, 
direct perception etc
 
Brent wrote: 
 Why do you say that only those qualities are real?  What is false about 
 anger, sadness, pain, and selfishness?  Do they not exist?  And if not, how 
 could we talk about them or experience them?
 
tg replies (while still licking the chocolate off her): 
Only the love is real. Nothing else exists.   When faced with Truth, when 
existing in Truth, everything that is not of love just isn't there.  We can 
talk about & experience those things *not of love* because we are stuck here 
in this illusion.   What is true is always true.  (what is love is always 
love).  What is false can never be true.  (what is *anything other than love* 
can never be love).  Something like that.
 
xxxtg
 
* Kundalini:  A path to get people to subscribe to this list *
 
http://members.aol.com/Teeegeee/tgsplace.html  <~~~ on the web now!
 
 
  
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:10:20 -0500 
From: Ann Morrison Fisher <annfisherATnospamstic.net> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
Subject: Re: Lost Among the Nadis?  Come out and Play! 
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Hi Jerry!
 
>One way of interpreting Ed's stance is that the Truth may be seen as 
>hiding within. It is nowhere on the outside. Not within anyone or 
>anything. But a precious jewel hidden within each seeker. I'm not an 
>expert, but that sounds entirely Sufi-like and beautiful to me.
 
Beautiful!  So the Sufis don't have teachers either?  Just the Greenman, 
huh?  Not too bad! 
> 
>The truth you come to know is the truth that you serve. If you 'serve' 
>or attend to that hidden jewel within, you may come to realize The 
>Truth.
 
Yes you will, if you go straight for it. 
> 
>If you serve anything else, anything: Jesus, Buddha, Abraham, Danijel, 
>Sandeep, and if you think The Truth is contained within them and not 
>yourself, then you get some reflection of the hidden jewel, but only 
>that. You don't get the jewel that is hidden within you. They, can, 
>however, serve to stimulate some movement toward that hidden jewel 
>within you.
 
I appreciate your concern, but actually I'm not looking for that jewel. 
It's just that you don't look for what you've already found.
 
You may have the wrong impression because I've said that Danijel is my 
guru.  You see, I'm a natural-born teacher.  All my life I've been teaching 
something - swimming, piano, literature, the way to the All.... And I'm 
happy as a skier on the slopes when I'm teaching.
 
And what a teacher loves to find is a better method of teaching.  That's 
what I found in Danijel, among other things.  His "upstream kriya" is the 
fastest method I know, much faster and more certain than the way I used to 
teach.  I want his intimate, detailed, hands-on working knowledge of planes 
and energies and nadis.  I want to be able to reach out and break that 
student's huge block into manageable small pieces, as he does.  I want to 
be able to reach into the student and give an "energy tune-up," as he does. 
And when the student moves onto a new plane and begins to work with a new 
energy, I want to know that plane and its energy so well from my own 
experience that I can be a good guide through that unfamiliar territory. 
That's why I'm Danijel's chela.
 
It's kind of like going back to grad school again, only harder.
 
And what a teacher doesn't love to hear is that if he teaches what he 
knows, then - by definition - he can't be "a real teacher."  :))))))))))) 
LOL :)))))))))))))  Because real teachers - guess what - DON'T TEACH!! 
:)))))))) ROTFLMTO :)))))))))))
 
Just be glad that's not a model for garbage-men! :))))))))))  Or doctors!
 
And that's enough seriousness for now.  Going out to play again!
 
Love, 
Ann 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:48:38 -0500 
From: Ann Morrison Fisher <annfisherATnospamstic.net> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
Subject: Re: Lost Among the Nadis?  Come out and Play! 
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"Ed Jason" <lobATnospamlineone.net> wrote: 
> 
>>Ann: 
>> Yet you think there are some real teachers somewhere, if anyone can find 
>> them while they're busy hiding. 
> 
>Busy hiding? :-) 'Nobody and nothing can hide the truth from those who 
>seek it sincerely'.
 
But no one should seek it sincerely from a teacher, because they're either 
hiding or they're not real teachers? 
> 
>> So Jesus was immature?  Still in "a process of change and unfoldment"?  You 
>> mean he wasn't dead?  You know what you are when you stop changing, 
>> Lobster?  DEAD. 
> 
>That's right and that is why in Sufism it is said 'Die before you die'.
 
After THAT death you go on changing and growing.  When you stop changing, 
you're just dead.  Rotting, mouldering in the grave, wormy DEAD. 
> 
>The only people who ever taught me wisdom (as opposed to information which 
>is available in books) never tried - they exemplified. They were wise. 
>They embodied.
 
The teaching method of the Buddha - being.  But not hiding. :)
 
>Buddha, Jesus etc could not transmit anything but the most superficial 
>truths through words. That their words are often considered sublime 
>demonstrates our lack. >
 
Gautama embodied the energy of wisdom, was wisdom.  Jesus embodied the 
energy of love and was love.  Their words are highly valued because of who 
they were.
 
>> So Mohammed and Gautama were products of the times they lived in?  What a 
>> shame they weren't enlightened 20th-century lobsters! 
> 
>Ask yourself this: 'What perfection in them am I so protective of?'
 
"Perfection" again!  I wonder if you are obsessed with perfection and/or 
the lack of it.
 
Why does the lack of perfection (as you define it) bother you enough to 
provoke such an attack?  Apparently you think they SHOULD have been 
perfect!  Too bad - you won't find that finished, never-changing perfection 
in a living, breathing human being. 
> 
>As for the path . . . develop real qualities, go within. Be kind. Start to 
>find the answers you have. In other words digest what you know.
 
Well, that certainly is not the path of a Gautama or a Jesus.  You could 
sit around thinking about what you already know for the rest of your life 
without discovering anything new.  Or embodying anything.
 
>Not Mohammed or Gautama 
>or a 20th-century Lobster
 
Oh, what are you?  An 18th-century Lobster?
 
>just some words you react to . . . 
> 
>Ed
 
No, Ed, you're the guy generating the words, and you're a puzzlement! 
Sometimes you're so compassionate, sometimes you're so funny I love to read 
your words, and sometimes you seem to want to dismantle everyone in sight! 
Dunno why.  But I love you anyway.
 
Ann 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:22:33 PDT 
From: "Gloria Lee" <samyanaATnospamhotmail.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com, mattbATnospamchrysalis.com 
Subject: Re: help! what's happening to me?/reply 
Message-ID: <19980417152234.22191.qmailATnospamhotmail.com> 
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>From: Matthew Bastress <mattbATnospamchrysalis.com> 
>Subject: help! what's happening to me? 
>To: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
>Date: Thu, 16 Apr 98 18:31:22 EDT 
> 
>I have just stumbled onto this list and I already 
>read two posts by Kathy(delirium) and Uwe who have 
>these experiences.  I can't believe it.
 
Dear Matt, 
  Yes, believe it... There is no way I can improve on the already 
excellent messages you have been given by Lobster and Mystress, but 
may I simply add my love and concern? We need both the mind's  
understanding (which I really lack, btw) and the heart's trusting faith  
that you are loved and cared for always, no matter how it may 
appear.  You have been guided here..and just what you needed to hear 
has appeared on the list.  There is my "proof"..and I further believe 
that many of our lurkers began to "pray for you"...in some form or  
another, as soon as your post was read...and you will be given whatever  
you need.  Its just part of our "being connected"... 
there is so much love and good will here, along with the understanding  
of the process that is occurring with you now. Remember that too, ok??
 
With much love, 
Glo Lee
 
PS. Would hope that some of the old-timers who "complain" of a topic  
coming around again for the umptyunth time will try to remember that new  
souls are continually finding their way here...(not always knowing how  
or bothering to search the archives..as I still have not figured out  
THAT either)...I trust that every message sent here is for SOMEONE...if,  
it ain't for you, or seems  off-topic...just let it go.. sometimes the  
very message that some of *you* complain over will get a response from  
off list that it was just what SOMEONE needed to hear...(has happened to  
me even) - so please lighten up on the *control stick*..its also better  
known as the *joy stick*   
 
 
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:12:03 -0400 
From: David Bozzi <david.bozziATnospamsnet.net> 
To: Kundalini <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: all that enlightenment my $.02 
Message-ID: <35377F53.6DACE8BEATnospammail.snet.net> 
 
Mystress Angelique Serpent wrote:
 
> Too long in Samadhi and your body will die.. 
> The body will become more vulnerable and begin to malfunction and shut down.
 
No time at all in samadhi, body dies. 
In any event, couldn't be as harmful as smoking or bacon, no? : ) 
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:58:21 -0700 
From: "Ed Jason" <lobATnospamlineone.net> 
To: "Brent Blalock" <blal0004ATnospammaroon.tc.umn.edu> 
Cc: "Kundalini - L" <kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com> 
Subject: Re: Snaky stuff 
Message-Id: <199804171639.RAA16790ATnospamboober.lineone.net> 
 
> Um...  That's not a question.  You know what irony is.  If not, look it up.
 
Many thanks I will.
 
  
> Actually, I think I remember some Zen guy answering a question like that.  
> His reply was, "mu".
 
No? 
   
 
> Lack of counterexamples does not make a thing so.  What you say sounds 
> baseless and false.  Are you implying that I should believe you because I 
> don't have another explanation?  That wouldn't be wise.
 
I would prefer you to be wise. Believing me or anything I say is no way to wisdom - of course I wouldn't expect you to believe that.
 
  
> > Real qualities: 
> > kindness, generosity, truthfulness,  lack of learnt opinions, direct 
> perception  
> > etc 
>  
> Why do you say that only those qualities are real?  What is false about 
> anger, sadness, pain, and selfishness?  Do they not exist?  And if not, how 
> could we talk about them or experience them?
 
Anger is fear of accepting Love 
Sadness is the pain of separation from Love 
Pain is lack of Love 
Selfisness is restricting rather than bestowing Love  
Love is the only Reality - but you can live where you choose 
Choose Love
 
  
> > Freeing oneself of things? - what things? - the head? the ground? I am  
> > attached to everything in my life but I do not cling to their being or 
> their  
> > absence. 
>  
> A classic form of miscommunication has occurred.  When I said, "attached" I 
> meant what you said about clinging to object's being or not-being.
 
You mean we agree. :-) Of course we alway did . . . 
I never doubted it.
 
Love 
Lobster 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 13:02:11 -0400 
From: SuZZie <suevtATnospamearthlink.net> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
Subject: someone needs our help 
Message-ID: <35378B13.3D6AATnospamearthlink.net> 
 
This was posted on the Kundalini message board at Delphi that I 
mentioned about a week ago.
 
> Hello, I started chi kung a short time ago I was looking for a chi 
> kung discussion but can not find one. I thank someone here may be 
> able to help me.  
> 
> I have been doing TIEN TAO CHI KUNG for only a few months, but I 
> have meditated on and off for a few years.  
> 
> I am a martial artist & iron palm stylist.  I am having trouble 
> sleeping at night.When I lay down at night I start to feel 
> energy flowing up my back and down the functional channel. This 
> happens no matter what time of day I do the chi kung. 
>  
> Is this normal this early in training?? What do I need to do? 
>
 
That was posted on 4/11 and nobody has responded.  I just thought some 
of you may have some answers/insights that I can pass along.
 
Peace,
 
~~SuZZie~~ 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:14:49 -0700 
From: Dan Margolis <margolisATnospamtransbay.net> 
To: Imtgxxx <ImtgxxxATnospamaol.com>, Kundalini Mailing List <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: Snaky stuff 
Message-ID: <35378E09.2F00227CATnospamtransbay.net> 
 
>  Why do you say that only those qualities are real?  What is false about 
>  anger, sadness, pain, and selfishness?  Do they not exist?  And if not, how 
>  could we talk about them or experience them?
 
I missed this original posting but I'll butt in any way... 
Any emotional experience that requires a sense of lesser ego is inherently not 
real.  To be angry one must have an object of anger...'I'm mad at that guy for 
taking my last cupcake.'  One must also have an attachment to something: that was 
MY cupcake.. One must also have a sense of separation...  That man is different 
from me and therefore cannot have my cupcake...  There is no reason to be 
attached to the cupcake...The cupcake was there, now it's gone, why be angry?
 
For the same reason, sadness and selfishness are inherently unreal.  They require 
subject and object, attachment and sense of loss of something that no longer is 
there.
 
Physical pain is real at the moment it occurs.  When someone hits you, you have a 
genuine feeling of physical distress when it occurs.  Most of the time this pain 
passes unless there is damage done.  Physical pain is a set of signals that 
something is not right with the physical body nothing more nothing less.
 
Genuine emotions require no subject or object or attachment.  love and joy are 
boundless and ever present... They require no object of love or object of joy... 
I'm joyful...
 
  Dan M. 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 13:27:18 EDT 
From: Druout <DruoutATnospamaol.com> 
To: serpentATnospamdomin8rex.com 
Cc: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
Subject: Re: childhood kundalini (was RE: kundalini questions) 
Message-ID: <34d9f231.353790f7ATnospamaol.com> 
 
I wonder if having "imaginary" childhood playmates, etc.  makes one more 
likely to have  visible spirit guides and entities later when K hits.  I 
wonder, too, if people who see UFO beings also are more likely to have had 
"imaginary" visits with other entities in childhood.  I never experienced 
either, but having a twin might have been a factor.  My older sister had a 
"friend" for years.
 
Love, Hillary 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:10:41 -0400 
From: Harsh Luthar <hlutharATnospambryant.edu> 
To: Harsha1MTM <Harsha1MTMATnospamaol.com> 
CC: umbadaATnospamns.sympatico.ca, annfisherATnospamstic.net, kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: Lost Among the Nadis?  Come out and Play! 
Message-ID: <35379B20.28135F16ATnospambryant.edu> 
 
Harsha: I came across this very interesting and funny story from Balaram Reddy, 
one of Ramana Maharshi's devotees (the punch line is at the end). Balaram Reddy 
lived in the Aurbindo Ashram for 5 years and then came to Ramana Maharshi and 
stayed there for the rest of his life. As usual, in the story the Sage is often 
referred to as either Maharshi or Bhagvan.
 
Balarama Reddy recalls: I remember during my second visit to Ramanasramam the 
Maharshi was one day reading a lengthy book review from a newspaper. The book 
being reviewed was Aurobindo's Lights on Yoga. The reviewer was  Kapali Sastri 
and the editor of this newspaper was Bhagavan's devotee, S. M. Kamath. Bhagavan 
seemed to  take great interest in the review and would occasionally stop reading 
and comment on what he had just read  to those sitting around him. When he had 
concluded reading it, someone who was aware that I had that very 
 book with me, said to Bhagavan, "This man has come from the Aurobindo Ashram and 
he has that book with  him." Bhagavan turned to me and said, "Oh, is that so ? 
Let me have a look at it."
 
 I went back to my room, fetched the book and handed it over to Bhagavan. 
Immediately Bhagavan began reading it intently. He kept on reading it well into 
the night, with the help of a small oil lamp, until he finished it. When I came 
into the hall the next day he began discussing the book with me, telling me that 
a certain term used in the book might look like something new, but it is actually 
the equivalent of this other term used in such and such ancient text, etc. Like 
this, he went on discussing and comparing Aurobindo's philosophy for some 
 time. So Bhagavan thoroughly understood Aurobindo's philosophy both 
intellectually and also from the standpoint of experience.
 
 One evening I said to Bhagavan that the major attraction of Aurobindo's 
teachings is that it professes that  immortality of the body can be achieved. 
Bhagavan made no comment.
 
 The next day, as soon as I walked into the hall and sat down, Bhagavan looked at 
me and began saying, "In  Kumbhakonam there was one yogi, C. V. V. Rao, who was 
proclaiming to all, his doctrine of the  immortality of the body. He was even so 
bold as to declare that Dr. Annie Besant (a distinguished public and  spiritual 
personality in India) would have to come to him to learn how to make her body 
immortal. But,  before he had a chance to meet Dr. Annie Besant, he died." This 
brief story clearly illustrated his point. 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:21:56 -0400 
From: GEMINI <drf140ATnospamemail.psu.edu> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
Subject: list list..... 
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ho hum 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:33:51 -0400 
From: David Bozzi <david.bozziATnospamsnet.net> 
To: Kundalini <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: childhood kundalini (was RE: kundalini questions) 
Message-ID: <3537A08F.69FAD4EFATnospammail.snet.net> 
 
Druout wrote:
 
> I wonder if having "imaginary" childhood playmates, etc.  makes one more 
> likely to have  visible spirit guides and entities later when K hits.
 
I used to have an imaginary friend.At least I thought I did. 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:38:15 -0700 
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent <serpentATnospamdomin8rex.com> 
To: "Gloria Lee" <samyanaATnospamhotmail.com> 
Cc: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com, mattbATnospamchrysalis.com 
Subject: Re: help! what's happening to me?/reply 
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  So you will beat me with your control stick if I bitch about the 
repetition?  
  Easy on the control stick Gloria.. I'll bitch if I feel like it.. of 
course the list is circular, of course new members haven't seen old topics 
before.  
  But commenting on it's circular curve didn't stop me from approaching the 
subject afresh again.  
  I had considered, at odd times that I could probably pull up an archive 
post from my on K-list writing, for almost every topic and not write at all 
anymore.. But I like writing.. Getting voice dictation software next!!  
  The other reason I can bitch bitch bitch if I feel like it. is we the 
K-list Team web weavers will be getting the Archives from my harddrive to a 
website, to be readily accessable just as soon as we can.  
   Blessings, Mystress.
 
At 08:22 AM 17/04/98 PDT, Gloria Lee wrote: 
PS. Would hope that some of the old-timers who "complain" of a topic  
>coming around again for the umptyunth time will try to remember that new  
>souls are continually finding their way here...(not always knowing how  
>or bothering to search the archives..as I still have not figured out  
>THAT either)...I trust that every message sent here is for SOMEONE...if,  
>it ain't for you, or seems  off-topic...just let it go.. sometimes the  
>very message that some of *you* complain over will get a response from  
>off list that it was just what SOMEONE needed to hear...(has happened to  
>me even) - so please lighten up on the *control stick*..its also better  
>known as the *joy stick*    
> 
> 
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