Our area is very interesting because it is being shown on the nightly weather report as a 'tropical depression. Actually it looks more like a swirling galaxy with all the rain clouds and strong winds swirling in a north westerly fashion. This weather pattern has been sitting on our area for about a week now bringing rains gentle and incessant down over Fort Myers north on the Florida peninsular. It is actually very exciting because of the glorious lightning with it. In many of my children's books I communicate with the supreme Goddess through her great flashes of lightning.
When I was little, oh about 7, I was sitting having my lunch with Annie Mae in the kitchen when a 'Ball of Lightning came from the living room windows turned right and after being denied my head because Annie Mae pulled me out of the way. proceeded to turn right again zooming out the screened back door The Cosmic Mother was claiming me as her own I guess although if she had wanted to really claim me, Annie Mae wouldn't have been able to save me.
It's been lovely living in the Mother's Tropical Depression. The news media keeps saying that they expect it to head north towards the Gulf but She hasn't. Maybe it was her abundant energy here which finally got a grip on the oil spill.
But what ever the case I feel that we are all still living on the Ashram, Swami's ashram or the Mother's ashram: it's all the same. Shiva and Shakthi are one and the same and Satchitananda is our only name is an often repeated expression from the Lord.
Yes the ashram is omnipresent, everything is a part of the Divine Lord, filled with His beauty and love. And we Sai Graduates are little instrumental Mandirs on His Omnipresent ashram. At least I know that is true SOME of the time but even if we think that way only a few minutes a day, it's a step isn't it?
I personally have taken so many of those little steps in the past 30 years only to then step backward again. When I really did live at the ashram it was easier to have sat sang so that I could be reminded of the correct direction and not drift backwards. It's more difficult out here in 'the greater ashram'. If only some of you would contribute your thoughts and experiences, positive of course, to this blog, we would enjoy the sat sang even here.
The wonderful rains are helping though I think. Perhaps they are purifying the air, washing away bad and scary thoughts which sometimes do get stuck in the mind and play over and over even when we really know they are 'just crap'. 'Crap' is a western word meaning 'chi' in India.
Today that lovely green vine surpassed the window in front of my altar, heading for the next window. It seems to be attracted to screening as it quickly covered the screen doors to the apartment and the back door to the house, covering them before I could rein it in. I had to literally pull it off both doors, pulling out its little finger tendrils and placing it in a different direction. I would never hurt it because as I realized just this morning,, it is the Kami Spirit. The Kami is the nature spirit in Japan worshiped by the Shintoists.
They set up little shrines in the woods full of sacred items like small mirrors and pieces of bark and leaves just to have a focus for their spiritual concentration. If you could possibly access my website, saiwonderland.net click on the book, 'spirit of brotherhood' and then in the first brotherhood book you will find the Shinto faith. I really connected with it I think because of a past life. Anyway there you will find information about the Kami spirit which I believe is in this heavenly vine. Every morning now I say, “Salutations dearest Kami Spirit'
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