with Sri Ganesh

And today particularly, while preparing for the puja, I felt weighed down by the personal subconscient – all the accumulated stuff in the story of the body and its relationships. I see that this is a very major obstacle: one cannot begin to channel anything of the true Force as long as this is not cleaned up… Not that it is “bad” in a moral sense, but just that it keeps pouring its own formations, memories and associations into the flow of consciousness, constantly distorting, encumbering and weighing…

Sri Ganesh, Mysterious Prince, Herald and Messenger Of the Mother, You are there to remind us That creation is A continuum And men’s purpose And duty Is to become The offered bridge, The golden rainbow For the Supreme at last To step in, Whole and material...

… In the afternoon, I cycle back here early; I had no other work and wanted enough time to give the whole garden a good watering. Just as I reach the gate, M. is coming out of it, pushing his Moped – which means he had been inside for quite a while. I guess he did not expect me to return that early. He stopped and faced me and greeted me but, to me, the scene felt so wrong; I just nodded and passed by him and went in… I can’t get past the sense that his reasoning is deeply flawed, that he has no right to keep the keys and come in whenever he wishes… But perhaps he finds this “right” in his own relationship with Sri Ganesh – he has laid, I find, a garland of fresh flowers on the inner step in the shrine - or at least believes that he does…? And therefore I can only keep quiet. But in terms of Auroville’s law of harmony, as well as in terms of friendship and ethics, he does not have this right, nor does he have any justification for his lies and abuses. … Later, Bitti came in to have a meditation with Sri Ganesh and brought an offering of fresh fruit from the Farm and also Rs. 10/-

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