...On the riverbank, sitting cross-legged, Shyamsunder rocked slowly back and forth."It was in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, January 1967. My friends and I had put together this big rock and roll dance at the Avalon Ballroom. We called it Mantra Rock Dance. Everyone was there to welcome 'The Swami' to the West Coast - the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Quicksilver and Moby Grape, they all played. Even Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey were there. All the hippie heroes came." Shyamsunder became excited and his body rocked faster. "Picture this scene. The whole place is pulsating with strobe lights and rock and roll, packed with wild, long-haired kids, most of them on acid. Then, about midnight, Srila Prabhupada walks quietly onto the dark stage and sits down cross-legged on an elevated seat. The place falls silent. Srila Prabhupada begins humbly chanting the Hare Krishna mantra. A spotlight finally locates him, and gradu...
It's best to say I don't know! Still if you want to talk of knowledge or confidence; does it not mean that you have to be confident? Confidence in something, but it is remaining in the state of confidence, free from competition or one-upmanship.
ReplyDeleteDevotee: In the books it is stated that Bhagavan is an ocean of Mercy. Is it a fact? Ramana: Ocean? An ocean (sagara) has a limit, a boundary (or coastline) But the Krupa of Bhagavan has no such limits. It is limitless. It knows no bounds.
ReplyDeleteSunyayogi, It's interesting having an interest in both Ramana Maharshi and Osho. Ramana totally lived the teaching. Osho on the other hand talked the talk but lost his way, bogged down in materialism and avarice.
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