Om Ganesha,
Morning Pujas and Prayers from our Sacred Kashi Ashram
August 16, 2008
Namaste my chelas all over the world
At times when I think of all I have lost due to AIDS I also find it hard to go on.
It is a constant loss to us who are honored to be able to serve those who are in need especially in their moments of life.
My Baba taught me how to see my awareness in all that there is in life and in death and it is this that I teach all of you.
The moment when we begin to place our own hearts first before the heart of one who is in pain, it becomes hard to go on.
Yet with mindfulness this moment can open a whole way of living and dying.
To know that we are in the presence of Death has us bowing in awe.
Always my Baba has said to bow with great humility if one is allowed to be the companion of death during the moment of the last breath of a loved one.
Opening more and more, gathers the fear and allows one to be in the moment of death, allowing the one to receive Death a great comfort.
It is as if one is blessed as they are allowed to witness Death taking gently the one who is welcoming Him.
Not many are allowed to behold God in this Form of Death this is why it must be taken as a great honor.
The Ganga brings moisture of love to the Ashes of the one who departs as they are placed in Her Holy Waters.
Listening closely one can hear the golden harps that the angels play to escort the dead on their safe journey.
One may long to join the invisible choir.
Hearts eased by this wish.
Yet what of the hard hard deaths that break your heart and bend your body in grief?
Listen and bless, listen and bless.
Allow the dead to understand that you understand and listen and bless.
There are no time limits once death has made an appearance and a farewell.
One can simply think of the person who has entered Death and bless them in the moment.
The great significance of knowing that Death has a heart does not have to be learnt in the present moment.
Feeble faith has no place near the dying and so pray for understanding and perhaps you can understand even just a little and that is fine.
Life will teach you the rest.
The great heart of your Beloved will beat to accommodate you to a world or a place where Death is honored and not feared.
She will not allow the moment of Death or for that matter moments before death to blind you so you can not see.
You see in your heart, you see in your devotion, you see in your soul.
Keeping your own body strong keeps the power of life and death available in the moment.
The universe constantly creates, it creates understanding where there is only faith.
She creates love where there is only doubt.
Place your wishes to the universe in a form of prayer and it will listen and respond.
Be generous with your prayers and the universe will be generous with Her answers.
At times grief that can not eventually be healed even slightly does not keep one in touch with their dead, it in fact separates them.
Yet crying for what was even for just a short time is true love and is easier to let go of grief when the time is right.
This become more and more clear when you can think of your dead with passionate spiritual love and a full heart that is moist with remembrance.
The ego calls on all its power of guilt to take you from the moment to bring you into unending atonement.
You are not your past and once you understand this then you can understand that your dead lives in the moment with you and all of us.
I love you my chelas.
Love Ma
Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai
Always at His Feet Of Our Neem Karoli Baba Ki Jai