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CONFLICTS IN SEEKER’S LIFE. By Chennai based K.B.Gopalakrishnan September 7,2007. 12:32 PM
There are conflicts which any seeker will experience. These are classical conflict experienced by any seeker in the path of spirituality. To be human is to experience these conflicts. Of course this experience varies from great saints to ordinary person in their life.
Divine will vs. our will - this is done by great Christ. When he hangs in the cross for a moment he doubts god’s will. Why this to me lord? Then he changes words as thy will be done. These days the guru calls it as surrender or letting go. We experience this conflict, when what we desire or how we want others to be does not happen. There is intense struggle to make it happen and then we give up. We understand at a later date that what happened is for our own good.
Divine love vs. human love- we experience human love which has limitation of time, space, understand, sensitivity, expression, gender and many times we come to human love which is imperfect and we do not look beyond it. The main reason is that divine love is perfect, accepting and gives more energy than human love. We all look for divine love but unfortunately humans are not capable of expressing that level of love.
My intelligence vs. divine intelligence- We have worldly knowledge and intelligence which is useful for running our day to day affairs. But the divine intelligence runs the universe, the sun, stars and entire galaxy. When in doubt we do not see this intelligence. When in faith we are wonder stuck and praise this intelligence. That is why many great saints say god takes care of the needs when they surrender. They would experience many a times the mysterious coincidences, the suddenness of fulfillment of the desires which they attribute to divine grace and mercy. Of course it takes time guru’s grace to get in to the frame that god intelligence is taking care of you. Ask your mother she will tell you that god only took care when you were in the womb. There is always ignorance in knowledge. When one comes to point of loving it become easy.
My speech vs. divine speech – my great teacher sensei calls it channeling. Of course in the nath tradition it is called as aadesh. Modern spiritualities call it as the flow. When one channels the words of god suddenly there is answer for some one problems, one feels lift in the energy, one feels the moment is meaningful. This is done regularly by the guru. One can also see the great poetry, music and dance which not only makes u happy but also lift your soul to another dimension. What is spoken through is higher than what we speak.
Flesh vs. spirit – the classic dilemma of eating, sleeping and having sex. This dominates us many times that we forget the purpose of life. The bible calls it as temptation of flesh. The best way to break it is offer these mundane acts as way of worship to divine. The Indians calls it a karma yoga. Eat with gratefulness to god, have sex as if it is meditation as a way of practicing bodhi chitta, sleep by going in to barado.
Soul work vs. divine work – many of us feel meaningless with the work we do. This is called as disconnection of the spirit. When we do soul work there is immense joy, happiness and there is lot of purpose. The ultimate purpose is bringing heaven on earth. On a mundane level it is to bring one world, one government, one music and one religion. One can be successful yet one feels highly meaningless. This means we are not doing god’s work. That is why there is feeling of emptiness. One needs to pray to get guided.
Sublimation vs. expression- to sublimate one’s own desire is very difficult. But one should start to sublimate one’s own negative thought, negative feeling towards people. This is called as metta. One ultimately reaches the point of transcending difficult people and circumstances and life becomes peaceful and pure love no matter what happens. What ever happens u see good in it.
Advantages and disadvantages of worldly life – one sees so much of pain and anguish due to ignorance in worldly life. When one understand the disadvantages of worldly life and then one come to a point in sadhana where there is no conflict between worldly and spiritual life. Every act becomes prayer and every word becomes a blessing,.
Self vs. other – we need others initially but cannot be happy with them all the time. This is due to ignorance. Finally you come to the understanding that self and others are not different. The poet or artist experiences which gets expressed. Every one feels it as right due to universal ness. Like this one feels in love. There is oneness between self vs. other. Ultimately one sees the self and other are no different or same yet they are different. Our Customised Products
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