Namaste,
Gandhi faced the fierce Indian mountain worriers and asked them, Why
are you afraid?
They said, What? We are the fiercest worriers in the world; we are
not afraid of anything.
Gandhi said, Why all those guns and straps of ammunition around your
body? I am not afraid of anything. That's why I don't need the guns.
Gandhi won them over and they were the most courageous fighters for
non-violence.
Perhaps there were times when the good and evil could be separated by
groups of people and Avatars like Rama and Krishna came and slew them.
But, in these times, the evil is within each one person even within
the so called good ones. And, the Gita( see Yogananda's Translation ),
for these times especially, is best interpreted in term of the
psychology of the mind.
Amma says the mind is the Kurushetra( field of battle ). And says,
that we are headed for an abyss and due to the unbridled selfishness
it is possible that the human race might not survive.
So, perhaps there is a time to kill like Rama and Krishna did and
perhaps there is a time to die like Gandhi, King, Jesus, and even
Krishna allowed himself to be shot by an arrow and before that all his
people drowned in the sea. Not sure how Rama left the body. When the
curtain is drawn, the play is over.
It is the nature of the mind which needs to be understood and
conquered. Quoting MMY blindly will not lead to your own Awakening.
Good book to read on the nature of mind:
Awaken Children Vol 7 teachings of Mata Amritanandamayi. Reading the
book will not be enough; observing the nature of one's own mind and
some inquiry are needed besides whatever other spiritual practices you do.
This is my 2cents, my opinion. Your opinion may be different.
Om santi,
anatol
PS ~
from below ...make no mistake about it, God knows what is good and
what is evil!!
my comment: do you?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Magoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams
willytex@ wrote:
amarnath wrote:
i feel what America needs right now is a 1,000 Gandhis,
Maybe what America needs right now are 2,000 Arjunas. In my opinion,
we don't need any more pacifistic Gandhis right now. Because of
extreme pacifism the Muslims raped and plundered India, cutting off
the heads of the meditating Buddhists. I'm not in favor of that -
people should fight for their self-defense.
Read the Bhagavad Gita: Lord Krishna said - stand up and fight.
Right on Willy...one should fight, not only the internal enemies of
the soul, but the external enemies of Truth, which is evil. Soldiers
who do this are heros, kshatriyas!
Peace Pilgrims and a US Department of Peace
America's peace keepers and brain wave coherence generators! The
Maharishi's formula is to bring military power in alliance with the
invincible power of Natural Law.
to turn things around for America;
Fort Bliss - America's Homeland Security. The purpose of the military
is to keep war from happening or to end it quickly if it does
happen. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
http://www.invincibleamerica.org/
perhaps, it's too late.
Maybe too late to protect Europe - the enemy is already storming the
gates. But it's not too late for America - we can still surge forward,
like Arjuna in the battle of Kurukshetra, and kill the enemy before
they strike us first.
According to Yogananda Ghandi was NOT a pacifist. Also Yogananda says:
Those who enter the portals of death while engaged in righteous
battle to banish any kind of evil, fall asleep on the soft down of
meritorious inner soul-satisfaction and are lifted in glory to the
astral heaven...make no mistake about it, God knows what is good and
what is evil!!
