Graceful Gangaji at Kaudiyala ~*~ The Tent Retreat ~*~

 

Sri Suneet Joshiji

                                            See the Divine Being in the Fire!! Shaktanand!!

...Just a ten min. walk down the mountain to this quiet beach by the Ganga.
Om!

Bal Yogi Sripadji and Alice Boner

 

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      To prepare one for any future stories, unusual tales if you 
will, of Baba Sripadji this one event shared with me very 
recently by Swami Jnananandaji must be kept in mind. 
      Swamiji said, ' Once when Sripadji was a very young Sadhu 
we were in Banaras sitting with Alice Boner, (Alice Boner,1889-1981,
was a Swiss artist and scholar of Indian art who had made Varanasi her home
from 1936 to 1978.) She asked Sripadji, 'What kind of Sadhu are you?"
 He casually pointed down the street and said, "See that dog there
walking with his master, he is a 'regular dog'. Now see that one 
over there, the street-dog, moving here and there, wherever and
whenever he likes.  He is an irregular dog! 
                                               I am an irregular sadhu!!"

      And this is what actually made Baba Sripadji so specially 
unique, heartfelt, inspiring and intense!   No matter which
form of God one adored he could connect with that individual
in a miraculous way touching the Soul!

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Swami Jnanananda Giri ~*~ Om ~*~ and...'The Book of Mirdad'

     "Yes, I walk daily into the nearby forest and back, it's about 10 kms, very
beautiful! There is a security guard at the entrance. I talk to the trees and
steal flowers that fall from them on the ground. People must think I'm mad!
( and he laughs!) One has to be a little mad otherwise it's a bit tough.  I'm
also a security guard, a spiritual security guard!"
    "I always remember the words of Mikhail Naimy in

         'The Book of Mirdad':

'Forgetting the world makes you a pilgrim.
Forgetting the next world makes you a saint.
Forgetting forgetting makes you complete.'

Om Om Om!"

 ~ Some words of yesterdays talk with Swamiji.

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   And here is my favorite quote from Mikhail Naimy's ~

The Book of Mirdad :
The strange story of a monastery
which was once called the Ark

"So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire across the
sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.
So speak as if the world entire were but a single ear intent on hearing
what you say. And so, in truth, it is.
Do as if your every deed were to recoil upon your heads.
                                                                                 And so, in truth it does.
So, wish as if you were the wish.  And so, in truth, you are.
So live as if your God Himself had need of you His life to live.
                                                                                 And so, in truth, He does."

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