“A bad day for your ego, is a good day for your soul” ~ Amma

Hello 🙂

How are you?

I am well and noticing a flow of Grace into my life recently. Feeling blessed 🙂 I really enjoyed going to see Amma’s close devotee, Brahmachari Shubamrita, when he gave his talk ‘Finding Our True Home’ here in London on Sunday. It was wonderful to be with someone through whom I feel Amma moves so deeply, and to be with my community. It was fantastic that some of you could make it! I was delighted to see you there! Please email me with any further thoughts you have about your experiences at this beautiful event.

What I feel was really conveyed by Br. Shubamrita, is that there is no real home outside our True Self. That, in itself, is radical – if you really take a moment to absorb it. The Brahmachari (a type of monk who has taken vows) went on to tell us a little story about this. Back in the 80s, when the crowds around Amma were very very small, he asked her to come and visit him in his home. At first she seemed not to hear him, so he left it. Then, once he had another opportunity, he again invited Amma to his home. This time Amma laughed and said, “My son, I am always in your home, but you are never there. You are always wandering somewhere else.”

Shubamrita highlighted the crucial importance of regular spiritual practice (sadhana) in bringing us back into the Self, into the space of Silence inside, which is also the only place that true happiness is found. And another, perhaps even more important way of ‘staying at home’ he said, is to spend time with masters like Amma in person; in other words, to be with a being who is permanently rooted in the Self, until we ourselves can really say that we are. I agree that, without the direct physical presence of a Self-Realised Master, the likelihood of true abidance as the Self is vaguely possible, at best.

The highlight of the visit by Amma’s close devotee, from my perspective, was the music. Bhajan bliss 🙂 🙂 🙂 It has been said that music tries to express what language cannot. I think a bhajan – when sung by someone whose heart is truly with God – takes this statement to its ultimate conclusion. The only thing I can relate it to, if you have not experienced this particular thing, is making love. Are we not also trying in this, to express that for each other which language fails to? Furthermore, that is really what the Bhakti path (the path of devotion) is, in a far more profound sense. Perhaps along similar lines, it could be said that Bhakti actually succeeds in expressing what making love comes close to. There is this completion with Bhakti that is utterly total……like a circle being drawn, coming together again, with God as the artist.

Events coming up which you might be interested in:-

Tony Parsons will be giving a talk on the 3rd August in London

https://www.theopensecret.com/meetings

A reminder about this very rare opportunity to be in satsang with Adyashanti in London (16th August)

https://www.alternatives.org.uk/event/satsang-adyashanti

A daylong retreat with his wife, Mukti, 18th August

https://www.muktisource.org/programs/in-person/intensives-detail/london-silent-retreat-day-1488

Anthony Gorman is running a Vortex Healing® Foundational training in London, 2nd – 6th October (please book in advance to avoid disappointment)

https://www.vortexhealing.org/Schedule2019.pdf

I would like to highlight my cancellation policy: it is fine to cancel or rearrange a session 24 hrs or more in advance. If it is after that though, then the session will be charged in full.

I leave you with the title of this newsletter, taken from a different story told to us by Br. Shubamrita: “A bad day for your ego, is a good day for your soul” ~ Amma.

Love,

xDaisy