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Re: ARTICLE : Advice on Advaita Vedanta and Yoga
: > I am presently looking to recieve teaching and diksha from a somewhat
: > more "traditional"teacher in the Hindu tradition, but I keep running
: > into walls. If anybody could point me in a good direction, I would be
: > in your debt.
: No wonder you run into walls. If you have been studying Vedanta
: hopefully you have developed some power of introspection. Look at
: yourself! You have no ties to this tradition. Not blood, not homeland,
: not language or culture. Why would any "traditional" teacher want you?
For as much as I might dislike Jaldhar's opinions, on this he's exactly
right. You can't just run into these things. Once you find a teacher,
ask to sit in on their lessons, or better yet, bring an appropriate gift
and then ask. Occasionally ask the teacher a question about their lesson
- don't be a nuisance. (Of course, if the lessons aren't in English, that
circuvents any solution, unless you speak Hindi or whatever language /
dialect the teacher speaks.) After you've been a regular attendee for
several months, maybe a year, then you might be able to progress futher.
: Being traditional myself (not yet a teacher but I will be in due course)
: my question is what's in it for me? What do you have to contribute to me
: and my religion?
Jaldhar, you should reverse the order of the questions and add at the
start, what's in it for God, what does God think of this person. Ancestry
isn't everything.
Bests,
Jay
