Om Ganesha,
Afternoon Pujas and Prayers
November 29, 2008
Namaste my chelas all over the world.
As all Saturday live Darshans the Ashram is packed.
So many come to be with the Mother Guru, and to taste the beauty of Kashi Ashram
This is the time of KALI NATHA TEACHER TRAINING and I am looking forward to seeing every one in a little while.
My Teachers of Kali Natha Yoga are telling me how excited every one is who is Here once again.
It feels to me as if they never have left.
It is a joy to teach and share this Sacred Yoga with all of them.
This Sacred Ashram has never run as smooth as it is now.
So many are so committed to making Kashi the best She can be and it shows every day more and more.
I am so proud of my chelas.
So many are closing on their land and have sent in their plans for their Homes on Kashi.
I am as excited as they are perhaps more.
This night we also will be celebrating WORLD AIDS DAY.
It is really on Monday yet this is the night that we all will be together.
It all seems like a dream of death that did not happen and yet it has and is still happening.
My Dakshina just wrote me that his T cells are the highest they every were and this brings such joy to me.
Many are writing in and telling me this.
And yet my heart cries out for those who are dying from AIDS.
You see my chelas, AIDS is not over yet.
So we celebrate the lives of the many, so many so young and so close to my heart who have been taken from us.
Yet we think that death is very different like a place of not being awake and not being asleep.
Death is such a big part of life that at times I myself can not tell the difference.
The range of the voices and notes that the dead can reach swells the heart and fills the Soul.
I look over my Ganga where the Ashes of our Dead grace our Ganga and I know that our dead are not dead as so many think.
Those who have left us ask us to give back to humanity what we have received.
This kindness that was brought out by the AIDS Virus in so many will never leave me.
Spiritual life is a state of oneness and duality.
Our dead are with their Beloved.
Yet to die simply because of drugs that can save one’s life is not available is certainly a deep wound that is hard to heal.
Yet I try to heal so many as my heart is healed by my Baba.
Some times I think we should not celebrate World AIDS day because every day is World AIDS Day.
I still hold dying babies in my arms as well as young men and women old men and old women and to this day every one asks me to take care of others some who are not suffering as much as they themselves are.
Yet if WORLD AIDS DAY CAN BRING AWARENESS OF THIS PLAGUE THAT IS NOT EVEN BEGUN TO BE OVER WITH THEN IT MUST BE.
My care givers come to me almost every day with stories of pain and horror, yes even after so many years.
Here and in India and Africa my orphanages are filled.
And so I remember this day and all of my dead like I do every day only this day I beg you all to remember with your Guru Mother.
The simple act or remembering allows our dead to live in our hearts always.
I can feel you my children of spirit.
Always be with us as we are always with you.
I want to thank all my Ashrams for taking care of so many these past 25 years or more.
I want to thank my daughter Jaya Devi Bhagavati who gives her all to every person who comes to her with problems that leave them wounded.
I hold you all so very tight to my chest.
My Acharaya Durga Das who has been with me when we first heard about AIDS and has suffered with his Ma and brothers and sisters.
My Acharaya Shiva who lost so many.
My Swami Laxman Das Jaya who brought me out to LA. to serve those with AIDS.
In fact I do not have the room or time to thank every one.
Please know I am thanking you every day of my life
May there soon be a cure for AIDS, 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
Ganesha, Ganesha Ganesha, please remove all obstacles that stand in the way of finding a cure.
This too is my Puja and my Prayer
