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Istha gosthi
Namaskaram @Jainarayan ji
I thought for one moment It was deja vu , ..but in my absence you have returned , ...Jai Jai
hope all is well
I thought for one moment It was deja vu , ..but in my absence you have returned , ...Jai Jai
hope all is well
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Nyingjé Tso
Dharma not drama
Prasad from the Vinayaka mandir in Paris, sharing with all our ashram ~
My copy of the Lakshmi Tantra finally came in. Time to break it in and learn some divine knowledge, yo.
Nyingjé Tso
Dharma not drama
Sooo... A few days ago, I went to Paris Vinayaka mandir
( It does not happen often, as I live 7h away from the temple... And there aren't many temples in France unfortunately)
Helped and joined the puja, then stayed a bit to pray to Sri GaneshJi and .... Mata Saraswati.
Faced a year of joblessness despite my efforts and skills, the videogame industry being really, really difficult to enter. I had to go back living with my parents, and living with short term jobs and minimum pay, which was a double horrible thing since I had to face the daily verbal and emotionnal harassement from my mother (Because my other half is transsexual) and couldn't even contribute to the family budget.
One day I saw a lot of opening from the governement. They were recruiting teachers... So I considered the question. I was already offered to work as a conference master at the Louvre at 17, but turned it down to pursue my dream of being a videogame artist... Now for the second time, a teaching opportunity was here, so I took it. Since I already had a master degree, I just had to pass a year, and succeed at the big national exam.
Needless to say, this past year have been an horror.
Had to move in one day to another city, I had to squat an empty university building and to do my homework on the floor, then almost ended up homeless before miraculously finding a room... Had to struggle to pay the rent, working overnight while trying to keep up with the insane level of knowledge the school asked. Spent a year completely alone at school, cast out by pretty much everyone in my class because I was "different" (understand: not a superficial feminine generic girl that only swears by clothes and expensive shopping - I hate those things - )
Spent most of the end of the year crying while eating flour mixed with water, as it was the only thing I could afford.
I successfully passed the writing national exam, a miracle. I was confident for the 3 interviews exams that were coming after that... The places were limited, there was a lot of people still in the race.
Thought I magistrally failed the most important of them. I cried a lot, started to doubt my chances, started to despair as I didn't wanted to come back living home, without a job, like a shame.
So went to the mandir, and started praying. I told Maa everything I held inside my heart, all the doubts, suffering, exhaustion, and everything that this success could bring. I gave to Maa the last, tiny little spark of hope that was still inside of me, as a sacrifice, and I left the temple empty.
Today, the results are in, and I had great results as well as I succeeded graduating my (second !) master degree ! I am officially a teacher (and a 3D artist)
I come to share the joy at our ashram, and I bow a thousand times to beloved Sri GaneshJi and Mata Saraswati ! It is finally the end of this horrible ordeal and I can't stop being so grateful ! I gave a spark of hope to the Gods, they made it a huge fire in my chest !
Next step is to settle near Paris (NEAR THE TEMPLE <3 FINALLY !) and start to live a life. A real life !
JAI VINAYAKAJI JAI MATA SARASWATI ! HAR HAR MAHADEV !
( It does not happen often, as I live 7h away from the temple... And there aren't many temples in France unfortunately)
Helped and joined the puja, then stayed a bit to pray to Sri GaneshJi and .... Mata Saraswati.
Faced a year of joblessness despite my efforts and skills, the videogame industry being really, really difficult to enter. I had to go back living with my parents, and living with short term jobs and minimum pay, which was a double horrible thing since I had to face the daily verbal and emotionnal harassement from my mother (Because my other half is transsexual) and couldn't even contribute to the family budget.
One day I saw a lot of opening from the governement. They were recruiting teachers... So I considered the question. I was already offered to work as a conference master at the Louvre at 17, but turned it down to pursue my dream of being a videogame artist... Now for the second time, a teaching opportunity was here, so I took it. Since I already had a master degree, I just had to pass a year, and succeed at the big national exam.
Needless to say, this past year have been an horror.
Had to move in one day to another city, I had to squat an empty university building and to do my homework on the floor, then almost ended up homeless before miraculously finding a room... Had to struggle to pay the rent, working overnight while trying to keep up with the insane level of knowledge the school asked. Spent a year completely alone at school, cast out by pretty much everyone in my class because I was "different" (understand: not a superficial feminine generic girl that only swears by clothes and expensive shopping - I hate those things - )
Spent most of the end of the year crying while eating flour mixed with water, as it was the only thing I could afford.
I successfully passed the writing national exam, a miracle. I was confident for the 3 interviews exams that were coming after that... The places were limited, there was a lot of people still in the race.
Thought I magistrally failed the most important of them. I cried a lot, started to doubt my chances, started to despair as I didn't wanted to come back living home, without a job, like a shame.
So went to the mandir, and started praying. I told Maa everything I held inside my heart, all the doubts, suffering, exhaustion, and everything that this success could bring. I gave to Maa the last, tiny little spark of hope that was still inside of me, as a sacrifice, and I left the temple empty.
Today, the results are in, and I had great results as well as I succeeded graduating my (second !) master degree ! I am officially a teacher (and a 3D artist)
I come to share the joy at our ashram, and I bow a thousand times to beloved Sri GaneshJi and Mata Saraswati ! It is finally the end of this horrible ordeal and I can't stop being so grateful ! I gave a spark of hope to the Gods, they made it a huge fire in my chest !
Next step is to settle near Paris (NEAR THE TEMPLE <3 FINALLY !) and start to live a life. A real life !
JAI VINAYAKAJI JAI MATA SARASWATI ! HAR HAR MAHADEV !
Good to see you back on here, and I'm happy for you. Jai Ganesha!
Namaste,
Don't know if anybody else is "going through it" right now (the Fire seems particularly intense these days for a lot of folks), but this sure brought me some comfort today when it popped up onscreen. If your parts are likewise absorbed in Maya's illusion of suffering instead of your whole being absorbed in Reality (God, Maa, lighten up!! Dang! OK, enLighten up, then?), well, I hope it brings you comfort, too, to be reminded of God's fidelity.
OM, Prem and Shanti ~
Sw. Vandana aka Sassimaa
Don't know if anybody else is "going through it" right now (the Fire seems particularly intense these days for a lot of folks), but this sure brought me some comfort today when it popped up onscreen. If your parts are likewise absorbed in Maya's illusion of suffering instead of your whole being absorbed in Reality (God, Maa, lighten up!! Dang! OK, enLighten up, then?
), well, I hope it brings you comfort, too, to be reminded of God's fidelity.OM, Prem and Shanti ~
Sw. Vandana aka Sassimaa
Vinidra
Jai Mata Di!
Yay! I'm still working on reading it myself.
Congratulations, and Jai Ganesha! Jai Maa Saraswati!
Also, I love how people's posts on RF often end up coinciding with something I was planning on posting myself.
I'd been letting my usual worship slip over the past several weeks, and just last week decided I didn't need to keep doing that. Mother's been too good to me to stop thanking her for all that She's done. I'd been feeling distant from all the gods, though, and wasn't sure what I needed to do to fix it. So I made up my mind to start doing daily puja again.
Up until very recently, my only real "worship" of Ganesha was a quick "namaha" in His direction before a puja (if I remembered). I'd just never felt much of a pull toward him. But because I was kinda stuck in this slump, I figured I should try to do more than that for Him because what do I have to lose, right? Surely the people who have advocated the worship of Ganesha throughout the ages knew more about it than I do.
So I started incorporating a quick Ganesha puja before my "main" puja, and I've also begun worshipping Mother Saraswati in her Matangi form as well as her Saraswati form.
I mention this because I'm a writer, and I've been lacking both inspiration and motivation for quite some time now. But after starting to have brief Ganesha pujas and renewing my worship of Saraswati, the inspiration has been coming back. I admit that I still don't feel terribly close to Ganesha, but He's clearly been helping me, anyway, so you won't hear me complaining.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
Ganapati Bappa, Har Har Mahadev, Jai Maa Saraswati. I am so happy for you. May you never be unhappy again. Surrender, surrender to the deities, unreservedly.
Hah, I do that occasionally (probably once a month on Purnima when my wife calls me to partake 'charanamrita'. I just keep the deities in my heart. All of them, without any exception, are always there. But do not follow me, I am an atheist.
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Up for watching the antics of a robodog, anyone? (No, not me!) . I almost don't know what to make of it--although I certainly smiled--but also pray that Cosmic Intelligence is watching closely. There's a "fade to black" near the end, but that's not the end.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/watch-googles-adorable-robot-slip-183421551.html?nhp=1
. I almost don't know what to make of it--although I certainly smiled--but also pray that Cosmic Intelligence is watching closely. There's a "fade to black" near the end, but that's not the end.https://www.yahoo.com/tech/watch-googles-adorable-robot-slip-183421551.html?nhp=1
Namaste, all
Wanting to share a little slap upside the head Reminder this morning aimed at me from Beloved.
Loka samastha sukhino bhavantu... may all be happy.
Namaste and good morning, fellow devotees ~
Another goodie "Reminder" to share, perhaps the hint of a clue to know if we're "doin' it right" ?
Another goodie "Reminder" to share, perhaps the hint of a clue to know if we're "doin' it right" ?
To each his own, Aup, and I have no problems with you sharing your reaction. You do sound rather repetitively tired in the forum and I'm truly sorry for that. However, if it's OK for you to advance, offer or spew (take your pick) your version of Advaita in the Hinduism DIR (views which, BTW, in no way correspond to traditional or even neo-Hinduism), unless others or a mod also say they are not interested in these kinds of posts or that they are more appropriate in another section, I will in all likelihood continue to post them here. As I have said all over this place, the Truth is not exclusive to one religious belief or another and if a phrase or graphic or statement from another path illumines and inspires me, I will see if it's helpful to other seekers. Sometimes, that's all it takes to transmit a flash of Light from one to another.
Any mod reading this post, please do let me know if I am inappropriately posting these kinds of messages in our Virtual Ashram. Many thanks, in advance.