with Sri Ganesh

With his cultivation Of the fine and the true…

- 05-11-08:

… While I am preparing the puja, sitting near Sri Ganesh, the cell phone rings: it is someone from the Auroville Visa Service informing me that I have got my new 5 year Visa and may pick it up from the FR Office in Puducherry…! I like the way this happens: it is as if Sri Ganesh himself was telling me the news, meaning that I am welcome to live and serve a little longer…!

Sri Ganesh, Your Bounty is So richly delicate, Your energy is So finely tuned, Your yoga is To give

And you give Everywhere,

A wealth of emotions Clarified and potent To grow on the way…

If there were no flowers, I would offer you Wood and stone and sand and feathers And you would make of it

A festival of plenty, Poised and potent…

- Barak Obama is elected the next President of the United States of America…!

- 06-11-08:

Obama’s election marks a momentous shift in the balance of the world and I can’t help praying for his protection; he will only be able to begin his job as President next January 20 and, in the present atmosphere, this seems to be far from us, with all the diseased madness which is roaming and stalking everywhere. There is definitely a deep shift

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