Many Paths, One Goal

Posted on April 27, 2010 by  | Read 2 Comments | Add Comment

Always a “man of the Bha­gavad Gita,” Easwaran drew on the scrip­tures and the mys­ti­cal tra­di­tions of all the world’s great reli­gions. From the begin­ning, he pre­sented pas­sage med­i­ta­tion as uni­ver­sal – open to all. He often quoted Sri Ramakr­ishna, the great 19th cen­tury Ben­gali saint, “there are many paths, all lead to self-realization.”

The BMCM fel­low­ship group in Deer­field, Illi­nois recently relayed to us this spe­cial time they expe­ri­enced together:

“Last night we had a Sat­sang Seder of sorts, since it was the first night of Passover. The group loved using the Hag­gadah. . . singing ‘Dayyenu’ (which is Hebrew for ‘good enough’) and eat­ing matzah. . . . We’ve been study­ing Con­quest of Mind at Sat­sang, look­ing espe­cially at ways to trans­form neg­a­tive think­ing into pos­i­tive ideation. We were able to see the con­nec­tion between the wis­dom in this quin­tes­sen­tial Jew­ish hol­i­day and the wis­dom of Easwaran’s teach­ings. The Dayyenu con­cept is par­tic­u­larly rel­e­vant in that it encour­ages us to see how the present moment (while it may appear lack­ing) is good enough as it is, for it con­tains the promise of the next moment and the next, par­tic­u­larly when we can respond to it with hope and faith.”

Easwaran would be pleased for us to wish you all “Dayyenu” – today is good enough.


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