To sudhvi about Navagraha Sankalpas

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Dear sudhvi ~ your sharing of your experience with the Mother Earth sankalpa is beautiful.

I even think if all I managed on a given day was to do as you said, go

outside and notice the beauty around me and thank Mother Earth for all

her gifts, that would be enough. I also really loved what you said

about asking yourself the question, "What would BhuDevi want?" And

you are so right ~ loving attention. Loving attention. On their

website Shree Maa and Swamiji put attention and respect at the top of

the list in their "welcome" statement. I love to read it.

I also appreciate your sharing of your own need to attend to not

pushing yourself due to a previous illness. I guess there are quite a

few of us here who have undergone a serious illness or who have a

chronic one. Most of my adult life I have been the queen of pushing

myself beyond my capacity, which is partly how I ended up with my

illness. (Although, I talked with my sister recently ... very sad. I

knew she was sick, and that she was in denial. She was always so

upbeat whenever we talked. On this day she cried and cried and said

she can't do anything; she is in so much pain, and there are days

when she wants to die. I know exactly how she feels, which is why I

have changed my prayer list wording for her a bit.)

Where did you get your copper homa kund? I'd love to get one. (I'd

have my hubby disable the smoke alarm first, but I'd only use it if

he were around.

Also, thank you very much for the wonderful note you wrote. I tried to

respond twice, and both times my response bounced back as

undeliverable. Maybe you have a spam filter, but if you add me to

your address book, then my email should get through. Write and let me

know if you do, and I'll try resending the response again. Blessings ~

Linda

sudhvi wrote:

>> I did try, on Sunday, to use my new copper homa kund (a small one I

had >> bought this past Summer). The fire was BEAUTIFUL!! I was

ECSTATIC!! >> But then the smoke alarms went off...so I had to do

japa mala instead... >> I am hoping that I will be able to "complete"

my sankalpa with >> the homa practice...but, again, I kind of hesitate

to say it out loud >> (or write it down) because it's such a major

thing! I have so much >> sympathy for those who have expressed doubts

and issues with energy, >> time and health. I am just in the "recovery

phase" from a long chronic >> health problem and have to be very

careful about pushing at myself the >> way I did in my younger

years...What I am learning lately is the key is

>> SURRENDER and OFFERING...keeping focused on who this sankalpa is

>> FOR....The Divine Mother in her form as this beautiful planet..not for "me"

>> and my personal concerns of "too much" or "too little". It puts all

of the >> other concerns into a manageable perspective when I think

about what >> BhuDevi would really want from all of us: Loving

Attention. I am >> thinking alot about her everyday as I do this

sankalpa...looking out >> at the trees, rocks, birds, sky,

clouds...so aware of what an >> incredibly precious place this

is...and what a gift to be able to give >> something back...