Newsletter #4, by Kate (29 Apr, 2012)

Hi all,

Jai Baba Swami!

Here is the meditation newsletter for this week. I hope it provides some food for thought 🙂

Warm wishes,
Kate
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Samarpan Online Group Meditation Newsletter

1. FOCUS for the week – Attain Liberation in Collectivity

The focus for the week is from Samarpan Yog of the Himalayas. When I first read this section I found it to be very powerful and have always remembered it. Swamiji is feeding ants pieces of bananas and has the following reflection:
“I was happy with their sincerity towards the task. Sometimes even a small ant would drag a piece that was several times larger than its own size. It would try constantly and would carry on with the task with great commitment and hard work. This then became a great attraction to me; I would watch the ants and I would observe them but until today I haven’t seen any ant eating those pieces.

I have only ever seen them storing them. There was an amazing mechanism of organisation amongst them. I have never seen them fighting.

On their return journey they would touch their mouth to that of the arriving ants and they seemed to pass on some message and then continue moving. There was some transmission between them and I would see an amazing tool of conversation amongst them. I felt at that time that any organisational structure should be like that of these ants. Perhaps if every weak individual, every poor person, every support-less person who has no one to depend on, a person who is always busy with too many thoughts – all get together and understand first of all that they are all weak people in society who are distressed, then they will always remember that collective organisation can make them strong. They’ll realise that they are of no use by themselves and staying together is a necessity for them. All weak people in society can come together through the power of this organisation.

Similarly one should leave alone those people in society who have found Paramatma or those who don’t want to reach Paramatma at all, and form an organization of such people who have the desire to find Paramatma but don’t know how to. These are people who themselves don’t possess the physical or mental state to do so. Such people should first realise their weakened state and come together and form a good organisation for themselves. Then they will be able to attain Liberation in collectivity because their ego that ‘I can attain Liberation on my own’ will not be present in them; the ego that ‘I can do meditation’ won’t be there because they’ll realise that they can’t do anything alone.

When they realise this, they’ll start using words which are full of collectivity like – ‘we’ are meditating, ‘we’ desire Liberation, and they’ll attain Liberation in collectivity. Weak people are stronger when they are organised because they don’t have any ego, and they are aware that the organisation only is their strength.

They know that the organisation is a necessity for them. If they wish to move forward in the spiritual field, they’ll need to make organized efforts. The organized efforts of these people will bestow collectivity”  (pp., 341-343)

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