Om Ganesha,
Evening Pujas and Prayers
Feb. 22, 2005
Namaste my chelas all over the world,
We just came in a little while ago from taping an article that I was doing for a spiritual Magazine while we sat by our River..
We were in the Kali Kart.
Birds were singing and truly the fish were jumping higher than I ever saw in 29 years.
The beauty of our Ashram never ceases to amaze me.
I am going to be 65 years age and have spent almost thirty of those years Here in the Sacredness of Mother Kashi.
Riding around in our Kali Kart with my Shody and my Swami Krishna Priya, I thought how much I loved to share our Mother with all of you.
Our Month Long Work program has brought so many closer to their own Soul.
There is every inch of the Mother that seeps into the heart of Being.
The Breath of Kashi is a Tantric Breath that seeps into the atoms of those who come Here.
I bow with great reverence to our Baba Neem Karoli with such Gratitude.
So much was lost in the hurricanes, and we are still doing so much cleaning up, yet we are all so together in our love to serve.
I found these words from an anonymous writer in a book that my chela had given me and it touched me deeply.
GIVE TO THE HUNGRY SWEET CHARITY’S BREAD.
FOR GIVING IS LIVING “THE ANGEL SAID.
MUST I BE GIVING AND GIVING AGAIN?
THE WEARY WONDERING QUESTION CAME.
NO SAID THE ANGEL PIERCING ME THROUGH..
JUST STOP WHEN THE LORD STOPS GIVING YOU.
I believe in these words who ever wrote them.
It is the Mother who never stops giving and giving.
It is Kashi Ashram where one can learn to give to others and to serve the poor with a full and fruitful heart of compassion.
It is the Mother’s love that sought your heart way before conception.
To only get a glance at that which you hunger for is to be drawn into the Great Shiva Dhuni where the Mother and Her children become One in the white ash of longing.
The wisdom to understand the lover and the Beloved are merged in the breath of life and death is to truly learn how to live.
To taste the sharp edge of the Mother’s Blade is to grow in the Knowing.
This is the relationship of love and the destruction of the ego.
The heart cries for the Mother’s Blade.
The ego shows how to hide.
The Soul knows the Mother’s blade well.
The ego shows how to run.
Every living being has the Power to know the deepest amount of love.
The small I must be drowned in the Mother’s heart tears.
I love you my chelas with all my heart.
My Pujas and Prayers are that you always walk in this Love, to live in this Love and to give this love away every moment of your life.
This is my Puja and this is my Prayer to all the sages of the past and of the now.
Love Ma
Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai
Always at His Feet of our Neem Karoli Baba Ki Jai