hare krishna

That is the question.

 

I thought I'd share...I haven't been around for awhile

Also, happy birthday to the late George Harrison!

**I found this song on Mrs. L's piano a week or two ago and we're not singing it...but I wrote down the words...'cause I liked 'em**

A Native American Prayer (Traditional)

Let me walk in beauty
Make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset
Make my hands resspect the things that you have made
Make my ears sharp to hear your voice

O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world
Hear me! I am small and week
I need your strength and wisdom

Make me wise so I may understand the things you've taught
The things you've taught my people

O Great Wisdom, I seek strength
I seek strength not to be greater than my brother
But to fight my greatest enemy, myself

Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes
So when life fades as the sunset
My spirit may come without shame

O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world
Hear me! I am small and week
I need your strength and wisdom
I need your strength and wisdom


**Erin and I went to Smithville last week and I bought a bookmark at the angel store and this is what it says**

Take Time- Unknown

Take time to think;
it is the source of power
Take time to read,
it is the fountain of wisdom
Take time to play,
it is the secret of staying young
Take time to be quiet;
it is the opertunity to seek God
Take time to be aware;
it is the opertunity to help others
Take time to love and be loved,
it is God's greatest gift
Take time to laugh,
it is the music of the soul
Take time to be friendly;
it is the road to happiness
Take time to dream;
it is what the future is made of
Take time to pray;
it is the greatest power on earth.

 

``THE secret of action'', so we might summarise the message of the Gita, the word of its divine Teacher, ``is one with the secret of all life and existence. Existence is not merely a machinery of Nature, a wheel of law in which the soul is entangled for a moment or for ages; it is a constant manifestation of the Spirit. Life is not for the sake of life alone, but for God, and the living soul of man is an eternal portion of the Godhead. Action is for self-finding, for self-fulfilment, for self-realisation and not only for its own external and apparent fruits of the moment or the future. There is an inner law and meaning of all things dependent on the supreme as well as the manifested nature of the self; the true truth of works lies there and can be represented only incidentally, imperfectly and disguised by ignorance in the outer appearances of the mind and its action. The supreme, the faultless largest law of action is therefore to find out the truth of your own highest and inmost existence and live in it and not to follow any outer standard and Dharma. All life and action must be till then an imperfection, a difficulty, a struggle and a problem. It is only by discovering your true self and living according to its true truth, its real reality that the problem can be finally solved, the difficulty and struggle overpassed and your doings perfected in the security of the discovered self and spirit turn into a divinely authentic action. Know then your self; know your true self to be God and one with the self of all others; know your soul to be a portion of God. Live in what you know; live in the self, live in your supreme spiritual nature, be united with God and Godlike. Offer, first, all your actions as a sacrifice to the Highest and the One in you and to the Highest and the One in the world; deliver last all you are and do into his hands for the supreme and universal spirit to do through you his own will and works in the world. This is the solution that I present to you and in the end you will find that there is no other.''

Sri Aurobindo - "Essays on the Gita".

 

OMG.. I grew up in this since I was 4, my grandmother use to go to the tempal and be there like almost everyday. I learned alot from this hindu woman who I still remember and few friends who I use to play with. I love the atmosphere of that place. Makes you feel alive and free.

 

I find Krishna Buddha and Jesus to all be the same. just differnt styles of peace: krishna intelgence, Buddha detatchment, and jesus love.

 

I think it is more accurate to say krishna is karma yoga, buddha is gnyana yoga and jesus is bhakti yoga.

 

Maybe. But actually, all three have all these aspects. For example, devotion to Krishna is a very developed form of hindu practice, the teachings of many Christian saints is very similar to karma yoga, and in Japan, there is the Pure Land school of Buddhism, who believe that all that is neccessary is devotion to Amithaba Buddha, and repitition of His name ('Namu Amida Bhutsu').
All these avatars are really one. They are all forms of the One Reality that underlies everything.

 

I agree with you...I think that all are great avatars who were sent to different times and places to teach the Universal Truth in a way that would be apropriate for the peoples of those times and places... the messages are the same but what makes each so special is their stories and they different ways they delivered the message.

 

lol...did anyone know that this thread is number 14 on the Hipforums Top 20 reply threads? That's awesome!

 

I really do not want to see this thread vanish....but I must ask you all...should we finally let it slip off this page in to oblivion? If so...than I won't post in it anymore...no sense in beating a dead horse (or however the saying goes...lol)... but for now...I will continue to share what I have...

Prabhujee Dayaa Karo
Maname Aana Bao

Tuma Bina Laage Soonaa
Khaali Ghatame Prema Bharo

Tantra Mantra Poojaa Nahi Jaanu
Mai To Kevala Tumako Hi Maanu

Sare Jaga Me Dhundaa Tumako
Aba To Aakara Baahan Dharo

Oh Master, show some compassion on me
Please come and dwell in my heart

Because without you, it is painfully lonely
Fill this empty pot with the nectar of love

I do not know any Tantram Mantra, or ritualistic worship
I know and believe only in you!

I have been searching for you all over the world
Please come and hold my hand now

 

Perhaps this thread has become too long for many people to read - and without any discussion going on maybe its become a bit pointless. Maybe it would be better to let it go........let's just wait and see.

 

Never! This thread is satsang. Why allow a discussion of bhagawan's glories to come to end? As the gopikas put it in their beautiful gopika geet in bhagavatam, tava kathamritam tapta jeevanam... the nectar of your stories gives life to those who are tortured (by this world)...

 

Jai Sri Krishna!!!!!

 

lol...looks like we're still staying then?

Oui, mon cher Jedi... Jai Sri Krishna indeed!

 

i love krishna- but there ARE some rules. no meat for instance! no intoxication. no killing and i read somewhere that sex-for-pleasure was bad according to it.

also it is a lot happier than you are making it saound.

i tried it but it wasnt for me (the meat thing) so im lloking at other religions that promot love and not bigotry and jihads

 

if i am wrong, feel free to tell me bc i am not sure

 

Well, you don't have to be a member of ISKCON, which by the no meat, no intoxication, ect...I assume you are refering to (correct me if I'm wrong), to love Krishna...all you need to do is love him...I have never been a member of ISKCON but I still love Krishna (and I am a born and raised Roman Catholic)...but I do not disuade you from looking at other religions...I actually find that the true meaning of all the religions is love (not the dogma but the true stuff...)...its all very interesting...

Sorry for babbling.... :&

*peace and love*
Nicole

 

thanks. i think this thread died

 

I hope it didn't.....but if that ends up as its fate...then its as George Harrison said, "all things must pass away"

 

It's up to Krishna - if He wants this to go on, it will