Om Ganesha,
Afternoon Pujas and Prayers
July 22, 2008
Namaste my chelas all over the world.
Listen to your heart and hear the sound of the Guru’s Voice.
Every one has the desire to unite with the Guru’s Love.
Yet we are always united with our Guru’s Love.
This love is awakened as the Guru looks into our hearts.
It is the false thoughts that we are separate from our Guru’s and Teachers love that the ego keeps sending us that binds us to the Karmic Spaces.
The ego mind is the slayer of the thoughts of reality.
Yet if you let yourself feel your own Essential Self that which pays no attention to thoughts of negativity or yesterday’s pain or tomorrow’s worries you will find that you do not even enter into any of the Karmic Spaces.
As we gathered together for Gurupurnama, all focus was on the Guru.
The same as my focus is always upon my own Guru.
It is this focus, this living form of concentration and the ignoring of the ego mind that kept every one in the state of bliss.
One could not feel separation in those moments as there was none to feel and the thoughts could not arrange the feeling of separation when the Guru was loving so fiercely each and every one of Her chelas.
At times when you are calm and focused you can hear the call of your Higher Self.
And one day you decide to answer this call and so you begin the journey and the whole mystery of the Mother’s love becomes available.
Longing for something else and the spiritual practices help keep the fires of the great longing burning.
This burning wants nothing only to burn.
And here is the joy of love that can be anyone’s at any time.
The ego whispers: you will have to pay for this love for their is nothing as unconditional love.
And so your heart fills with sadness, sadness that you can never have unconditional love.
The Cubby Hole of pride then looks so inviting.
You can not hear of true love of the Mother, you can only have anger and this anger takes you deeper and deeper into the space of Pride.
And the more you shed tears inside of you, the more you feel you have to show the world you do not care.
Not caring is another form of pride.
You will not let yourself feel the spark of love that ignited when you started this spiritual journey.
The Mother Guru keeps the fire burning yet the lower mind cools the fire of love.
The PATH OUT OF THE KARMIC SPACE OF PRIDE IS KEEPING THIS SIMPLE FLAME OF THE HEART ALIVE AND MAKING IT KNOWN TO YOURSELF AND TO OTHERS.
This is part of the mystery of prem, it is a living deity that you open to more and more each and every day as you say to your self THINKING IT IS JUST THINKING as thoughts to keep going deeper and deeper into the Karmic Space Of Pride keeps the Light of humility out of your heart.
It shades your beauty.
It takes time to provide the heart with the fullness of love therefore patience with one’s self is also the key that we need out of the Cubby Holes.
I bow down in awe of what is offered to us to have us live a productive and love filled life.
If only we do not let the ego thoughts over come us and lead us into places where we just can not get out.
This moment feel the Presence of the Mother in you.
It is so intimate.
This Presence draws you back from the Karmic Spaces.
Can you allow yourself to hear and live the call of freedom of the Mother’s Voice.
The secret key to escape the Karmic Space Of Pride is the feeling of separation when you are filled with pride.
Just turn yourself around in your own dark space and see the Light that leads you out of pride.
This is truly the beginning of the journey to the peace and freedom you seek.
You may ask why is there KARMIC SPACES AT ALL?
They exist to show you not to build karmic boundaries and be free with a heart filled with humility compassion and of course unconditional love.
Trying hard to find a way out of the Karmic Spaces at times takes such awareness of the moment that the ego may be able to creep in while you are seeking the way of light.
The conscious mind goes on being distracted by the monkey mind of the ego and just as it is about to let go of all darkness thoughts come flooding in.
You begin to let pride hold you up instead of your heart which can sustain you through anything.
Here is where the phenomenon of INTUITION can help you past the dark passages of sadness due to pride.
You know intuitively to keep going into the space of humility and gratitude as the ego’s ideas are swirling this way and that trying to fill the space of love that your spiritual intuition is taking you to.
This moment think of all that you have to be grateful for.
Write it down.
Keep adding each day.
Then on the 11th day place on your paper one thing you are grateful for in each of the Karmic Spaces.
And meditate how much it erases how deeply you are in the space.
For instance I AM GRATEFUL FOR MY LIFE ON THE ASHRAM.
You write this and above it you write, KARMIC SPACE OF PRIDE.
In this way if these were your words your higher pride will come into action and you will have a great love for the way you live your life.
Perhaps you will write I HAVE GRATITUDE FOR MY HEALTH.
And when you place these words under the KARMIC SPACE OF PRIDE, you will find yourself saying THANK YOU TO THE UNIVERSE and pride will loosen its hold.
Remember there is always someone who has a life that is so much harder than yours.
There is always so much to be grateful for.
Be grateful for knowing those who have left us and being able to have felt their love while they still walked this Earth.
Soon you will be grateful for the sunrise and sunset for the moon and the sun and the stars.
You will find that you will enjoy making your list of things you are grateful for and you will be surprised how you will look forward to writing every 11 days the words of humility.
I love you my chelas and I am grateful that I can be your Mother Guru.
Here are more pictures of Gurupurnama.
Love Ma
Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai
Always grateful at the Feet Of Our Neem Karoli Baba Ki Jai
