Friday, December 8, 2006

Choice

Q. In case of not knowing what to do, what do I do?
A. choose the option that will bring you up to your ultimate Self ,and not the option that will bring you down.
Q. What will bring you up and what will bring you down?
A. That which makes you feel the most challenging is bringing you up and that which is easy will bring you down.
Q. But whatever way I choose I feel that it is somewhat difficult.
A. Think a little more. What you have known is easy. What you don't know is more difficult.
Q. How about emotional happiness?
A. Sublimate emotion to devotion and intuition.
Q. How about attachment?
A. Attachment always pull us back . It is contrary to spiritual progress.
Attachment is very strong weapon of Maya.
Q. How do I deal with it?
A. You would have to learn more the meaning of "renunciation" and "detachment"
If you really want something, you have to renounce something else.

Q. How to keep myself busy and not creating karma?
A. Do service to the Guru.
Q. How to feel useful and meaningful?
A. Service to Guru get you out of the mind, and fill up your life with real value.
Q what do I do after?
A. continue service to Guru for a minimum of 6 months - one year.
Q. Really?
A. Yes, you are just in the beginning of your path, and Swamiji said that it is important specially in the beginning of your path to be very vigilant and intense in Sadhana - away from distractions and from your own past - so that you can take root! You are like a little new plant, it needs to take root in new grounds.
Q. I will think about it.
A. This is my advice for you, the rest is up to you.

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