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Food for thought. Four Letters from Lord Yama. (Lord Yama is the Hindu God of death.)
Beware of being deluded by Maya. Wake up now! Lord Yama in his mercy and compassion, sends Four Letters. Do you know what they are? The first letter is the appearance of grey hairs. Lord Yama warns;" Oh man, you have wasted your life. Old age is approaching you. Your life will soon come to an end. Wake up now and apply yourself to Sadhana." But man ignores it and goes to the chemist and gets a pigment to colour the hair black. He then goes on as before. He wants to show that he is superior to Lord yAMA. The second letter arrives.His eyesight grows dim. There is yet a chance for him to wake upand apply himself to Yoga Sadhana; but he does not. He goes to an eye specialist and puts on beautiful spectacles.Even after that he continues to live the same sensual life.In the spectacles he feels he appears even more presentable than otherwise. And then the Third letter comes.Teeth begin to fall. This is a very serious warning from Yama. But the deluded man does not care even now. He goes to the dentist and has a beautiful set of false teeth made for him. Now he is even more happy:"My natural teeth were not so good as these " he says.He cares not to take the warning of Yama. Then the fourth letter arrives.Limbs loose their vigour.He has a tottering gate. He cannot sit erect or walk unaided. But foolish man does not realise that his life is nearing its end. He goes to the shop, purchases a beautiful walking stick, and puts a silver cap on it- He looks even smarter with it than without. Alas, all the four warnings of the Lord go unheaded. Finally, he is snatched away by Death. Such is the miserable condition of the ignorant man. Wake up now. There is still time for you!
ON DYING Dear Bernard when asked about death would quote the following; I DIED AS A MINERAL AND BECAME A PLANT, i DIED AS A PLANT AND ROSE TO AN ANIMAL, I DIED AS AN ANIMAL AND I WAS A MAN, WHY SHOULD I FEAR/ WHEN WAS I EVER LESS BY DYING? YET ONCE MORE I SHALL DIE AS MAN, TO SOAR IN THE BLESSED REALM; BUT EVEN FROM GOODHOOD I MUST PASS ON....... The Mathnawl,from The 21 Lessons of Merlyn |
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Death is not extinguishing the light; It is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore. Thank you for that quote Elaine Forsythe |
Sue Gordon found the following piece but is unsure who wrote it
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WHAT IS DYING?
I am standing on the sea shore. A ship sails and spreads her white sails to the morning breeze, and starts for the ocean. She is an objecct of beauty and i stand watching her, till at last she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side say "She is gone" Gone where? Gone from my sight ,that is all; she is just as large in the masts, hull and spars as she ever was when i saw her; and just as able to bear her load of living freight to its destination. The diminished size and total loss of sightis in me, not in her, and just at the moment when someone at my side says "SHE IS GONE" there are others who are watching her coming, and other voices take up a glad shout ; THERE SHE COMES and THAT is Dying! |
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Yogacharini Sonia would like the following words from KAHIL GIBRAN
as her epitaph;
"...and when the earth shall claim my limbs ,
then i shall truly dance "
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Student Barbra Baily The tide coming in and going out, the ebb and flow, is like the certainty of life and death and the "quickness"of the whole process of life- then death. as the wave comes in, we as a parallel "live"life, flowing towards the sand then we move onto our next stage moving on to a higher plane carried by the ebbing wave when we on the gross level die the wave sucks us swiftly back to the source towards the spiritual world. |
A Spiritual Tale
Innocently unaware of the prejudices held against him, an old
black man, staunchly religious, some years ago applied for
membership in an exclusive church.
The pastor attempted to
put him off with all sorts of evasive remarks. The old man,
becoming aware that he was not wanted, said finally that he
would pray on it and perhaps the Lord would tell him just
what to do.
Several days later he returned. "Well," asked the minster,
"did the Lord send you a message?"
"Yes sir, he did," was the answer. "He told me it wasn't
any use. He said. 'I've been trying to get in that same church
myself for ten years, and I still can't make it.'"
The Spirituality of imperfection Kurtz and Ketcham
The Seeker ?
My friend Bernard Platt (now no longer with us) who was instrumental in spreading Yoga in the North of England, told the ancient story of a seeker of Truth.
"There was once a man who looked everywhere and asked everyone where he could find God, in fact, he spent most of his life looking. One day he came across an old Sadhu who knew exactly where God was and took the man to the very door!
"Just knock and God will answer" , said the old Sadhu, as he went on his way.
Filled with awe and anticipation the seeker looked at the door. He raised his arm to knock, hesitated and stood back. After some time, the man bowed his head and quietly crept away!!!!
Are you really ready to 'know God'?
Sometimes we only want what is out of our grasp.
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