I think that I have turned another corner in fact I've turned so many corners lately that I may be facing myself at last. After all that is the point isn't it, facing the Atma
Ever since I joined Swami's Mission, I've sort of felt that it was a perspective of my own,,,and Swami's too of course and that my perspective didn't have much to do with the 'real world' around me. Basically it has been Swami's mission to save humanity and He has allowed me to sit on the side lines with my little songs and stories and just help out when He called me too.
The radio program I did seems to have changed that to a degree, I became involved in the immediate world around me. I found myself weeping and caring terribly about those apple cheeked boys right out of school who now had a life time to face without arms or legs or in some cases, memory. It was no longer 'that world' but
'this world'
This morning my compassion turned to others as well. The scenes of absolute destruction after the tsunami caused me to pray for the injured and the dead in Japan. I started chanting 'Om Name padme hum” for them. This morning I saw in front of my eyes the absolute awesome destruction in Joplin Missouri and Tuscaloosa Alabama. Why haven't I been praying for them I wondered and added the 'Our Father' to my prayers for the first time. So I had to dig around and find the powerful Christian prayer packed away in the warehouse of my mind. I had a hard time remembering
OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN
HALLOWED BY THY NAME
THY KINGDOM COME THY WILL BE DONE
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD
AND BEGIVE US OUR DEBTS
AS WE FORGIVE OUT DEBTERS
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION
BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM
AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY
FOREVER AMEN
\
It's a wonderful prayer and I'm glad I found it again. My grandmother up there in heaven will be glad too. So this is the corner turn around. I seem to be relating my 'inner life' now to the outer world. Maybe that's the reason I was called back from India.
Someone sent me an e=mail the other day which consisted of a video, can't remember who got it together, but it showed a picture of the beating human heart as well as an image of the brain. It said that the electro magnetic field in our hearts is 5,000 times more powerful than the electro field of the brain...and further that if we use the power of our love beating away in our hearts, we can change even the environment in which we live.
Could that be the reason I started praying the 'Our Father' this morning after I was so touched by the scenes of destruction on television. Perhaps my heart has become really involved in the pain I see around me. If this is so, it leads me to an entirely new view of Swami's Mission. Although the little children's songs and stories may have been useful, the openness of my beating heart may really help in transformation.
And if many of us Sai Graduates ripped off the protective cover from our hearts and realized hat those homeless people in the mid west, are really us, we could change their environment with our compassion and our prayers. Their problems are our problems and just maybe we must call on our own hearts rather than the Red Cross. It's so easy to donate now on the net but more effective to identify with their pain and suffering.
Oh just look at that! It's beginning to become light in the sky out of my window. Mother Shakthi is kicking up her pink petty-coats and dancing into the blue with her consort, Lord Shiva.
Ever since I joined Swami's Mission, I've sort of felt that it was a perspective of my own,,,and Swami's too of course and that my perspective didn't have much to do with the 'real world' around me. Basically it has been Swami's mission to save humanity and He has allowed me to sit on the side lines with my little songs and stories and just help out when He called me too.
The radio program I did seems to have changed that to a degree, I became involved in the immediate world around me. I found myself weeping and caring terribly about those apple cheeked boys right out of school who now had a life time to face without arms or legs or in some cases, memory. It was no longer 'that world' but
'this world'
This morning my compassion turned to others as well. The scenes of absolute destruction after the tsunami caused me to pray for the injured and the dead in Japan. I started chanting 'Om Name padme hum” for them. This morning I saw in front of my eyes the absolute awesome destruction in Joplin Missouri and Tuscaloosa Alabama. Why haven't I been praying for them I wondered and added the 'Our Father' to my prayers for the first time. So I had to dig around and find the powerful Christian prayer packed away in the warehouse of my mind. I had a hard time remembering
OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN
HALLOWED BY THY NAME
THY KINGDOM COME THY WILL BE DONE
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD
AND BEGIVE US OUR DEBTS
AS WE FORGIVE OUT DEBTERS
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION
BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM
AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY
FOREVER AMEN
\
It's a wonderful prayer and I'm glad I found it again. My grandmother up there in heaven will be glad too. So this is the corner turn around. I seem to be relating my 'inner life' now to the outer world. Maybe that's the reason I was called back from India.
Someone sent me an e=mail the other day which consisted of a video, can't remember who got it together, but it showed a picture of the beating human heart as well as an image of the brain. It said that the electro magnetic field in our hearts is 5,000 times more powerful than the electro field of the brain...and further that if we use the power of our love beating away in our hearts, we can change even the environment in which we live.
Could that be the reason I started praying the 'Our Father' this morning after I was so touched by the scenes of destruction on television. Perhaps my heart has become really involved in the pain I see around me. If this is so, it leads me to an entirely new view of Swami's Mission. Although the little children's songs and stories may have been useful, the openness of my beating heart may really help in transformation.
And if many of us Sai Graduates ripped off the protective cover from our hearts and realized hat those homeless people in the mid west, are really us, we could change their environment with our compassion and our prayers. Their problems are our problems and just maybe we must call on our own hearts rather than the Red Cross. It's so easy to donate now on the net but more effective to identify with their pain and suffering.
Oh just look at that! It's beginning to become light in the sky out of my window. Mother Shakthi is kicking up her pink petty-coats and dancing into the blue with her consort, Lord Shiva.
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