Om Ganesha Sept. 1, 1999 Morning Pujas and Prayers
Namaste my chelas, The mind is filled with weeds. Weeds that were not pulled out in life times past. When you argue or pay attention to these weeds, they will never leave. Yet if you sit in the sunshine of the love of God and Guru, and pull the leaves out one by one, there will come a time when you look at the garden of your mind and see only flowers and no weeds. Yet just like any garden one must be aware of new weeds sprouting up and taking hold of your precious flowers.
( I sound like a Brooklyn Gardener )
Yet, never the less it is true. When you least expect them to appear, there they are, strangling your flowers of devotions in the form of doubts or the lack of awareness.
Time herself has hands. We either learn from the hands of time or we ignore her Lila altogether.
The weeds start growing and after a while, when you begin to ignore the hands of time, you can not tell the difference between the weeds and the flowers. Can you imagine placing weeds in front of Lord Hanuman because you have lost your ability to distinguish between the flowers and the weeds.
All of earth is a great and wonderful school room. You either learn or your left back. Only in this game of the Mothers, when you are left back and have to repeat a certain grade, it may take life time after life time.
Every one in life is challenged by life. Every one in life has the ability to consume all of those challenges.
There are rules in the Mothers game of life. Yet by the grace of the Guru, Karmas can be softened. The Guru, by Her grace can save you lots of heart ache and pain.
Literally if you pay attention to the words of this line, you will feel the heart of the Guru. Your mantra will move you from stagnation into the form of action that will complete your dharma.
When you say OM Namah Kali, do you think these are only words. These are said on the wind of your breath and sent out to the world in the name of the Mother.
If you are lucky enough to receive the Mantra from your Guru, then ride Her or His breath as you say your Mantra. You can move mountains of pain by saying a holy mantra.
Your pores soak up the Mothers name and your are drenched in Her love.
Who can hurt you. Who can make you cry. The Mother is in you. She is your lover, She is your friend, in fact She is you. When you repeat Her name over and over, She will acknowledge you and all you are and all you want to be.
I sometimes ask my Baba how can I possibly teach them how you taught me to worship the Mother. Our Baba smiles and says, simply by you being alive Mother. And so this Ma is alive only to teach you all of Her Mother and Her Father.
When you say your Mantra remember that saying a mantra is vibrating the sound to yourself and to the world.
Mentally this very moment say the words Om Namah Kali over and over. Now watch how the world and the words before you look different.
When you say your Mantra you are finding the core of your being that some how has gotten lost over the years or life times. The absolute self inside of you is the absolute self inside of all beings.
My Mahavayu calls himself a fool for God. Now you have to understand this is a young man in His eighties and a great and wonderful scholar and He calls Himself Gods fool.
There is no greater thing to be upon this earth than the fool of God. I wish I had said it first. Now I am only Gods Fool number two.
What does this mean. It means that you are a puppet for God and Guru. Dont worry now, none of you are ready to be Gods fool or puppet. Every one is so afraid to be a puppet. I, your Ma and your Guru, beg Baba to always hold the strings. This is using the supreme prana the way it should be used.
In order to discover this aspect of your self that is the fool of God, you sit for a moment and feel the power of Kundalini rise inside of you.
Then you simply talk to your Ma your Baba, your Christ. What next? You ask of your Ma. Then for a moment you wait for a answer and my children, the answer is there. You will know if your answer is the flower, straight out of your Gurus garden or is it a weed you forgot to pull in a moment of weakness.
Oh my chelas! It is all in the breath. At 59 years of age, my breath comes fast every time I think of my Baba or my Swami. Then when the breath calms down, all answers are there, all questions answered.
What a great life we have, we who sit at the feet of Shiva and His consort Kali.
May all the blessings of Kashi be yours. May your garden grow fine and fast and be free of the weeds of doubt.
Do not follow your limited personality, follow your sacred heart of truth as you sit at the feet of the Mother.
These are my Pujas and these are my Prayers. I love you all so very much. Love Ma and the Baba and the Swami. Jai Kashi Ki Jai