A delight for the Sahasrara!

Quite wonderful!

A delight to read.

I haven't written anything of this book for many months. Lazy or stuck or both, I don't know. I never felt that I was born in "a hotbed of religious war and class division" - I looked at other places, the Betjeman comfort of the London suburbs for example, and think how boring it would be to live there. And that's where I ended up of course!

Delightful!

That's the kindest thing anyone ever said of a poem of mine, sincerest thanks. PS She did say my flat in London smelled of mothballs too! Goodness knows why, I never bought a mothball in my life!

It works for me, and now, having discovered that dictating from a notebook, then reading through and editing the transcription before posting is the way to go!

Dearest Supatni, sister in Sahaja I can't adequately convey to you how extraordinarily supportive and encouraging your comments are. I have about twenty notebooks, garnered from many years of Sahaja travels and I hope to get them all digitalized for a number of reasons, a) as an aide memoire to myself, for in reading through these recent notes from twenty four years ago, I realize how much I've forgotten, b) that they might prove of interest to yogis in the future, c) editing them presents me an opportunity to delete comments I no longer feel to be appropriate! I am using voice activated software to dictate from the handwritten page and you guessed, and in my latest post, I've gone through it as carefully as I am capable of being, which is not very, when compared to you or Richard, so the eccentricities and idiosyncrasies of this approach can be eliminated.

Completely agree with, and am most grateful for these comments. I will certainly follow your advice. BTW I only included the painting of the Temeraire as an aide memoire to myself as to how Turner portrayed light. Shri Mataji said he was the first artist to paint vibrations.

Beautifully expressed, John. And it's a measure of the man you are, that instead of living a life of regret and of what might have been when your passion was taken away from you, you channeled all that energy into other forms of creativity.

Here's an update, it's clear that what I said in an earlier version re "Show don't tell" is only partially true, and I removed the adjective dysmorphic on the basis that its removal takes nothing away from what's left, always a good test!

Thanks Supatni. Strangely enough, Juan Mascaro in his introduction to the Bhagavad Gita uses these two quotes to illustrate the difference between the thinking of the Ancient Greeks and that of Ancient India, he says that the Keats quote shows the Greeks love of physical beauty, the Wordsworth quote he equates to India's interest on the inner world. These analogies didn't work for me at all, he misses Keats reference to thoughtless awareness completely. But I read these two poems in school some sixty years ago and have never forgotten them.

I like this too, very much. It has a universality about it which is appealing. I suspect if you keep looking at it over time, you'll see ways of improving it further. I found work "kept" a bit grating in that white drops aren't kept in the mountains and hills. Maybe I misunderstand the intention? An excellent effort RIshi, well done.

Something I've been pondering recently. When one reads about an event such as thing, the way we tend to write about it, sounds the same to me as if someone was writing about, say, their attendance at a Dalai Lama event. The words and the feelings expressed are broadly similar. Is it possible for us to write in such a way that what we say could only apply to Her, Parampuja Shri Mataji? Obviously it would be very hard, but I for one will try.

nice one Matt

This question was posted to a number of artists, musicians and actors, outside writers and here are some of the responses so far: Here’s an idea: Let’s make a collection of short stories. It could be a book, a website, a workshop, a laboratory of creativity. Short stories are wonderful because they are short. They are easy to read, difficult to write. Let’s choose a topic, something broad like spiritual ascent or awakening or revelation/realization, so that the stories are thematically linked. Let’s see what we come up with. Let’s surprise ourselves and each other. Richard Payment Poornima Kirby Thank you for asking this question - been pondering this for a while! I believe a BIG piece of the answer is that we, as yogi artists, need to find a way to be collective in our creation. Of course it’s important to strike out into these artistic industries as they exist now, and we can reach a certain level of success or ‘fame’ as individuals. But in terms of sharing the Culture of the Spirit - it’s very nature is collective, so how can we be effective instruments unless we create collectively? Even just two yogis collaborating seems to have amplified vibes - and the more we add, the more potential there is to reach the world! But it only seems to work when we keep the love and the heart open - and that’s our big project here in the Vishuddhi, and why its so powerful when we collaborate across continents and distances. Also, I think the Divine’s sense of timing is different from our expectations. Sometimes we have to plunge into things before we’re “ready”! Other times, the inner incubation is much longer than our impatience was prepared for. Anyway, love to you all - and if anyone needs someone to read your poem, or listen to your song, or give a bandhan as you head in for an audition - I got you! Matt Malley Lovely wisdom Poornima! Jump - together - and see the hand of God, paramchaitanya, sweep the world! Here are two replies, one from Tarciso in Boston and one from Australia: Tarciso Yes.it is really worth to ask this question. Interesting question. Two boys in NY inventing the hip hop. The potential to spread is here. Quicy Jones said it comes from Africa, the Hip hop itself. We’re not been able to connect but we might have been doing this slowly, so slowly that it would take lot of generations. In a world that everyogoes fast. The w w w speeds that up even more more. But it a good question. Sometimes I wonder if my utopia os a new spiritual society was an utopia like the modern ones. Australia Some questions engender silence. But after restraining myself for a day, may I take this as an invitation to the world collective to comment - because it feels to me like a world problem? My feeling is that we have not fully evolved yet. The culture of Vishwa Nirmala Dharma is so vast and many of us feel after decades that we hardly able to articulate what we have absorbed, let alone express it in any medium which could arrest the attention of the mesmerised masses. Meanwhile we are watching the obvious decay around us, confident that the lotus will one day become visible. When that happens the flowering of the new culture will be so utterly different from what is now popular. It is pretty obvious at the moment that the root, Australia, the Muladhara, has yet to develop wisdom and innocence. We are all mostly still at chrysalis stages - some emerging but with wet, weak wings. When we are all able to take flight together the world will notice.

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Richard said, 'This is definitely a song, a protest song with an angry guitar and wailing harmonica. As I started reading, I thought of Leonard Cohen: “There is a war between those who say there is a war and those who say there isn’t.'

Lovely.

Poetry isn't the same as prose, the latter appeals to the brain, the former to the heart. This is a lovely poem, brave and ambitious - my first reaction is that perhaps it tries to achieve too much, maybe if read aloud it's rhythms can improve? Well done though, it's much appreciated on this Christmas morning.