"The invigorating effect secreted by my courage and grit had faded, and gradually I felt more and more like those 'words' [sic] in Gurdass Khalsa's poem:
"Those who wait to be reborn
In the glory of the name
They're like flowers in the rain
Waiting for the Sun
'Til their soul shall be reborn
In the body of a saint
Who shall live forever
In the hearts of those who love God."
~p. 78, "Everyday Excellence: The Art of Success"
Yesterday, I had posted what follows below for my father, but it links with today!
"To get a big head
Is easy.
Food on the table,
Cash in the pocket,
And you walk with a swagger.
Be street-smart
And you can rake in
Twice as much.
But money's like the leaves
Of a forest's trees.
You didn't bring it with you when you were born,
It won't go with you when you die;
Greater kings than Ravana
Have vanished in the blink of an eye.
Parents, children, wife,
You'll leave them all behind.
You must be mad, says Kabir,
Not to sing of Rama,
And to screw up your life."
~translation of Kabir by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
From "Songs of Kabir" my baptismal anniversary present (November 19th) from my father... a wonderful Congregationalist minister with a deeply ecumenical spirit. Thank you Dad!
"Ravana, the demon king of Lanka (Sri Lanka? ~my note) and the primary antagonist character of the Ramayana, abducts Rama's wife Sita from the forest. To rescue her, Rama, helped by an army of monkeys, fights a great battle in which Ravana is killed."
The leader of that army of monkeys, as the story was told, was Hanuman. The Hanuman Chaleesa, dear to my heart, is sung about Hanuman's bravery for the Lord. For Rama. Ra. Ma. Sun. Moon. Masculine + Feminine. Divine.
The bridge built from the mainland to Sri Lanka which the epic Ramayana told of...is actually visible from space through NASA's photography. Hindu friends of mine once showed this to me. It exists. Who knows if Hanuman was really a monkey...or metaphor for a strong warrior of the Lord?
Hanuman is who told Rama, the symbol of the Lord, that the demon king Ravana was lying...and that Rama's wife Sita was not dead...she was in Lanka. Ram gave Hanuman his ring to drop from the tree above Sita. She picked it up and said, in amazement: "Hanuman, where did you get that ring?" This was a sign to her that God, that Ram is ever-present."
It's all good. Wahe Guru. Namaste. Peace be with you...
The Hanuman Chaleesa is the song which I first heard, dropping like a 'ring' from the trees above me...to tell my soul that the Lord was there. I heard it back in 1998. The demon Ravana, whose clutches I was in, could not stop the Lord's servant, Hanuman, from singing to me. The Hanuman Chaleesa is dear to my heart. I think I still know it by heart. I played it for shavasana yesterday...to all y'all wit yo sneaky excuses ta get outta shavasana: Come to my class suckas...and it's the 1st dang thing on the menu. Sleep. Blissful sleep if you need it, and are weary... soul searching, chakra clearing if you wanta hop on board the yoga wagon!
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Additionally...Found these words I wrote for a friend. They are a perfect description of what we are doing today in the meditation:
May your radiance expand beyond your wildest dreams and may you find the juiciness of the sweetest fruit in the core of your soul, in the garden of your heart. You are just pulling weeds. We all have to prune every once in a while. Then you can take all the birdpoop and compost it as well! Fertilize your dreams with the crap you are getting rid of!!! LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! Open hearts with your words, let your words open your heart deeper.
I confess that I bought a ton of chocolate for tomorrow too. All Kakao. And rose quartz that I'm attuning to Reiki, Sekhem-Seichim and Karuna Reiki. And I'm wearing my jasmine perfume...cause it's just that kinda day!
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WOW!!! WOW!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW! ....
THE MOST INCREDIBLE DAY!!!!!!!! HEALING THE WOUNDS OF LOVE meditation with the students at Urban Breath Yoga, a lunch of pears and spinach and Kakao chocolate with Jen Potash, finding a beautiful blue apatite crystal at Mystic Valley, and giving away black tourmaline, rose quartz, sugilite, chocolate and By Kilian perfume samples to so many people!!!! ...including a stranger in the bathroom (now a friend) & the young woman who parks next to me in the parking garage...her brother is a percussionist, asked about my gong, and I told him about Memphis Drum Shop.
I am home, and so full of love I could burst!!! I'm celibate (as in no intimate partner) for 5 years & 45 days and counting...and I've never had a better Valentine's Day with a partner. NOTHING compares to today. No single man or woman outside myself has ever made me feel this beautiful, this lovely, this happy, this blessed on LOVE! Wahe Guru. All the people I love, myself & God & Guru made me feel this way...Immense gratitude to the Universe. If it got any better than this, I think I would pass out!
And Chela gave me a chocolate cake lollipop made by one of her friends + samples to take to two of my friends. We chatted for almost two hours about God & love, in a department store no less...and then I came home to see Wendy giving a spare car remote battery to a resident whose remote was broken. She always has everything! I smiled. Then some cool guy I've never met before named Scott made me blush sweetly...I am in utter bliss heaven! If I were to actually make love to someone feeling like I do right now...it would tip the balance and I would die from so much joy & go 'Straight to Heaven'!!!
And I gave money to a guy on the side of the freeway & he said: God Bless You. And God did.
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