Originally Posted by verklingen

haha nice Matchu!

i like the one you made the thread about. i came across this quote yesterday from the bible that goes well with it, jeremiah 2:19

Originally Posted by SageTree

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all ways ackowledge God and your path shall be directed." -Proverbs 3: 5-6

This is my Grama's favourite scripture, so I wanted to honour her here. This passage at first struck me , a long time ago, as not also using my God experiancing intellect and discriminatory mind. I thought the Gyan yoga, the path to understanding the law of the universe, was a grand way to have union. However upon looking further I realized that my Grama is a Karma yogi, even though she is a Protestant and Methodist. This really got me to thinking and learning more about the two other yogas, raja and bhakti. Each one is a path or philosophy for having god-realization. Raja is experiancial and knowledgeable, Bhakti brings a total love for god into all our realationships as we commune with god over and over.

Ultimatly these four yogas all share overlaping threads and is nearly impossible , in my opinion, to have one with out the others. Karma yoga though says that our actions are God's actions. This made me think alot and how, if the others make so much sense, then this too must seem as palatable, why isnt it. The second part is that if we act freely ,in attunement to God, we are acting out God's impulses, like a nerve ending. Thusly if we act this way, God will guide us saftly to her.

In the last few months as I have deepened in mediation I have come to feel that Ultimate presence, the centre of my being, and have found it easy to walk in that mind-set throughout my day. Then one day I realized, this is Karma yoga! It isn't about being pushed around by a mysterious hand, mildlessly. It was listening to my truest self with a more pure intellect and reasoning,and that freely left me to live out the impulses of God, The Spirit of Life, The Lightless Light.

That is what this passage means to me now when I read it. Live as a true conscious being and you will be able to blissfully walk the road of life to its end.

"Even as the smallest hole in a bucket, can empty it of its liquid, so can hate for even one person act on the human soul" Leo Tolstoy

Many Blessings,
SageTree

Originally Posted by SageTree

A chickpea leaps over the rim of a pot
where it's being boiled.

"Why are you doing this to me?"

The cook knocks him down with the ladle.

"Don't try to jump out.
You think I'm tourtuing you.
I'm giving you flavour,
so you can mix with the spices and rice
and be lovely vitality of a human being.

Remeber when you drank rain in the garden?
That was for all this."

Grace first. Sexual pleasure,
then a boiling new life begins,
and the Friend has something good to eat.

Eventually the chickpea
will say to the cook.

"Boil me some more.
Hit me with the skimming spoon.
I can't do this by myself.

I am like and elephant that dreams of gardens
back in Hindustan and doesn't pay attention
to his driver. You are my cook, my driver
my way into existance. I love you cooking."

The cook says,
"I was once like you,
fresh from the ground. Then I boiled in time,
and boiled in my body, two fierce boilins.

My animal soul grew powerful.
I controled it with practices,
and I boiled some more and boiled
once beyond that,
and became your teacher"