From: yoga4you <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:39 AM
Subject: [shivayoga] Re: D's 24 Gurus/RedinYoga
To: Shivayoga@yahoogroups.com
16. Fish, 17. Dancing-girl Pingala, 18.
Raven, 19. Child, 20. Maiden, 21. Serpent, 22. An arrow-maker, 23.
Spider and 24. Beetle.
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16. Fish teaches me of basic necessities and contentedness. It
teaches me of dangers of fishermen, and dangers in lores and lures,
and allure.
*17*. Dancing Girl & Pingala: my bday is 17th of april, 17 means lot
to me... Dancing has taught me freedom and transcendance. It is the
most natural form of Yoga, it has birthed yoga. Dancing girl teaches
me of worship of divine feminine, of shakti-yoga, of shift of age
back to that original form of worship leading to freedom and
transcendance. It has taught me of kundalini and snakes, of trance
and tratakam, it has taught me of HALF, and therefore WHOLE. It has
taught me of feminine, therefore masculine. It has taught of life
force, and vehicle of human body and its constituents.
18. Raven teaches me of death and transcendance, of opportunity, and
observance of signs.
19. The child teaches me of awe, wonder, innocence, and humility, of
importance of independance, the nature of dependance, and the
qualities of interdependance.
20. The Maiden has taught me of the coming of ages, the importance of
child, mother, and crone, of responsibility and work, and of lovers.
21. Serpent teaches me of ascention, of dance, of power, life-force,
of accuracy, of penetration, of fierceness, of ascetism.
22. An arrow maker teaches me of necessity of skill and precision, of
craft and construction, contructiveness, of targets and aim.
23. The Spider teaches me of weaving, of tantra. It teaches me of
power of creation, of weaving dreams and reality. The Spider teaches
me of patience, of generating, careful generation, of art and beauty.
The Spider teaches me of trappings, of webs of existence, and
articulations of great strength in delicate works. The spider teaches
me of spinning tales, of importance of stories, and veneration for
the tellers.
24. The Beetle teaches me of things time tested, of protectiveness
and portable shelter, need for strength of character, and therefore
flexibility. The Beetle teaches me of respect for ancient practices.
--- In Shivayoga@yahoogroups.com, adi_shakthi16 <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> 17. There was a DANCING GIRL named Pingala in the
> town of Videha. She was tired of looking for customers
> one night. She became hopeless. Then she was
> contented with what she had, and then had sound sleep. I
> have learnt from that fallen woman the lesson that the
> abandonment of hope leads to contentment.
>
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> 18. A RAVEN picked up a piece of flesh. It was pursued and beaten by
> other birds. It dropped the piece of flesh and attained
> peace and rest. From this I have learnt the lesson that
> a man in the world undergoes all sorts of troubles and miseries when
> he runs after sensual pleasures, and that he becomes as happy as the
> bird when The abandons the sensual pleasures.
>
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> 19. The CHILD who sucks milk is free from all cares, worries and
> anxieties, and is always cheerful. I have learnt the virtue
> of cheerfulness from the child.
>
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> 20. The parents of a MAIDEN had gone in search of a proper
> bridegroom for her. The girl was alone in the house. During
> the absence of the parents, a party of people came to the house to
> see her on a similar object in reference to an offer of marriage.
She
> received the party herself. She went inside to husk the paddy. While
> she was husking, the glass bangles on both hands made tremendous
> jingling noise. The wise girl reflected thus: "The party will
detect,
> by the noise of the bangles, that I am husking the paddy myself, and
> that my family is too poor to engage others to get the work done.
Let
> me break all my bangles except two on each hand". Accordingly,
> she broke all the bangles except two on each hand. Even these two
> bangles created much noise. She broke one more bangle of each hand.
> There was no further noise though she continued husking. I have
> learnt from the girl's experience the following: Living among
> many would create discord, disturbance, dispute and quarrel. Even
> among two, there might be unnecessary words or strife. The ascetic
or
> the Sannyasin should remain alone in solitude.
>
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> 21. A SERPENT does not build its hole. It dwells in the holes dug
out
> by others. Even so, an ascetic or a Sannyasin should not build a
home
> for himself. He should live in the caves and temples built by
others.
> This is the lesson that I have learnt from the snake.
>
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> 22. The mind of an ARROW MAKER was once wholly engrossed in
harpening
> and straightening an arrow. While he was thus engaged, a king passed
> before his shop with his whole retinue. After some time, a man came
> to the artisan and asked him whether the king passed by his shop.
The
> artisan replied that he did not notice anything. The fact is that
the
> artisan's mind was solely absorbed in his work and he did not know
> what was passing before his shop. I have learnt from the artisan the
> quality of intense concentration of mind.
>
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> 23. The SPIDER pours out of its mouth long threads and weaves
> them into cobwebs. It gets itself entangled in the net of its own
> making. Even so, man makes a net of his own ideas and gets entangled
> in it. The wise man should therefore abandon all worldly thoughts
and
> think of Brahman only. This is the lesson I have learnt
> from the spider.
>
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> 24. The Bhringi or the BEETLE catches hold of a worm, puts it in its
> nest, and gives it a sting, the poor worm, always fearing the return
> of the beetle and sting, and thinking constantly of the beetle,
> becomes a beetle itself. Whatever form a man constantly thinks of,
he
> attains in course of time that form. As a man thinks, so he becomes.
> I have learnt from the beetle and the worm to turn myself into
> Atman by contemplating constantly on It and thus to ive up all
> attachment to the body and attain Moksha or liberation.
>
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> Dattatreya was absolutely free from intolerance or prejudice of any
> kind. He learnt wisdom from whatever source it came. All seekers
> after Wisdom should follow the example of Dattatreya.
>
>
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> THIS ONE WAS TAKEN FROM THE 'SIVANANDA' SITE...
>
> but there are many versions available on the net with slightly
> different interpretations...
>
> enjoy
>
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