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| | Teachings of Ma Jaya Sati BhagavatiRemember What You Already Know When you read these Prayers, absorb the words; let them become part of you. They will help you remember what you already know. They will speak to your inner place that will vibrate for you. It is in this vibration that you will connect to the truth of yourself. You get in touch to your Shakti source. You are in contact with yourself as you recognize the words as your thoughts. They are quite simple and loving. Read the words and apply them, if you can, to your life. Feel the Shakti run through you. Breathe deeply, and become calm. The calmness alone will help you to concentrate. Your inner being knows what it needs to read deeply. Read the whole Prayer first; then go back and be guided to the words that help you with life and death. You will be able to hear the words in a different way than before. This is an awakened inner experience and it should come to you more often now. Do not look for it. It will come to you. She who weaves the fabric of your being shall bring them to you. She who whispers through the breeze shall guide you with whispers of delight or caution. Flow with what you feel. Perhaps you have always known what I write. Even if I just write you of my day, it becomes part of you - and you become part of me. This is the fullness of spiritual life. Ask questions as you sit, and if you wish, wait for answers; if not, then just go on. All is good, all is right The subtleties of it all will bring you peace. You are all flowers that I place on the Baba's Feet. I ask Baba to soak you with His Love. I ask Him to have you melt in His Love. You may not feel different, and yet you may. So much can become clear to you now if you want it to. The depths of unknown seas can be felt. In you is everything that ever was and everything that will be. I am excited for you. Let your life be a song. I want so much for all of you. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org ________________________________________________ What is Karma? What is karma? Karma is to be separated from your beloved. Karma is the relationship to the mind. Karma is a word that suppresses the oneness. Karma is a very complicated path to explain. The force of karmic decisions is upon you in accordance to your actions. Yes, karma is the reaction to action – or the action coming and bursting forth, lifetime into lifetime, of reaction. You must always pay – except by the action of grace. All goodness extends from the karmic action of grace. All grace comes from the heart; grace is the act of love from the heart. Be aware, or beware of the slight hesitation that is allowed you by merely having a body – the hesitation of the mind. For in a split second of unity with yourself, you can change, through hesitation, lifetimes of reacting to an action not yet done. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org ________________________________________________ Do Not Lose Your Passion for God The realization of negative experience can awaken your fierce strength and divine courage to give up all negativity. It is when darkness touches your life that you can use all the light that is in you, and you consider this light a great blessing. The great light in meditation can be accumulated and used when needed. It is always lit. Try hard not to react to any negativity around you. See yourself in the light that your Beloved takes you into. Negativity can be newly born in your mind if you let it. This is how you become sad and then depressed. Knowing that the ego will eventually send you negative thoughts, try staying in your heart. The breath that you are aware of is so powerful that it can be used to rid yourself of all negativity. When you find yourself in a deep state of stillness in meditation, enjoy the silence that is in you. Then you will be able to acknowledge the silence whenever you need to. At times during meditation, you will be fascinated how deeply your spirit can penetrate your spiritual heart. It brings you to the edge of bliss. Enjoy meditation, and you will enjoy your life. The human heart was made for the passion of God and Goddess. Do not lose your passion for God. I call it the original force of God, loving you and reminding you that you are never alone. Your Beloved demands a intimate, passionate, beautiful, and devotional relationship with you. This love is the highest love that there is. There is nothing upon Earth or in the heavens that can be compared with this love. You can surrender to your inner Beloved, who is always deep inside of your spiritual heart. Surrendering to your own spiritual heart has softness come about you that invites others to be in this softness also. The inner Beloved is awakened at all times; you only have to be still in order to feel your spiritual heart. By trusting your own instinct, you begin to trust your inner Beloved. Drop your doubts about yourself and let awareness be your teacher, the teacher of you. How great it is to have your heart opened. Life can only be felt fully when the heart is open, and all can be felt. Coming into the presence of your Beloved is the greatest experience; I know, for to be in my Guru's presence is to be in the fullness of ecstasy. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org ________________________________________________ Be Free of Blame and Anger There is nothing you can possibly do to change what has been already done. At times some think that it is a spiritual thing to wallow in guilt and condemnation. It definitely isn't. To spend time thinking that everything is your fault is just wasting time, and you are refusing to learn. Refocus on your passion for the Universal Mother and move on. Take a stand and take control of your emotions, and do not blame yourself all the time. And definitely stop blaming others. So who do you blame? You can take responsibility; definitely take responsibility if something was your fault, and learn from any mistake you made, even if it was not intentional, and move on. By blaming others, you live life without seeing, and you live without remembering who you are. After a while you do not recognize your own self. Take this moment, be free of blame and anger and take a deep breath of morning air. Let it fill you. Love your breath. How many have you loved without seeing and without feeling, because you were stuck in another, past moment? Come and live a short while in the Mother's moment. Swim in the Mother's love. You have loved the Mother without knowing you did, and now you know. The Mother touches your heart with Her breath and takes all blame. You are free. She broke into your heart-house and touched your heart. Now come and see the rising sun and the waiting day. Give up the blame that you have taken on yourself as well as poured on others. Then perhaps you will recognize the Mother's breath whispering on your heart. The Fire of Spirituality is rising up your spine. The flame is the Mother's domain. Honor the flame by living with passion, and know that all blame has left you. The yogis chant, the Mothers dance, all are taught the beauty of love, compassion and truth. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org ________________________________________________ The Open Heart is Truth Touch the living truth of life this morning. You can put your hand out in the early morning breeze and feel the wind. You can wait for the sun to come up and feel the heat of the sun. You can touch all of life with your mind. The mind reaches out past the dullness of the ego and enters into your heart. Feel the sense of beauty all around you. Mother Earth provides you with such beauty of light, if only you will bask in the glow. Our earthly bodies are like a flame that keeps burning everything that you do not need to live a full life, free of the blockage of the ego. The open heart is really truth; a closed heart is the lie that the ego engages you in. The true Mother that you make room for in your heart will teach you of the artistry of the Universe. In meditation, you ask to feel the planets - and in the silence of your heart, you feel the oneness. You are one with all that there is. Breathing out without attachment allows the breath to flow easy and clear. With attachment, the breath becomes sloppy and short. Detachment is not cold; it is the warm breath of the Mother. Attachment is cold and keeps you in the place of the ego. The ego cannot stand it when you enter into the space of warm liquid love which is the sacred river Ganga herself. She flows upward from the base of the spine and then down again, drenching everything and opening everything. The chakras flow with devotion for the Sacred River, which you are now a part of. What joy to find that the Oneness has always been, and always will be! Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _______________________________________________________________________________________ Throw Open the Door of Your Life People who cannot control the emotion of anger cannot control their life in any way. When you walk in wisdom, you walk with your eyes wide open. Awareness wakes in the morning as soon as you open your eyes, and it stays awake. Nothing is hidden; all is in the open. This person knows where true nourishment awaits. You will live half a life if you allow the negative emotions of anger to control your life. When you let yourself live in anger, you are trying to be paid back for all your trouble from any moment in your life; thus, you do not live in the moment. Anger leads to fear, and fear can actually steal the destiny from the moment. Fear hinders your progress toward living a good and kind life. Throw open the door of your life, and let God's blessings come in. There are things you know before you even live them; this is intuition of the moment. You simply know. You just understand. These are moments of recognition. Being angry with those who hurt you does not hurt your enemies, yet it does hurt you repeatedly. There is always true love in your life, and you are able to find it when you are in your heart. True love is the love you feel for humanity, no matter what happens or happened. Are you trapped in the blame game? Do you blame others for your anger and pain? These feelings come from below the spiritual heart. There is a place in all of us where we cannot be hurt, nor are we able to hurt others. This is a place of pure light, and we all have this place. We can ignore it or dwell in it. It is always our choice. There is always a whisper of calmness going on in your soul; you only have be in the stillness to feel it and become it. Chaos cannot find its way to it The Universal Mother gives us faith and expects us to use it, even if we use it when we have fear. Close your eyes this moment and feel the flow of stillness. Breathe in and out with awareness for a few moments. The stillness is there. The more you let yourself become angry, the more fear you have; and the more fear you have, the more you cannot move into the light. Fear enters wherever and whenever there is darkness. Courage comes with the stillness of being aware of your breath, which encourages you to live through any unpleasantness. This is the breath of love and light. Turn to this breath when your mind sort of goes wild. You nourish your heart with the divine stillness of awareness. Instead of nourishing our hearts with the beauty of silence, we become trapped in the game of fear. Fear is expecting something bad to come into your life. Light and love knows that you have the courage to conquer anything that comes to mind. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org ________________________________________________________________________________________ Keep Your Eyes on the Prize The moment is big and beautiful and loud and serene. Your Beloved makes sure that your efforts are never wasted. All efforts to do service are rewarded with an open, blessed, and full heart. It was a fabulous journey to reach this moment, and it is just the beginning. Keep your eyes on the prize; the prize is the beauty of knowing and loving your Beloved so well, this life and all lifetimes. The Beloved is always faithful and filled with unconditional love. No matter what is going on in your life this moment, you can feel your Beloved’s love for you. I love it when you love to serve with all your heart. Your Beloved teaches you how to follow your heart, even under pressure. When you are running around in circles of frenzy, your Beloved is always there to soothe your burning heart of confusion. The Beloved is always there in the far reaches of your heart. You need not live up to any expectations. The Universal Mother will teach you to not misuse the Shakti. She replenishes the Shakti every moment and covers it with unconditional love. She will teach you humility - or I should say, She will awaken the humility that you already have inside. It is truly amazing what your own thoughts can do to your life. Your Beloved teaches you to let the thoughts go like clouds. Your thoughts have no roots, but you do. Your roots are love, deep love, and joy. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org ________________________________________________________________________________________ The Beauty of Intuition Healing the heart’s wounds takes practice and patience. Can you identify intuition as it is happening? Everyone has intuition. There is nothing mysterious about it. We are all born with the beauty of intuition. By making choices through the heart, you begin to become intuitive. This can happen when you are ready to get rid of that which is a real hindrance to your spiritual nature. Let go of yourself, and swim in the streams of wisdom that you learn from your own intuitive heart. Oh yes - you may be wrong in many choices you make, but so what? Start small and feel the heart, which breathes only with love. By being still, you can be taking in truth - which is actually a blessing. The mind can be influence by the heart - not by emotions, but by real feelings of love. Mind your own business; watch yourself listening to yourself as you watch your own breath. All the uncertainty washes away with the beauty of love.Love meets the needs of the soul.The natural instincts of the heart must awaken the beauty of the soul. Or I should say, one has to watch the beauty of the soul taking form every moment of every day. By being aware, one could actually feel the Soul at work. You become more gentle and full. The sense of beauty of the Soul rises up from this space. There is a glow about you when you can begin to recognize the beauty that the Soul sends you. You are always in the space of grace. You become filled with grace. The beauty of the Soul is in the knowing that you are a free spirit in life and in death. You are now ready to become one who can blow the heart open with love, joy and the breath. So open your mind and feel your Soul. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org ________________________________________________________________________________________ Constantly Let Go When you wallow in your weaknesses, you find all of life hard to take. You are ready to stand in the spotlight of living when you stand with your life firmly in your hands, taking your responsibilities upon yourself, not blaming anyone for anything. Your internal power comes to the surface as you live in your heart. When you feel life becomes only the labels you give it, then you are not living the bigness of nature all around you. Sometimes life isn't what you expect it to be. Don't resist circumstances of life. Find the solution in life to so many things. It is about the great Mother's power that lives in every part of us. Be fascinated by all of life. There is so much to be fascinated in life, once the ego loses it place The more power we use for love, the more powerful we live in the Essence of peace and love. Do not expect anything in life, and watch all unfold. So many insecurities appear. You begin to invest more and more time in what you cannot do. The ego tells you that you do not have the things you yearn for, when we all have so much more than our ego-mind wants us to believe. Don't yearn for circumstances you want; see yourself becoming able to receive what you need. If your yearning is for another person to have what you want for them, then you cannot dream what you want for yourself. See all your fears as your friends, not as that which torments you. Sometimes it is the rhythm of life that has to be changed. Constantly let go; by not letting go, you strain yourself with the beauty of change. You do not lack courage to live as you want to live, and to love how you must love. When you find that the ego is sending you thoughts of fear, embrace your spirit’s glow. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org ________________________________________________________________________________________ The Four Corners of the Heart The human heart is often considered to be the center of love, feelings and the vulnerability of emotional pain coming from attachments. The spiritually awakened human heart is described with four corners, each containing a facet of wisdom for transcending that vulnerability, which is universal to human life. Without the strength of wisdom, the heart tends to close in response to pain. Without oneness, the heart can become dry and brittle, covered by a hard shell in an attempt to escape vulnerability to pain. The four corners of the spiritual heart are discrimination, awareness, compassion and understanding. Discrimination is the ability to realize the world’s duality and illusion while seeing the deeper oneness of unchanging truth. Awareness is the ability to be fully present in the moment without judgment, expectation, or attachment. Compassion is the ability to accept yourself and others unconditionally, despite human imperfections. Understanding comes from cultivating mental disciplines such a non-reaction, waiting without wanting and not asking “why” in moments of challenge and chaos. These qualities combined describe the essence of an open, four-cornered heart. Practice the truth of your heart by hurting no one, not even with the truth! There is a well-known Sanskrit saying: speak the truth, but speak that which is pleasant; do not speak the truth that is unpleasant. Practicing this concept helps you come closer and closer to God. If you are trying to tell the truth to others and they are deeply hurt from it, they will not perceive your statements as truth. This will create an increasing animosity and anger toward you as well as the truth itself. Be kind; be very kind to everyone. You only gain merit by being kind. Truth must open the hearts of others, not agitate them. As you live the life of truth, you will become joyful. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org ________________________________________________________________________________________ Cultivating Balance One of the most important things in your life that must be cultivated is balance. When you are balanced in one life, you come back in the next life ready to cope and to live fully. Your spirituality is always deep and profound, no matter who you are. There are clouds of darkness that cover your spirituality - and the ego keeps it hidden and keeps adding more and more dark clouds. Through acts of kindness, you break through darkness of any kind. By loving yourself, you will find it easier to love others. You bring more respect to your heart by respecting who you are by taking care of your bodies and minds. When you experience the world through the heightened power and love that meditation brings you, every moment becomes an experience. The sluggish world that you have experienced begins to become healthy as you take care of your body. The experience of taking care of you has a deep Shakti of love and urges you on to have a balanced life. The more you keep your energy up, the more life has to offer you. Coming to grips with loving the self gives you a richer life. You become more aware. You are led away from negative events. The more balanced you are, the more open you become. How exciting it is to be open to the world’s forces as you are drenched in spirituality! Whatever you concentrate on becomes more clearly understood. This moment concentrate on your posture. See how you sit straighter and hold yourself with more confidence. Whatever you concentrate upon, you become in that moment. Concentrating on love, you become love. By concentrating on being angry, you become anger. When thinking of your Beloved, you become softer. This is consuming the world and all that is in it. Bring to mind how much your Beloved loves you. A few words of truth and love can keep anyone in the light of the sun all day long. Start this moment being more balanced; if you feel anger, offer it up to your Beloved. The breath of light is the breath of love. This causes your heart to be balanced, and your whole life to follow with practice. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _________________________________________________________ Satisfied with the Moment This moment, be a person who is satisfied with the moment. How does this feel? There is no searching, no wondering about greener pastures, no wanting what you do not have, no begging for what you feel you truly must have; you can sit and be content with all you do have. This place is called a place of gratitude. Be grateful; do not complain about your life. Are there shadows running past that you are trying to grab? Grab hold of God’s love instead. See God’s love in all moments, even in moments of anguish. Be happy that you are alive and can thank God for your breath. Never mourn opportunities that could have come to you; give thanks for all that you have. Be willing and open to receive God’s gifts. You need to be aware to understand that God’s gifts come in many packages. Your life has a great value to your soul. Your flesh is a tool to learn how not to repeat mistakes. Shift in your mind how you feel about things this second. Be very positive; try your best not to be negative. God is in the trying. God is in the moment. When all desires are melted in the heart, there is only God. Shadows do not exist when there are no desires. When you are going through a painful period in your life, do not let darkness prevail. It is especially at this time that you should have gratitude for your life. Find a moment of lightness while you are going through a pit of darkness, and soon the light will pervade all the darkness. You will have learnt how to consume life and not let life consume you. The abundance of the universe can make your journey quite rich if you can appreciate what you already have. You have spiritual freedom in this great country of ours. For many in this world, there is no such thing. We who have this spiritual freedom must have gratitude before we can go on and be successful in other things. In other words, humility breeds success. The best of your life is in your moment. Gratitude takes you deep into the moment. All loneliness comes to an end when you are grateful. Life is a banquet when you have gratitude. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _________________________________________________________ The Soul has no Gender As Swami Nityananda stated in his original Chidakash Gita, “The soul has no gender.” These words remain in my heart. God does not make mistakes; if you were born gay, this is the way your beloved wants you to be. Enter the light just as you are. I have taught a very profound and deep meditation where you have to visualize yourselves as you are this moment – however you look, however old you are, whatever your shape, whether you are sick or well. Be as you are this moment, and you will see that any negativity will begin to drip from you into a crevice of the world. There is male and female in everyone one of us. Our Baba always said to never throw anyone out of your heart and to feed everyone. He did not say to feed and care for only those who are straight! Perhaps this Ma is getting on in years and has seen so much – the destruction of body and heart during the AIDS epidemic, my children gasping for life and death, and so much pain in the hearts of family and friends. Be aware, and don’t react to the small minds who judge. Does acceptance make children gay or straight? Not at all! They are, or they are not. I pray we will be able to drop all labels. We must love each other, take care of each other and bring love to a world that is in such need of caring that labels have no place whatsoever. Everywhere I go, I ask people to wake up. Wake up, and know that AIDS is not over yet! Wake up, and know there are no throwaway people. Wake up, and take care of someone. Wake up to the truth of who you are. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org __________________________________________________________ The Silence of the Forgiving Heart There is a vast difference between forgiveness and giving in. Giving in is a meek form of life, but forgiveness is not being a fool. You just forgive and continue doing what you have to do. If you give in to a person to whom you don’t want to give in because the person is wrong, you will enhance his or her power. Because you don’t want to fight the fight, you will actually hurt him. You cannot let go of something without forgiveness, because it is still lying deep inside of you like a stagnating well that will decay, smell, rot and bring you down. You can love your enemies; you don’t have to be near them. All right, they hurt you. But I am not going to go down to that level and swim in the dirt and spend my life with non-forgiveness. I want to be forgiven for anything I have done intentionally or unintentionally to hurt anyone. Forgiveness is a form of the greatest love. Silence without forgiveness is nothing at all except silence. Silence with forgiveness is God, And in that silence you know yourself. In that silence you demand the fire, And that becomes true silence… The silence of the forgiving heart. “I forgive myself” is an unbelievable mantra. When you begin to forgive yourself, look at your day, lie down at night and look at what you have accomplished during that one day. Ask yourself, “Have I lied? Have I hurt anyone? Have I lived this day fully?” When you say, “I shouldn’t have done that,” place it on a metaphorical breakfast plate. Remember it the next day, eat it, and make sure you don’t do that again Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org __________________________________________________________ Love Just Is If you had choice, what would you choose: anger, fear, jealousy, oneness, brightness, poverty in its many forms or happiness fulfillment joy wealth in its many forms and the attainment of your dreams? Now stop a moment, close your eyes and see what you already have achieved in your life. Can you feel the depth of your Beloved’s love for you? Whoever your Beloved is, can you feel that love? Do you choose to feel this love? Is it not a wealth of some sort that is already in your life? Are not some of your dreams already fulfilled? Looking for love that is right in front of you or in the center of your heart can be missed if you are not aware. Say to yourself this dawn that you will try to be more aware today, and that you will breathe more deeply with this new-found awareness that has always been there. I am so interested in those things that you do not think are important and that you simply ignore. You have a storehouse of beauty inside of yourself, waiting to be acknowledged. Love does not have a certain amount of time or space; it just is. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ The Realm of the Soul Lately I have been teaching of the realm of the Soul, massive clouds of Shakti being awakened inside of you, finding the one within the one, within the one. You can glimpse this insight and see your beauty even slightly the way your Beloved sees it in you. Within yourselves, you all have galaxies of love, awareness, and the great ability to serve others. The Realm of the Soul encompasses all realms of life and light. We all have the full measurement of love that is ours and are connected to the Oneness. We are conscious beings that naturally evolve through every lifetime. Imagine movements from the center of your being, your Higher mind beginning to understand, and you becoming aware of both yourself and others also making this fabulous journey through life and death. Give praise; yes, constantly praise the God and Goddess within. They will accept your praises, and you will understand yourself to a greater degree than ever before. I sometimes feel so excited for you all that I cannot contain my enthusiasm. Nothing exists outside of our Souls. The ultimate consciousness is the consciousness of love and light. My Baba is always whispering in my ear, “Keep it simple Ma; keep it simple.” And so I try to do so. This is the time of acceleration, and so we move closer to the center of our own beings, bathing in the light of joy and bliss. The Devis and Devas never judge. We simply judge ourselves on this journey. And as we judge ourselves, we tend to judge others – and we miss the passing seconds of breath and non-breath. Let us move on toward the center of our beings and bring joy to others as well as to our selves. It truly is a time of growth. Let every ray of sun touch your heart and light up your life. I bow in great gratitude for all that we have and all that is coming and is on its way. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ Never Complicate Love Awareness is the true nature of Reality. Fear of the unknown - fear of death - is the driving force behind the quest for immortality. It is said in many scriptures of all faiths that those who see themselves are seeing God. It is only when we are absorbed by God that we can truly become who we are, and we can see God in all of God's many forms. Absorbed - this is the word I have been looking for. Be absorbed into the Essence of the whole; this is the secret. The great ancients took God to be pure spirit. We are all pure spirit. Yet the ego cries out, “No, it cannot be. No one can know God; only God can know me.” And this is how complications in love and complications in life begin. The ego loves to complicate things, and the Mother loves to keep everything simple and real. And how real are these teachings becoming? Truly, they have always been real - only now we are finding a way to simplify our lives, and the ego is squirming. So we look for God and find ourselves. Let it be. You do not have to believe it. Just do not complicate it. Never complicate love. This is a chance for everyone to understand each other’s heart. This is not about anger or judgment, only the heart. The essence of this love goes right through your Beloved’s heart and is shared by so many. Be patient with the world and with your own heart. It is only when you lose spiritual freedom that you can understand how so very important it is to have, to keep and to share. Be strong my warriors. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ The Experience of Darshan Darshan means seeing the Sacred. From the standpoint of the world, one finds it hard to begin to see the Sacred in stone or marble or wood. Yet it is the seeker who places the sacred breath of understanding inside the living murti. It becomes so very real. One then feels taken care of and loved. To be able to take care of such a murti is like taking care of your own children or parents. Never feeling alone or unloved. It is not just wood or material one is worshiping; it is the living breath of the living space. How exciting the moment becomes. It is like finding the nature of the whole experience. A single God or Goddess does not in any way have a single form. You feel the essence of the Beloved as you place your eyes upon the Murti and that which the Murti represents. When you come into Darshan, you look toward the Teacher – and the Teacher becomes a great part of you. You merge, and you cannot tell where you end and the other begins. You play in the moment, and the moment is all that there is. Yes, this is simple. The moment is all we have. We who can feel (even for a moment) the love flowing toward us as we walk toward the Beloved can invite the Devi or Deva into our beings. We become strong and filled with a love that no one can take from us. The moment has invited us into the now, and we bow heads with appreciation. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ Essence of the Mother You can feel the Great Mother of the Universe inside your heart, calling out to all of you, “Can you feel me, my beloved? Can you hear me?” Her Essence stays on and on from lifetime to lifetime. She is all one needs, beyond all desires. She is bliss without one blemish or mark. She lives and breathes for us, and we for Her. She is our Eternity, where time ceases to be. She lives where death ends. She is the peace beyond all thoughts. She is the gracious art of every artist and the joy of the Mother’s pride. She is our Kashi. Be still, and feel the mirror of Her Heart reflecting my words over and over again. Be simple. Be devotional, and know that all of us are one, no matter whom you pray to. She is the mirror of our hearts, and She can hear every word and thought. She is the beauty and charm of our growing youth. She is our Universe, and Her name is Kashi. Yet we are all the Mother. Male or female, we are all the Mother. Mother is the spring of delights and is a dew drop in the center of the lotus of the heart. Merge into yourselves; merge into your Beloved – whoever your Beloved is. Arrows of luminous waves of light lead the way to all hearts as we begin the journey that takes us all to the center of Kashi. These arrows consume egoism, and the Soul is flooded with light so others can see and respond with joy. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ Duality and non-duality Let us all undertake the quest for our true self, that Being who can leave duality behind. It is only duality that keeps pain alive and thriving, and this is the way of the lower ego. When you begin to label yourself as worldly or spiritual, there becomes a division in you; this causes duality. Due to this duality, it is difficult to go further in your spirituality. Any essence that consists of more than one is duality. Procrastination is the living proof of duality and indecision; indecision is the connecting karma of the Karmic Space of Intent. The Karmic Spaces cater to the force of duality. Learning of the Karmic Spaces, especially how to recognize them and how to get out of them, brings one to the understanding of the Vedas - where there is only the Oneness. One of the keys of entering into the freedom of non-duality is constantly turning to your Beloved. The duality of life is taken away by the simple bowing to Mother Earth and all Her beauty. Feel freedom come into you as you learn to hesitate before you react to any kind of duality, your own and others. Spiritual confidence can be the lamp of love that can lead you out of duality. Confidence is not the arrogance of pride. Practice listening to your Beloved’s voice before you take a step toward any of the Karmic Spaces. It is almost a silent alert that screams out to you. You can say “Not now ego;” only add the words, “I am listening to the Divine.” The listening heart becomes the ears of the soul and is intoxicated by your Beloved’s voice. This rips apart the veils and walls of duality. Watch all fear disappear with the melting of duality. The idea that there is no duality is the way of the path to the Oneness. It is the quiet awakening at the feet of the Beloved that lets the students pass into this place of non-duality. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ Cultivating Subtle Discrimination Discrimination is the ability to realize the world’s duality and illusion while seeing the deeper oneness of unchanging truth. Discrimination is the essence in the eye born from awareness. When you begin to be aware from watching and feeling your breath, there is a certain sense of knowing. When you watch the breath, the breath watches you. Words of pain and hurt can’t be spoken, for they are on a lesser level; the breath is deeper than the desire to hurt. Every part of your life has this awareness in it. Before you speak to hurt or get revenge, you will stop yourself. The awareness of someone else’s pain comes right up in your face; at that moment, discrimination is born. If you look to see if your actions hurt another, you are using subtle discrimination. Subtle discrimination is using the ability to hesitate. Acting out with non-thought is the opposite of subtle discrimination. Once you are drenched in serving others, subtle discrimination bursts forth. There is nothing you need to be but who you are. Allow the non-hesitation of the gentle river to flow through you. It is something that is already there. It is not arrogance; it is a joy in knowing you can do this. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ Learning the Truth of Detachment Detachment – how does one get it? You must want it – you must want the clear spring water of non-possession, of being able to be in the heart without saying I, me, mine – whether it’s your children, friend, husband, or wife; it does not matter. Detachment comes from a certain place where you are willing to give up that which you think you possess. Detachment is the divine caring of others without trying to possess their very souls. If you give love away freely, and love with all your heart, you will never be hurt. Once you get the hang of it, it is really quite easy. Once you understand that we who have flesh cannot possess anything, as our flesh grows old, decays, and dies, we find that everything is impermanent: a child, a husband, a wife, a sister, a brother, an aunt, an uncle, and life itself. Truly, God is our only possession. Turning away from your friends and families is not a sign of detachment. Becoming indifferent to it all is indeed not detachment. It is imperative to understand that detachment is non non-caring. There is no greater love than when you love in a detached way; detachment is unconditional love. The greater the detachment in the human heart, the closer to unconditional love you have become. When you are in the heart of detachment, you are able to give up the numerous desires and cravings that can only hurt you. The way you begin to learn the truth of detachment is to do one thing different in your life. Every single day, instead of becoming angry, take a deep breath and smile. Instead of being hurt, see if you are truly hurt, or if it is just pride. Rather than hold on tightly to that which does not belong to you, let it go. Give space, lots and lots of space, and be free in the moment as the moment embraces you. So change one thing; it doesn’t matter what!" Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ Death is an Interruption of Life All the chaos of life will be organized in the fullness of death. Death is a slight interruption of life, and the light of God and Goddess will lead you on in comfort, without pain, until all the light fills your spiritual self. The spirit-body lives an ongoing process that will become a joyous emptiness. The vibration of life is always there in death. Death is nothing but a hesitation, a moment; yet there is a dying process. You need to be prepared for whatever is going to happen. There is no individual separateness that death brings. Death is life and life is death. There is only one substance for all of us to fulfill in all of our lifetimes. The one substance, which is the formless, lives on and on and never dies. Peace begins within your own being so you can taste God. It’s a vast journey we are about to begin: vast, but controlled; wild, but settled; filled with love, yet with so much power. You will be able to survive death by riding the spine upward. As the soul leaves through the top of the head, the whole world becomes light. There is a deep and profound vibration that lives right beneath the top of the head. It is like bells waiting to be rung, life waiting to be lived. It is the very nature of your being to be able to flow freely. Spirit, like smoke, rises towards the Gods. Life, like water, flows downward. Both are a blessing, and both are needed. The spirit fits the body; the body does not fit the spirit. Samadhi actually means uniting with everything that was and everything that will be, and becoming total bliss. There is actually more understanding in death than in life! Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ Be Compassionate and Spontaneous of Heart A person who does not feel compassion is a person who is not alive with the seasons, alive with the planting, or alive with the reaping of life’s wonders. To live life with an uncompassionate nature is not to live life fully at all, but to skim the Earth and not really feel the holy soil that we walk upon. The higher ego must come into the compassionate heart, for to be compassionate you must work on yourself and be spontaneous of heart. Opening your heart may come from a moment of remembering: perhaps a memory that rides high on the waves of your life, or for others who have had a life that was filled with pain, a memory of that pain. You can become compassionate simply because you don’t want others to go through what you went through. There is another, lesser kind of compassion called idiot compassion. In this case, you really don’t want to go near it because it hurts another person. We end up using this type of compassion to escape from the truth. We fall into the illusion that we are being compassionate, but all we are truly doing is enabling others. You may be born with a compassionate heart, but it can become filled with clouds of illusion. You put in your mind that you have just enough compassion and love to do just enough with your day. You must understand there is a huge amount of the flowing waters of compassion, and that unless it is given away, it stagnates. Because the nature of a human being is kindness and compassion, you turn on yourself when you don’t express compassion toward others. To have and practice compassion requires that you always speak to the part of someone that is half-full. Never speak to the half-empty; be aware of the half-empty, but never, ever speak to it. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ There Is No Pain Greater Than Attachment Are you stagnating? Are you bored? Are you alone and afraid? Are you afraid of being alone? Are you afraid of being alone with God? If your answer is “yes” to any of the above, then you have become very attached in your life. There is no pain greater than attachment. Attachment steals love away from one’s heart. The spiritual heart can be polluted if you continually think thoughts that are harmful to yourself and others. Judgment brings attachments, such as attachments to being right and to possessing other people’s love. If you develop the quality of non-judgment, you can be way ahead of all karmic attachments. The cause of bondage is this attachment that so many call love. Love is void of attachment, because attachment will try to possess. Detachment is the opposite; to love others fully, you do not try to possess them, nor do you care if the love is returned. The lower mind attaches itself to all things personal and of the world. Attachment keeps us away from everything. It is the same thought as we become stuck to a certain person, object, or thing. Objects and attachments only have the power you give them. When you become detached to worldly things, the contented heart consumes the mind. The higher God-mind knows that attachment is possessiveness and not love. You cannot hold water in your hands; you cannot be attached to water. This is the way you need to be with life. Feel the cool waters of life and let attachments go. When death approaches, you need to be ready with a full heart and no attachments. You can learn to recognize attachments before old age slows you down and steals time. Turning away from your friends and families is not a sign of detachment. Becoming indifferent to it all is indeed not detachment. True detachment is an increasing sense of well-being. If you are ruled by your ego, you will never be detached. Your ego puts all things of an attached nature in your way. Do you really want all your so-called desires filled? Meditate on detachment, and you will frustrate your ego’s expectations. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ Anger Stops You From Living Your Life Every morning is a brand new day and a brand new life; in fact, as you embrace the moment, every moment becomes a brand new life! Your whole life can change in a split second if you allow it. You can turn your whole way of thinking around this very second in time and space. When you feel yourself getting red in the face and your heart is beating with anger and pain, touch your own heart with your breath – and your Beloved will be that breath. This breath is called awareness, and it is yours to use, to live and to become happy. Anger stops enjoyment. Anger stops life, period. Meditation teaches you to touch your own heart with your breath. The heart is the breath of your Beloved. Do not waste this breath with anger or hurt. When you are overwhelmed, consider for a split second how you react most of the time: how you waste the breath, and how you cause yourself great pain by being angry when you know it will pass. You don’t need stress to pour into your blood stream. This can be stopped if you feel yourself touching your heart by remembering the breath. This is not an easy thing to do; yet it is a thing that you must do for your own spiritual growth. Feel the breath this moment. Say these words all day long so they become a part of you: “I breathe in my Beloved’s breath with every in-breath I take. I breathe out my Beloved’s breath with every breath I let out.” Anger robs you of the breath. This is the reason it is said you “see red” when you are angry. When you have an angry reaction over anything big or small, you begin to open up new trails, or new grooves of unworthiness, within yourself. You also begin to deepen these grooves every time you have another angry reaction. Every time you begin to get angry, just think of my Beloved’s breath. It becomes a part of your life, and you begin to feel the bonds of unworthiness disappear. Love is so much deeper than anger. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org _____________________________________________________________________ Watching Your Breath Gets Rid of Unwanted Thoughts This moment watch your breath. What does this mean? So many get confused when asked to watch the breath. It is more like feel your breath. You begin to feel the breath touching the space between the upper lip and the nostrils. The out-breath is easier to feel as the breath falls on the upper part of the upper lip. So just pay attention to the exhalation. The breath feels wonderful coming out. Breathe out more deeply, contracting the belly muscles, and sending all the staleness in your life out into the universe. You begin to feel lighter and lighter. Do not worry if you get a little light headed; I am watching. Nothing bad can happen to you. You are just learning how to focus. Now on the out-breath, contract the belly muscles and allow more stale air to go out. Do it harder, but not too hard - just enough to rid yourself of yesterday's thoughts and tomorrow's patterns. You have just broken the mold. With your eyes closed see how you feel. Are you lighter? Are you right in the moment? Is the staleness leaving? Has it left? You do not even have to answer all these questions. Just know one thing: you are with your Beloved, and your Beloved is with you. You are opening more and more. Even unwanted thoughts cannot get to you. You have the tool to say, “It is just a thought.” How great is this? I will take you deeper inside yourself until you can easily see the beauty of your own soul. Know this to be true. Feel majestic in the moment. Know that your Beloved is proud of you, simply because you are you. Try this day not to make life complicated. Remember as the thoughts rise just say, “It is just a thought, it has no power.” You are on our way. Ma Jaya To learn more about Ma Jaya and her teachings, visit www.kashi.org | Sign Up for E-News Club Get Discount on Next Order
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