GSM - We are all human beings created by one God, on one Earth, in complete unison.

[Guest guest]

[The Incarnation of the Holy Spirit, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, who came to the

American Indian Nation in the form of " The White Buffalo Calf Woman " clearly

tells us of the kinship of all humanity with each other and with God. American

Native traditions deeply reflect this reality.]

 

 

" After all we are all human beings created by one God, on one Earth,

in complete unison. We are part and parcel of that One Primordial

Being. We are cells in the body of that Great Being. " (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

What are we inside, Birmingham, UK, August 9th, 1980)

 

" There is nothing like we are English, we are Indian, we are this - we are all

universal beings. And once we accept this, suddenly you jump into the state of

collective consciousness, into the state of the Virata. " (Shri Mataji Nirmala

Devi, Cure that Left Vishuddi, Shudy Camps, England, 1988-08-20.)

 

" The color of skin makes no difference. What is good and just for one is good

and just for the other, and the Great Spirit made all men brothers.

I have a red skin, but my grandfather was a white man. What does it

matter? It is not the color of the skin that makes me good or bad. "

 

White Shield - Arikara Chief

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/wisdom.html

 

 

The True Peace

" The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes

within the souls of people when they realize their relationship,

their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they

realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the

Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is

within each of us.

This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.

The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and

the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all

you should understand that there can never be peace between nations

until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said,

is within the souls of men. "

 

Black Elk - Oglala Sioux

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/BlackElk.html

 

 

[shri Mataji Nirmala Devi shares some observations about Mother Earth. American

Natives exhibited an innate understanding of the significant, nurturing grandeur

of Mother Earth.]

 

" This one is a very big blessing to us that we all have this Mooladhara Chakra

[qualities of innocence, purity, wisdom] now put into proper thing. When you sit

on the ground also it helps more because the Mother of Shri Ganesha is this

Prithvi, is this Earth, the Mother Earth and that's why we should look after the

Mother Earth....We can glorify Her, we can beautify Her, we can do all kinds of

things... "

 

" Nature is so beautiful, just look at the nature, it is never smelling, it's

never dirty, every leaf is so organized that it should get the sunrays...we have

to understand that we have to respect the Mother Earth. " (Shri Mataji Nirmala

Devi, Shri Ganesha Puja, Cabella, Italy, September 25, 1999.)

 

 

" The character of the Indian's emotion left little room in his heart

for antagonism toward his fellow creatures .... For the Lakota (one

of the three branches of the Sioux Nation), mountains, lakes,

rivers, springs, valleys, and the woods were all in finished beauty.

Winds, rain, snow, sunshine, day, night, and change of seasons were

endlessly fascinating. Birds, insects, and animals filled the world

with knowledge that defied the comprehension of man.

 

The Lakota was a true naturalist - a lover of Nature. He loved the

earth and all things of the earth, and the attachment grew with age.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or

reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering

power.

 

It was good for the skin to touch the earth, and the old people

liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the

sacred earth.

 

Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of

earth. The birds that flew in the air came to rest upon the earth,

and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and

grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing, and healing.

 

This is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead of

propping himself up and away from its live-giving forces. For him,

to sit or lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeply and

to feel more keenly; he can see more clearly into the mysteries of

life and come closer in kinship to other lives about him. "

 

Chief Luther Standing Bear - Oglala Sioux

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/wisdom.html

 

 

" I was born in Nature's wide domain! The trees were all that

sheltered my infant limbs, the blue heavens all that covered me. I

am one of Nature's children. I have always admired her. She shall be

my glory: her features, her robes, and the wreath about her brow,

the seasons, her stately oaks, and the evergreen - her hair,

ringlets of earth - all contribute to my enduring love of her.

 

And wherever I see her, emotions of pleasure roll in my breast, and

swell and burst like waves on the shores of the ocean, in prayer and

praise to Him who has placed me in her hand, It is thought great to

be born in palaces, surrounded with wealth - but to be born in

Nature's wide domain is greater still!

 

I would much more glory in this birthplace, with the broad canopy of

heaven above me, and the giant arms of the forest trees for my

shelter, than to be born in palaces of marble, studded with pillars

of gold! Nature will be Nature still, while palaces shall decay and

fall in ruins.

 

Yes, Niagara will be Niagara a thousand years hence! The rainbow, a

wreath over her brow, shall continue as long as the sun, and the

flowering of the river - while the work of art, however carefully

protected and preserved, shall fade and crumble into dust! "

 

George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh) - Ojibwe

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/wisdom.html

 

 

" When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light,

for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy

of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies

with yourself... "

 

Tecumseh - Shawnee

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/Tecumseh.html

 

 

" Our Elders tell us that we were given sacred laws which we were to use to

honour our Mother Earth. We were given ceremonies by which we express our thanks

to our Creator for His many gifts...The Great Spirit gave songs and dances to

the different nations of Turtle Island. (North America) "

 

" We were given ways of dancing to express our joy of living and to pay tribute

to all the life cycle. Traditional dancing belongs to us whether it be the Grass

Dance, Rabbit Dance, Fish Dance, or the Eagle Dance. We know, when we dance,

that these dances were meant for us. It is tribute to the animal life or for

ourselves when we are in good health, or in thanks to our Creator. "

 

" People say you can't have a Pow Wow without a drum, for it carries the

heartbeat of the Indian nation. It is also felt to carry the heartbeat of Mother

Earth, and thus calls all nations together...

It is said that the drum was brought to the Indian people by a woman, and

therefore there is something of a woman's Spirit that resides inside the drum.

Appropriately it is to be treated with respect and care, and strict behaviour is

expected of anyone coming in contact with the drum. The drum is often thought to

help bring the physical and mental side of a person back in touch with his or

her spiritual or heart side. As with many things in the Indian culture, the drum

is used to bring balance and rejuvination to a person through participation in

dancing, singing or listening to the heartbeat. " Anonymous

 

 

 

" Holy Mother Earth, the trees, and all nature are witnesses to your

thoughts and deeds. - Winnebago Wise Saying

 

Nothing is more important for the recovery of the feminine face of

God as a rich and reverent understanding of the traditions of the

world's First Peoples. In them is preserved our original human

relationship with Mother Earth in all her wisdom, humility, and

divine radiance.

 

The songs, myths, rituals, and living customs of those native

peoples who have preserved their truth against huge odds speak to us

of the grandeur of earth, of the wonders of nature, of the

mysterious and marvellous ways in which Mother Earth surrounds,

sustains, and instructs us at every moment.

 

In listening humbly to the traditions of these native peoples, we

remember who we once were and what we still can be; we can

experience once again the naked divine truth of the natural world

and can learn from that experience to respect the laws of nature.

 

And what do the native traditions tell us of human and natural life

if we listen? They initiate us into the three laws of sacred

feminine reality - the Law of Unity, the Law of Rhythm, and the Law

of the Love of the Dance. Taken together these three " laws " oppose

to our fragmented, exploitative, self-obsessed forms of knowing and

living an entirely different, far richer, and saner vision of what

it is to be human and divine, and alive in nature.

 

Read what survives of the myths, songs, and rituals of any tribal

peoples - whether the Innuit from Greenland, the Kogis from

Columbia, or the Navaho from North America - and what will be

immediately apparent is the knowledge running through them that life

is one: one energy, one power, one force. Historians of religion

used to believe that monotheism started with Akhenaten and the Jews;

but the understanding of the sacredness of unity behind multiplicity

was already alive in those tribal traditions that see life as one

and everything that lives as holy. According to native traditions

all living things are related to everything else, in a web of

extraordinary delicacy that stretches over the whole universe. All

things are in this web and part of it, and everything done to one of

the parts of the web is done to all of the others. What the Mahayana

Buddhist mystics call interdependence (or more

fashionably " interbeing " ) is as old as the Aborigine's understanding

that the rock formations of their deserts were " lines " in a song the

Divine World was trying to " sing " to them; as old as the Innuit's

knowledge that before seals could be hunted, the Ancestor Seal and

the Gods of Nature must be prayed to; as old as the Native

American's honoring of the buffalo after they killed it. Native

traditions offer us a passionate awareness of this " interbeing " . For

them there is nothing sophisticated or intellectual about it; it is

as obvious as sunlight or the cry of a baby. Reexperiencing the

world in this unmeditated intensity of connection is crucial to the

recovery of the Divine Feminine. Unless we recover the primal poetry

of the Law of Unity with all things, we will go on killing and

exploiting in a frenzy of false separation from nature and so from

our deep selves, and we will continue to ruin our world.

 

The second law that native traditions, wherever they come from, all

honor is the Law of Rhythm. Living in naked reliance on nature

inevitably entails a reverence for those rhythmic cycles that

permeate the whole of nature's workings. The laws of nature and so

of the human life that is everywhere sustained by nature's

environment are rhythmic. Our hearts contract and then swell out as

they suck in and pump our blood; spring follows summer and winter

precedes spring; the brain is swept by endless wavelike pulses of

sleep, wakefulness, hunger, satiation. Only by recapturing - and

following - this sense of life's rhythms will we be able to survive.

Opening to the law of rhythm requires developing feminine powers of

imagination, attention, receptivity, capacity to wonder, nurture and

cherish, and a constantly, acutely sensitive, and sensible down-to-

earth subtlety of approach that attempts to mirror the suppleness of

life itself and its rhythmic alternations. If we wish to heal the

natural world that we are in imminent danger of destroying, we are

going to have to rebuild in ourselves those inner senses that can

listen in radical humility to its voices, attend to its rhythms, and

enact quickly what they tell us.

 

The third law of the Divine Feminine that native traditions

inititate us into, if we let them, is the Law of the Love of the

Dance. What is astonishing, when you read what has come down to us

of the tribal myths and songs, is that despite the knowledge they

all have of life and nature's horrors and difficulties, they ring

with praise and adoration and gratitude for the blessing of being

alive on the earth. In so doing, they give all contemporary seekers

of the Divine Feminine, a very clear vision of that living in

intimacy with nature the Mother necessitates - and creates - and

what a return of that life-wisdom means. The restoration of the

Divine Feminine to the heart and mind of the world will mean a

return to the type of passionate embrace of life in all its pain,

wildness, and passion that we see in tribal traditions. The native

peoples never make any separation between soul and body, heart and

mind, prayer and action, the " other world " and this one. They did

not make these separations, not because they aren't capable of doing

so, as certain arrogant modern thinkers have claimed, but because

they would have seen such separations as crazy, as a betrayal of the

unity of all being. Realizing this unity of being gives native

peoples a rugged, unshakable faith in life's goodness. Within tribal

traditions being born a human is to be born into a dance that every

animate or inanimate, visible or invisible being is also dancing.

Every step of this dance is printed in light, its energy is

adoration, its rhythm is praise. "

 

The Divine Feminine

Andrew Harvey & Anne Baring - Conari Press

Berkeley, CA

ISBN 1-57324-035-4 (hardcover)

Pgs. 22, 24-26

[Guest guest]

Dear Gerlinde,

 

Your latest GSM upload really touched my heart about how deeply the

Natives revere Mother Earth. They are a cut above the rest of

humanity. i feel so inadequate and ignorant compared to them. A great

piece! Thanks.

 

i now realize how fortunate are we to have Shri Mataji's great vision

that reflects in so many traditions. It is indeed comforting to know

that we are now well on the way of gathering the knowledge directly

from the sources of these tradtions and synthesizing them with Shri

Mataji's message to humanity. There is a sense of peace, joy and

approaching awakening - the consciousness of Her Blossom Time will

slowly but surely reach many seekers in future. As an ever increasing

number of such inspiring and enlightening articles are added to the

sites, how can Her Blossom Time now fail? ....... after three dacades

of being suppressed and almost edited out of collective memory.

 

warmest regards,

 

jagbir

 

 

 

 

[The Incarnation of the Holy Spirit, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, who

came to the American Indian Nation in the form of " The White Buffalo

Calf Woman " clearly tells us of the kinship of all humanity with each

other and with God. American Native traditions deeply reflect this

reality.]

 

 

" After all we are all human beings created by one God, on one Earth,

in complete unison. We are part and parcel of that One Primordial

Being. We are cells in the body of that Great Being. " (Shri Mataji

Nirmala Devi, What are we inside, Birmingham, UK, August 9th, 1980)

 

" There is nothing like we are English, we are Indian, we are this -

we are all universal beings. And once we accept this, suddenly you

jump into the state of collective consciousness, into the state of

the Virata. " (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Cure that Left Vishuddi,

Shudy Camps, England, 1988-08-20.)

 

" The color of skin makes no difference. What is good and just for one

is good and just for the other, and the Great Spirit made all men

brothers. I have a red skin, but my grandfather was a white man. What

does it matter? It is not the color of the skin that makes me good or

bad. "

 

White Shield - Arikara Chief

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/wisdom.html

 

 

The True Peace

" The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes

within the souls of people when they realize their relationship,

their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they

realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the

Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is

within each of us.

 

This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.

The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and

the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all

you should understand that there can never be peace between nations

until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said,

is within the souls of men. "

 

Black Elk - Oglala Sioux

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/BlackElk.html

 

 

[shri Mataji Nirmala Devi shares some observations about Mother

Earth. American Natives exhibited an innate understanding of the

significant, nurturing grandeur of Mother Earth.]

 

" This one is a very big blessing to us that we all have this

Mooladhara Chakra [qualities of innocence, purity, wisdom] now put

into proper thing. When you sit on the ground also it helps more

because the Mother of Shri Ganesha is this Prithvi, is this Earth,

the Mother Earth and that's why we should look after the Mother

Earth....We can glorify Her, we can beautify Her, we can do all kinds

of things... "

 

" Nature is so beautiful, just look at the nature, it is never

smelling, it's never dirty, every leaf is so organized that it should

get the sunrays...we have to understand that we have to respect the

Mother Earth. " (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha Puja, Cabella,

Italy, September 25, 1999.)

 

 

" The character of the Indian's emotion left little room in his heart

for antagonism toward his fellow creatures .... For the Lakota (one

of the three branches of the Sioux Nation), mountains, lakes,

rivers, springs, valleys, and the woods were all in finished beauty.

Winds, rain, snow, sunshine, day, night, and change of seasons were

endlessly fascinating. Birds, insects, and animals filled the world

with knowledge that defied the comprehension of man.

 

The Lakota was a true naturalist - a lover of Nature. He loved the

earth and all things of the earth, and the attachment grew with age.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or

reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering

power.

 

It was good for the skin to touch the earth, and the old people

liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the

sacred earth.

 

Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of

earth. The birds that flew in the air came to rest upon the earth,

and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and

grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing, and healing.

 

This is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead of

propping himself up and away from its live-giving forces. For him,

to sit or lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeply and

to feel more keenly; he can see more clearly into the mysteries of

life and come closer in kinship to other lives about him. "

 

Chief Luther Standing Bear - Oglala Sioux

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/wisdom.html

 

 

" I was born in Nature's wide domain! The trees were all that

sheltered my infant limbs, the blue heavens all that covered me. I

am one of Nature's children. I have always admired her. She shall be

my glory: her features, her robes, and the wreath about her brow,

the seasons, her stately oaks, and the evergreen - her hair,

ringlets of earth - all contribute to my enduring love of her.

 

And wherever I see her, emotions of pleasure roll in my breast, and

swell and burst like waves on the shores of the ocean, in prayer and

praise to Him who has placed me in her hand, It is thought great to

be born in palaces, surrounded with wealth - but to be born in

Nature's wide domain is greater still!

 

I would much more glory in this birthplace, with the broad canopy of

heaven above me, and the giant arms of the forest trees for my

shelter, than to be born in palaces of marble, studded with pillars

of gold! Nature will be Nature still, while palaces shall decay and

fall in ruins.

 

Yes, Niagara will be Niagara a thousand years hence! The rainbow, a

wreath over her brow, shall continue as long as the sun, and the

flowering of the river - while the work of art, however carefully

protected and preserved, shall fade and crumble into dust! "

 

George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh) - Ojibwe

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/wisdom.html

 

 

" When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light,

for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy

of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies

with yourself... "

 

Tecumseh - Shawnee

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/Tecumseh.html

 

 

" Our Elders tell us that we were given sacred laws which we were to

use to honour our Mother Earth. We were given ceremonies by which we

express our thanks to our Creator for His many gifts...The Great

Spirit gave songs and dances to the different nations of Turtle

Island. (North America) "

 

" We were given ways of dancing to express our joy of living and to

pay tribute to all the life cycle. Traditional dancing belongs to us

whether it be the Grass Dance, Rabbit Dance, Fish Dance, or the Eagle

Dance. We know, when we dance, that these dances were meant for us.

It is tribute to the animal life or for ourselves when we are in good

health, or in thanks to our Creator. "

 

" People say you can't have a Pow Wow without a drum, for it carries

the heartbeat of the Indian nation. It is also felt to carry the

heartbeat of Mother Earth, and thus calls all nations to gether...

It is said that the drum was brought to the Indian people by a woman,

and therefore there is something of a woman's Spirit that resides

inside the drum. Appropriately it is to be treated with respect and

care, and strict behaviour is expected of anyone coming in contact

with the drum. The drum is often thought to help bring the physical

and mental side of a person back in touch with his or her spiritual

or heart side. As with many things in the Indian culture, the drum

is used to bring balance and rejuvination to a person through

participation in dancing, singing or listening to the heartbeat. "

Anonymous

 

 

 

" Holy Mother Earth, the trees, and all nature are witnesses to your

thoughts and deeds. - Winnebago Wise Saying

 

Nothing is more important for the recovery of the feminine face of

God as a rich and reverent understanding of the traditions of the

world's First Peoples. In them is preserved our original human

relationship with Mother Earth in all her wisdom, humility, and

divine radiance.

 

The songs, myths, rituals, and living customs of those native

peoples who have preserved their truth against huge odds speak to us

of the grandeur of earth, of the wonders of nature, of the

mysterious and marvellous ways in which Mother Earth surrounds,

sustains, and instructs us at every moment.

 

In listening humbly to the traditions of these native peoples, we

remember who we once were and what we still can be; we can

experience once again the naked divine truth of the natural world

and can learn from that experience to respect the laws of nature.

 

And what do the native traditions tell us of human and natural life

if we listen? They initiate us into the three laws of sacred

feminine reality - the Law of Unity, the Law of Rhythm, and the Law

of the Love of the Dance. Taken together these three " laws " oppose

to our fragmented, exploitative, self-obsessed forms of knowing and

living an entirely different, far richer, and saner vision of what

it is to be human and divine, and alive in nature.

 

Read what survives of the myths, songs, and rituals of any tribal

peoples - whether the Innuit from Greenland, the Kogis from

Columbia, or the Navaho from North America - and what will be

immediately apparent is the knowledge running through them that life

is one: one energy, one power, one force. Historians of religion

used to believe that monotheism started with Akhenaten and the Jews;

but the understanding of the sacredness of unity behind multiplicity

was already alive in those tribal traditions that see life as one

and everything that lives as holy. According to native traditions

all living things are related to everything else, in a web of

extraordinary delicacy that stretches over the whole universe. All

things are in this web and part of it, and everything done to one of

the parts of the web is done to all of the others. What the Mahayana

Buddhist mystics call interdependence (or more

fashionably " interbeing " ) is as old as the Aborigine's understanding

that the rock formations of their deserts were " lines " in a song the

Divine World was trying to " sing " to them; as old as the Innuit's

knowledge that before seals could be hunted, the Ancestor Seal and

the Gods of Nature must be prayed to; as old as the Native

American's honoring of the buffalo after they killed it. Native

traditions offer us a passionate awareness of this " interbeing " . For

them there is nothing sophisticated or intellectual about it; it is

as obvious as sunlight or the cry of a baby. Reexperiencing the

world in this unmeditated intensity of connection is crucial to the

recovery of the Divine Feminine. Unless we recover the primal poetry

of the Law of Unity with all things, we will go on killing and

exploiting in a frenzy of false separation from nature and so from

our deep selves, and we will continue to ruin our world.

 

The second law that native traditions, wherever they come from, all

honor is the Law of Rhythm. Living in naked reliance on nature

inevitably entails a reverence for those rhythmic cycles that

permeate the whole of nature's workings. The laws of nature and so

of the human life that is everywhere sustained by nature's

environment are rhythmic. Our hearts contract and then swell out as

they suck in and pump our blood; spring follows summer and winter

precedes spring; the brain is swept by endless wavelike pulses of

sleep, wakefulness, hunger, satiation. Only by recapturing - and

following - this sense of life's rhythms will we be able to survive.

Opening to the law of rhythm requires developing feminine powers of

imagination, attention, receptivity, capacity to wonder, nurture and

cherish, and a constantly, acutely sensitive, and sensible down-to-

earth subtlety of approach that attempts to mirror the suppleness of

life itself and its rhythmic alternations. If we wish to heal the

natural world that we are in imminent danger of destroying, we are

going to have to rebuild in ourselves those inner senses that can

listen in radical humility to its voices, attend to its rhythms, and

enact quickly what they tell us.

 

The third law of the Divine Feminine that native traditions

inititate us into, if we let them, is the Law of the Love of the

Dance. What is astonishing, when you read what has come down to us

of the tribal myths and songs, is that despite the knowledge they

all have of life and nature's horrors and difficulties, they ring

with praise and adoration and gratitude for the blessing of being

alive on the earth. In so doing, they give all contemporary seekers

of the Divine Feminine, a very clear vision of that living in

intimacy with nature the Mother necessitates - and creates - and

what a return of that life-wisdom means. The restoration of the

Divine Feminine to the heart and mind of the world will mean a

return to the type of passionate embrace of life in all its pain,

wildness, and passion that we see in tribal traditions. The native

peoples never make any separation between soul and body, heart and

mind, prayer and action, the " other world " and this one. They did

not make these separations, not because they aren't capable of doing

so, as certain arrogant modern thinkers have claimed, but because

they would have seen such separations as crazy, as a betrayal of the

unity of all being. Realizing this unity of being gives native

peoples a rugged, unshakable faith in life's goodness. Within tribal

traditions being born a human is to be born into a dance that every

animate or inanimate, visible or invisible being is also dancing.

Every step of this dance is printed in light, its energy is

adoration, its rhythm is praise. "

 

The Divine Feminine

Andrew Harvey & Anne Baring - Conari Press Berkeley, CA

ISBN 1-57324-035-4 (hardcover)

Pgs. 22, 24-26

[Guest guest]

Dear Gerlinde,

 

Your article is very touching and highlights the depth of the Holy Spirit's

Message which is as deep as the Mother Earth Itself! i like the native attitude

towards clearing and cleansing, which is done in a natural and not obsessive

way, like the SYSSR. i think that Shri Mataji " did try " to instill the natural

way into Sahaja Yogis. It is the Native Americans who can show the commonsense

balance in this important area. Their attention is on the Great White Spirit at

all times and they know from where the blessings come. They know that it is the

truth of the Divine, and the life in the Divine, that brings the vibrational

energy, which is nothing but the love of God. It is in their very heart of

hearts, and in their bone of bones! That is why i am also compelled to say with

Jagbir that:

 

" They are a cut above the rest of humanity. i feel so inadequate and ignorant

compared to them! "

 

Gerlinde, i can only say, thanks so much for what you are doing. It is such a

great blessing for all of us and enlightens the Incarnation of the White Buffalo

Calf Woman's teachings in a new light, that we never quite saw before. When you

unite the Native wisdom with the wisdom of the Mother as you have done, the view

is unexpected, delightful, grand, breathtaking and beautiful beyond words to

express!

 

love from violet

 

 

 

, " jagbir

singh " <adishakti_org wrote:

>

> Dear Gerlinde,

>

> Your latest GSM upload really touched my heart about how deeply the

> Natives revere Mother Earth. They are a cut above the rest of

> humanity. i feel so inadequate and ignorant compared to them. A

great

> piece! Thanks.

>

> i now realize how fortunate are we to have Shri Mataji's great

vision

> that reflects in so many traditions. It is indeed comforting to know

> that we are now well on the way of gathering the knowledge directly

> from the sources of these tradtions and synthesizing them with Shri

> Mataji's message to humanity. There is a sense of peace, joy and

> approaching awakening - the consciousness of Her Blossom Time will

> slowly but surely reach many seekers in future. As an ever

increasing

> number of such inspiring and enlightening articles are added to the

> sites, how can Her Blossom Time now fail? ....... after three

dacades

> of being suppressed and almost edited out of collective memory.

>

> warmest regards,

>

> jagbir

>

 

>

>

> [The Incarnation of the Holy Spirit, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, who

> came to the American Indian Nation in the form of " The White Buffalo

> Calf Woman " clearly tells us of the kinship of all humanity with

each

> other and with God. American Native traditions deeply reflect this

> reality.]

>

>

> " After all we are all human beings created by one God, on one Earth,

> in complete unison. We are part and parcel of that One Primordial

> Being. We are cells in the body of that Great Being. " (Shri Mataji

> Nirmala Devi, What are we inside, Birmingham, UK, August 9th, 1980)

>

> " There is nothing like we are English, we are Indian, we are this -

> we are all universal beings. And once we accept this, suddenly you

> jump into the state of collective consciousness, into the state of

> the Virata. " (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Cure that Left Vishuddi,

> Shudy Camps, England, 1988-08-20.)

>

> " The color of skin makes no difference. What is good and just for

one

> is good and just for the other, and the Great Spirit made all men

> brothers. I have a red skin, but my grandfather was a white man.

What

> does it matter? It is not the color of the skin that makes me good

or

> bad. "

>

> White Shield - Arikara Chief

> http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/wisdom.html

>

>

> The True Peace

> " The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes

> within the souls of people when they realize their relationship,

> their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they

> realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the

> Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is

> within each of us.

>

> This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.

> The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and

> the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all

> you should understand that there can never be peace between nations

> until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said,

> is within the souls of men. "

>

> Black Elk - Oglala Sioux

> http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/BlackElk.html

>

>

> [shri Mataji Nirmala Devi shares some observations about Mother

> Earth. American Natives exhibited an innate understanding of the

> significant, nurturing grandeur of Mother Earth.]

>

> " This one is a very big blessing to us that we all have this

> Mooladhara Chakra [qualities of innocence, purity, wisdom] now put

> into proper thing. When you sit on the ground also it helps more

> because the Mother of Shri Ganesha is this Prithvi, is this Earth,

> the Mother Earth and that's why we should look after the Mother

> Earth....We can glorify Her, we can beautify Her, we can do all

kinds

> of things... "

>

> " Nature is so beautiful, just look at the nature, it is never

> smelling, it's never dirty, every leaf is so organized that it

should

> get the sunrays...we have to understand that we have to respect the

> Mother Earth. " (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha Puja,

Cabella,

> Italy, September 25, 1999.)

>

>

> " The character of the Indian's emotion left little room in his heart

> for antagonism toward his fellow creatures .... For the Lakota (one

> of the three branches of the Sioux Nation), mountains, lakes,

> rivers, springs, valleys, and the woods were all in finished beauty.

> Winds, rain, snow, sunshine, day, night, and change of seasons were

> endlessly fascinating. Birds, insects, and animals filled the world

> with knowledge that defied the comprehension of man.

>

> The Lakota was a true naturalist - a lover of Nature. He loved the

> earth and all things of the earth, and the attachment grew with age.

> The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or

> reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering

> power.

>

> It was good for the skin to touch the earth, and the old people

> liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the

> sacred earth.

>

> Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of

> earth. The birds that flew in the air came to rest upon the earth,

> and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and

> grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing, and healing.

>

> This is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead of

> propping himself up and away from its live-giving forces. For him,

> to sit or lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeply and

> to feel more keenly; he can see more clearly into the mysteries of

> life and come closer in kinship to other lives about him. "

>

> Chief Luther Standing Bear - Oglala Sioux

> http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/wisdom.html

>

>

> " I was born in Nature's wide domain! The trees were all that

> sheltered my infant limbs, the blue heavens all that covered me. I

> am one of Nature's children. I have always admired her. She shall be

> my glory: her features, her robes, and the wreath about her brow,

> the seasons, her stately oaks, and the evergreen - her hair,

> ringlets of earth - all contribute to my enduring love of her.

>

> And wherever I see her, emotions of pleasure roll in my breast, and

> swell and burst like waves on the shores of the ocean, in prayer and

> praise to Him who has placed me in her hand, It is thought great to

> be born in palaces, surrounded with wealth - but to be born in

> Nature's wide domain is greater still!

>

> I would much more glory in this birthplace, with the broad canopy of

> heaven above me, and the giant arms of the forest trees for my

> shelter, than to be born in palaces of marble, studded with pillars

> of gold! Nature will be Nature still, while palaces shall decay and

> fall in ruins.

>

> Yes, Niagara will be Niagara a thousand years hence! The rainbow, a

> wreath over her brow, shall continue as long as the sun, and the

> flowering of the river - while the work of art, however carefully

> protected and preserved, shall fade and crumble into dust! "

>

> George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh) - Ojibwe

> http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/wisdom.html

>

>

> " When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light,

> for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy

> of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies

> with yourself... "

>

> Tecumseh - Shawnee

> http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/Tecumseh.html

>

>

> " Our Elders tell us that we were given sacred laws which we were to

> use to honour our Mother Earth. We were given ceremonies by which we

> express our thanks to our Creator for His many gifts...The Great

> Spirit gave songs and dances to the different nations of Turtle

> Island. (North America) "

>

> " We were given ways of dancing to express our joy of living and to

> pay tribute to all the life cycle. Traditional dancing belongs to us

> whether it be the Grass Dance, Rabbit Dance, Fish Dance, or the

Eagle

> Dance. We know, when we dance, that these dances were meant for us.

> It is tribute to the animal life or for ourselves when we are in

good

> health, or in thanks to our Creator. "

>

> " People say you can't have a Pow Wow without a drum, for it carries

> the heartbeat of the Indian nation. It is also felt to carry the

> heartbeat of Mother Earth, and thus calls all nations to gether...

> It is said that the drum was brought to the Indian people by a

woman,

> and therefore there is something of a woman's Spirit that resides

> inside the drum. Appropriately it is to be treated with respect and

> care, and strict behaviour is expected of anyone coming in contact

> with the drum. The drum is often thought to help bring the physical

> and mental side of a person back in touch with his or her spiritual

> or heart side. As with many things in the Indian culture, the drum

> is used to bring balance and rejuvination to a person through

> participation in dancing, singing or listening to the heartbeat. "

> Anonymous

>

>

>

> " Holy Mother Earth, the trees, and all nature are witnesses to your

> thoughts and deeds. - Winnebago Wise Saying

>

> Nothing is more important for the recovery of the feminine face of

> God as a rich and reverent understanding of the traditions of the

> world's First Peoples. In them is preserved our original human

> relationship with Mother Earth in all her wisdom, humility, and

> divine radiance.

>

> The songs, myths, rituals, and living customs of those native

> peoples who have preserved their truth against huge odds speak to us

> of the grandeur of earth, of the wonders of nature, of the

> mysterious and marvellous ways in which Mother Earth surrounds,

> sustains, and instructs us at every moment.

>

> In listening humbly to the traditions of these native peoples, we

> remember who we once were and what we still can be; we can

> experience once again the naked divine truth of the natural world

> and can learn from that experience to respect the laws of nature.

>

> And what do the native traditions tell us of human and natural life

> if we listen? They initiate us into the three laws of sacred

> feminine reality - the Law of Unity, the Law of Rhythm, and the Law

> of the Love of the Dance. Taken together these three " laws " oppose

> to our fragmented, exploitative, self-obsessed forms of knowing and

> living an entirely different, far richer, and saner vision of what

> it is to be human and divine, and alive in nature.

>

> Read what survives of the myths, songs, and rituals of any tribal

> peoples - whether the Innuit from Greenland, the Kogis from

> Columbia, or the Navaho from North America - and what will be

> immediately apparent is the knowledge running through them that life

> is one: one energy, one power, one force. Historians of religion

> used to believe that monotheism started with Akhenaten and the Jews;

> but the understanding of the sacredness of unity behind multiplicity

> was already alive in those tribal traditions that see life as one

> and everything that lives as holy. According to native traditions

> all living things are related to everything else, in a web of

> extraordinary delicacy that stretches over the whole universe. All

> things are in this web and part of it, and everything done to one of

> the parts of the web is done to all of the others. What the Mahayana

> Buddhist mystics call interdependence (or more

> fashionably " interbeing " ) is as old as the Aborigine's understanding

> that the rock formations of their deserts were " lines " in a song the

> Divine World was trying to " sing " to them; as old as the Innuit's

> knowledge that before seals could be hunted, the Ancestor Seal and

> the Gods of Nature must be prayed to; as old as the Native

> American's honoring of the buffalo after they killed it. Native

> traditions offer us a passionate awareness of this " interbeing " . For

> them there is nothing sophisticated or intellectual about it; it is

> as obvious as sunlight or the cry of a baby. Reexperiencing the

> world in this unmeditated intensity of connection is crucial to the

> recovery of the Divine Feminine. Unless we recover the primal poetry

> of the Law of Unity with all things, we will go on killing and

> exploiting in a frenzy of false separation from nature and so from

> our deep selves, and we will continue to ruin our world.

>

> The second law that native traditions, wherever they come from, all

> honor is the Law of Rhythm. Living in naked reliance on nature

> inevitably entails a reverence for those rhythmic cycles that

> permeate the whole of nature's workings. The laws of nature and so

> of the human life that is everywhere sustained by nature's

> environment are rhythmic. Our hearts contract and then swell out as

> they suck in and pump our blood; spring follows summer and winter

> precedes spring; the brain is swept by endless wavelike pulses of

> sleep, wakefulness, hunger, satiation. Only by recapturing - and

> following - this sense of life's rhythms will we be able to survive.

> Opening to the law of rhythm requires developing feminine powers of

> imagination, attention, receptivity, capacity to wonder, nurture and

> cherish, and a constantly, acutely sensitive, and sensible down-to-

> earth subtlety of approach that attempts to mirror the suppleness of

> life itself and its rhythmic alternations. If we wish to heal the

> natural world that we are in imminent danger of destroying, we are

> going to have to rebuild in ourselves those inner senses that can

> listen in radical humility to its voices, attend to its rhythms, and

> enact quickly what they tell us.

>

> The third law of the Divine Feminine that native traditions

> inititate us into, if we let them, is the Law of the Love of the

> Dance. What is astonishing, when you read what has come down to us

> of the tribal myths and songs, is that despite the knowledge they

> all have of life and nature's horrors and difficulties, they ring

> with praise and adoration and gratitude for the blessing of being

> alive on the earth. In so doing, they give all contemporary seekers

> of the Divine Feminine, a very clear vision of that living in

> intimacy with nature the Mother necessitates - and creates - and

> what a return of that life-wisdom means. The restoration of the

> Divine Feminine to the heart and mind of the world will mean a

> return to the type of passionate embrace of life in all its pain,

> wildness, and passion that we see in tribal traditions. The native

> peoples never make any separation between soul and body, heart and

> mind, prayer and action, the " other world " and this one. They did

> not make these separations, not because they aren't capable of doing

> so, as certain arrogant modern thinkers have claimed, but because

> they would have seen such separations as crazy, as a betrayal of the

> unity of all being. Realizing this unity of being gives native

> peoples a rugged, unshakable faith in life's goodness. Within tribal

> traditions being born a human is to be born into a dance that every

> animate or inanimate, visible or invisible being is also dancing.

> Every step of this dance is printed in light, its energy is

> adoration, its rhythm is praise. "

>

> The Divine Feminine

> Andrew Harvey & Anne Baring - Conari Press Berkeley, CA

> ISBN 1-57324-035-4 (hardcover)

> Pgs. 22, 24-26

>