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    What Next?

    Hari Om!

    This seems like a question that is almost too personal to ask and perhaps it is also too personal to ask forum members to reply, but it is a query that perplexes and really has me at a loss. Please help sharing your personal experiences if possible and provide some much needed guidance. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated.

    So, after surrendering to a Guru, what next? Seems so simple yet it truly is not. Hope that I have conveyed this message correctly and clearly.

    Have been reading in Swami Narayananada's book "Sanyasa" that a first step may be self reflextion before any other, but this is such a broad instruction. This too is supposed to come before sadhana, seva and all others.

    Please provide the wisdom that this forum is known for.

    Many thanks in advance.

    Om

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    Re: What Next?

    Vannakkam: Surrender is not a one time event, but a process. You surrender individual 'I'ness to the greater order, whether that is God, or whatever you want to call it. Jiva becomes Siva.

    So the process of surrendering continues, an a daily basis, until no 'I' remains, which may be lifetimes.

    Not sure if I'm even on the right track at all, but good luck with figuring it out.

    Aum Namasivaya

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    Re: What Next?

    Dear friends ,

    After meeting many swamis , going round of many ashrams , attending to many discourses , the truth hit me that Guru is the self itself . Most of the list given above just explain only the fundamentals .Scriptures also explain the basic concept .When we read a recipe , the instructions are given . The actual making and the real taste depends ultimately on the doer . The same way when a seeker enters the spiritual path in the initial stages , he may require some guidance .After that , he or she has to go alone and reach the goal.Goals could be short term or long term. In the begining , pujas , sthothras , homas help , in the sense they purify the mind , and give what we call chitthashuddhi . When one enters that stage , when the soul yearns and gets intense thirst for the realisation of the ultimate truth , the universal mother comes in to the scene . There the introspective search starts.Suffice to say that to go in to that state is absolute and intense Bhakthi and saranagathi

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    Re: What Next?

    Namaste Smith Ji,

    The process we undergo in liberating ourselves spans multiple births. Guru kripa works in some people in a single life time , but for others it provides an incremental progress. It is my belief that your Guru also will follow you across births.

    So what next? Either sudden transformation (like king Janaka , who attained the ultimate consciousness during the act of climbing his horse) or a productive next life where even more progress is made with Guru's blessings.

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