with Sri Ganesh

Human being is the field of evolution, Where the Supreme Shakti must try out With the receptivity of human souls

Her creative passages To the next condition…

Sri Ganesh, Shakti King, Let your form be that of the Lord At work With His tender love The harbinger of the true civilization Of consciousness and joy

- 27-11-08:

The cyclonic storm is continuing unabated and news are coming that it will go on till this evening; by now, many more large trees have fallen and poles and power lines and more buildings are damaged and more areas are flooded in the region. I managed, though, to arrive in time this morning and, after finding a few flowers that have somehow bloomed under the rain, I do a long, quiet puja while the tempest is raging and Manikandan, under a tiny umbrella, tries to clean the debris from the entrance area; the wind has now veered 180 degrees but keeps whirling… … This is a strong time: what is the significance of this destruction, what is the play of forces, where do we stand…? I found that prayers were irrelevant, as they were bound to be either ignorant or selfish or both; still, I have tried to offer the puja with foliage and flowers and songs as gracefully as I could, in the shelter of that peace… What is clear is that the building of a new man, a new consciousness in a new body cannot be flimsy: the offering must be very well grounded and totally honest and precisely meticulous and wise; it is the issue of the Four Aspects of the Mahashakti working in complementarity… But, is there time…? Sri Ganesh, the forces of Nature are not all, it seems, turned or attuned to the Soul of the Earth; they operate at times separately; but they probably all share a certain sort of distress, or wrath… While you are one with the spirit and soul of material Nature – and it means that

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