Om Ganesha
Morning Pujas and Prayers
August 13, 2009
Namaste my chelas all over the world.
When you can give unconditional love, you will find yourself feeling full instead of empty.
In relationships of any kind stifle the desire to be right.
Practice this and you will find love instead of anger.
Allow space in your togetherness and this can be between lovers, friends, students, married single in other words any where there are two or more instead of one.
The more space you have in a relationship the more the relationship will flourish.
Always remember that you are not the boss of any relationship
Your friendship comes about giving not demanding.
You do not have to understand why some else wants to do what ever they want to do.
You have learnt of space yesterday, learn to use it today.
To have a higher state of consciousness between you and those you love deeply will be viewed eventually as real magic of spirituality.
You can create wonderful relationships by offering only love in your life together.
Do not be filled with doubt about yourself and others, most of doubts is none of your business.
Those of you who must be right can not find true happiness.
Individuals will enter and exit your life many times over.
Do not constantly think why did they do what they did?
You do not have to have an extreme happiness with every one you meet.
Visualize yourself sending out love to all whom you meet.
The only limitation you have are those that you put on yourself.
Stop forcing yourself to try to make others think as you think.
Give your friends and such the great love that is in the center of your being and when you are about to be seduced by the ego to strike out, purposely pay no attention to the thoughts your ego sends you.
Take time to say to yourself, IT IS JUST A THOUGHT, IT IS JUST A THOUGHT.
Start this moment being the one who can not be abused by words.
Know this and let go of conflicts in any of your relationships.
Use the power of your heart not to demand any out come in a discussion.
Stop pursuing what you do not want.
Keep your mouth quiet before reacting.
Reach out with love.
Expect nothing and give everything.
The ego sends you expectations how others should be.
It is truly none of your business how one acts, your business is how you react toward others.
Stop focusing on what you want others to feel or do.
Focus on your self and the beauty that you feel when you give love.
When I would come to Big Henry under the board walk where i grew up crying that some one hurt me bad or made fun of me, He would smile and say girl child did God tell you these things and I would smile and say no Big Henry and then he said FOR GOD SAKE TRULY FOR GOD SAKE STOP COMPLAINING AND JUST MOVE ON.
He made me laugh and yes at times he made me cry.
And when I would tell him this he would say to me GIRL CHILD NOTHING OR NOBODY CAN MAKE YOU DO ANYTHING.
NO ONE OWNS YOUR SOUL, YOUR SOUL BELONGS TO YOU AND TO GOD.
Growing up being the only white child with so many homeless African American or like they would say black and black is beautiful people, I learnt more before I was nine than I did my whole life.
My Achariya Durga Das ( the elder ) takes people on tours ( can you believe this ) to where your Ma lived in the cellar and where I ran to under the board walk where I truly learnt all ways of life from my very first teachers, Chicky, Chews, Big Henry and Old Hudson.
Now matter how much I have served my whole life and how much I will serve I could never give as they gave that little girl whom they called girl child.
And so I learnt how to be with people who thought differently than me and to appreciate every thing they had to give or teach me.
They sacrificed their life for the little white girl in their care.
It is my Mata Giri Jaya who knows all this the best as I told Her every thing in the early days and yes one day there will be a book, there is a book but not yet so please do not ask.
And so start feeling full by giving fullness to others and get rid of the DESIRE TO BE RIGHT this only brings pain to yourself and to others for if you are always right this means that others are always wrong and as Big Henry would say AND THAT AIN’T RIGHT, JUST AIN’T RIGHT.
You know when I write about those days under the board walk right after and even during world war 2, the words just flow from me as if I am not writing at all.
Every word means so much to me sixty two or sixty three years later.
Nothing is ever wasted.
Every thing is a teaching and powerful ones.
Only if we can listen truly listen.
Not having to agree or not agree just listening.
I love you all so very much.
Love Ma
Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai
Always at His Feet Of Our Neem Karoli Baba Ki Jai