A “Life Hack” refers to “any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that
increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life.”[1]
Or in this case; “and beyond.”
COVID CASOS MORTOS
METTA IS PURE LV AND COMPASSION
professor Julian Baird; “I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”
number of International Association of Near Death Studies groups[4] and I’ve met a number of people disconcerted they felt so wonderful “back home” and are upset to be forced “back here.” They saw loved ones back there, experienced the unconditional love many report backstage and have no desire to put on the makeup, and step into the limelight.
through the evidence of “new information.” If a person sees, hears, learns something during one of these events that they couldn’t possibly have known - that there’s no “known example” anywhere in books or the internet or in “some other person’s mind that perhaps they were accessing” - then it must come from somewhere else other than the brain
dont have courage to see u off and say gdbye
longfellow
COVID CASOS MORTOS
METTA IS PURE LV AND COMPASSION
How to endure phases of tastelessness in bhakti
When we start practicing bhakti yoga, we may expect to relish great joy because we are connecting with the one who is the source of all joy: the all-attractive supreme, Krishna. The Bhagavad-gita (09.02) assures that bhakti-yoga is joyful.
However, we may find that our bhakti practice is sometimes tasteless. Why is that? Because the taste in bhakti comes when we connect with Krishna, when we offer our consciousness to him in a mood of loving service. Unfortunately, our consciousness is presently contaminated by many impurities. Due to these impurities, we feel tempted by some worldly things, seeing them as sources of irresistible pleasure. Or we feel threatened by other worldly things, seeing them as sources of unbearable trouble. When we are thus tempted or threatened or otherwise distracted, our connection with Krishna gets interrupted, and so we can’t relish bhakti.
These impurities are our spiritual disease. And the cure for the disease is to somehow or the other connect with all-pure Krishna, for that connection will drive away the impurities. During this purificatory phase when we are striving to connect with Krishna, we need to see our bhakti practice as a medicinal dose. That is, we practice bhakti not for its taste, but for its effect.
If we thus keep practicing bhakti, we will be cleansed of our impurities and will start connecting with Krishna more steadily. By that connection, we will become better absorbed in him, thereby relishing devotion naturally, joyfully, eternally. Then the same medicinal dose will be revealed to be a nectar drink, or in the Gita’s poetic language, what tastes like poison initially will eventually taste like nectar (18.37).
One-sentence summary:
To endure phases of tastelessness in bhakti, treat it as a medicinal dose and it will duly transform into a nectar drink.
Think it over:
- Why do we go through phases of tastelessness in bhakti?
- What is our spiritual disease? What is its cure?
- To persevere through tasteless phases, how do we need to view our bhakti practices?
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18.37: That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness.
professor Julian Baird; “I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”
number of International Association of Near Death Studies groups[4] and I’ve met a number of people disconcerted they felt so wonderful “back home” and are upset to be forced “back here.” They saw loved ones back there, experienced the unconditional love many report backstage and have no desire to put on the makeup, and step into the limelight.
through the evidence of “new information.” If a person sees, hears, learns something during one of these events that they couldn’t possibly have known - that there’s no “known example” anywhere in books or the internet or in “some other person’s mind that perhaps they were accessing” - then it must come from somewhere else other than the brain
dont have courage to see u off and say gdbye
longfellow
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