Sept. 8th, 2010 (Bidadi)
Today again Swami was talking about awareness. 'Hurry-up to Slow down'. I think that's the topic for today.
I was feeling very sleepy while morning talk because last night (or early this morning) after midnight I was busy chatting with a friend of mine in LA sharing my deeper experience in this ashram. That's including the scandal, the program, Swami's personality, the community leaving and so on. I started sharing, we ended up chatting for almost 3 hours. So I didn't get to bed till 3:00am. Then I got up by 5:30am. So I was feeling sleepy in the temple while Swami was giving His morning talk.
Suddenly, I became wide awake. Can you guess why? It's funny, I'll be surprise if anyone could guess it right. Actually suddenly I heard Swami mentioning something about Malaysia and then He utter two Malay words - 'Kurangkan Laju'. He was talking about being aware in our daily activities, for that it's OK to slow down.
So when Swami was in Malaysia, one of the devotee asked Swamiji "tell us in our language what is your message." Swami was thinking it seems, "I've bee in Malaysia only two days (not sure which year was this visit) he want me to tell him in his language my message".
In that visit Swami noticed a sign on the road everywhere He goes, so he asked the driver what it says and what does that mean? The driver said it's written 'Kurangkan laju' which means 'slow down.' That observation helped Swami to answer this devotee's question. Swami said His message is "Kurangkan Laju!" Then He connected that with awareness and slow down. I thought that was very clever and spontaneous! The best part, Swami said it in Malay with no accent, very clear and crisp message. That woke me up! :) Swami speaking Malay?! That's cool. Being born and brought in Malaysia, I was excited to hear something about Malaysia and hear Swami speaking Malay. Interesting to see, how much my being is connected to the language, cluture and country that I was exposed, most in my life.
Oh.. one nice tip from Swami's talk for me today was, when you do something, know what you are doing. It helps us to be aware. Example: when we eat, we know we are eating the whole time, not suddenly realize....hey the food is finished.
Pure Devotion is Living Enlightenment (You Tube video clip, enjoy!)
