Today, the full moon of July we celebrate Guru Poornima. This celebration, for those on the spiritual path, is like Christmas for Christians. It is a time we celebrate & remember all of the world's spiritual teachers who have been guiding us since the beginning of time. It is a celebration of all great masters from all traditions, a way of being grateful, paying homage & giving thanks for their luminosity & gently guiding us towards the light.
Yesterday we went out to the Satyananda Yoga ashram at Mangrove Mountain & sang kirtan, had a havan, danced, laughed, ate & had quiet contemplation & gave thanks for our great teachers. It was a special Guru Poornima because it was the first, without Satyananda there. He attained Mahasamadhi last December. He was very much in all of our hearts. He & his Guru, Sivananda are pretty much why the West today know about the word, yoga. To read more about this lineage & why a guru is important. For me Guru is foremost. Why? many ask. Guru is not only filled with knowledge but has practised these methods ~ has imbibed them. You would go to an oncologist if you had cancer. You go to Guru for an 'ego-dectomy.'
With Paramahansa Niranjanananda deep inside my heart & with tears on my face & guru mantra on my lips I give thanks for the devotion of his life to the path.
I humbly bow down before many & will mention a few more; Amma, Anandamayima, Paramahansa Yogananda, Dalai Lama, Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Thich Nhat Hahn & Mother Mary.
The writers of all mythologies wrote in symbols of what they saw and heard, they painted flowing pictures. Do not try to pick out the themes and so destroy the pictures; take them as they are and let them act on you. Judge them only by the effect and get the good out of them.
