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Recieved: 1999/01/24 17:55
Subject: Re: [K-list] Resting in the Tranquil Peace of I AM
From: Timera
On 1999/01/24 17:55, Timera posted thus to the K-list:
Following one of Raymond's links, I just came across this:
Gopi Krishna:
"......Solitude and nature are absolutely necessary for the proper
development of a human being.
It is an admixture of natural life, lived in solitude, amid beautiful
surroundings of nature and what we call an arboreal life, which is
absolutely necessary for the poise and harmony of the human mind. Otherwise,
it becomes too much distracted, and that distraction is fatal for its
evolution towards a higher dimension of consciousness.
The blunder made by us at present is to put the human mind in surroundings
among machines, speeding cars, and airplanes, which do not allow it to have
that repose and calm environment where it can grow in the right direction."
Alice
-----Original Message-----
From: Llewellyn <ljonesATnospamzlink.net>
To: Klist <KundaliniATnospamList-Server.net>; magneagaATnospammonet.no <magneagaATnospammonet.no>
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 12:27 AM
Subject: RE: [K-list] Resting in the Tranquil Peace of I AM
>
>> Spiritual awakening isn't something to be taken lightly. Your whole life
>> could be ripped apart. You may feel like you are completely nuts. You may
>> become physically ill. You may lose all of your material possessions. All
>> of your current family and friends may not work for your life
>> anymore.
>
>Yes I have to agree with some of this - my family threw me into a mental
>hospital - why I am not sure - it has been very difficult for me to
>understand or to come to any real peace about this - society tends to be
>harsh to anybody who is significantly different - I chose to leave a good
>job to live on a farm in a rural area where finding employment is difficult
>and spent my savings all in the name of finding myself- but it was
>necessary for my spiritual peace of mind - somehow there needs to be a
>balance - My family never really worked for me but I didn't perceive that
>they worked against me until my K awakening - again somehow I need to find
>a balance in this - someplace there is a lesson that I must learn, I must
>try to understand my family even if they do not understand me.
>
>
>> When the lower ego, our socially made illusion, are splintered into
>> ten thousand
>> pieces of caos by the very nature of a spiritual initiation itself, where
>> else can you find a firm, stable ground than in Your Own High Self ?
Where
>> else than in Your own Divine Center of I Am ? Nowhere !
>
>I agree kundalini tends to force us to delve into ourselves - to understand
>the I Am as you say.
>But this process must not take on the aspect of a job or a necessity - or a
>part of an initiation into some group.
>
>
>>
>> The whole idea of *strong techniques* as Kriya Yoga, Prana Vidya
>> etc, is to
>> put energy in motion. The unmoving must move. Energy must circulate. This
>> can be a devastating process for our lower ego, but energy in motion
isn't
>> *frenetic*. Have You ever observed that in the center of a storm, there
>> rules complete silence ?
>>
>
>Yes it just seemed like a lot of storm for very little center.
>
>>> To *visit the woods* - in the meaning of escaping from one's vision of
>> birth, your spiritual reason for beeing born - is stagnation. Strong
>> spiritual energies must be crystallized, manifested, in our daily life.
We
>> go up to the spiritual, the fourth dimension, in order to receive
>> inspiration to spiritualize our material world, not to escape from it.
>>
>
>To me visiting the woods or my forest is not escaping from one's vision of
>birth but invigorating that vision - the forest helps me to be more with my
>spirit when I am too centered in the mundane activities of living in this
>world and it helps me to realize the importance of being part of everyday
>life when I am too spacey - it helps me to balance - it restores some
>sense of perspective -
>
>So I am heading out the door - for my forest - my few acres of woods is
>just a short walk to the back of my land - and I need to get some
>perspective - and soak up some wisdom from my ancestors.
>
>Peace from upstate central New York.
>
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