The Light of Awareness

From The 11 Karmic Spaces: Understanding Shakti is the first step to understanding life. page 127 How are you using the energy that flows to you from the universe? Following Hindu tradition, I call this energy Shakti, the female energy of the universe. She flows in all of us, whether we are male or female. As you become more aware, you begin to realize that everything ...more

Jealousy Trip

For years I thought Hinduism was too vast a philosophy for me to even consider studying. Yet, when I was a child, my father, a professor, brought his graduate students into our home. I loved the Indian students especially. They would dress me in their saris and when one went home to marry, I spent hours drawing pictures of his ...more

Practice for Anger

The following practice will bring awareness to your anger and help to train you to release yourself from the anger. Begin in sitting or standing. Bring your awareness to a feeling of anger. You can say to yourself “I am aware that I am angry”. Extend your straight arms out to the sides with the hands in fists. With all of your strength, swing ...more

I seek enlightenment and wish to be a true servant of the universe. T...

Namaste Rita: When you have the least desire to share of yourself to ease another’s burden, or to ease the burdens of thousands, or just to ease the burden of a child, automatically that who you are comes racing to the surface.  This is not about you and it is not NOT about you.  It’s about love.  Love is what carries ...more

Mother of Compassion

Namaste, Life is filled with surprises, and when people are attractive and glowing with great and wonderful beauty, you can know that they have been touched by the Mother. The Mother’s being holds the quintessence of all essences and nature. When you are meditating on the golden heart of the Natural Essence of the Mother's being, then the whole world is your world, ...more