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Spreading the Teaching Further Afield
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?The lesson for today, when we were meditating with Jyotish and Devi at the Sevaka Retreat, is to stay non-attached to who knows you, who admires you, who knows what ways you have been serving Ananda’s mission away...
Do It for Him
JDear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?Persistence. Keeping to your commitment to show up for morning sadhana. Of course, it would be better if you committed to two sadhanas each day. Persist at what you say you mean to do. You keep saying you want to...
Keep from Becoming a Psychological Antique
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? Today it’s about aging with grace. Yesterday five of us sat around a breakfast table and gave what our doctor friend humorously called our “organ recital”, as we all exclaimed at length about which of the organs in...
Celebrate Your Future Leaders
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? “Why do you place a judgement, a statement of worth on every soul that walks into sadhana. Everyone is trying to lift themselves from their mere human state toward a state of divinity. Yet you slap them with a...
Sounds of All the Chakras
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? Today I heard not just the AUM like the roar of the ocean 100 yds away, but also the “rushing waters” of waves returning to the ocean, and a bit of gong, and a tiny bit—perhaps imagined—of a plucked instrument, a...
Always Watching for Him
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? It’s a true joy to hear my beloved wife playing the harmonium so happily and enthusiastically. It helps take her deep into her sadhana. Stillness is her friend. She loves to get quieter and quieter whenever she...