Category Archives: My Spiritual Journey

Loving Life

It has come to me that our life is meant for Joy.  Happiness. Love.

To live a Peaceful Life.

After many years on a Spiritual Journey,  it is my realization.  To rise above life’s many stresses and begin to live a life in Inner Stillness and Peace. To be fully engaged in worldly life but not be affected by it.

To remain as a witness.

It is by association, being near Spiritual Masters, Realized Souls for so many years,  I now find myself living in Love, Peace, Joy, Serenity and True Happiness.

Om sri gurubhyo namaha hari om  ~ Salutations to all Great Spiritual Masters

Guruji by the lake

 

 

Happiness, a choice…

Have you ever considered that you have a choice whether to be happy or not?

Spiritual Teacher and World Leader, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is on a mission to teach people all over the world about Happiness.

What do all people want?  Happiness.  It is also elusive for most as the stresses and strains of the world often pull people down.  This stress leads many people to unhappiness and some even to depression.

The world is a busy place full of challenges.  How can one keep their head above water and find Happiness and Peace with never ending stress?

“Sri Sri” or “Guruji” or “Gurudev” as many call him has a solution.

Meditate.  Go deep within oneSelf.   Find Peace in the beautiful Light that you are. Find a place of Happiness within and spread that to the world.  Make a pledge to not let the smile on your face disappear no matter what comes in your life.  Bring Joy to everyone you meet.

He teaches us that we can choose to be Happy.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been called, “The Guru of Joy”.  In his presence I found Joy that had been missing in my life for years.   He rekindled my Love, Light, Peace and Boundless Joy.

Find out more about him at his website: http://srisriravishankar.org/

and on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SriSriRaviShankar/

And learn to meditate with him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4C9MyDMb2A

Om Tat Sat

 

Higher Awareness

Have you ever heard the idea that others could read your mind?  And not only read your mind but have Awareness of all your thoughts, words and actions that have ever occurred in your life?

I have had direct experience that this level of Awareness exists.

It is a level beyond this dimension, this outer reality we call the world.

It is a level of Higher Awareness, higher dimensions of Consciousness that exist every moment.  This level is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.

The key to finding this level, in my experience, is to meditate, work with the light, stay on the Spiritual Path and most importantly, spend time with those who are already living in this state of Higher Awareness.

It is said that even to learn to tie one’s shoes, one needs a teacher.  To learn to swim, we need a teacher.  To learn to read and write we seek a teacher. To get to our destination while traveling we need a road map.

To find your own Higher Awareness, your own Enlightenment, seek the ones who are already Enlightened.

Only those who are fully Awake can Awaken another.

Om Tat Sat

 

 

Inner Peace

Inner Peace…

I have seen that many people are losing their Peace.  It is important to always find a balance within oneself.

The world outside will constantly be in flux, in turmoil, in activity.  If we continue to focus our attention there we will lose our Inner Peace.

In order to find Inner Peace we must find time each day to be still, quiet, contemplative.

Some find this time during a quiet walk alone. Others through meditation. Some do Tai Chi, yoga or breathing. Some sit and behold a sunrise or sunset and contemplate its beauty. Some find nature will bring stillness and quietude within.

It is important for each person to go inside oneself and reconnect with the beautiful spirit that they are and always have been.   Release the chaos of the outside world and find the Inner world of Love, Light, Compassion and Peace.

Be Still Now.

Spiritual Light

I recently attended a celebration at a local Botanical Garden.  It was one of the most amazing days I have experienced in many years.

I, for the first time, had the experience of a Blessing Ceremony conducted by a group of Traditional Mexican Healers called Curanderos.  In the ceremony they blessed Mother Earth and called in the Four Directions.  As they drummed, blew the conch, distributed blessed water and smudged participants with the fragrant smoke of burning herbs, the energy became higher and higher.  Divine Energies began to fill the garden.  People began to feel more joyful and exuberant.  There were so many smiling faces. Children were happy and playing.  The healing energy of Light continued throughout the day. Several people shared that they had very powerful experiences of healing from their interactions with the Curanderos.

Many thanks to the beautiful Curanderos who brought us so much Divine Light, Sacredness and Healing.

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti

 CURANDERISMO is the art of Mexican Folk Healing, from the word curar, meaning to heal. Curanderismo uses an holistic approach to healing – treating body, mind, and spirit

We are One World Family

It is one of the highest Spiritual Teachings to recognize that we are all ONE.  The great Spiritual Masters of our time teach us that we are not separate from one another but one light, one consciousness, One World Family.   The teaching shows us to accept all people as part of our SELF regardless of race, religion, culture or beliefs.

Bringing people together in Unity  while accepting the wonderful diversity is a way toward World Peace.

Loving others, accepting others, forgiving others and helping others is the Dharmic Path.

Om Tat Sat

Spiritual Purification

When with a Spiritual Master such as Mata Amritanandamayi, one will find that they may undergo immense Spiritual Purification.  This includes all levels of Body, Mind and Soul. We all come to earth with many soul wounds and incur many more wounds during our lifetime.  It is said that Amma is the great Surgeon, we are in the operating theater and she will remove those things that are conflicts within our soul, painful wounds from the past and whatever is not pure within us.  It is said that her Pure Love for us is the “anesthetic” as she gently and tenderly wakes us up to our true, unblemished nature.

We are “That”, the Divine, the Atman, the Supreme Consciousness.  We are pure Love, Light and Divine Truth.

Om Tat Sat

Spiritual Awakening. Wake up, the Time is Now!

Wake up everyone, the time is now.  You are here for an important reason.  Set aside your day to day life, your daily activities that keep you in the cycle of illusion that this world is all there is.  Wake up.  I am calling you to remember why you have come to Earth at this time. I am calling you to find your true nature, your True Self. Your Spiritual Self.

All you need is here.  All the Divine ones, the Divine Masters are here to support you. Remember.  You have chosen to come.

Why?   Do you remember?

The Divine Masters are here to remind you.

Om Shanti

With Love and Blessings

Amma

Every Summer Amma makes a trip from her Ashram in Amritapuri, Kerala, India to the United States.  She tours the country from Seattle to L.A., Santa Fe to Dallas, Chicago to New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and ends with a retreat in Toronto.  She then goes on to see her many devotees in Japan.

I have been a devotee of Amma for 24 years.  I have just returned from seeing Amma for a public program and a Devi Bhava.  I am always amazed at the intensity of the Shakti, or Spiritual Light that emanates while in Amma’s physical presence.  There is nothing that compares to this experience.

I am happy to have been with her again and to have seen many long time friends at the programs.

I cannot describe in words the energy, the mantras, the fragrances or the infinite love that is experienced while in Amma’s presence, you just have to go and see for yourself.

Om Tat Sat

 

I AM Awake

I AM AWAKE.

I have realized that I am already awake.  In an awakened state.  In Light.  In Peace.  In Love.

There is no where to go.  There is only Light.  And there is more.  A never ending Journey.

I have realized that I am that Light and exist in that Light always.  In the human state of residing in a body, there is a limit to how much Light I can experience physically, mentally, emotionally and even Spiritually.  I have realized that beyond this physical body and this physical reality we call Planet Earth, that there is Pure Light, Pure Being, Pure Awareness, Satchidananda, Bliss.  I AM THAT.

Many years ago, early on in my quest for Enlightenment, I was given the Sanskrit name “Sanmayi” by my Satguru Ammachi.  Sanmayi translates to “Pure Being”.

Today I wish to honor the Spiritual Masters both incarnate and dis-incarnate who are here to help us to Awaken.

Om Tat Sat