Om Ganesha,
Morning Pujas and Prayers
June 24, 2008
Namaste my chelas all over the world.
Before I begin on the Karmic Spaces I must tell you that we are having another baby girl.
Our Harvard Anapurna Jaya and our Agni Das Jaya just found out that the Guru Mothers chela grandchild is a baby girl who I know will come out playing the drums since my Anapurna is constantly on the drums as the baby rests in her womb.
I enjoy it all.
I watch in awe how many babies are coming.
What a blessing in all of our lives.
My Gita is due soon and she is having a baby boy.
I can not wait to hold these babes in my arms.
What a beautiful life we will give to these babies, the same that we gave to their Moms and Dads.
And now on to the 10th Karmic Space THE DESIRE TO BE RIGHT.
Pride at times is the Mother to the Space Of The Desire To Be Right.
Pride leads one to the very small space.
It is small because there is no focus on any of the large spaces around it.
This space has the tightest borders.
One is closed in by their own lack of humility.
One can not focus on any thing else other than THEY ARE RIGHT AND EVERY ONE ELSE IS WRONG AND WHY DO OTHERS NOT KNOW THIS?
Can you begin to understand how small your life becomes when you think that you are always right.
How little the Universe is let in to your life.
It is the power that comes to you that you may be wrong or at least some one else may also be right that clears your path and pushes the borders of your life into something which is in fact larger than life.
Yet you have to clear the path with courage and the weapon that will help you to sever the connection between pride and the CUBBY HOLE OF THE DESIRE TO BE RIGHT IS HUMILITY.
Remember you have to walk the path out of the Cubby Holes the way you came in.
In other words you must face that which brought you to the space of THE DESIRE TO BE RIGHT.
Notice I do not say being right, the space is called THE DESIRE TO BE RIGHT.
It is only the desire that has you not listening to any one else, most of all your own inner intuition.
This desire takes on a darkness that does not allow you to see the perimeters around you.
It also brings a certain kind of deafness that you bring to your self.
YOU JUST CAN NOT LISTEN TO THE THOUGHTS OF OTHERS.
Thus you go deeper and deeper into the desire until you have a solid contract with yourself that says I AM RIGHT AND OTHERS ARE ALL WRONG.
WHAT A LONELY ROAD TO WALK ALWAYS THINKING YOU ARE RIGHT.
It is about the loneliest road of them all.
You are never open to new ideas or new ways of life.
You are not even open to your own heart.
You are stuck life time after life time in thinking your way is the only way.
You are not generally aware of being caught up in this space.
By being open you raise the level of your Universal Energy with in you and soon you are aware of other ways.
By being open you are becoming more and more aware.
You can begin to master the discipline of balance.
Which is listening to others and then notice that when you are listening others are listening to you.
There is an inner play of linking your energy to the energy all around you.
Why will you accept less what you are just for the DESIRE TO BE RIGHT?
When you are in this space you can not be a witness to the circumstances that unfold in life.
You move about in your own little desire which keeps you smaller and smaller each day.
You long to burst out and yet Mother Pride does not allow you to admit this longing to any one especially your self.
The Higher Self is subtle, it does not come and knock you out with wisdom, it allows you to grow toward it as you go deeper and deeper inside of your self.
There are so many dimensions with in you that are waiting to unfold like the lotus when the petals are closed with patience one can feel the lotus open more and more and what joy this brings to the open heart.
Dimensions permeate reality.
You may not be aware of them yet your intuitive mind knows that they are there.
Your ego stands between you and the whole Universal Experience of the heart.
Your ego stands between you and the whole glorious experience of love and all the dimensions that this love brings you.
When you begin listening to others the DESIRE TO BE RIGHT will slowly diminish, YOU WILL DISCOVER YOUR HIGHER YOURSELF.
When you are standing still in this space of Desire To Be Right thinking I AM RIGHT YOU BECOME THE ONE THAT SAYS I AM RIGHT FOLLOW ME.
Thus you cut out of your life so many dimensions of who you are and who you can be in the moment.
Right or wrong you have to do your life your self,
You have to listen to your heart and see or find that you are not happy in this space and are willing to make the journey out of it with the light of Humility leading the way.
There is a saying in the Dow, THAT WHAT IS ISN’T AND WHAT ISN’T IS.
This is the lesson we can learn that all is in the flow of what is in the moment.
And perhaps what is in the now is not what will be in the future and not knowing this has you stuck right in the center of the ego.
You can not leave the earth plane in meditation thinking that you are always right.
How will you understand the simplicity of the Soul Body that you enter into when you sit in meditation?
This moment think about something that you have argued with another person and insisted you were right
Then say to yourself MAYBE I AM NOT RIGHT.
In this way you understand that you are entering a place of spiritual maturity.
It is this place you do not judge others or try to save them.
Try not to look back at all the times you have lost out on love when the desire of being right has separated you from your loved ones.
Judging Judging Judging is the extreme leak to your spirituality.
How wonderful the heart feels when you can say, I MIGHT BE WRONG.
Thus you are giving another person the joy of perhaps they are right or at least you are listening to them right or wrong.
One time there was a very rich merchant who was leading his caravan into the deepest part of Africa to trade with the natives.
The tracker in the group told him that he was going the wrong way.
The rich merchant would not listen to them and insisted he was right as always
Some how or another he got separated from the others and found himself all alone.
You see the trackers tried to warn him that he was going into cannibal territory.
But of course he was right or so he thought and was not even aware that no one was behind him.
Soon a group of cannibals caught up to him and brought him to their chief.
The chief liked the merchant and asked him to join in the dinner feast which of course was human flesh.
They spoke with their hands and made their wishes known.
How shocked this merchant was when he heard the chief speak in a language he could understand.
How do you speak English so well asked the merchant beginning to feel better?
After all one who can speak English must be an educated man right?
He began to feel better and better knowing he was right and that he would not have to eat human flesh at all.
The more he thought he was right the more at ease he became with his own righteousness.
He then asked the chief where he was educated and what he has learnt.
The chief smiled and picked a fork out of his cloths that he was wearing and said.
I learnt in America to eat with a fork now enjoy your food for it is the flesh of a human.
The merchant lost all his desire to be right and as he was let go and caught up with his entourage.
His life became large and deep for he never took for granted he was right again.
He began to listen to others with gratitude and joy.
And always remembered the look on the chiefs face when he said I NOW USE A FORK.
So my chelas the Desire to be right does not always make you right.
It just makes you change situations that go along with your ego thinking like the chief that ate with a fork knowing he was right to do so and this made all of his actions in his mind right.
The desire to be right leads into the smaller space of KNOWING I AM RIGHT and how much smaller your life becomes with these ego thoughts.
I love you my chelas.
Love Ma
Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai
Always at the Feet Of Our Neem Karoli Baba Ki Jai