Re: A Ride

["HOMI KAIKOBAD" <>]

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My Thoughts on "A Ride - By Manashree"

Could it be possible that faith in the Babas and Gurus may actually end up
with us losing more than we can gain?

If the cornerstone of spiritual search is to find one's own self, we are
lost because that is exactly what the Guru wants, your ego, which is your
capacity to choose.

Each one the Masters have said categorically, render to us your selfness and
we will do the rest. That can happen by giving complete obedience to the
guidance, whether one likes to or not.

Even Kabir, who otherwise is right on target, says "Guru bina gnan nahi",
there is no wisdom without the Guru. Why not? Who says so? Why don't you
try, it's all IN you.

It's also implied that the pathway will not be easy, and perversely, the
more difficult, the more you are loved by the Guru. To that effect again
Kabir says, "Kast kasoti jo jhele, tahi ko Shabda sunaye", hwosoever
sustains difficulty and tests, only such a one will hear the Immaculate
Name. Why suffer? Can't one as easily reach wisdom without privation and
suffering?

We are told by Sai Baba of Shirdi to give the two coins on "shraddha, faith"
and "saburi, patience". Or we are told to "uge muge', sit and shut up. We
are told by Nityananda that he is "awwal, khas, primordial, the Banyan
Tree", and that complete faith and self effacement will bring rewards and
release.

On the Sufi side, Shams Tabrez, the Guru of Rumi of Konya in Turkey, demands
austere obedience to a strict course which ends up in complete surrender.
Read Rumi's Mathnavi, all he writes is of his love for the Guru, and about
the Guru.

So here is the problem. If you follow the teachings, which are universal,
you have given up the power over your own will. There is no other way to
look at it.

Now the only way you can travel INSIDE yourself is through your own mind,
via your own heart and into your own soul. By the time you reach there, you
have to have an overwhelming sense of your own SELFNESS. This way when you
enter the final and narrow Pass, only you go through, and only you come out
at the other end. If the Guru guides you, then you are to meditate on his
face and form, and what comes out at the end is the Guru, for you are merged
and effaced.

So here is the choice. If you follow a Guru, you have to render your will
onto him or her, and whatever follows is a dispensation, you have no say in
the matter. The process by which you accept this is called faith. You might
lose wealth and health and your loved ones must be sacrificed, but you have
to keep faith, all is for the better.

But if you choose to endeavor yourself, finding your own SELF in your own
self, by your own self, keeping valid your Will, you don't have to follow
anyone, and there is no need for faith on someone else, and there is no need
to suffer. What you find by this personally spiritual way is You.

What does it take? Courage, two fold.

One, to break away from the snare of Guru Bhakti. Two, to throw out all
support systems and depend only on the sanctity of your own Soul, which is
no less than Godliness.

Arya.








































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