Yesterday's study group was a revelation of sorts for me..

There are many things that keep coming back in Gurumayi's different talks. You can almost connect one talk to the other. This makes our job much easier. For example "Continuous Right Effort" and "Uninterrupted Loving Service" are phrases of Gurumayi's talks of 2004 and 2000 respectively. What I found was both were matching so proportional

Continuous :: Uninterrupted
Right :: Loving
Effort :: Service

The corresponding verbs (aka virtues) I thought of were
continuous > patience, resolute
right > open, generous
effort > hard working
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Pakad nahin, prakat hoga
(if you dont try to grab the Power, it will reveal itself to you)

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Guru hai to Neel Bind, nahin hai to motiya bind ;)
(Even if we are not with the Guru, we might have experiences but we wont know their value. It is the guru which gives us the right understanding of what we are experiencing)

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Meaning and etymology of "experience"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=experience
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/experience
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=experience

Main Entry: ex·pe·ri·ence
Pronunciation: ik-'spir-E-&n(t)s
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin experientia act of trying, from experient-, experiens, present participle of experiri to try, from ex- + -periri (akin to periculum attempt)

SOME QUOTES ON EXPERIENCE:
Most of the quotes found on the net take its meaning of becoming an expert at something or learning something. Gurumayi expresses it in a different sense of "trying thoroughly". Here are some of them which I thought related to what she has said.

"One aspect of an experience that can make it surprising and amazing is that of confronting one's beliefs"
Nathan Shedroff

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."
Aldous Huxley

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
Franklin P. Jones

"The immense merit of language was that it made possible the transmission of experience"
Bertand Russell

Q: Whats common between SiddhaYogis and Harry Potter ?
A: Both are Seekers !

Q: What would you call a holy fruit ?
A: A Sant-raa !

Gurumayi is Mayi(My) Guru !