Om Ganesha,
Morning Pujas and Prayers
June 13, 2008
Namaste my chelas all over the world.
There is always consequences that comes with anger.
This Karmic Space is huge as anger comes in many forms.
Usually it is not about others being angry at you, it is about you being angry with others and most of all you being angry with yourself.
There are people who can not even bear that thought of certain others, either friends or ex friends or even family with out having their mind becoming enraged.
Rage comes after anger has succeeded to spread to your blood stream and steal some beats of your heart.
When the mind thinks that others make you suffer, you must understand that no one can make you suffer only yourself.
Even if you are being tortured at the hands of enemies, one begins to think that it is their fault.
And even after many years or even life times the suffering goes on and on no matter if the person has a good if or not, they are still suffering.
Anger takes you completely out of the moment.
The journey of life and death is interrupted.
Anger brings forth shame and guilt.
One makes it easy for any one to be able to hurt them.
Anger also walks with its sister blame.
Smiling at your own heart with in your heart helps heal your anger.
Happiness in the moment of life brings happiness in the moment of death.
Thinking of death as a caring and wonderful Deity makes the feeling of anger smaller and smaller.
Death is always with us.
Each day on our journey we can feel that we walk with death through life.
Even if we were 101 years of life one can manage to understand that the journey of life is also the journey of death.
Then why take time away from life due to anger?
Then all you have is death.
Anger is being selfish to your beautiful self.
You are given this body to house your spirit and become able to return from where you have come from.
Anger leads one outside the journey of life.
Have compassion on you my chelas.
And you will find that anger can not catch you in the ego’s net.
The ego loves to plant seeds of suffering and it makes sure it is watered CONSTANTLY WITH SELF DOUBT.
One time many years ago I was sitting in the Lion Kuti, ( a place where I see people ) with some one who is so close to me, always has been and always will be, when I told Her how pure she is and was a pleasure to be with.
9 years later she came to me filled with shame guilt and anger at herself.
What is wrong I asked? Oh Ma she said remember when you told me years ago how you thought that I was impure, i could never forget it and it keeps coming up.
I looked at my child, ( you are all my children ) and could not believe what I was hearing.
I literally began to tear up.
How could you think that I asked?
And then I knew.
My beautiful child had so much self doubt and self hate that her mind would not let her hear the Guru Mother’s Voice ( not that I had a Brooklyn Accent or anything )
And if you thought that why did you not ask your Guru to explain why you were impure I asked with tears in my eyes?
She had too much self hate in her heart to even think of asking.
I gathered her in my arms and told her what I had said.
I still think that she is one of the purest people I know and it is still hard for her to believe this.
So I gave her my most prized possession in the whole wide world.
My holiest possession that I never thought I would part with MY BROOKLYN PENDENT.
My Achariya Durga Das the elder pitched a fit of course so I had to give my Beloved Achariya my other Brooklyn Pendent. ( of course I have others now and I never go with out one around my neck but this is another story)
So you see my chelas THE CUBBY HOLE OF ANGER has many small spaces in it.
There is self hate that creates anger.
There is anger coming from jealousy.
Then their is rage that one can not control and this is the worst for it leads you into a destructive pattern that is hard to break.
Meditation bursts the heart open with self love.
It is not so much that self love is the opposite of anger it is knowing that you have enough love to hesitate when the ego sends angry thoughts to your heart, hesitate enough to understand how anger takes you from your journey.
The opposite of anger is accepting who you are to the Universal Mother.
Who you are to your Mother Guru.
And who you are to be able to receive a human body to be able to use your spirit to return from where you have come from.
These thoughts are filled with nectar and truth.
These thoughts of self love and appreciation sees yourself as part of the Mother Guru.
Self Love is the secret of accepting your own beauty.
Anger has no place on your tongue or heart.
Anger is a heavy burden to carry through life.
Walk tall this day give anger away to the beautiful sky above and watch it turn into a cloud that will pass faster than you can imagine.
I love you all so very much.
MEDITATE ON THIS LOVE, MEDITATE ON LOVING YOURSELF, MEDITATE ON HOW MUCH YOUR GURU MOTHER LOVES YOU AND FEEL A NEW WAY TO LIVE ON OUR SPECIAL JOURNEY OF LIFE TO DEATH AND THE JOY OF BOTH.
Love Ma
Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai
Always at His Feet Of Our Neem Karoli Baba
P. S I ask our Ganesha to remove all doubts in all of you about how much you are loved by your Mother Guru and your Baba Neem Karoli.
Look toward your Ganesha by the Ganges and feel our love flow with the River into your heart.
This is my Puja and this is my Prayer
Each one is painted for the one who is to receive it.
The painting will help you feel the love you were born to feel.
For this I am grateful to our Lord Ganesha for ever and ever Ki Jai
