Day 3: Giriraj Dandavat Parikram Musings
- Today woke up in felicitous anticipation to do parikrama
- The reason? Cause-less Grace in so far as Grace’s reasons are Her own and contained within the interiority of being (svarupa-shakti) and therefore ever mysterious to the deductions of a empirical self (ego, mind, senses)
- Still, while in the midst of namaskara, we mused that there is a joy in being allowed to offer obeisances
- One of our team —the one most enthuse for this experience compared to the apprehensive rest of us —fell a little sick and was unable to participate this morning
- We think ourselves doers in the world of nature which is a flagrant false egotism (and 3.27 BG); and this is all the more so in the world of Supranature where we exist , in a sense, as mere objects to be handled by that beatific world
- We aren’t the agent of bhakti (atah Sri Krsna namadi…) but at best an instrument to be use provided our seva unmukha fine tuning is on point
- If so, then we’re being allowed to offer obeisances, an opportunity rarely gifted
- Shea told me as we past a sadhu missing a hand, “I have all my limbs by Grace making it possible to offer obeisances. So why am I complaining. I should be grateful for the chance that is being gifted to me” Siddha also on the first day expressed how he immediately felt it impossible to do the dandavat parikram, but then thought, “I can at least offer today whatever is possible and I should be grateful for that.”
- Feeling a gratitude for such a divine dispensation, ie the privilege of being allowed, is certainly joyous
- The overflow of joy even expanded our 1hr commitment to a 2-hour obeisance-rapture
- I don’t imagine all days will be like this, but we are thankful for the felicitous and numinous now
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