with Sri Ganesh

Are singing together In their combined beauty, You advance Silently And Divine Love is gushing From its source, The nectar of Their harmony, The breath of liquid nourishing fire, The coursing of gossamer Vermilion gold Honeyed mercury…

Aum.

- 15-11-08:

… The puja takes me even longer today, as there are all these flowers which have been offered; it gives me time to… look at things! I don’t know if this could simply and gently grow and expand, this space and sheltered atmosphere that may give help and comfort… that may provide a kind of refuge, a halt, where one could center, attune and be refreshed… without any system or any definition: just an atmosphere… … I find again that I am able to locate Sri Ganesh in two ways: one is like a principle, very high up in the mind (or so it seems to me), the principle of the form and, at the same time, the principle of the force; it is difficult to describe or explain, it would sound abstract, but it has its own perfect tangibility. And the other way is right in the middle of the head, in that center there; I am not sure how it works, but it seems to be the basis for the expression of Sri Ganesh, his presence and action in the world. And so, once more, I tentatively asked: why can’t there be a living, effective, functioning connection between Sri Ganesh and the Supramental Action in the world? But soon after that, I am brought to my own constitutional limitations: yes, it is quite possible to enter into a relationship with Sri Ganesh, with the conscious being but, in actual facts, I do not really wish to, in the sense that I am not ready to turn to it unreservedly – I want to

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