How Fortunate we Are

[Guest guest]

Namaste: After the group Chandi today at the Mandir, I had the good

fortune of performing puja at Napashwar, the Shiva lingum. Three

Indian families were visiting the Mandir. They wished to join a puja

at the lingum. While I love to perform puja for others, and consider

it the highest privilege, I thought of the statement another devotee

made at lunch an hour earlier.

She recounted her memory of her first meeting with Maa and Swami. She

recounted how completely surprised and happy she was when she heard

Maa say that She wanted each person to be a Priest in a Temple in

their own home. How happy that made her. To have a direct personal

relationship with God, to worship how she chose, guided by her own

heart and Shree Maa. What an incredible blessing.

I too remembered that feeling, that precious memory, of being told I

could learn these sacred mantras, and build an altar, and invite God

to live there. And then Maa and Swami taught us, and we built that

altar, and God came.

Dear family, those folks who joined me in worship of Shiva today felt

I did something special, something beyond their capacity. That Maa

entrusted me with something precious and holy.

Well she did, and miracle of miracles, She will for anyone else who

desires it.

My prayer, as I performed the puja today, was that Shiva would spark

that desire in each person's heart, that they would seek to learn and

perform that puja for themselves, their families, and this universe.

Please remember your first awakening, and feel the gratitude and joy

again, and take that feeling into your next puja, and into your next

meeting at work, or with your children, or your staff, or your boss,

and smile and give everyone Shiva's darshan.

 

Please take Maa and Swami's blessings and sing Shiva's name wherever,

and whenever possible.

 

Love

 

Jai Ma Jai Swami

 

vishweshwar