To senka about Ganga stories

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i know what is to be ill. shortly after my last visit to india i had a series of events that occured. they were most unfortunate. the worst being that my auto-immune system falterd leaving me with mixed connective tissue disease, reumatiod arthritis and a whole host of stuff. and i too must spend weeks in bed or a chair...lucky days i use my walker. and so many days in hospital with ivs for meds...everyday a host of meds...but maybe this slows one down and they become more serious...and the mind more playful....and open. maybe we need the extra nudge to tell us we are not these bodies....at anyrate there are days i wish i did ot have one. so now i have found myself here amongst others looking to Guru for guidance and love...each day i learn more...and find a treasure ...like seeing Maa chant and sing...and reading posts by devotees...treasures to the heart and soul.

 

nierika (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote: senka wrote:

i have little story about the Ganga river...i went down to offer obeisances to her. i splashed water on my head and chanted my japa. An elderly man with three horizontal lines on his forhead came beside me and kept encouraging me to submege, but i was hesitant since i could see from my travels all manner of stuff entered this river and my mind was convinced that even tho it was holy the water would not be good. He said i was using my mind not my heart. i was looking at the Ganga in a material way and not with my spiritual eyes. so i took a leap of faith and enterd the waters. when i surfaced i could see three dolphins come up for breath. they appeared pink in the setting sun. i felt a surge of awe,love.... and humility. still i have far to go in my appreciation and understanding. but i wont doubt, thanks to Ganga Ma. Dear senka ~ thank you you so much for sharing your personal experience with Ganga Ma.

I don't know if I will ever be well enough to go to India, but in many ways, my heart lives there, at least some of the time. How beautiful ... both the lesson, and the gift. I have always felt that there is something very special about dolphins. I only saw them once, when I still lived in Maryland and had gone to Bethany Beach on the Eastern Shore. I went out early in the morning, but dawn had already occurred. Yet the site of this row of dolphins leaping in and out of the ocean ... is beyond description. You do a very good job of describing how it felt, and the extra beauty of seeing them in the setting sun. Ahhhhhhhh ... I am so glad we are doing the EMS Sankalpa because I think of all the precious creatures of this Earth and all the bountiful diversity of flora and fauna, the rivers, lakes and oceans ... I can "see" Maa holding Bhu Devi in Her sweet hands. Jai Maa ~ Linda

 

 

 

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