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Manipura
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 Posted - Oct 25 2005 : 6:54:03 PM
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| Is nostalgia (or melancholy) simply misplaced bhakti? |
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - Oct 26 2005 : 01:01:22 AM
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EVERYTHING is misplaced bhakti.
Corollary: Taking sexual energy upwards isn't sublimation of sexuality; taking it downward (i.e. lust) is sublimation of divinity. This is provable. We all know that sex is rarely quite all we'd hoped for (is Hugh Hefner a happy man?). The bliss of God realization (even just a touch of it) is very very not disappointing, and it never gets old ever. It is obviously the Real Thing we'd previously been looking for (in all the wrong places....). |
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - Oct 26 2005 : 01:23:44 AM
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It's a very valid (though not at all AYP) practice, btw, to keep taking every yearning, every craving, every emotion, every action, toward God (or whatever you want to call it..."God" is a loaded word, I know!) by making it bhakti.
If someone cuts you off while driving and your heart pounds, make it bhakti. If you stub your toe, make it bhakti. Here's a good one for guys (maybe women, too, I can't speak to that): if you see a beautiful woman whose presence gets you all hot and bothered, you will be amazed at how easy and natural it is to transform/channel/elevate that feeling into bhakti. In time, you'll see that it was God in the beauty that was turning you on to begin with. Sounds nutty, I know, but it's true. And if you can reach that point of understanding, that's a good place to really start stripping off delusion......a lot of other things become clear.......
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