What happens when a man meets a woman whose teachings have the power to draw him back to his own heart? Will he listen? This is the story of how one man's life changed dramatically when he did. In this book, David Forsee interweaves his life with Swami Radha's and invites you to be present in their most intimate moments of joy, support and challenge. His stories will touch you with their honesty and inspire you to seek meaning in your own life. This book offers hope to both men and women. p>
David Forsee (Swami Gopalananda) is on the Board of Directors of Yasodhara Ashram and on the Editorial Board, which oversees the continuing publication of Swami Radha's work. He is the editor of Ascent, the ashram's quarterly journal. He teaches at the ashram and also travels to present Swami Radha's teachings to a wider audience. p>
Swami Radha's teachings invoke the feminine, the return to the goddess or Divine Mother. They are based on the feminine power of the Kundalini system as the path to Higher Consciousness. Life itself is the path. We are encouraged to reflect on our lives and actions to understand ourselves. As we do, the path keeps opening up before us. The teachings are secret, not because they are hidden in secret texts, but because they are so embedded in ordinary events. Marty people are so busy anticipating the "big experience" that they miss the extraordinary in the ordinary, and it is in ordinary things that the teachings are brought to life. p> In David Forsee's book, Can You Listen to a Woman, we meet a man who has lived a regular North American life, then made a commitment to the path of Swami Radha's teachings. Because of this commitment, his attachments to concepts of family life, work, and what it means to be a man had to be turned around or transformed. We see both his struggles and his determination to enter a new place in his mind. His story is personal-the story of a man who is willing to become intimate with the teachings, with the teacher-who is a woman-and ultimately with himself. Can You Listen to a Woman introduces us to a man who is willing to change, to come from his heart. His journey into the unknown is expressed in his willingness to reflect on his life, to penetrate the meaning of its events, and to act on this new understanding. p> His story reflects the process of spiritual evolution. We see him go from David Forsee to Swami Gopalananda. When he made the commitment, he had to encounter the fierceness of reaction to changing an old way of life. In such times and mental states, it takes courage to ask for help, to turn to someone who has the wisdom of experience. p> Strength can be developed through gratitude for life and its challenges, and for the teacher's help and patience. Then the challenge, the teacher, the CHAPTE 'teachings, toe Light, the gratitude, all become intertwined. A commitment to spiritual life will continue to demand personal work. It is an ongoing path. There is refuge in the teachings, in the teacher, and in our own victories-in how we overcome the demons Assi and dragons in our own lives. Swami Radha told her disciples over and over that the way to understand the teachings is to write about their experience with her, and to read her autobiography* to see how the teachings came to life in her.
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