13 ways of looking at my guru. #9: The Silencer

 

My guru, Swamiji, in 1975

Swamiji, referring to his ashram: "Isn't this a cremation ground? You come here to be burned, and if you can't get that into your head, there's no point in your being here!"

 

"In the beholding of God we do not fall;

in the beholding of ourselves we may not stand."

                          — Julian of Norwich

"He must increase; I must decrease."  — John 3:30

I've lived in my guru's ashram since 1981. As long as Swamiji was alive, complaining about anything would have been the purest folly. After all, God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, n'est-ce pas? Once, a great evil had just been done to me; I was walking by myself thinking about it when Swamiji, also alone, approached me. When he came close I stopped and said to him "Am I supposed to be OK with this?" He said "Yes." I said "OK, but only because you say so." And that was that.

“In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”  — John 16:33

"ES IST ICH"

Rudolf Steiner: "In older languages the self was not specifically designated, for it was contained within the verb. The ‘I’ was not directly mentioned. The verb was used to show what one was doing, and this was what indicated that one was speaking about oneself. There was no name for the self. It only came about in later times that the human being gave his self a name, and in our German language that name [ich] contains the initials of Jesus Christ, which is an important symbolic fact." [Iesus CHristus: ICH]

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