I am so ready to go home. I am pinning hopes on this vacation being more than just a visit home. Who knows, it might provide just the right breather I need. Will the real Lakshmi please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?
🙂
I’m not saying you shouldn’t desire. Desires arise, and if they arise that’s okay. But hankering to fulfill them, thinking that when they’re fulfilled only then things will happen—“only then I’ll be happy”—is an illusion.
Guruji’s words always ring TRUE and yet they take so long to sink into the psyche. This one is taking its own sweet time to make sense to me. Rather, it’s making intellectual sense entirely but I am having a tough time integrating the essence into my system.
iswari says:
I think that’s a hard one for most of us…must be why our gurus keep talking about it! ;-D
February 8, 2006 — 2:51 pm
Lakshmi says:
🙂 I know what you mean!
February 8, 2006 — 3:02 pm
lalunadiosa says:
If it were easy to assimilate, we wouldn’t need Gurujis to help us!!!
February 8, 2006 — 2:54 pm
Lakshmi says:
Yes, you’re so right.
February 8, 2006 — 3:04 pm
lalunadiosa says:
Always am 😛
February 8, 2006 — 3:05 pm
lalunadiosa says:
Except when I am not 😀
February 8, 2006 — 3:05 pm
Lakshmi says:
Very pakaao mood, huh?
February 8, 2006 — 3:09 pm
lalunadiosa says:
Nope…just felt like the statement that “I am always right” sounded too arrogant and so I tempered it…that’s all….
February 8, 2006 — 3:11 pm
rparvaaz says:
I know what you mean – it took me years to accept that that entire shloka about ‘karmanye vaadhikarastu ma phaleshu kadaachanah’ was actually a very apt description of how life works. After that it is short step to recognising that life must go on. Or as Sri Aurobindo put it, if you wait for the waves for subside before walking into the ocean, you’ll never ever get your feet wet.
February 9, 2006 — 2:13 am
Lakshmi says:
Actually ‘Karmanyevaadhikaraste…’ is a beautiful philosophy, I feel. Sometimes I think it is actually the easier way out because you are exempt from the result but the kind of beings we are, we get attached to the result even before it manifests…and hold ourselves responsible for it.
February 9, 2006 — 12:38 pm
Anonymous says:
Interesting
I was also thinking about the same thing today morning in a different context. It’s tough to ingrain it, but I guess the more I become aware of this knowledge, everytime that hankering arises, the lesser is the magnitude of it.But still a long way to go 🙂
February 9, 2006 — 7:30 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: Interesting
It’s tough to ingrain it, but I guess the more I become aware of this knowledge, everytime that hankering arises, the lesser is the magnitude of it.
The piquant thing is, this is applicable even to the desire of gaining more knowledge!
February 9, 2006 — 12:38 pm
aapka_apnaa says:
Re: Interesting
I concur!
February 9, 2006 — 1:41 pm
sat_chit_anand says:
This is the essence
I just got promoted recently and I used to think sometime back that this would be it. Today as I walked into the office, I thought whats the big deal? Life is the same, my mind is the same, feverish at times, stuck in concepts and impressions. What’s changed? circumstances, titles…Have I grown everyday? Have I really grown inside? I beleive focussing on true growth rather than any time limited fulfilment in life gives true freedom.
February 9, 2006 — 8:01 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: This is the essence
Well said.
February 9, 2006 — 12:38 pm
srusrid says:
want to go home tooooooooooooooo
February 9, 2006 — 12:24 pm
Lakshmi says:
So you will one day, babe…:-)
February 9, 2006 — 12:39 pm
srusrid says:
been so long…..aaah..nostalgia attack!!
February 9, 2006 — 12:47 pm