When some Sy's visit other Guru's

From:  "dr_balwinder" <dr_balwinder@yahoo.com>
Date:  Mon Jun 7, 2004  5:30 am
Subject:  Re: when some Sy's visit other Guru's............
 
I will just attempt to give you my personal experience Sohniya.

I used to stay with my parents and my father being a staunch Sikh was
against Shree Mataji. I had a tough time in the beginning especially
when I dedicated a room just for Her altar and for meditation. He
could not change my mind about Her but he indirectly influenced my
wife and as for my mother he made her promise that she would never
become a SYogini. He died suddenly one day in his sleep at the age of
72 just the way he wanted his death to be— fast, "painless" and with
his dignity intact. I hold nothing against him.

Fast forward 7 yrs, my mother who never use to say anything about
Shree Mataji now gives a lot of credit of the good in my family to
Her. She supports my kids belief in Her. I know that she in her heart
of hearts believes in Shree Mataji's powers but is bound by the
promise to my dad and I have to respect that. It was a slow and
gradual change in her heart with never once a serious discussion on
SYoga or Mother.

My mother stays with me and she goes for her regular programmes and I am the one who takes her around and just 2 days ago we were at a
gurdwara together with 2 of my boys. I enjoyed the period in the
gurdwara because this hi-tech gurdwara had the prayers with meaning
projected on a 10X15 ft screen. Suddenly all my previous failure at
understanding some of the verses of the Granth Sahib now became clear even though the translation was the same because now I had the
knowledge given by Shree Mataji and the experience of
selfrealisation. The gist of it was essentially supportive of
meditaion and that the kingdom of Lord is within us.

What I am trying to say is that Sohniya you just continue being an
exemplary example of a SYogini and not be too concerned about your
aunt's d-in-law. If she is going to bogus gurus knowingly , she does
not understand SYoga well and does have that deep a believe in Shree
Mataji yet. We cannot hold it against her because each and everyone of us is different in our believe , discretion and level of ascent. One
day this d-in-law may very well be advising others against what she
is doing now.

I know it can be difficult being the only one practicing SYoga in the
family since I have gone through the same before. My method was just
to be strong in my faith and being able to defend my believe with
good reasons/examples when the need arose and never criticize what
they did but occasionally ask them why they did some ritual which had
no meaning.

About taking prasad and going to satsangs , you have to use your
discretion even if you do not like (or loathe) going to the
satsangs. Just remember that the AdiShakti knows how you feel in your
heart of hearts and She will definitely protect you and guide you.

Another suggestion to you is to get to know your aunt's d-in-law well
and slowly get to know her depth in Sahaj. There are many ways she can be encouraged to increase her depth in Sahaj but for you to
personally advise her will be the last option. If the both of you are
not living too far apart maybe it would be a good idea to go to the
same collective—get to know a level headed SYogi/ni who can give
good advise to her at the collective.

In your case to win over your relatives is more of a one step back
and two step forward "strategy" , making exceptions once a while to
their demands , being an excellent example of a SYogini and
occasionally relating the teachings of SYoga/Shree Mataji to their
beliefs where possible/needed and leaving the rest to Shree Mataji.

Balwinder


 

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