To sadumaa about Earth Mother Sankalpa -Homa

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Dear sadumaa ~ it was wonderful reading your experience of doing the

Mother Earth Sankalpa. I'm glad Nanda suggested you share it with us.

Even though I live in NM, I have a wood stove (although, at the

moment, it's in storage in Oregon :::sigh::. When I first lived

here, I lived at the higher elevation where it was colder, and my

wood stove kept our entire adobe home heated. I would have loved to

know about all this back then. I must have missed Nirmalanda's

cautions, so if anyone can tell me which post it is, that would be

great.

Just from the one homa I went to, that Swamiji and Maa did in Colorado on their last tour,

I can understand the greater intensity of the focus, and I can imagine

this would be further magnified in solitude. Thank you for sharing

some of your "how to's," and the feeling you described of praying for

us all left me feeling joyful and humbled.

Jai Maa , Jai Swamiji ~ Linda

sadumaa wrote:

>> ...I live in a cold climate with lots of snow, rain and wind. I have a

>> woodstove as a secondary heat source. Swamiji said it would be >>

alright to do homa oblations in front of such a fire. Please note >>

Nirmalanda's cautions about chimney fires (previous post)! I have >>

taken precautions.>> ... I found that my ATTENTION was more focused

with the fire

>> than with japa mantra. I "saw" the planets in the fire, "saw" things

>> burning away, and felt I was feeding the planets with my devotion and

>> with our karmas. Felt I was praying for us all...