For anyone who is interested Swami Samarpanananda be visiting Australia and New Zealand from 29th September until 19th October. He will be holding lectures and Kriya yoga initiations.

http://www.kriya.org.au/

click on 'News and events' for more info

Cheers

Veggie xx

MissG....thanks....I am being increasingly drawn to Kriya. At the same time as other "forces" seem to be intent on me not "getting there"...if that makes any sense...?

It's strange....it's like looking at something of great value while things of far lesser value pop up in your face and "demand" your attention while deep down...as it were...you "know" where your attention should be....

These are strange times indeed...I feel as if the "real" battle is about to begin...and the consequences for all of us as individuals are immense...

I feel "unsettled" in a way I cannot describe...and at the same time really weak....yet something else within me is telling me I'm far from weak...and very strong...and have a role to play within this unfolding drama....

Another part of me is saying "Let the games begin"....we shall not lose...we cannot lose....

I had a really weird "dream" a few nights back....

In that "dream" I was the end of my lineage...."chosen" as it were....by that lineage...to "win"what needed to be "won"...I mean...I'm the last "hope" of a certain lineage???

Look frankly...this stuff is freakin me out a little bit....I'm having trouble gettin my head around this stuff....there's all sorts of "coincidences" and "revelations" occuring in my life....there is an urgency I can't even describe...

Can anyone offer me any clues on this?

One thing that is really noticably happening is an increase in LOVE...it's hard to put into words...but I'm feeling increased "love" towards others and feeling the same from other individuals in my life....

It's a weird place to be because so many negative issues are arrising as well...things that need to be "dealt with" (so to speak)....and at the same time a comforting certainty that all is "as it should be"....

HOKAHEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(luv ya Les)

John

Ahhhh....Michelle....thank you soooo much for your reply.

I've had some revelations from it.

The "lesser value" things are indeed things that should be having my attention right now....and yes the games have already begun...it dawned on me as I read your reply that the real question for me is "when am I gonna step up to the plate and bat?"

There is a scripture somewhere....lost in the fog of my memory...that refers to these times (in the Greek) as "birthpangs"...or if you like...accelerating contractions prior to birth...(makes you wonder what the universe is giving birth to...I have my own insights into that question). So much has happenned in the last 100 years...My dad is 85...his house was the first on his street to have a radio....people used to stand outiside their house to listen to it.

He remembers half of the kids at his school didn't even have shoes.

At 17 he went to war and became a Sergeant in a special forces unit...many books (and a number of movies and documentaries) have been produced about his unit. He has seen much...much horror and much technological advancement...I don't understand him...or many of his views...but I can only "work" with what I have....my own insights and understandings (goes back to two "dreams" I used to have as a child...but I've discussed that before).

Michelle....I too am looking forward to the closing ceremony. To quote Yogananda "life is tedious".

Think your right about Hokahey in a kilt....mebe I'll paint my face blue and run around yelling out FREEEEEEDOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

;-)

John

Ah yes Michelle...even our beloved Yogananda found life at times....tedious....the yearning to return "home' perhaps increases as the individual's spirit unfolds into greater awareness.

The pointlessness of what the body and mind desires becomes increasingly obvious.

Have not all true prohphets come to that understanding?

Is not each individuals journey and search heading to the same point on different paths....I wonder.....

Masaaki Hatsumi...perhaps the last in his lineage (Ninjitsu...I've an interest in the philosophy of the art, not it's practice) when asked what happenned when we die said "return to zero" (1-9 being the levels of each individuals progression with zero being the ultimate goal)....

Hatsumi laughed when some detractors claimed to know how he did what he can do...he laughed because he said "Even I have no idea of how or why I can do what I can do" (words to that effect).

In Norman Paulsen's "Sacred Science" (he was a student of Yogananda) he talks about "riding your own life stream home".

Within so many diverse and even esoteric belief systems there is always a common thread.

There is an increasingly obvious (to me at least) "commonality" in every belief system....a core of truth if you like...and always there are thorns....

Misconceptions and misinterpretations abound (we see through a glass darkly?) yet there is always only ever one "truth"...

So what is really going on here?

It boils down to free-will.

Create a being with free will and by default you have to also create a universe of duality...polarities...free will (choice) is meaningless without choices.

Happiness cannot exist (on this plane) without it's opposite....the polarities are everywhere....night-day...male-female....positive- negative....heat-cold...good-bad and on and on...the list is endless...

What is so obvious and staring us all in the face...so obvious that very few seem to even be aware of it...is the WHY of it all.

There is real simplicity in what seems to be so complex.

Static and white noise are everywhere.

The why is simple...

Think about it.

John

PS: Think you're right about being at the plate already Michelle...who was it that said something along the lines of "There's no practise games in life...you're IN the grand final"?

John,
i think a more appropriate 'roar' would be of more value, followed by a flash of the genolicas!


HOKAHEY!!!!!!!!