Individual Journey
Since Charles Alexander Eastman, 1858-1939, named Ohiseya (Winner),
of the Wahpeton Dakota, was raised traditionally as a Woodland Sioux
by
his grandmother, Uncheeda, until he was 15 years of age, he was
fortunately able to be deeply grounded in the Native
Spiritual
traditions, language, culture, and oral history of his people before
receiving a white man's education and eventually becoming a
physician,
autobiographer, lecturer and teller of legends.
The profound depth and wisdom of his Native traditional background
shines through in the legacy of his beautifully written words.
'Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the
Great Silence alone! What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The
Holy Silence is His voice!'
I was reminded of Shri Mataji's voice as She spoke with such loving
depth about the individual inward journey.
"Every moment remember that your movement has to be inward. When
you move inward you forget your ideas of outer glories. It is an
individual journey towards God. When you meditate and when you reach
there, then you beome collective. Before that it's an absolutely
individual journey within. It's an absolutely individual journey.
You should be able to see this - that in this journey nobody is your
relation, nobody is your friend. You are absolutely alone,
absolutely alone. You have to move alone within yourself. Don't hate anyone,
don't be irresponsible, but in a meditative mood you are alone. No
one exists there, you alone, and once you enter into that ocean, then
the whole world is your own manifestation. All the children become your
children and you treat all people with equal understanding."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - 1988
http://www.indians.org/welker/ohiyesa.htm
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/ohiseya.htm
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/authors/eastman.html
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www.adi-shakti.org/ — Divine Feminine (Hinduism)
www.holyspirit-shekinah.org/ — Divine Feminine (Christianity)
www.ruach-elohim.org/ — Divine Feminine (Judaism)
www.ruh-allah.org/ — Divine Feminine (Islam)
www.tao-mother.org/ — Divine Feminine (Taoism)
www.prajnaaparamita.org/ — Divine Feminine (Buddhism)
www.aykaa-mayee.org/ — Divine Feminine (Sikhism)
www.great-spirit-mother.org/ — Divine Feminine (Native Traditions)
