Posts tagged ‘sacred’

Jun 4

Made In India pt. 4

Hello 🙂

🕉 Om Amriteswaryai Namah 🕉

“The current situation the world is facing is not under our control. But there is one thing we can always keep in check – our mental attitude. Let us be strong and optimistic. To do this, we should focus on the Eternal. We should hold tightly to the feet of Paramatma. This steadfast faith and focus on the Paramatma can lift us beyond all kinds of limitations.” ~ Amma

The next Free Online Group Healing is tomorrow Friday 5th June @ 2pm London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them. Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you🙏

I have had a couple of queries about this, so just by way of explanation – yes, I usually start the Groups 10 minutes early. It allows people time to arrive and allows me time to read from awakening books to you all. You are welcome to arrive early, but absolutely fine if you can’t or don’t wish to.

Before leaving Amritapuri in February, I was asked to join a Pilgrimage of North India. I gladly did so, having known very little of the country except for my visits to see Amma in Kerala. The idea was to visit the sacred sites of North India with a Group of (mainly) German and Swiss spiritual types, singing kirtan together along the way.

We travelled to the Haridwar area to stay at Santosh Puri ashram, where the atmosphere was truly spectacular… Imagine an area of the world where for thousands of years people have been performing Pujas and other devotional ceremonies, calling out to the Divine and surrendering to That. I think of all the places we visited on the Pilgrimage, that area – and especially that ashram – were my favourites. The history of this ashram is that, during the freedom of the 1960s, a woman visited the Guru there from Germany. She was so moved by the Truth she felt, that she threw both her passport and her visa straight into the nearby Ganga river! She never left India again for the following 45 years. She married the Guru and thus became the other Guru of Santosh Puri. The Gurus had 3 children, who now take care of the ashram and its visitors with utmost care, love and devotion. Check out the duni fire (sacred fire-pit), which has been burning continuously since my birth year of 1978 :-

The routine and vibe were so wonderful at Santosh Puri, I felt I could have stayed there for months. A lot of the time I was wandering around in Bliss…the whole thing was so profoundly embodying and nourishing. We would rise at 3 30am, have a cold bucket shower (out of respect for the sadhana we were about to do) and sit by the fire in silent meditation. There was pin-drop silence… After half an hour, the Arati would begin complete with chanting, rituals and bhajans honouring the Ganga river, which is experienced as an embodiment of Divinity. It was mesmerising… I feel that there is no replacement for real, applied, traditional Indian sadhana. It creates a unique devotional connection to the Divine, through illiciting that inner longing for God in every human heart : the bridge to God-realisation. During this stop on the Pilgrimage, I was asked to be the Healer for the Group, which I happily accepted 🙂 It was an incredibly powerful experience and I feel I gave some of my best sessions ever as a result.

I had the opportunity to bathe in the Ganga river for the first time, which I readily took up. We all walked down in a little group from Santosh Puri and prepared ourselves on the banks. The whole vibe was so right… Local Indians were playing in the water, the atmosphere was peaceful and the Divinity was palpable. I submerged myself clothed (as is the tradition), prayed, got my head right underwater and let go… When I surfaced, at first I didn’t think much had happened. But when I left the river to change, I stopped in my tracks recognising that something had completely left me. To this day, I don’t know what it was. Perhaps it was bad karma, perhaps resistance to the process of life, who knows..? I just know that something left and never came back.

While at Santosh Puri, we also celebrated the day of Holi – the festival of colours, joy, unity, forgiveness and new beginnings 🙂

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More on the unfolding Pilgrimage journey next time 🙂 I would like to thank and honour Prasadini and Rahul, who led and managed the Pilgrimage so beautifully, giving us all the opportunity to deepen in Divinity together 🙂

Love,

xDaisy

Aug 19

Free Online Group Healing : Wed 24th Aug

Hello 🙂

If you would like to attend the next Free Online Group Healing, it is this Wed 24h August @ 1pm BST. NB: please attend only if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr). Here is the link you need for booking :-

Please note that you need to pre-book. You can also book as many Groups as you like in advance.

Please feel free to invite people to the Groups via this booking link. If they would like to receive this newsletter, a message to me via WhatsApp, Telegram or regular text containing their email address is good.

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I request that you do not contact me about rearranging, cancelling or scheduling: please utilise the email from Calendly for this. It may end up in your spam / junk box, so please check.

NB: lateness, no-showing, cancelling / rearranging less than 24 hrs in advance of the session time will result in you being charged in full.

I had a sweet request from one of you during the last session, to include the passage I read from Adyashanti’s book ‘Sacred Inquiry’. Here it is for your enjoyment 🙂

“What allows this ultimate letting go, this unreserved surrender? Of course there can be no formula, no way to let go. I am sitting here in my living room, late at night, writing this response to you. You are here with me as I am there with you, and I can feel that in the deepest place within you is the complete willingness to let go completely; it has already let from before the beginning of time. Yet here you are wondering what can bring about this letting go. Such is the final paradox.

You cannot do it because it has already been done, but you must still find this letting go within yourself, allow it to bloom and flower completely.

What a divine paradox, to find a letting go that has let go from before the beginning of time. We do not do the letting go as much as we embrace it, give everything without reserve to it. It is a matter of love, is it not? And it is the courage to die for what we love, to give everything without holding back, without reserve, without expecting anything in return, not even a better life or a better experience.

Our deepest desire is for truth or God, is it not? And not just for how God can be experienced by self, but how God is experienced by God – something neither the ego nor self can ever know. The infinity of the infinite will always be experienced as annihilation to self when self comes to its own boundary and imagines what is beyond it.

Love truth, love the infinite, love God, with all your heart. Do not love your experiences of truth, but rather love truth as it is within itself. Take leave of yourself; flow out from yourself completely in all things. We all must die into life out of love, and thus embrace life lived beyond all self. We must become what we already are and let go into what has never held on.

How do you breathe? You just breathe. How do you embrace this letting go? You just embrace it. It’s like breathing out, continually. It’s an emptying out of all uneccessary ‘selfing’.” (Pg 118 – 119)

Love,

xDaisy