"I think the whole world's gone mad."

"Nah. It's always been like this. You probably just don't get out
enough."

-Neil Gaiman in *The Sandman*

There will be a unique opportunity for healing and blessings for us
all in the form of special fire ceremonies being performed by the
vedic Priests affiliated with the living saint, Her Holiness,
Ammachi.
These pujas will take place next week. These fire ceremonies evoke
the deepest and most divine of energies - purifying atmoshphere and
the hearts of those who are aligned with them. Having participated
a few times in such endeavors, I will attest to the healing power of them.

If you are intereted in participating in this healing opportunity to
alleviate some suffering in your life or the lives of your family, i
would greatly recommend investing in this.

You do not have to be present to benefit.
The deadline for participation is July 4th or july 5th for the Guru
Purnima ceremony.
The Pujas will be july 6th and July 10th.

More info about the pujas here -
http://www.amritapuja.org/special_pujas.htm
Order the pujas here
-https://www.amritapuja.org/pujas/order_a_puja.htm


All money goes to support Amma's charities worldwide -
http://www.amma.org has more info about them.

JAI MA!

OM GURU OM

# posted by Christina : Thursday, June 29, 2006

The Seven Secret Sayings of God
1. Before the beginning when God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep, God said, I AM THAT. And it is so.
2. Also, being in eternity which is neither linear or sequential, where all is nowever, God said, 'YOU MUST DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE' and it was drawn.
3. BUT! it was no dreary straight line or flat wall for God then said, 'HAVE A BALL..' And there was a ball in the image whereof all stars and planets come to be formed.
4. Thereupon God said, 'THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERYTHING.' And there are; the 'inside and the outside,' the 'dense and the spacious,' the 'right and the wrong,' the 'left and the taken,' for as it is written, one shall be taken and the other left.
5. And God said, 'IT MUST BE IN TIME.' And thereafter it was, is, and will be, for as it is written again, 'As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, through all ages of ages. Amen.
6. And forthwith God said, 'SPACE IT OUT.' Whereupon it came to pass that, beside 'this and that,' and 'now and then,' there is also 'here and there.'
7. And God beheld how firm a foundation this was and said unto himself, 'GET LOST!'
And there You Are.
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~ Alan Watts ~
From his book [23]'Cloud-hidden.'

The soul is all light; darkness is caused by the deadness of the heart; pain makes it alive.

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:

Those who have avoided love in life from fear of its pain have lost more than the lover, who by losing himself gains all. The loveless first lose all, until at last their self is also snatched away from their hands. The warmth of the lover's atmosphere, the piercing effect of his voice, the appeal of his words, all come from the pain of his heart. The heart is not living until it has experienced pain. Man has not lived if he has lived and worked with his body and mind without heart. The soul is all light, but all darkness is caused by the death of the heart. Pain makes it alive. The same heart that was once full of bitterness, when purified by love becomes the source of all goodness. All deeds of kindness spring from it.

With regard to trusting people, a person may think, 'Is it right to believe in anything a person says? Is it right to trust everybody? There are many people who are not worthy of trust; shall we then trust everybody in order to develop our trust?' The answer is yes. Perhaps we will have failures, but we will only trust another person when we trust ourselves, when we have faith in ourselves then we will have faith in another. Without faith in ourselves we can never have faith in another; to have faith in another is to have faith in ourselves. It does not matter if once or twice we are disappointed, but if we are afraid of being disappointed even once in our lives, perhaps we will doubt all through life, and so there will never come a time when we will be able to trust anybody, even ourselves.

Every being has a definite vocation, and his vocation is the light which illuminates his life. The man who disregards his vocation is a lamp unlit. He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.

To renewing trust and innocense,
OM Shanti OM

Love is the best means of making the heart capable of reflecting the soul-power and love in the sense of pain rather than of pleasure. Every blow opens a door whence the soul-power comes forth.

-by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Although the elements may be called earth, water, fire, air and ether, this must not be taken literally. Their nature and character, according to the mystics, are different. But, as words are few, one cannot give other names to these elements, although in Sanskrit we have distinctive words for them. 'Ether' is not ether in the scientific sense; it is capacity. 'Water' is not water as we understand it in everyday language; it is liquidity. 'Fire' is understood differently; it means glow or heat, dryness, radiance, all that is living. All of these words suggest something more than is ordinarily meant by them. ... Every activity of the outer world is a kind of reaction. In other words, a shadow of the activity which is behind it and which we do not see.
A world of idea is hidden in a word. Think, therefore, how interesting life must become for the one who can see behind every word that is spoken to him its length, breadth, height, and depth. He is an engineer of the human mind. He then does not know only what is spoken to him, but he knows what is meant by it. By knowing words you do not know the language; what you know is the outside language, the inner language is known by knowing the language of ideas. So the language of ideas cannot be heard by the ears alone, the hearing of the heart must be open for it.

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JAI SITA RAM, JAI HANUMAN!

"In the old Sufi legend about Allah, he decided to drive everybody crazy.
He changed the water so that everybody who drank it would go crazy.
And then he decided there was one man he liked a lot so he told him
'Don't drink the water for the next month!' And after the first couple of
days of living among all these lunatics the guy couldn't stand it any more
and he went and drank the water too.

"The same kind of thing happens every day. People become aware that
we're living in a crazy world and then they realize they can't live with that
insight so they go crazy themselves so they can fit into that world."

-Robert Anton Wilson

Man's bodily appetites take him away from his heart's desires; his heart's desires keep him away from the abode of his soul.


There are two parts in man. One part is his external self, which the soul has borrowed from the earth; and the other part is his real self, which belongs to his Source. In other words an individual is a combination of spirit and matter, a current which runs from above and attracts to it the earth from below, shaping it in order to make it a vehicle. The human body is nothing but a vehicle of the soul which has come from above and has taken the human body as its abode. Thus an individual has two aspects of being: one is the soul, the other is the body. ... Whether he is in the forest or amidst the world's strife, the soul of man is always capable of rising to the greatest heights, if only he wishes to attain to them. ... Man does not need to trouble about what is lacking outside, for in reality all is within himself.


The soul cannot see itself; it sees what is round it, it sees that in which it functions; and so it enjoys the comforts of the shell which is around it, and experiences the pains and discomforts which belong to the shell. And in this way it becomes an exile from the land of its birth, which is the Being of God, which is divine Spirit; and it seeks consciously or unconsciously once again the peace and happiness of home. God therefore is not the goal but the abode of the soul, its real self, its true being.


Plato wrote that we live in a shadow world, where we confuse the shadow of ourselves with reality. This is the false ego, which stands in the light before God, causing, so to speak, a spiritual eclipse. ... The Ego turns us from the One to the many, enticing us with the things of this world. Then man attaches himself to one thing after another, which brings, at best, momentary satisfaction. Through his spiritual practices the Sufi learns to chain the Ego, to perceive that it is only a shadow of reality; and finding the sun of truth within his being, looking upon it, one is no longer aware of the shadow. Then the Ego is not destroyed, but harnessed. The whole of man's being is attuned to God and everything within him serves God.

~~~ "Gita II, Dhyana 2",

The one and only thing that hinders man from advancing spiritually, or at least from advancing towards the goal for which he is destined and which he is longing to attain, is this: that the mind is so absorbed by the demands and wants of the physical body that it has hardly a moment to give itself entirely to the reflection of the light of the soul.