with Sri Ganesh

Sri Ganesh, In a silence of concentration You are whirling As if within A shaft of dense light, Whirling And whirling In calm delight Yet Immobile, Self-gathered, Perfectly poised, A sphere of golden fire At your side – Sweet Ganesha, Ancient and so young And present At the threshold Of all time, Holding, holding within The Lord and the Shakti To forever bless Nature and the Soul…

Aum.

- 09-09-10:

… Parthy has come with me today; even though AVES hasn’t yet got the protective device and we can’t yet fill the tank and do the full clean-up of the shrine, we manage to do much of the other pending work in the garden; we also fill up sacks of rubbish from outside the gate and take them to the depot…

I can only do a very simple puja…

In the afternoon Parthy and I return at 3 pm and find that AVES has installed a temporary device to help us and they even stay with us till the tank is filled.

Krishna’s team has removed the outer fence that was protecting the compound, and the masons, till the new wall was built, and now for

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