Om Ganesha,
Afternoon Pujas and Prayers
July 2, 2008
Namaste my chelas all over the world.
The oral and written transmissions of this Teaching has been going on and on for a long time.
Yet at this time I must tell you to look deeply into your lives and feel for all those who are living with AIDS and yes those who have died from AIDS.
AIDS is now and AIDS is here as well as all over the world.
I seem to write about this more and more when one of my children give up the battle, this battle called life.
And this morning my La. Giri Das left his body.
My heart is broken as I know so many of yours will be.
Those who knew him and those who did not.
He made us laugh and he made us cry.
I hold my Acharya Swami Shiva and all his friends and family so close to my heart.
I press them to me and and hold on to them myself for my own comfort.
Is it that the world forgets because it is too hard to remember?
Do I the Mother only write like this when one of my children has passed on?
No, it is every moment of every day that I think of all those who left their bodies at such an early age and of those who are living with this disease and live well.
How easy the memories come when I think of my Arlo and my other chelas racing all around trying to reach my children before Death had the chance to involve Himself in their lives.
Committing themselves to such a course of living and staying with it so long is a tantric practice of service, yet i can only feel that any grace that was given was given to us, we who served.
We can summon all our tears and know that we all can fill oceans and oceans.
Yet we are determined to make a difference.
I love my chelas and have so much to share with them.
And when they leave before me, when their time is over on Earth before the Mother dam it it hurts bad.
I can only touch my Baba’s Feet and know that the land of the Eternal Young will take care of those who have left before there was a cure.
Life and death woven in with each other.
A common breath weaving us all into the same cloth.
Yet it hurts.
We Here at Kashi are so familiar with death.
Death is no stranger to our hearts and Death does have a heart, yet it hurts.
A great poet once said that when something is so familiar to us it actually goes into a distance from us and yet our dead are always remembered by the life we lead.
Our La. Giri swam in our Ganga and use to look up to his Ma on our Ganga Porch and give me a smile that I still see in my heart.
The things that I have spoken to my son I know has brought him peace and love and left him unafraid of death.
So brave, my sons and daughters are so filled with faith in their Ma.
I will always teach the living how to die and to live well before Death bursts in our lives.
Yet I will always teach how to cry for those we lost and how to live on with out their physical presence.
My Elder Achariyas and my self as well as all of you have lost so many and each one is still remembered.
PLEASE MY CHELAS DO NOT FORGET THAT AIDS IS NOT OVER YET.
Let us dig deep in our hearts for the Mother who lives there and ask Her to have us keep a mindful presence in the moment.
I know She will answer our request.
I can bring your Beloved to you yet only by your own invitation.
And yet I always try and never will stop.
So many of my chelas all over the world serve and serve well and have grief in their life every day.
My chelas this is a blessing a greater blessing than you will ever know to be able to feel so deeply and to share these feelings with others.
I have been teaching of the Karmic Spaces and I know that no one I teach will be in the Karmic Space Of Indifference to this Darshan Line I write this moment.
So many deaths so much pain, so many unnecessary passings when those who were sick were unable to receive the meds.
I have led you all into the spiritual path of service and am proud of you all.
I will never fail you.
I will always teach you the beauty of diversity.
The beauty of being different than others and yet maybe they are different than us because they are afraid of being us.
There is so much cruelty in the world and yet so many of those who are cruel do not even know it.
This is the Space of Self Thought and Self Indulgence.
It was the great saint Krishnmurti who had said YOU HAVE TO EXERCISE YOUR MIND, YOUR BRAIN, YOUR HEART, TO FIND OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD AND IF WE DO NOT THEN WE WILL DESTROY EACH OTHER, THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING ONE PERSON THINKING THEY ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHER, ONE TRIBE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHER AND THIS YOU ALL KNOW.
Every single one on this Earth is special to the Mother
And so my son my La. Giri Das, you live for ever in our hearts.
I love you so very much.
Rest in the sweetness of the Mothers arms.
I love you all so very much.
Know this always.
This is my Puja and this is my Prayer.
Love Ma
Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai
Always at His Feet Of Our Neem Karoli Baba Ki Jai