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Yama, God of Death

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Namaste,

It is time that I spoke and taught of Yama, God of Death.
I have taught on how to welcome Him into your life with open arms and hearts, how you allow Him to drop into the loop of life and how to share life with HIm.

I have told you about my Lord, who whispers in the ears of Devotees the sweet mantra, “Ram Ram.”
Are the dreams of death sweet or ghastly, calm or frightful?
Is life just a dream of death?
Is death just a dream of life?

I ask you in the simplest of ways.
My hands are in pranam and my heart is smiling away beneath the setting sun from too much love of living and from hope and fear that sets us free we swim in Death’s Sister’s Essence.

Yamanata, Yamanata, Yamanata.
I hear you, my love, as you are part of life.
The joy in loaning us breath and the taking it back stands ahead of all that was done for humans in the past and in the moment.
The stars are making a path, and all the angels are bowing together.
What a pretty sight for the human eyes!
Whatever Gods and Goddesses may do, it is this moment with love unseen that will be remembered always.

My love keeps me still in the moment of stillness, quiet in the moment of quiet.
Goodness holds me close to you in your arms, Death.
I cannot make out what you are whispering in the night.
So handsome behind the Light of life – I bow and bow.
The rivers flow and flow.
My heart beats faster and faster inside the cave of my heart.
And so I begin to teach, to share, and to bring you understanding.

First doubting, my chelas now know the truth that they are part of death.
Yama, your Essence has never been born and cannot die.

Let us pray.
Let us play.
Let us laugh.
Let  us cry.
Death was never born, and therefore not soon to die.
He lacks nothing, He has everything one could want.

I love you so very much.
Love,
Ma Jaya

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Honoring Death when Afraid

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Namaste,

The question this day is “How do we honor death when we are afraid?”

Answer:

I will answer you as deeply and honestly as I can.

This is everyone’s question at one time or another, especially as we enter into spiritual life.
As you live a life of spirituality, you learn more about death.
You also learn to embrace Death rather than fear him.
If you can keep still this very moment and sit and listen to your Beloved’s voice, you will find that your Beloved is always talking and listening to you.
He or she will take your fear and leave you to enjoy your spiritual journey, which includes Death.
As you sit and begin to enter into the Formless, you breathe more inside of yourself.
This is mental breathing; in doing this, you will find that you have less fear – not only of death, but of many things.
You will feel that you have become one with Death’s breath, without fear.
You will learn to keep the incense burning night and day in your heart, and you will be able to feel the gentle flow of death’s magic.
Your Soul will allow you to know that it never dies; the Soul is always to be found.

After awhile, death will not worry you at all, and you will learn how to greet Death.
It will be seen as a gift that you naturally receive each and every lifetime.
You will learn of the gentle wind that blows today with love, and the gentle sky that is so blue that it brings tears of joy.

Trees and flowers and such will bring you in death the same joy they bring you in life.
See now in the moment how much less afraid you are.
Just knowing that your Beloved will be with you always keeps life sweet and safe.
Your Beloved loves you very much, and this love follows you lifetime to lifetime, from death to death.

You are precious to your Beloved

Love,
Ma Jaya
Kashi Ashram

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Finding the Light Inside

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Namaste,

It is amazing the doors that can open when your heart is full and flowing over.
The birth of true compassion comes from awareness of an open heart; yet so many are afraid of wounds from the past that they keep tightly closed.
In order to find the light that is inside of you, you have to be courageous.
This will bring you a new strength.

You already have been tested from past hurts.
Now it is time for the beauty that comes from each pain.
Real conversations burst forth, for there is no time to waste.
So many have told me, “Ma, we should live like this all of our lives, not just when death is close.
This is so true; it is amazing to be in the presence of death.
When death comes toward you, you are able to use death as a bridge that you have learnt to cross to find new beauty and new paths.
The courage comes slowly to heal all earthly wounds.
There is so much to learn from death.

Our beauty comes forth at the time of death, once we have learnt all the rhythms of life.
Teaching Kali Natha Yoga is like teaching about coming closer to where we have come from.
This is the true walk of beauty that Baba and Swami Nityananda taught me.
It is all about the Light that is both in us and all around us.

The beauty in discovering who you are has you seeing this beauty in others.
Here is the doorway into another rhythm of seeing and being.
As you read these words, feel the rhythm of life welcoming you, touching you and protecting you.
All of a sudden you are not a stranger to yourself, and others are not strangers to you.
This is the deepest essence that is in you; it can never be damaged or taken away by anyone or anything.

It is marvelous how love of spirit and the Mother can strike you deeply in the heart.
It is this force of love that brings you life and life force.
There is such a magnificent renewal of all things.
All comes alive.
The wisdom of the body knows what to do and how to move.
It is the Mother that shows this to you by example; she brings you a celebration of life and death.

We begin to understand the beauty of the Soul.
The heart begins to burn with love, without the pain of heat.
All is the calming beauty of the Mother’s Heart.
Love entwines us all together as we learn to live fully in the dance of movement and bliss.

This is how the heart’s rhythm can be heard and felt.
I love you with all that I am.

Love,
Ma Jaya
Kashi Ashram

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