Hari wrote:
I try to give you the tools by which you can determine what is wrong in your energy and how to right it. By increasing your awareness of your own energy, the energy of others, and what input is given you from the universe, your sensitivity can develop. This heightened state allows you to know what to eat and when, what to do and what not, even to the point of knowing who can help you and who not. When one is freed from the many misconceptions that were presented as absolute yet had little contact with the self which led to ‘dis-eased’ conditions, one can deeply relax and in that state of freedom from distortion, experience one’s naturally powerful and beautiful personal energy. When in full and conscious connection with our own energy one can contact higher beings and ultimately the Divinity.
That was indeed the most convincing answer regarding this issue, I ever heard. I thank you for that. It remindet me at a story I was reading ones. An old legend reports: A person is on the way to the land of his intense longing. It is a long and arduous journey. He is arriving at last at a broad river. He knows, over there at the other bank, is the land of magnificance - and he can hardly expect to go across.
He finds a ferryman, who is prepared to cross him over the river with his boat, as quickly as possible. "But" he says to him "you must leave your baggage here. I take only those along with me, without ballast." The traveller is very scared. For him it seems to be impossible, all the things he was accumulating, which he loves and considers to be vital or necessary in life, which he was tuging there with great effort, to just lay down and abandon, at the bank of the river.
"Everything?" the person is asking, hoping that he may can take at least something from his "possessions" with him. "I take only you" replys the ferryman seriously. "Make your decision."
It seems to me to be indeed so that one who is not able to drop balast, has it hard to undertake long and arduous journeys. And I think even more difficult it would become to embark on our last journey in life and to entrust us to the "ferryman" without reservations. My experience is that even now we must somehow learn in life to drop unnecesary ballast, would I say. Dear Hari I wonder, if this reflections of mine are of any value in ones life, what do you think?
Another memory of mine, from hearing your tapes, - Hari in St. Petersburg 12.12.1999
"All this visualisations, all this meditations are essential growth processes, purifying processes, for developing the "energy", purifying it, straingthening it, or what is this word...by high heat you purify gold, similarly by intense visualisations you purify energy, and when you gradually do this meditations and become clearer, you also become more freeer and you develop capacities, and I don´t just mean, like a kind of greater straingth, I mean capacities for gentleness, or peacefullness, or forgiveness, or tolerance, or mercy, or austerity, or renunciation, or whatever...that you didn´t have before. So meditation and visualisation, are an excelent way to contact, or learn to contact yourself. Is that OK? Did that help?"
...for me yes, and is of great help in my growing process of spiritual understanding and awareness in my life.