Bug in the bronchials

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Om Namah Shivaya!

 

My dearest siblings in Amma,

 

A week ago I was in the hospital with a bacterial pneumonia in the

bronchials. Thanks to Amma's grace, which came via an antibiotic that turned

the infection around, I would not be writing this.

 

It's a little eerie that that conversation with Kali at the Ashram last year

(acute infection in the eye) also required an antibiotic. The other eerie

thing is that if I had passed, it could have been exactly one year after my

sister died. She was born one year ahead of me, and the pull was very

powerful.

 

I'm afraid mantra was not on my lips as I coughed and crept closer and

closer to that doorway. So it's a good thing Amma has given me some more

time to practice.

 

Thank you for all of your prayers and support. I'm slow catching up, but it

has been lively. Nice to be back at satsang.

 

With gratitude for Her Grace, I offer the following from Lex Hixon and

Ramprasad.

 

O mind, pay clear attention.

Turn around and rectify your basic error.

You imagine that you have lost your point of origin,

and you wander about desperately seeking

what is already the root of your own being.

 

The path to the original source

is ecstatic love.

Consider how intensely you love

your most intimate companions

and direct that much tender feeling

toward the Mother of the Universe,

who is pure awareness.

 

Your body is a crystalline structure,

its atoms like diamonds.

When these atomic pattern separate,

the body is destroyed.

Can any structure in the universe exist

as separate individuality?

Contemplate deeply! Discover nonduality.

There is only Mother Reality!

 

The singer of this gnostic hymn declares:

"My Mother, source of creativity,

expresses fully through all her creatures,

moving about subtly, secretly, and blissfully

within her own essentiality."

 

In Her Grace,

 

kenna