Mingo42271@...
03-12-2002, 10:28 AM
<font face="arial,helvetica"><font size="2">hello all, i had never heard of this guy. my sister sent this to me and i thought i'd share the truth. :) donna i.
tues. march 12 is the observance of sivaratri.
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: sivaratri observance is very austere and to not have it come to you suddenly, you have to prepare for it as for everything.
now, the main preparation is to watch your thoughts. the main preparation for every spiritual observance: is to watch your thoughts and emotions and to know that you should not insult lord siva by bad thoughts, bad vibrations, bad feelings towards other people, towards circumstances, bad whatever. it is just like a bad smell, should not be; it is not acceptable by human beings and it is not acceptable by the divine being. what is for human being not acceptable is of course very obvious from physical senses. what is for divine non-acceptable is not obvious for the human being, but it is tangible for the refined human being, not physically, but mentally. and those who are developed spiritually - for them, of course, there is the avenue of co-existence with the divine. now, for that co-existence we are preparing.
more concretely: if you will allow yourself to repeat certain negative words, you will hypnotize yourself into the negative mood and you will prolong your negativities and you might acquire the chronical negative disposition. well, that is absolutely out in the life of a spiritual man. you have to be very vigilant. what christ said, "watch and pray," he had in mind obviously, of course, all psychological inadequacies. if you want to create the positive atmosphere around yourself, start repeating something positive. just as you often repeat the negative things of either criticism or self-condemnation or disgust for something or fear or whatever you might be guilty of psychologically, replace it by the different statements. of course if you are used to certain patterns, you cannot suddenly change them - bite your tongue when you are ready to say something wrong. you are saying a lot of wrong things mentally; bite your tongue when you are mentally ready to say something wrong.
what i want to say, i don't mean it literally (although it will not hurt you) but what i want to say, arrest the intrusive thought or intrusive mood. arrest it. if you are able to arrest it, you are a mensch. you have no right, my children to pollute the atmosphere which is already polluted and which is polluting you. just as there is pollution of water, pollution of air, pollution of fields, pollution of forests, so it is pollution of the invisible by human thoughts and hatred. and these emanations, also, you catch. and whenever you are in negativities, in negative moods: and feelings,they are the result of somebody's sendings to you. so feel yourself a warrior. kick it out. be strong. it is not as difficult as you think. you have to start practicing.
by the same token, prolong the wonderful things: . you have so many wonderful possibilities here and so many wonderful recollections of the experiences on higher level. why don't you prolong it? you may say, "well, i cannot because there are intrusions all the time." okay, i grant, there are many intrusions. but still, when a man is in love, in spite of intrusions, he thinks of the person whom he loves very much. he is counting the hours when he can be with the beloved. well, the very same thing is in spiritual - you have to love something which lifts you up. and when you are bombarded by the negative impressions or contact, just have in your heart, i told you about it, that corner of beauty. cultivate it and simply relax in it. close your eyes mentally and physically and say, "even this will pass away." let it go. but that beauty which you are cultivating, will never pass away. that is how you prepare for lord siva.
he is the destroyer, by the way, of everything nasty. just say om namah sivaya!
that's all. god bless you.
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tues. march 12 is the observance of sivaratri.
</font><font color="#000000" size="3" family="sansserif" face="arial" lang="0">sivaratri
: sivaratri observance is very austere and to not have it come to you suddenly, you have to prepare for it as for everything.
now, the main preparation is to watch your thoughts. the main preparation for every spiritual observance: is to watch your thoughts and emotions and to know that you should not insult lord siva by bad thoughts, bad vibrations, bad feelings towards other people, towards circumstances, bad whatever. it is just like a bad smell, should not be; it is not acceptable by human beings and it is not acceptable by the divine being. what is for human being not acceptable is of course very obvious from physical senses. what is for divine non-acceptable is not obvious for the human being, but it is tangible for the refined human being, not physically, but mentally. and those who are developed spiritually - for them, of course, there is the avenue of co-existence with the divine. now, for that co-existence we are preparing.
more concretely: if you will allow yourself to repeat certain negative words, you will hypnotize yourself into the negative mood and you will prolong your negativities and you might acquire the chronical negative disposition. well, that is absolutely out in the life of a spiritual man. you have to be very vigilant. what christ said, "watch and pray," he had in mind obviously, of course, all psychological inadequacies. if you want to create the positive atmosphere around yourself, start repeating something positive. just as you often repeat the negative things of either criticism or self-condemnation or disgust for something or fear or whatever you might be guilty of psychologically, replace it by the different statements. of course if you are used to certain patterns, you cannot suddenly change them - bite your tongue when you are ready to say something wrong. you are saying a lot of wrong things mentally; bite your tongue when you are mentally ready to say something wrong.
what i want to say, i don't mean it literally (although it will not hurt you) but what i want to say, arrest the intrusive thought or intrusive mood. arrest it. if you are able to arrest it, you are a mensch. you have no right, my children to pollute the atmosphere which is already polluted and which is polluting you. just as there is pollution of water, pollution of air, pollution of fields, pollution of forests, so it is pollution of the invisible by human thoughts and hatred. and these emanations, also, you catch. and whenever you are in negativities, in negative moods: and feelings,they are the result of somebody's sendings to you. so feel yourself a warrior. kick it out. be strong. it is not as difficult as you think. you have to start practicing.
by the same token, prolong the wonderful things: . you have so many wonderful possibilities here and so many wonderful recollections of the experiences on higher level. why don't you prolong it? you may say, "well, i cannot because there are intrusions all the time." okay, i grant, there are many intrusions. but still, when a man is in love, in spite of intrusions, he thinks of the person whom he loves very much. he is counting the hours when he can be with the beloved. well, the very same thing is in spiritual - you have to love something which lifts you up. and when you are bombarded by the negative impressions or contact, just have in your heart, i told you about it, that corner of beauty. cultivate it and simply relax in it. close your eyes mentally and physically and say, "even this will pass away." let it go. but that beauty which you are cultivating, will never pass away. that is how you prepare for lord siva.
he is the destroyer, by the way, of everything nasty. just say om namah sivaya!
that's all. god bless you.
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