My life has become a living miracle of His love. When things are good I don't blog so much just as Swami says we don't think of God so much when things are going smoothly. I can let the blogs go but I will never let my contact with Him lag. I said as much to the Lord just yesterday and He seemed to reply...notice I said, 'seemed to', I do not have direct voice, never have had, don't think of myself as a channel either. Of course everyone is a channel as He is the only doer. I have a very active imagination and if I unleashed it God help us all. What was I saying...oh yes, He seemed to reply,'how can you speak of 'a lag' or any kind of separation even for a second when...WE ARE ONE AND THE SAME. Sometimes we inadvertently move towards duality even though we know the truth...I told Him.
Things have been going well with my sister ever since my little dog, Puggles went there to live in her temple. I say temple because she's sort of a holy person though she would deny that...The house is full of statues of all the various gods and goddesses from all the religions and also she prays most of the time and now Puggles is the temple guard dog. My sister said that Pug dogs came from Tibet where they were used as temple guard dogs, so she is well placed. I went over to 1019 Jungle the other day to celebrate her birthday. Actually it was also her daughter's birthday and I'm friends with her now as well. Her son, Charley was there and we have always been friends. He is sort of a Buddhist and I am sort of a Hindu. My sister is becoming more and more dedicated to her St. Peters Episcopal church. By the way I have added the 23rd psalm to my morning prayers...It begins with...The Lord is my shepherd. And He certainly is, isn't He. It's a beautiful prayer to say and I've added my two little songs about 'Mother Mary'and the
'glorious Cross' also. You know I have a Hindu altar with lots of Ganesha prayers, a
Christian altar with the 23rd psalm and the Lord's Prayer and a Buddhist altar where I have two songs one with the Buddhist teachings and the other with Daoist teachings. My 'morning prayers' is the high point of my day actually. Of course I really 'get off' on my love songs to Swami too. Last night I found another great one; “The first time ever I saw your face, I felt the sun and moon were the gifts you give the dark and empty skies. Wow! That's as powerful as any bhajan and it's in English. I really believe that we westerners will be able to create our own personal worship of the Lord and have more intimacy and bliss. In face I've been getting more phone calls from fellow Sai Graduates lately asking about the Western Sai Graduate Face book. I think that this was the reason He pushed me to come here to the USA even before He left His body..a year before. I left after 30 years and then He left a year later so I really got almost as much Darsan as I possibly could...because I needed it...still do but I try to imagine Him gliding like a swan throughout the cosmos.
Well that's almost it and I didn't get to tell you that the Drama Group may do two of my plays, that I've found a way to play the karaoke CDS and record my singing love songs for Swami to send out to Sai Graduates and that Christine, the lady who cleans who has been my friend all along, has stopped drinking so much. Life is a miracle.
My cup also runneth over, dear One. Thank you for sharing your insight. Maybe you would like the poetry/prayers of Fr. Thomas Merton...very bhakti filled though in English. Dialogues with Silence is a favorite collection. ~ Loving Sairams to you. ~ Sai Anandini
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