Dear Sue
Yes it's true, everyone is still here! Only You have been sent away .....
Just kidding of course, but your statement of such doubt in your blog gave me a good laugh.
In fact, hardly any old faces are anywhere to be seen.
And people from all countries are having to go visit, just as you are, their old homes. Perhaps this is Swami's Blessings for our relatives as well.
Was happy to note that you are so happy being with your sister.
How special for you two to share this time late in your lives.
I must say, I think your blog site is very good!
I really like the wallpaper color you chose (or your 'programmer'~~Who other than you has a programmer?)
I think how your blog is developing is very delightful.
You trying to find the Atma in the mundane is fun reading.
You ought to send your blog link to everyone in your e address book, as going to blogs is not what most of us are used to, so a reminder is good, with an easy click link.
All the Divine Names too are appreciated. Very good to see.
I think Swami must be very happy with your adapting endeavors.
Nice to read about your butterflies and tv.
Yes, Godfather was a good lesson of how our minds can and do get polluted.
Your spill analogy is good coin-age.
Weather was up to 105 or 107. But it was overcast and actually drizzled today. Guess Swami finally had enough of hearing the moaning and complaining. Temps went down to 85. I almost had to turn my geyser on! Of course, not knowing it would rain, I was for some reason motivated to wash my sheets and clothes today. So they are still up on the roof, perhaps will dry off tomorrow from the drenching. (its 7:30PM now) Any other day they would have dried in 10 minutes.
So Keep up the good work!
We got this beautiful email from our friend yesterday but then late in the afternoon I got a Skype from another friend who lives in Chennai. It was 4:30 a.m. there and he was still working on his computer.
This friend said that I should write about my adventures here in the states, you know like going to the post office? He said my blogs were getting too intellectual and a bit dull. He particularly disliked the last blog when I listed all the numbers with too many details.
I don’t think he gets it! I hope he is the only one and that MY SPRITUAL ADVENTURES ARE MEANINGFUL TO OTHERS.
I began writing this blog when I was told to leave my precious India and I knew that it would be happening to many other Sai Graduates also. Remember the Sai Graduates? Just because we may be making a few mistakes and forgetting where we hang our Swami’s picture, doesn’t mean that we have to loose our title, you know. We continue to be His Sai Graduates because we have learned many of His lessons which have taken us closer to who we really are, closer to the ATMA.
In the last blog I got carried away and ridiculed the rigid infrastructure of this governmental system which awards us with all these new numbers and letters that don’t have any meaning to us.. But my friend there in Chenna was right about one thing. Our US government is helping to take care of us when we need help so we should be grateful and not criticise.
That’s true but actually our Precious Swami has also been taking perfect care. He has given me free health care including one month in His super specialty hospital when I had that skin cancer. He has also given me a western canteen so I can eat western food and of course, water and power paying only a small amount for maintence.
So I Can’t complain about my life here or there as He is the one who has done everything anyway in the east and the west because He is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient.
Thirty years ago when I went to India I was desperate. I was given an interview and asked the usual question. “What do you want? “I need a reason to live,” I said actually meaning, “I need someone to love. The Lord then manifested a medallion with His picture giving me Himself to love and I do. I wore the medallion for years before it somehow faded but the love between us has never faded and I know it never will whether I live in India or not. He gave me the opportunity to love the Avatar of love and righteous, truth and peace with all my heart and soul.
My Chennai friend suggested I go to the supermarket and the bank and interact with people so I could write about it. But when I knew I was coming to the west I also knew that my life would not change very much. I would still sit on my bed cum office most of the day, I would continue to read my prayer books as I had for so many years in the mandir and that I would pretty much be a recluse enjoying Swami’s presence in my heart. It has worked out that way. Food is better here and I watch TV and giggle and laugh a lot but…mostly things are just about the same. At the ashram I have three flights of steps to climb but hey, I do need the exercise. Oh, one thing is different, I have made friends with my precious sister and at the ashram I wasn’t really close to anyone.
So everything is perfect here and there, of course, because its all in His hands. We Sai Graduates are living in His grace and love.
One small prayer before signing off today. Please Swami, please help me to be more aware of your light today because I know that is your form and it is our real form too.
You are Brahma, Mother Universe
you have taken many forms,
825. worshiped by the wise, the birth of the universe, awe inspiring, give divine commandments, the foundation, the ‘I’ sense, the life force, you give life, speech, unfettered, dwells in secluded places, worshiped by heroes, the source of evolution
gives salvation to the jives, the abode of those who attain salvation
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You are the origin of all ,you knows all thoughts and sentiments, you cure Trans migratory existence, set the wheels of trans migratory existence in motion, you are the Vedas, the sastras, the mantras, though slender contains all worlds, your fame extends everywhere, boundless might and glory, you give letters of language, 850. You give peace and repose, give the Upanishads, you transcends peace, you are inscrutable
you pervades space
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You are the source of creative process, fond of music, untouched by creative process, you efface all sin, Paramashiva,
not subject to cause and effect, overflows with love for Shiva, who wears earrings of burnished gold, the form of cosmic play, no birth, no decay, artless beauty and innocence, easily pleased, worship is easy for those with inner gaze, worship difficult for those with outer gaze, the three fold Veda, three fold aim of life, present in three periods
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875 Salutations to her, the deity in three circles of Sri Chakra, free from all ills, depend on none, the joy of the self, source of spiritual nectar, you rescue those in samsara, you delight in sacrifice, direct sacrificial acts, instigate sacrifice, support dharma, control riches, increase harvest, love the learned, you are the learned, you cause cyclic motion, you devoir the universe
Have coral complexion, the power of Vishnu, the form of Vishnu
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You are the self of all, generate all power, changeless, Kaula deity, fond of the heroic mode of worship, the hero
900 you transcend karma,
the primal sound, you are realization, one to be reckoned with, wisdom in all skills, seated in Bindu of Sri charka, transcends cosmic categories, understands the cosmos
Tat Twam, non-dual, you love chanting of Samaveda, object of Soma sacrifice,
Sadashiva and His consort
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You are reached by Savya and Kaula, ward off danger, Svasthaya, sweet, endowed with wisdom, worshiped carefully by wise, likes offerings of the spirit, likes flower offerings of spirit, ever shining,, rosy like the morning sun, worshiped by learned and unlearned, you have a smiling face
925 ultimate object of Kaula , confers ultimate bliss, loves hymns of praise, worthy of hymns of praise, glory is praised in the Vedas, self possessed,
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You are the high minded ,Great One, benign form, mother of the universe, protector of the universe, Visalaksi at Kashi, without passion, daring, generous, joyful, all spirit, your hair is the sky, seated in flying celestial car, Indrani, deity of left hand path, accept five sacrifices of left hand path, seat of the five deities
consort of fifth deity, Sadashiva, You rule elements
950 worshipped by five fold offering, eternal, you have dominion, give eternal happiness, you charmed Shambho, you are Shambho,
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You are the earth, supremely blessed, righteous, promotes righteousness, you transcend the worlds, you transcend the three gunas, who transcend everything, the soul of peace, tender grace, Bala, eternally young, your sport is the creation of the universe, most auspicious, bestow happiness, gracefully attired, ever with your consort, pleased with respect for married women
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your splendor beams everywhere, pure minded, pleased with offerings to Bindu
975 Salutations to her who is first born,
Tripurambika, Nada, Bindu, Kala
You are worshiped by ten mudras, presides in Sarvarthasadhaka, the Cinmudra finger mudra of knowledge, attained through knowledge
you are knowledge and the object of knowledge, in yoni mudra, in the Trikunda, in the three gunas
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985 Salutations to her who is Amba, mother of all, you dwell in the Sri Chakra, is without sin, marvelous, grant desires, known thru practice, transcend the six devotions, unconditional grace, dispel darkness
You are understood by children, laws cannot be broken, sovereign Sri Chakra, the divine Tripura Sundari
blessed Shiva, Shiva and Shakthi are one and the same and Satchitananda is our only name
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1000 Salutations to Lalithambika, playful mother
1001Salutations to Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the playful father
1002 Salutations to Bala Tripura Sundari, the playful daughter of the playful mother
1003 Salutations to Mother Easwaramma, the playful mother of the playful father
1004 Salutations to Lord Ganapathi, the playful son of the playful mother
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