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Surrender and all will be well -RM
Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, poet and artiste was younger brother of Sarojini Naidu, the Nightingale of India.
The entry in Devaraja Mudaliar’s Day by Day with Bhagavan dated June 5, 1945 refers to a remark by Prof. Subbaramayya (no.41) in the hall that he came across a copy of Chattopadhyaya’s verses at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, with Sri Aurobindo’s notes at the margin highly commending some verses. There upon,
Chattopadhyaya told Bhagavan that while at Sri Aurobindo Ashram for two years he composed about 4,000 sonnets and a poem of 5,000 lines. He gave a recitation of two of his poems before Bhagavan and acted a piece from his play in which a dock-labourer groaning under his work bursts out into a complaint. These were greatly appreciated.
Extracts from his poems:
The Thrice Marvellous Master – Sri Ramana
Eternity has worn a human face,
Contracted to a little human span,
Lo, the Immortal has become a man,
A self-imprisoned thing in time and space.
Upon a narrow couch you see him sit,
Vision of tenderness and grace and calm;
Upon the finite compass of His Palm
He holds the secrets of the Infinite.
Thrice marvellous pure Master on the height,
Towards whom we dumbly yearn, each one apart,
Striving to hold Thy image in the heart,
O cleave our darkness with your searching light !
- Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi
- Page 63.
Difficult people are a beam of light
Was with a group of buds just now
in the Stillness when suddenly I could see
difficult people as the Transfigured Christ.
Not mortals at all but beams of light!
Yes that was their place in my life.
Not an enemy but a huge bright Light.
For where I desired to go spiritually
every shocking wake up call was
exactly what I had needed.
Now when difficult memories invade
I’ll know they were and are necessary lights.
Wondering though why the Christ-man is not seen more universally as a body-less, irradiance of unending Light.
Focus on Warfare & attract Battles
When people focus on something, they attract it into their lives. People who focus on spiritual WARFARE actually ATTRACT BATTLES, and then they think the battles are proof that their theology is correct, when they actually created the situation in the first place.
~Martin Trench
When an unwanted thought comes
If you had some kind of malfunction in your computer – and if you were smart – you wouldn’t hate finding it coz it was already there! You’d be glad it revealed itself so you could take measures to have it expunged!
You could give it a spiritual treatment seeing absolute perfection right where the problem seems to be. “Miraculously”, your mind clears, your anxiety subsides and the rest is case by case….
My point here is WHEN ANY UNWANTED THOUGHT KEEPS PRESENTING ITSELF, GIVE IT A THOROUGH SPIRITUAL TREATMENT. Once you can really see through the malady, you can dismiss its reappearance with great confidence, and you know what else? You can expect more good to come out of it than you ever dreamed possible!
Just Don’t Do It!
AN URGENT DISCUSSION
Is this you?
You commune with the “I AM” of your being for some time. You feel really good and bask in it for awhile. Finally it’s time to set aside this joyous awakening and get back to the mundane.
In comes your number one intruder – right where your God-awareness used to be. You’re much stronger now thanks to your prior focus but, alas, all of that is starting to slip away. In a few more minutes that entire height that you attained earlier will be lost.
You’re gonna wanna fight me on this and that’s okay: give it yer best shot! I’ve done that scenario for years and years. My tear-stained face and battle scars will happily attest to my many, many ‘false starts’ before I finally got my act together.
JUST DON’T DO IT !!! . Don’t leave the plateau that you attained earlier. Make that your #1 priority – no matter what. IF YOU LEAVE IT YOU’LL LOSE IT : IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT !!!
Choosing instead not to compromise your former level of spiritual apprehension will put you in a place called “higher consciousness” and that’s a pretty wonderful place to be!
God-as-me fends off enemy to healing
If you’re the least bit new at this healing stuff, here is a caveat: after getting yourself fully immersed in that wonderful wonderful Spirit, you’ll need to fend-off your usual barrage of negative thoughts that keep coming at you. You can do so by simply reaffirming reaffirming say it again say it again “I am God-as-me”. That kinda takes care of everything else!
Unwanted thoughts – get ’em out!
An unwanted thought
Dropped into my head.
In the past I would’ve said “Get out –
You’re no part of me!”
Well, guess what?
I can do it even better now!
I give it the cold shoulder
To the nth degree
Like nothing has ever occurred
‘Cause, guess what?
Nothing has!
Once in a blue moon an issue may need 2 steps – one to identify & dump it, the other to replace it with the Truth. It’s so wonderful when we are ready to take your single step approach – it saves a lot of heartache, but sometimes even Jesus Himself may tell you that a certain insidious and/or hypnotic thought has no power over you.
TREATING UNWANTED THOUGHTS: One step or two – it’s up to you!
This is such a great example of steps of progress in one isolated area of a person’s spiritual growth. If an ungodlike thought dares to rear its ugly head, tell it (1) “You’re no part of me. I don’t approve of you so get out!!” (2) “What I really believe is …”
Do that assiduously for quite awhile and finally all you have to do is give the unwanted thought the cold shoulder!!!