Sunyata on Guruphiliac
Recently, this unassuming and unworthy blog was thrust into the limelight by the kind attention of Jody"Guruphiliac" Radzik. Well, he was generous enough to think that we (i mean "I" really, but i love the way he calls himself "we")
have had a major transformation. Well, as truth has it, we haven’t, we are scarecly anymore advanced on Kalki Bhagavan’s enlightenment evolutionary scale of 1000, than his (Jody’s) imaginary dog’s posterior.
But we can’t resist declaring from the rooftop that the bhakti of our Beloved Lord has removed all the rancour against the one we previously ranted against here quite an bit. Completely, totally, no question of ever going back on it.
Which is not to say that things were right there. That we condone them. (Today we understand by what unethical means "experiences" were triggered in us and others close to us, including family members, some of those unethical techniques rather long-lasting, unfortunately). We have spoken, it was recorded by others, posted around, quoted in several places, so our silence today doesn’t make a difference. It is just that the internal struggle against it, the asking God, "Why did it have to happen with me?" - all that is gone. I understand why God sent me there, I thank Him for pulling me out fast, I thank God for clearing my mind so that i could recognized, accept and fall at the feet of my Beloved Sadguru.
There is such a deep need in the bhakta to love everyone, to see his Lord in everyone, that one has to wash the resentment out of one’s mind, and it is this desperation caused out of (if i may say, sincere) love for the Guru that helped us to overcome the rancour and sense of hurt and violation of one’s self. Plus the loving warmth of the Guru’s Feet which helped us forget those whom we felt had wronged us.
Jody-ji does call us "optimistic" at a later stage. We would say we are worse than optimistic, we are naive, totally. Even after one ‘bad’ experience. What can we do, having fallen into the Feet of the glorious Arunachala ; what can we possibly do but love everyone and everything.
Perhaps Jody will understand our feelings, being a bhakta himself, or perhaps he will mock us and our Beloved; either way we will remember that he is the same soul as us.
i see you’ve come to rest within yourself.
detached from desire and later aversion to the Guru.
Comment by om — October 21, 2006 @ 5:20 am
When you know that the mocker and the mocked at just are, let us all just be…
Comment by gamer555 — November 7, 2006 @ 5:59 pm
When you know that the mocker and the mocked at just are, let us all just be…
Comment by gamer555 — November 7, 2006 @ 6:02 pm
Jody has already mocked Ramana on his Guruphiliac blog as a “Ramana Hearted Hitler” and listed him under the category “Whackadoo Guru’s”. Now you and others may allow Jody to bash Ramana as he pleases and feign forgiveness and “bhakti” for him, but I do not.
The truth of the matter is that Jody is a hypocrite. He systematically bashes gurus yet professes to have a guru himself. Even worse, Jody claims he is self-realized and ranks guru’s according to their drug use (for example, saying that Adi Da went up “50 points” in his book for using marijuana).
Don’t be afraid to speak the truth. Ramana is one of India’s most illustrious saints and neither Jody Radzik, his guru or his philosophy even remotely compare to Ramana’s. Period.
Comment by Joe108 — February 28, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
Dear Joe108,
I do know who Ramana is.
No one compares even remotely with Ramana.
Your conclusions on my “feigned forgiveness and bhakti” are misplaced. The forgiveness i speak of is of a previous ‘guru’.
Thanks for you comments.
In Bhagavan.
Comment by Administrator — March 1, 2007 @ 5:15 am