Your posts are wonderful. If you can use a spell checker that may help. Bharat is now using one and his posts are a lot more understandable.
I do not think you have a thick skulle ...It is I that need to explain moor
oo keh... you win the prize for being cryptic. or is it just that you are even more humorous than Lynn and I'm too thick skulled to get it
Some people make a lot of noise about being or doing. Devotional Service for the Divine Absolute Truth, Sri Krishna, completely transcends all of that.
To Be Here, As we were Meant to be.
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There is a Sanskrit phrase that may be helpful here: achintya abheda bheda tattva. That means God is simultaneously one and different. Of course you're God in the sense that you are part and parcel in the same way your hand is part of your body. If your hand tries to put food in some other opening besides the mouth, though, you may have problems. Can God make a rock so big He can't lift it? Of course, and then He can go ahead and lift it anyway.
Simply to understand that a living entity is not material is not sufficient. That may be the beginning of spiritual realization, but one should recognize the difference between activities of the body and the spiritual activities of one who understands that he is not the body.
hello all 
I just stept in here, and thought to share my impression from reading a view of the posts in here... (I am to laisy to read all of them)...
my first feelings when I read some posts in this threat:
Many of you talk from god as the source of strenght...
and talk like god is something appart from you...
who watches you or gives you what you need...
this feels for me like sepparation from god and me,
we are god in all what is and so is god in us...
so we watch our selfs, give our selfs what we need...
just our beleives and our educated relegious faith let us think that we are separated, that our body is not us, that we have to get strenght or to ask for any thing...
Sarvo how can you say that we are not the body?
If every thing is one, why to separate the body from the soul, from god...
~MY~ "Strenght" just is...
I do not have to get strength, it is allways a part of me...
comming from a deep trust in to life (which we all born with), and that every thing that happens or is challengeing me in my life has its purpose...
If I ask where it comes from, how it happen, it (the trust) gets immediatly covered from the minds thoughts and I get confused until I surrender to life again and get back in the flow of life...
So one day, It (my mind) just stopped to ask this silly questions...
and life flows amazing beautyfull through "my" surrounding, all what I am...
to be like a baby, wich learned allredy how to survive in this world...
Hi Sarvo, lol you and me both knock me on the noggin......it was a thread where someone started talking about elephants tusks.....knock me on the noggin again and do not worry my dear friend !! I took to a little graphic fancy today! that q and a group.
Not that the owner is gonna give a dam, but what the heck eh !
Nice, Flava, I really think you're right and that "other" could be God. It definitely helps me a lot knowing that Krishna sees everything I'm doing, forgives me and is even amused by my foolish little effort. You are also very dear to God, Flava, and when He sees that you are sad or upset or disappointed, from God's point of view that's amusing because He knows that actually you are really very spiritually advanced and over the long haul you'll come through with flying colors and be spectacularly victorious and successful in your life.
Doddering old fool that I am.... I think I have BOTH Alzheimer's AND Mad Cow Disease, I really can't remember. Can you help me here?
In the knowing that no matter how negative or bad things look, that there is truly "other".
No Kidding
I read this questions or interpret it as what sustains me......
Creating Music
Forests Out in the wild.....nature
My Children and Grandchildren All wildlife
That's right Sunny, "inner strength" is what it's all about. God is in your heart. You're there with God. God directs your steps. You don't have to worry. You have the secret to happiness. I bet people that know you, like friends and family, think you're a pretty happy person.
I get strength wherever I can find it when I need it. Some how it always manifests - amazing. Sometimes just knowing someone like Sarvo is around gives me strength - truly.
My friends, the earth, the sky, my family, my pets, the wind, routine, all over the place....even in the worst of times it seems to find me if I can't find it.
I like the seedless ones. But not necessarilly improvements. But new ..the old things are still with us. That in seeded grapes and oranges. I like the anology of God being the Ocean and the rest of us drops of water that make up the ocean. But there are rivers, creeks, ponds, lakes, clouds steam and ice, slush and snow. All are drops of the ocean at some point in time. So we are all not alike, we have different tastes, different looks ect in our material forms, even some are clean and some dirty/muddy. Some drops have greater or lesser amounts of salt or oxygen, or sand or ions and atoms of metals, and other material things. But we all contribute to the greatness of the ocean of humankind. Us with the consciousness of the outer beings and outer consciousnesses make up the total of what the AllMighty is.
With Love, Genelda
Sarvo P.
8:05 PM Seedless grapes, nectarines, naked mice, tangelos... these "improvements" mean man is smarter than God?
Do you really think those are "improvements"? Who is benefiting from those "improvements"? Are you?
ps
i like my grapes with seeds.
Sarvo P.
7:49 PM Does that mean I allow God to take the role of Creator?
Analogy: God is the ocean and we are the individual salty water drops that together are the ocean, does one drop has the same components and properties the ocean has?
As is above is below.
I came to say hello to all of you.
What gives me strengh? well, my faith and hope gives me strengh. That´s a fact
I am very glad to read you again 
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Sarvo P.
7:03 PM What if I give up and just let God do everything.
Sarvo that's exactly what i am doing. Surrendered (ego, personalities). Just being (soul).
Knowing I am the Creator. My life is my creation.
It means I am responsible for everything I am feeling and experiencing. By having felt and experienced emotions that move from one extreme to the other, NOW I know what I want to feel and experience. ... and thats what I am creating.
The Universe has faith in us.
The challange to Life on earth comes from these various feuding nations and feuding religions who demand that we become something less than Alive.
Chapter 18, Verse 66.
Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear.
"...For within such strenght is one that can be trusted. For within such strenght we find a place of safety within us that knows we are cared for by a power of loving Creator. To find this place inside us is to let go of all that we have known and will even known in the future. Trusting at this level of our being requires letting go of one's physical strenght and finding that gentle strenght within us called soul. Here we lay before creator every single part of who we are, and trust, that in doing so will emerge the greatest strenght on earth and the universe itself"
Sam Oliver: God a logs on living and dying.
God bless, J
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there have been so many times where the beauty of being able to instill unconditional love and deep compassion to another being has made me ECSTATIC & OVERWHELMED. it is love, it is deep, it is indeiscribable.
peace, light and love to all.
namaste,
sandy
That so called "accident", but masterfully created operation happened ca.13.000 years ago. We still can see some souvenirs today, like Piramides, Stonehedges, and so on all over the Globe, which were just intergrated "tools" in above mentioned "Operation".
Survivours of so called "accident" are those who mastered ability of transfering one's consciousness to another skillfuly chosen life. Today, I know about thousands of people on dark & bright side around the World who possesed above mentioned abilities.And the number is growing all the time, especially now. This applies only to Six Realms related to planet Earth.
Now, we the "victims" chained to this Globe forever, we all are having rare opportunity to get LIBERATED on massive scale. This opportunity happens astrologicaly ca. every 13.000 years. Now, we've got the best access of all time during present Civilzation to all kind of knowledge available.
All kind of knowledge means negative and positive ones.They look almost identical with small but vital difference. One leads to Lower Worlds, another one to Higher Worlds. Only our own personal qualities are drawing us to one of this directions. If an individual stay attached to its own mind and ego (called now a "personality"), which is connected to many Global Mind Patterns that stimulate our personal lives through our own minds and programed by so called Masters or Gods - such individual is subject to constant suffer and obvious way down the drain. Those so called Masters or Gods can perform all kind of tricks and miracles just to fool human slaves kept in darkness for ages and make them worship false gods. They have made it succesfully. Most humans today worship false Gods.
Those, who learn to live in the Now, cutting chains of slavery one by one, recognizing & avoiding all traps created by mind & ego - those are on the way Up to brighter higher dimentions where all so called "white angels" are living there, our true HOME on higher plane.
This is only possible in the NOW, because ego & mind can not operate in the NOW! This is where all forms of distraction come from. Mind does know that can not operate in the Now and automaticaly imposes its own cycles of opposities.
So, our innermost motivation is the "key" to one of these "doors". The quality of our motivation determines the source where the potencial "aid" may come from. We've got "Angels", beings residing in higher dimentions - their motivation is to aid every being trapped on Earth to be liberated. Every individual can have specificaly "customized" aid under only one condition: selfless motivation.
White Angels have their counter beings called Black Angels who resides higher dimentions but on the Dark Side.
Those so called "Gods" are helping only those individuals who they can use to their so called "Grand Plan". It means, people enslaved by selfish motivations can seek their specificaly tailored aid. All kind of mind created wants and desires are easy "tools" to entrap every soul. Freedom from mind control can be achieved only in the Now, beyond time and reason.
Darkness can not stand to the Light. Darkened for thousands years human mind can be gradualy enlightened by exposure to the Light only in the Now. And learn back what is the purpose of the mind given to us. Because, we are not given to the mind - the mind is given to us. So, why we are acting like we are given to the mind? Like slaves sold to master?
Seek and search! You hold the KEY.
Perfection is a road, not a destination...
Live now, act now...
I've come to the conclusion that there's only one moment to really 'do' what's inside you, and that's now...
Whatever there might be 'after death' (if there is even death or simply a 'new approach to another now' or.....) I don't really know, and... I don't care too much either.
I'm here 'now' (as far as now is a real 'fact'), so I have to act now. I can 'sob' on bad things that happen, or I can say... "Yes, it has happened, let's see what I can do to not have it happen again..."
So... What gives me strength... "Now"
Peace & Love!
Marc
Strength for me comes from so many sources - The Universe, nature, Krishna, Guardian Angels and my daughter.
I have also been blessed with a beautiful upbringing which has helped me to realise all the beauty around me now.
Narelle
Thank's Amelia,I understand your relating hope to desire & wanting.
I view hope within it's context of the pagan path as one of the three healers;
Hope is Acknowledging my faith in the omnipresence of my Divinity,I hope for realization,awareness and acknowledgement of the existence of the great divine creator within myself.
the other 2 of the three healers are;
Faith-I believe in the spiritual existence of myself as a perfect image of the Divine Creator.In this reflection that is my physical embodiment,I have faith in the supreme guidance of my soul for my balance,my needs,and my opportunities.Outside of myself there are also perfect images,and nothing can delude my thinking otherwise
Charity-In understanding faith,in knowing hope,I pledge my actions,my desires,and my thoughts to the performances of myself on the physical planes of the earth,to honor,to love and to enlighten all that is a reflection of the divine outside of myself so that my perfection is imaged back to my creator,so help me god & goddess-so mote it be.
Being needed gives me the strength to help. I live with 2 great grand daughters, one 2 years old the other 6 and in first grade. I read to them, sing with them, help to guide and teach them. Some times in my life God has called me to provide the means for answering prayers of friends and family. That is a wonderful humbling experience and provides lots of strength.
with love, Genelda
Geraint,
If more people understood this, then the work would be done. Being happy knowing that you already have everything you need would put an end to hate, greed, lust for power, coveting the things that others have, and would make warring obsolete. The commandments that were given in the Old Testament of the Christian/Jewish Bible were given out of love, but men used the laws to enforce their will on others. Instead of allowing the people to follow God's will out of love, they demanded cruel penalties for disobedience and tried to force them to follow God out of fear. Christ came, and was given, to show them the truth and get them back on track, but they were blinded by anger, hate, ignorance, and their attachment to power over others. Instead of equality, they wanted superiority and nailed Christ to a cross. This act fulfilled prophecy and enabled the power to flow through to us.
Now we are in times much like the times when Christ lived, where the religious leaders of the day are trying to rule with an iron hand and have forgotten the love and truth that we have been given by example. The truth has been spread out through different cultures across the world and the spirit of love has been given freely for our battle against the spiritual darkness. We need only to turn on our inner lights and recognize that our light will wipe out the darkness. In the end, love will conquer all. To put it another way:
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Love, Hope, Peace, & Christ Be With You,
Cal-el
So, it is up to us what happens to us, and nobody & nothing (even our Selves) is to blame when something is going wrong. It is just a signal to start to act upon it.According to Universal Law - it is a sign that we did something wrong in the Past (incl. in our past incarnations), but here & now we've got an opportunity to fix it and we should be grateful for it, instead of crying like babies and do nothing waiting until a good Lord will step down to Earth and fix it for us.
In other way, not always must be something wrong in order to suffer - very often when situation is changing and no longer is serving any good to us, but we fail to spot early warnings but it is time to move on - some form of suffer occures to us - just to encourage us to do any move out of present situation. When we finaly did it - we can see that all this was good to us anyway. A QUESTION IS: HOW MANY OF US HAVE TAKEN A LESSON FROM IT AND APPLIED INTO OUR DAILY PRACTICE?
And, what is all the power worth without AWARNESS?
Look in to the World and see by your Self.
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Love, Hope, Peace, & Christ Be With You,
Cal-el
I have been without a home,I have been without money,I have been without food,I have been without shoes!
But never have I been without love,faith or hope.
...so, when it's there, I have no explanation for it.
God and I are in a rowboat. Ideally, he has the rudder, and I the oars. If I REALLY want to, he doesn't mind letting me steer the boat for a while. But God AIN'T rowing!
Maybe what strength I have only comes from rowing in a big circle long enough that I'm willing to ask him to steer again.
Through a long period of time there was mental, emotional and control abuses. Digging deep within I sought my inner being. There I found a strong spirituality and connection to all that is. I now feel strong in knowing God has the world in order for me and everyone else.
God bless, J
This is a solution to all suffering.
Just loving and trusting in God... and.. having my feet firmly on the ground.
Being grounded and having inner peace.. I believe that my inner peace ... has given me enormous amounts of strength.
Once you have inner peace its easy to see clearly and to remain strong.
Believe in yourself and your instincts... remember that God always is a patient God... hmmm... Ive learned to look before I leap... this is a blessing 
what gives me strength is to know that what ever I do ,(which Is walking the right path )I know I have spirit leading me to choose which way to go. I trust on the creator to send the right spirit .and my love for life and to continue on this earth to do for other's ,so that when my time is here I will go knowing I did the best I could to please the Creator.AHO
Dear Subhadra and other Care2Guru Group Members,
We care and find time to love others, except to our own "Atman" .... consciousness .... God .... Krishna! Your latest decision is your purest inner call i.e. Krishna's call. You sit calm, composed with your eyes close, you can listen to your own inner voice, just like the sound of Krishna's flute. You have noticed that flute has nothing inside. Inside are empty and there are wholes outside. That makes the sound - music as it is and it can touch the inner code of any one including the most poisonous cobra.
Henceforth you will start loving your "Self" i.e. "Su". Henceforth "Su" is "bhadra" (safe) within you. Keep safe Subhara, the most invaluable, immeasurable and inexplainable. The experiences will be purely your own. You won't yourself know of your change. Others will start noticing it and many will get attracted to you and that is like the Magnet attracts the iron metal peace and hold it tight without leaving it.
You go in search of God ... Krishna. He will make you wait, slowly open your "bodha" and make you realize that you are not different from Him and He is you. Slowly and steadily experience these to believe it. Living environment, taking "satwik" food only and leading a simple life and high thinking, chanting hymns praising the Lord i.e. your "Self" you will reach the Bliss - the inseperable unity with the Brahman, just like the water drop joins ocean. The water drop will eventually fail to understand as to which drop it was as it lost its separate identitiy.
Sue to Subhadra the metamorphosis is the wonder of "Su".
Bhadram Surakshitam,
Kshetram Samrakshanam,
Su darshanam Anandam,
Anandam Paramanandam.
Early this week I had the privilege of visiting some of the ancient temples of Kerala viz. Sri Mukunda at Thirunavaya on the banks of the River "Bharathapuzha" and "Guruvayur" temples. I had no pre-plans to go. But everything happened on its own.
When the inner call comes to join Him and be inseperably one with the Supreme, nobody knows. Be prepared for it all members of the group. May be a simple word from Subhadras messages or that of Sarvo or that of anyone else or a simple sound of Nature as the Mantra touches your innercode and that makes the connectivity possible. You have then "Su" 'darshanam' and "Su" 'bhadram'. Whenever you have this do let the group know as Subhadra has done as her Divine Duty!
If everyone attain "Su" 'darshan' and "Su" 'bharam' is a reality, the energy created will be so powerful and wonderful and all problems of world today including "Global Warming" will wither away. Experience this to believe it.
Let this be the challenge of this "New Millennium". Face this challenge. Don't run away from it. That is our Dharma - our Divine Duty. What else Srimad Bhagavad Gita toeaches mankind?
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare!
Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Ram Hare Hare!!
Yours as ever in Divine Connectivity,
Love
Ram
Hugs
Shane, I have to agree with you, metal music does give me strength, if only temporary, it does set the mood. I can vent anger and frustration just by listening, and then go on much stronger than before.
And I love your analogy about the golf putt. I need to try to remember to always try to overshoot the hole. Great advice.
Of course family and friends help too, along with God.
Other than those, I simply remind myself that as long as I'm still breathing, there's hope, there's possibility. We are all given a life. If you give up on it, then that's it, there's no chance left, but, even if you've been dealt the worst hand imaginable, there's no telling what can happen if you stay in the game.
It's like a golf putt: Which is better, to overshoot the hole, to come up short of it, or to never bother putting at all? The answer is simple: over shooting is best, because at least it has the oppurtunity to go in. 2nd place goes to coming up short, because maybe a gust of wind will carry it in. (still the odds are bad, if you don't commit to the action) But, to not even try, is the equation for certain failure.
Nature always seems to do the trick to reset my need to be strong. Connecting to Life as it just stands there with no hassle and only spread out the leaves to catch the sun. As I breath in Life I realise that a tree doesn't need so much strength to grow, but more patience to grow strong. In time it will bear fruits. It only has to be nourished with the right food, water and sunlight and in death the tree becomes the food for the rest of the forest, becomming One again.
When I walk through nature and make the connection with the One in silence, I do not need to feel strong. I AM. Even in my down moments. The fruit will come if the tree is ready.
So.. if you love God you give your life up to him entirely..
this includes not masturbating hehe.. and not indulging in sex!
As I quoted an old friend of mine in another thread.. My body is a temple not an amusement park.
Amusement parks have hot dogs and junk food and kissing booths? .. lol but Temples would have Vege foods and you wouldn't masturbate in a temple unless you were a real sicko
Anyway, giving my life to God.. knowing God I have no fear as when your God's child then he sees what you need and what you do not need and he sees where you are and helps you when you call out for him.
Without God I would be very weak. God is my strength, my heart is my strength and God lives in my heart.
Sarvo's Ojas Shakti is very real everyone, if you don't indulge in sex and masturbation then you become very strong. This is because your sexual hormones and sperm etc (for women too not just men) this all comes from your bone marrow. Your life's essence is being wasted, when you leave this alone it all goes into concentrated spiritual knowledge in your brain instead. So men LITERALLY are thinking with their dicks and women with their sexual organs when indulging in sex, we all could be much brighter healthier people.
All my strength is due to your strength. You showed me the way and gave me strength to move. Deeply intoxicated with my journey, I move on by your grace.
I find strength in knowing that out of all the women in the entire world, my children chose me, that i was the only one that could give them exactly what they required in this life time.
What a privelege!!
Thanks Sarvo, This is so good, it bears repeating. That's why you're the Guru.
I'm going to tape it to my forehead so I never forget. 
There's a particle of energy in your heart brighter than the sun. No one has to give you strength. Krishna has already given you nearly unlimited strength and power. He's waiting for you to use it in His service. Then you'll see.
I am amazed at how much strength I'm getting from doing impromptu seminars on how to overcome nocturnal emmissions and stop masturbation.
Meanwhile ... back to this post from way back in April. People are so thoroughly indoctrinated that no one can even deal with this issue at all. I find that very interesting.
April 03, 2007 10:08 PM
I am amazed at how much strength I'm getting from doing impromptu seminars on how to overcome nocturnal emmissions and stop masturbation.
April 03, 2007 10:08 PM
I am amazed at how much strength I'm getting from doing impromptu seminars on how to overcome nocturnal emmissions and stop masturbation.
The Lord of all strength and vigour, is saying comfortingly, "O human beings, don't be afraid, the fogs are fast disappearing." In the stars, moon and other planets life is dancing. There is no fear, the Lord of light has come.
What gives me strength? My strength is depended upon how much united is my individual spirit with the universal spirit of God. Yoga is a method by which one can develop one's inherent powers in a balanaced manner i.e. the means for uniting the individual spirit with the universal spirit of God.
Strength of a chain is equivalent to the strength of the weakest of its links. This is common sense and arithmatical sense. Isn't it?
One's physical body is constituted of cells and each cell's strength depends upon how much 'Prana Vayu' reach to it or get oxygenated. Once all cells are equally oxygenated we have the maximum strength by getting natural immunity and no germs of any diseases can affect us. In another way one's own individual spirit gets cent percent connected to the universal spirit of God.
This is what is achieved through Yoga meaning 'yoke' i.e. the means for uniting the individual spirit with the universal spirit of God.
Sages and seers chant the following mantra:
Sarveshaam swastir bhavatu,
Sarveshaam shaantir bhavatu,
Sarvesham purnam bhavatu,
Sarveshaam mangalam Bhavatu.
Meaning thereby goodwill unto all, peace unto all, perfection unto all and prosperity unto all. They new the strength of universe and this life itself is depended upon everyone's health/goodwill, peace and perfection i.e. connectivity of individual spirit with the universal spirit of God.
I have given my thoughts as above to have a little idea as to what gives each one of us strength.
I would love to get further enlightened on it from so many Divine Souls who are members of this group Care2Guru.
Before concluding this message I would love to quote what Adi Sankara sang in his famous Bhaja Govindam as follows:
Pranayam pratyaharam
Nityanityavivekavicaram
Japyasameta sandhividhanam
Kurvavadhanam mahadavadhanam.
Meaning thereby that the control of all activities (of life's manifestations in you) the sense-withdrawal (from their respective sense-objects), the reflection (consisting of discrimination between the permanent and the impermanent) along with japa and the practice of reaching the total inner-silence (samadhi) - these, perform with care....with great care.
Thats a hard question to answer for myself cause i don't really know the answer. You see i believe everyone has a different way on having faith in god, i have faith in my own way. But i also have faith in myself and i tell myself from time to time that i have to be strong for what comes down my path.
Every time i got hurt in the past, it hurt. But now i realized how much insight i have gathered from it. I also had a hard life where i had to start up my career life in my early 20's, and i'm finally getting to where i want to go from there. I use to smoke, but when i met my boyfriend he made me see the things that smoking does to you and i have quit smoking for two years now, proud that i did.
So i believe everything has a purpose in,life. I believe Friends and Family are great to give you strength, but i would say that my faith in myself has to be stronger. I am going to start mediating very soon as well. My strength also comes from the love i have for animals and nature.
Those little everyday sights and sounds that send me proof of life and make me smile or giggle... that's what gives me the strength to carry on when in doubt...
Like the groundhog that swims in the lake right outside my house... or the geese chasing eachother... or a mom and baby sharing a moment...
these types of little things that we see every single day... when actually noticing them i feel a wave of strength....
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...and of course, she's right. The holy name can give us more strength than anything else.
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
Be great my your meditation (ideation), service and sacrifice.
What else can give your strength that not goes away?
I am actually exhausted right now, because of noisy vampire-lifestyle,
neighbors keeping me up all night..
But besides that, I would say faith and self control, keep me sane and give
me strength. My husband gives me strength, though I am the motherly one.
I haven't been chanting as much as I used to, but I hope that will change.
That's all for now.
The Dharma for humans is different than the dharma of animals. Longing for the Great is our characteristic. Sleeping, eating, reproducing is animal dharma. Our inner strength is depending if we are following our Dharma or not. If people who are not following moral principles, then they are bound to degenerate in strength. If you know for sure that what you are doing is right things, in a universal aspect, then you will always feel inspiration. It is inspiration that gives you strength. If people are not feeling any inner inspiration with what they are doing, then they are not following moral principles very strictly. We are living here on the earth to do something good. If we are not doing any thing for the universal welfare, why should God give us any strength?
As example, if you are fully established in satya, (the use of every words for universal welfare) then your every word you speak will come truth.
All the different aspect of moral principles will give you tremendous strength if you are fully following them.
Look on this link to get a sort view of these principles. http://www.proutworld.org/ideology/leadership/yamniyam.htm
I think the principle that is making us most weak in this capitalistic time is Aparigraha, It involves the non-acceptance of such amenities and comforts of life as are superfluous for the preservation of the physical existence.
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This discussion is really interesting! I feel like I gain strength from knowing that the only attitude I can consistently influence is my own. Every day, I can paint my day positive or negative by the choices I make and the reactions I allow myself to have. If I don't like what's going on, I try to marshal some inner resources to change it.
That still seems odd to me as an activist! I think I used to blame other people a lot when things happened that I didn't like. I am pretty much always actively trying to change people's perceptions about issues - environment, human rights, etc. But I try to keep in mind that my own approach is truly important: people don't tend to react positively to someone who is being negative, for example. Seeing the humanity in people with whom I disagree makes a big difference. I believe that gives me strength for good.
Suffering is my strength. All struggle I am going trough Is the thing that will establish me in a higher level.
All my weakness is my strength, which is the instrument that makes me humble and able to see that I am nothing by my own grace. He is my tremendous strength,
My cleverness and great muscles that I thought was my strength, is just my weakness, that make me forget where the real strength is coming from. So our definitions of strength and perfection is not the same has His definitions. For Him everything is going in a perfect way toward the establishment of Dharma on the Whole Univerce.
Do we really want more strength and power? If we are utilizing the power we get for the best for the universal welfare, then we can ask for more. Otherwise, if we are using it for our own ego, and then it will only be our downfall. Anyway, He will always give you what you need. It is one of the human wants that human beings are never satisfied with finite strength. We are never satisfied with something limited
When you know that your strength is not yours, but His, who is unlimited and you are just His instrument, then you will really feel strong. He will give you tremendous strength, because His mission is a big task.
But when we think we should have, or we deserve more strength and things, then we feel frustrated. But if we know that we have more strength and things then we deserve then you feel satisfied and strong. What more do we need that that we are doing the right thing and that we are loved by Him? Our mental, physical, and spiritual strength and capacity will also accelerate tremendous by this realization. It can bring human existence to a totally different level of life with a few decades.
When we take away the umbrella of ego we have over our head then we will see that the bliss and strength will rain down over us.
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Deb, You are amazing. Sarvo always said that the creme de la creme ends up on Care2Guru. You have proved him right.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower,
But only so an hour.
As leaf goes down to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief.
As dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
~Robert Frost.
Dear Virginia~
Your post really has inspired me. I have just moved myself and children into a new home and am beginning the process shortly of divorce. I too feel some anger at my soon to be ex-husband, however I do want to be friends with him someday I hope. We get along now, but his lies and betrayal and bad moods, have made it difficult to trust him in any way.
I do know that Love is the only healer! Forgiveness of ourself first so that we may forgive others too! Healing Grace!~
Peace~love and light to all!
God bless you Michael and anyone going through relationship changes!
A divorce, seperation, or loss of any kind requires a grieving process. For some it is relatively painless and for others it is a long drawn out tumultuous affair.
In the preliminary stages of the divorce, there was some anger but I decided no matter how my partner behaved I was going to one day be his friend. If the shoe was on the other foot I would hope to be treated with respect and love no matter what.
Today, my ex and I are friends. He comes to me for support, although I am in a new relationship. My new partner accepted my relationship with my ex. It took some time to find the beautiful person that would accept my way of life. Like any endeavour it requires time and lots of patience.
During the entire process, I relied on God's love and guidance to pull me through. He brought many people into my life at the right time to support me. Now I am happy and healthy, despite the loss of a marriage, I have gained a new friend - my ex.
Michael, I am happy that you are comfortable talking to us. None of Gods children should ever walk alone.
Hopefully, we can make your journey peaceful, and filled with the love of the Care2 community.
Peace & Love
Virginia
I think, for me it is seeing, truly seeing the simple things.
Things that for years I forgot to observe.
The change in seasons, a new flower, the shape of clouds,
An unknown bird at my feeder.
I pause now, and give thanks, I pause now and enjoy
I am reborn, with renewed sight as each day I try to
find one new thing I hadn't seen the day before
Simple things of nature now give me great joy.
And then sharing those things with those around me
Also to make more eye contact with those I come in contact with
Finding something to compliment them about
Simple things
then watching their frowns, and hurried-ness, seeing them pause, and smiling
Showing them the beauty around them
I think we live in such a society that we forget to breathe,
We forget to pause
We forget to praise....
we live in a land of lonely people, who need a smile, a nod, a friend
It doesn't take much to share a moment
And in this
I am so rewarded...and blessed
and in turn, receive strength... to carry on
*sheri*
From the Introduction to the Bhagavad-gita As It Is by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
"Out of so many human beings who are suffering, there are a few who are actually inquiring about their position, as to what they are, why they are put into this awkward position and so on. Unless one is awakened to this position of questioning his suffering, unless he realizes that he doesn’t want suffering but rather wants to make a solution to all sufferings, then one is not to be considered a perfect human being. Humanity begins when this sort of inquiry is awakened in one’s mind."
This is the passage that opened my eyes. You can read more at http://www.asitis.com/
You may be right. Though it certainly does not feel fortunate. It is not the material loss, rather the emotional loss; the relationship, my friends,and spending another year with the most negatively critical person in my life. (I miss the cat too.) I sometimes wonder about my ability to make it through the "rebuilding" with out the close emotional support I used to have.
Dear Subhadra,
Sending you prayers filled with light and love. 
I try to always surrender all to God, however this is not always that easy! I know we are "Soul" living in this human body, so we are always so protected and we are eternal beings; yet as a human being, this school of life is not an easy test to pass!
Love is what I resonate with and compassion for all beings. When I need strength ( like today!) I will focus all my energy at my third eye and meditate as deeply as I can and then play some healing chants. I will also make sure that I laugh today!! Smiles and laughter are so healing and invigorating for our immune system. I am presently beginning the divorce process after being married almost 14 years. I feel a bit overwhelmed being a single Mom again, however I also feel like I have closed one door that should have been closed years ago, and opened a new door to a fresh start and new beginning.....
I do not have any absolute answer, yet I know the absolute answer to any question any of us has lies within us through our Divine God of Love!!
Thanks Dorothy for the links to the songs, I will listen to them.
You cannot currently send a star to Dorothy because you have done so within the last week.
Sorry For the Double post, but here is some of the Music that I mentioned, because some of it is a bit unknown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g_JU2WBtSE - Why They Call It Falling?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSm19ETQvg - Lessons Learned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKk6NUKBtAc - The Night Before (Life Goes On)
Just ignore the video, I'm just posting them for the song.
Music, definatly. I know a lot of people don't like it, but I find that I like some country songs - mostly Carrie Underwood's songs: Lessons Learned, The Night Before (Life Goes On), Jesus Take the Wheel, I ain't in Chehcota AnyMore, and Don't Forget To Remember Me. I also like Lee Ann Womack's songs: Why They Call It Falling?, Little Past Little Rock, Mendicino County Line, I Hope You Dance, and Something Worth Leaving Behind.
My Animals, they just comfort me by not talking back, and always seeming to understand you. Lightning especially gives me strenght because if he can make it, I can too. Lightning is my pet rooster who was hatched with only one leg, we thought he wasn't going to live, but he manages and is over 1 year now..
Michael,
I'm really late in responding to your post, but I hope you do read this. You seem apprehensive about your current position of "starting over" but you must realize that you are right now one of the most fortunate people on this planet. The fact that your former material ties are now gone is evidence of the impermanence of this material world and everything in it. You now have been given the greatest opportunity to rebuild on an much more solid foundation, one that will last. Your soul and God are the only two things that last, see if they can find each other.
Brenda, you are so right.
The greatest power in the world is love. And the greatest love of all is love of God.
I am continually encouraged and uplifted by the most wonderful people, especially those of you that care to share your thoughts here. Francis, you have found that spark of God within your own heart, and Virginia you find Him everywhere. You are very special people.
This is true strength, knowing God. No matter what, He will always be there, all you have to do is call.....
There are times I like to sit in a quiet, peaceful sunny location near a stream, or in my room with soft music, candles and meditate.
All the anxieties are shed gradually, and I am left refreshed and at peace. The problems that seemed monumental before are slowly eroded to a mole hill. Eventually, I realize that what happened to me was my destiny.
God put me here to learn and grow or evolve until I reach a point where he will decide that I am ready to join him. No matter how painful the experience may be I feel it could have been worse, especially, if He wasn't there to guide me.
With love and patience He created so many wonderful living being that He placed in the universe for each of us. If you open your heart then you will see them in a butterfly, the rainbow, or the smile of a stranger. He created a variety of things, in the hopes that at least one will make us happy, loved and a part a big family, so that we are never alone.
It is all of his creations that give me strength. Sharing my life with the friends of the Care2 Community give my strength.
Blessings to all of you!
Virginia
So what do you do when you need strength? What gives you the power to accomplish your goals?
I gather my thoughts & take them to my altar wherne I turn them over to the Goddesses for guidance. I assume nothing and know that whatever lays in front of me is there for a reason. What I need to do is know what is expected of me (I don't need to know the why of the question, all that is my knowledge to know is what to do.) I have learned that there is inner strength that I must listen to ~ and a guiding hand.
Remaining in the presence of the Lord... The more He occupies my undivided attention, the stronger, more courageous, and happy I am.
With a daily sadhana, my peaceful heart (clear emotional field), as well as a discipline to ply my mind with - these just add up to good spiritual hygiene... A fertile ground for faith.
Faith = Strength
Hare Krishna
OM Shanti
I know exactly how you feel! But you can go on if you have faith....in whatever.
For me, I have my God and myself, my family (although they are distant) and my fabulous animals!
My faith in myself and the universe give me strength, I trust that the agreements I made are no more or no less than I can cope with and knowing and trusting this gives me the strength to get through any bad patches.
Pretty soon, I am going to have a major lifestyle change. It's a very good thing though. But sometimes the things that are the best for us are the hardest things to accomplish because the rewards are the greatest. So I am summoning up as much strength as I can to get me through this transition. I am doing this by prayer and chanting. Private time with God, He's keeping me motivated and focused.
So what do you do when you need strength? What gives you the power to accomplish your goals?
