One minute you’re lying by the swimming pool taking in the beauty that surrounds you—swaying palm trees, coconuts and pineapples galore.
The next minute you and thousands of your neighbours are running for your lives as your hawaiian paradise has become a raging inferno that a few hours later has burned your house and your city to the ground.
One minute you are hiking up a breathtaking mountain with the love of your life. A moment later your breath has literally been taken, you go to the hospital, are told you have had a heart attack, and shortly thereafter you are undergoing triple bypass heart surgery.
Indeed, there are no guarantees. That the sun will rise and set today are about as close to ‘sure things’ that we have.
Another sure thing is the love within us. It reveals not only all of our questions, but all of our answers as well.
Within us, is the spark to light the darkness. Within us—in our hearts and on our minds—is a volcano, sometimes detected, sometimes not. In either case, an eruption is likely to occur even when least expected. The eruption of love is magnificent—and inevitable.
Sacred AGNIHOTRA fire is not only the spark, but the fire as well. It awakens in us what has been dormant for a long time. And once awoken, the genie is out of the bottle, the toothpaste is out of the tube. There’s no going back.
Try, try as we may, once we know, once we feel, we can no longer claim ignorance. We know what to do. We know how to do it.
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS IN. JUST DO IT!
“But it is difficult,” we chant. We are given mantras to chant…a much better choice.
Shree Vasant told us, “if one looks at what is difficult in one’s life as a challenge rather than as a blockage, one can easily rise above the situation.”
With practice, what at first appeared to be agony, can soon become ecstasy.
Rising above may include sublimation and transformation. It is simple, but not easy.
But DEVOTION, PERSISTENCE, PERSPECTIVE AND SURRENDER flatten the defects on our road home.
IDAM NA MAMA…NOT MY WILL BUT THY WILL BE DONE.