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Helping the Guru
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? “Today it’s about loyalty. You need to be loyal to your spiritual leaders. To have goals and means separate from what they are trying to do is disloyal. You are here on earth to serve Guru’s mission. And guru’s...
For Whom are you Meditating?
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?“It’s about stick-to-itiveness. You have been lackluster in your sadhana the past weeks. You have failed to keep yourself going while you were away from Ananda centers. Doesn’t that bother you? It seems a bit like you...
The Light that is Christ
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? You came to us today as the spiritual eye in the nimbus, or halo, around Jesus’s head from the cross which spoke to Francis. That nimbus is the spiritual eye. It is just that the artists who depict Jesus that way are...
Brother Cupertino
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?One of the best experiences of my most recent visit to Assisi was a new-to-me find: the side altar called the Immaculata in the cathedral of Saint Francis. There the 400-year-old statue of the mother of Jesus still...
She Teaches Still
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?I’m sitting once again with Francis’s beloved disciple, Chiara. At least, she used to lie here, one foot away from where Lahari and I are sitting—for 600 years! The empty coffin is just a short flight of stairs up...
Sacred Shrines in Assisi the Porziuncola
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? “What all felt most important in the shrines you visited in Assisi?” Well, the first was the Porziuncola. I was struck by the perseverance and complete surrender to God’s will it took for Francis to rebuild...