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Bhaskar
I am not worthy to be a Guru. I admire your repertoire of knowledge and we are all seekers and let us continue to seek ever more vigorously in the new year. Love and blessings to you and your family.
posted by
DEEPANANDA
on January 2, 2007 at 9:50 PM
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1065end
A very Happy New Year to you full of divine blessing.+
posted by
DEEPANANDA
on January 2, 2007 at 9:47 PM
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Deepananda
All I can say about you is that you are my Guru. I'll keep pestering you for many things that I need to understand from someone like you. Do Bless me.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on January 2, 2007 at 11:12 AM
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Happy New year
posted by
KING_HEARTS
on December 31, 2006 at 9:23 PM
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star4you
Thank you for your appreciation
posted by
DEEPANANDA
on December 31, 2006 at 12:50 AM
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Moonspirit
Thank you for your observation and I agree with you on what you say. If we examine the reason for this postures both in the west and the east, it is because concept and methodology are not properly understood. For example in the Gospel of Thomas, the Naga sadhu and Thirthankara tradition nakedness is misunderstood for physical nakedness but the real meaning is Zen concept of emptying oneself. This is the reason that eastern tradition has heavily depended on the Guru.
posted by
DEEPANANDA
on December 31, 2006 at 12:49 AM
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very nice, meaningful
posted by
star4sky5
on December 30, 2006 at 7:25 PM
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Deepananda, I think perhaps Swadhyaya is particularly difficult for the Western mind - oriented as it towards the outer, critical analysis (in the negative sense of the term), rationalization, and dissecting and categorizing. The inner world is largely an unknown territory. Western psychology takes the negative mental states of man - anger, lust, greed, pride, etc., etc. as 'natural' and even desirable. Interestingly enough, it was Socrates and other Greeks who said "know thyself." One would think the concept of Swadhyaya would not be so foreign to us. Yet, I know a number of Indian bhaktas. One said to me one day, you understand yourself so well - we Indians don't spend any time in introspection. Go figure. (When one's path is devotion, everything else becomes irrelevant and is eventually washed away by the relentless waves of the Ocean of Love.) MoonSpirit 
posted by
syzygy
on December 30, 2006 at 8:08 AM
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Happy New Year....
....blessings to you as well, my friend..
posted by
telemachus
on December 29, 2006 at 10:10 PM
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Odysseus
Thank you for your appreciation.
I wish you a very Happy New year full of Divine blessing. 
posted by
DEEPANANDA
on December 29, 2006 at 10:06 PM
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Deepananda…..insightful post
…it’s about becoming that which we are…very interesting.
posted by
telemachus
on December 29, 2006 at 9:59 PM
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