Tattva-viveka

To give this gift is how to make it yours

Madhavendra Puri Dasa - July 1, 2011 5:28 am

I read this book "Spiritual Emergency - When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis" (Good book by the way, specially for the person experiencing transformational problems) and it opens with this poem. Somehow I find it very GV in spirit:)

To your tired eyes I bring a vision

of a different world,

so new and clean and fresh

you will forget the pain and sorrow

that you saw before.

Yes this vision is

which you must share

with everyone you see,

for otherwise you will behold it not.

To give this gift is how to make it yours.

(A Course in Miracles)

Tadiya Dasi - November 3, 2013 10:35 am

To give this gift is how to make it yours.

(A Course in Miracles)

I really like that line, Kalpataru. And I have been thinking along those lines recently, regarding bhakti and sharing it with others (i.e giving the gift I have been given to others).

Trying to think of ways to give/share bhakti with others...it can be quite absorbing. Because then you need to stop and pause, think: what have I been given? How to put it in words? Have I realized it? Applied it? Acted on it? And ff you try to share from an honest place, you can't avoid having to face yourself during the process. Thus, I have come to the conclusion that "preaching", at least for me, is really preaching to myself If others can benefit from that - great! But at least for someone like me, the opportunities to share and "preach" bhakti, are really opportunities for this kind of learning and introspection. So the people who listen, are actually the givers: giving you (the "preacher") this gift. How nice!