My Spiritual Journey

KrsnaGuruji teaches me, letting go of the ego is the way to move ahead. During my childhood, my mother would say of my paternal grandmother, “She acts like she’s not smart, but she is.” Mom looked at this quality as a fault in my grandmother, but it was not until after Nana Helen’s passing that this quality would be appreciated. It was Nana’s grace that she always allowed the person sitting before her to shine. Certainly, she always made me feel that I was very smart and she would listen to me with great interest. She was not deceiving anyone, she was elevating them. She generously shined the spotlight on those sitting with her. Learning to keep your mouth shut, being humble and allowing someone else to shine takes patience, kindness and subordination of one’s ego. Cultivating these qualities is made easier when one knows that all achievements are by God’s Grace. Guruji explains that even in the giving of charity, the greatness is in the benefactor for having been there to rece

KrsnaGuruji teaches me not to accept limits. When the senses encounter an object, the mind begins to register its attributes, the intellect defines it, and then the mind makes judgements about the object. It is a very limited and narrow method of being in the world. There is a story told by Guruji of the frog in a well. The frog only knows the world from his narrow point of view and for him, the whole sky is only as big as the opening above. Likewise, years of self imposed restraints permitted just a narrow understanding of the world around me. Although ingrained in me, those restraints could not preclude the flow of Destiny and Grace that has landed me at the feet of my beloved Guruji. By His word, I know the world is an appearance. By His word, I know “God is.” Throughout my life, I have been dependent on my imagination to understand that which exceeded my intellect, but even the imagination is limited. Unlike material world knowledge, Spiritual knowledge, is innate.