Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

We are on our way Home to all of you and our Sacred Kashi Ashram We are all so very excited. Yet my heart is quite heavy. Yesterday we lost our beautiful child whom we all love so much our Darshana Jaya. Her Mommy and Daddy and satsang were gathered around her as our little girl took her last breath…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

We are getting ready to come Home Let me take you deep in to your heart through your chakras. The chakras are like markers of where you are in the moment. As you sit and breathe deeply feel the heat gather at the base of your spine. Concentrate on the flames coming from the heat. Feel the heat sprea…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

I can feel the excitement coming from our Sacred Kashi. The whispering in the trees as they say in the bright sun MA IS COMING HOME, MA IS COMING HOME. I can feel you all and I know that you can feel the love of your Guru Mother. My breath is the caress of Kashi's breeze. My eyes can not see beyond …...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta

In a few days your Mother Guru will be Home. I can not wait to look over our precious Ashram from my Ganga Porch and ring the bells when I do Puja. My heart is filled with the beauty of Kashi. From the shadows of our mind the clear bright light comes when one thinks on Kashi. You rise from any compl…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

The greatest ecstasy one can find in the human body is becoming one with The Beloved. Yes this can occur when you least expect it mostly during meditation. The body partakes of the feast of the soul. The Soul pervades the body with the sensation of the breath coming in and out. This is merging love …...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

Every day i give thanks for so many things in my life especially my Baba Neem Karoli and my chelas and of course our precious Kashi Ashram I watch how my chelas live the freedom that they find on Kashi's shore, the freedom of living in one's spiritual essence. Spiritual poverty has no place in our c…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

How wonderful to be lost in the Mother's Arms. And yet to be fully present in the moment. To be able to go into the mystical secret of being in Samadhi and yet to be able to work in the world and give it your everything. How would it be to use one's Shakti to break free of restrictions and to live t…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers from Siesta Key

The beginning of our new year begins when your Mother Guru comes Home from retreat in a weeks time. So many of you have tears this year, tears of longing for your Guru Mother. I wiped all your tears and held you all so very close. I have kept my word and no matter what occurred this retreat I wrote …...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

The constant repetition of a mantra is known as Japa Meditation. Japa becomes ajapa ( spontaneous ) Japa when the mantra automatically repeats itself with out conscious effort. It is said in the scriptures that ajapa japa comes from the heart whereas japa comes from the mouth. Ajapa japa is complete…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers from Siesta Key

I have begun preparing all of you for my Home Coming to our Precious Kashi. Breathe in deeply all this day when you can think of it and feel the presence of your Beloved. When you do feel that you are not alone, milk your Beloveds Presence. Keep breathing deeper and deeper. And when you can, sit and…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

One thing you have to understand is your individuality. Though we are all the same there is the uniqueness that the Mother loves so much. It is only when you deny your strength that you make yourself week. By denying your own worth you deny others your beauty. I have tried not to miss a day on this …...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

The last few days have been stormy and the waves have been high in the rain. Truly it has been beautiful. Our Swami Bhagavati Das constructs your Ma a cave so I can watch Mother Ocean as I complete all my Pujas for all of you. Sitting outside in the pouring rain certainly shows so many that we are m…...

Evening Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

There is always a divine guidance inside of you. It is the Mother of intuition. Merely wishing for intuition is not going to work. You have to trust the wisdom that created you. Surrender to your own intuition Trust in the miracle that you already are. The Mother speaks through you. When you have ma…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

The Mother Ganga is the playful garland on the head of Lord Shiva. If She can play with Shiva how much more can She play with us? It is said that just a drop of Her waters one can know their own Liberation in the moment of living this life. She is the purifying waters of the heaven that She came fro…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

When you are in the flowing moments that I take you into in Darshan all is well and all can be over come. No one thinks of their deep problems as they flow into the Formless Sensations that they were born to feel. Each Darshan they go deeper and deeper and less afraid to explore their own spirituali…...

Evening Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

Our family is growing larger and larger. Our Kamala Jaya had a beautiful baby girl I named Shivani. She is a real beauty. I am putting pictures of our Little Shivani on the line. I can not wait to get my hands on her. Congratulations Mommy and Daddy Don't they look so happy and proud? I love you all…...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

External appearances are the basis of forming first impressions about any person. While most people judge others on the basis of their first impressions about any person there are those who are thoughtful and wait and watch to understand a person more profoundly before they make up their mind about …...

Morning Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

There are times when you are in such need of the Mother that you hide under your own pride and desire. Her love opens your silence and as we enter even slightly Her heart pulls us in. We step over our abandoned pride and enter into Her temple of love. She keeps us with Her until our tears dry out. O…...

Evening Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

Know that I miss my Ashram so very much and all of you. I look toward the beautiful Mother Ocean and I ask The Mother in all Her many Forms, She who pervades all things to keep my chelas safe and allow them to be close to Her. She who will do auspicious things for us is truly the Mother. I bow my bo…...

Evening Pujas and Prayers From Siesta Key

Inside, deep inside of you there is sweet harmony behind all the chaos of life. There is a simple order in the love that is born from your spiritual heart that goes beyond complications that life brings. It is a matter of allowing the love that you already have to come to the surface of who you are.…...