25 Sunday Apr 2021
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Ἅγιος, ἅγιος, ἅγιος Κύριος Σαβαώθ.
Πλήρης ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ τῆς δόξης σου.
Ὡσαννὰ ἐν τοῖς ὑψίστοις.
Εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου.
Ὡσαννὰ ἐν τοῖς ὑψίστοις.
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt cæli et terra gloria tua.
Hosanna in excelsis.
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis.
08 Thursday Apr 2021
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“How can I thank you for smiling at me like this? Got it! I will energize Eesho who is seated in your own heart!”
*SMACK*
How can we thank you for expanding such love, dearest Krishna?
*SMACK*
Blessings came to me in the form of a baby smile and kiss
I was going for an evening walk today
As I walked through the neighborhood, I saw this little one held by his grandma
I waved him “Hi” and smiled at him
His grandma was feeding him from a sippy cup
Seeing me smiling, he finished the sippy cup fast
He showed me how little birdie open its mouth
He greeted me “Eesho” with praying hands
I felt baby Jesus giving me greetings
Before I waved him Bye,
He hugged my face and gave a kiss on my cheek
It was a sweet, unexpected, angelic kiss
Thank you baby,
May Jesus bless you and family in abundance 😊❤
**Eesho – Jesus in Malayalam – A form of greetings used in prayers.
02 Friday Apr 2021
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On this Good Friday in these pandemic times….
We seldom go freely into the belly of the beast. Unless we face a major disaster like the death of a friend or spouse or loss of a marriage or job, we usually will not go there. As a culture, we have to be taught the language of descent. That is the great language of religion. It teaches us to enter willingly, trustingly into the dark periods of life. These dark periods are good teachers. Religious energy is in the dark questions, seldom in the answers. Answers are the way out, but that is not what we are here for. But when we look at the questions, we look for the opening to transformation. Fixing something doesn’t usually transform us. We try to change events in order to avoid changing ourselves. We must learn to stay with the pain of life, without…
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30 Tuesday Mar 2021
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17 Sunday Jan 2021
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though the play makes Reality seem like a dream
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13 Wednesday Jan 2021
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Attached to nothing.
Connected to All.
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21 Monday Dec 2020
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In angelic love beyond time,
ένας ιερός λέων
✨ Seven years old today this site ✨
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05 Saturday Sep 2020
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04 Tuesday Aug 2020
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DANKE, unsere liebste Angelika! In Gottes Liebe, Leon
Eine kleine Welt die ausgesondert wurde, um die Trennung zu erfahren.
Dann ward ein Wächter eingesetzt, Der uns in diesen Grenzen hält.
Wir stehen unter der Herrschaft eines grausamen Tyrannen, der uns in einer vollständigen Versklavung hält. Er will die alleinige Herrschaft und um sie zu erreichen ist er bereit den Gottessohn zu töten. Seinen willigen Sklaven bleibt dies am Ende ihres Dienstes nicht erspart. Jede Lichtfunke oder alles was aus der Wahrheit zu uns kommt wird regelrecht und mit Vehemenz hinausgeschleudert. Er verzerrt und verdreht alles Gute, bis es zu seinen Gunsten spricht und für ihn nutzbar geworden ist. Und wenn wir mit ihm identisch sind, findet kein Licht Einlass, denn er lässt es nicht zu, es würde ihn auf der Stelle vernichten. Er kreiert alle Probleme mit denen wir konfrontiert sind, und um sich selbst zu entfalten ist er bereit alles und…
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21 Sunday Jun 2020
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Sadhana – The Realisation of Life is a breathtaking collection of spiritual discourses given by Rabindranath Tagore to the boys in his school, in Bolpur, West Bengal. A repository of the timeless wisdom of the East, Sadhana is one of the most profound books on spirituality that you will ever read! We highly recommend it as a starter book to any seeker of spiritual wisdom.
Compiled and translated by Tagore from his Bengali lectures, the book consists of eight essays, in which Tagore answers some of the most profound questions of life: Why did God create this world? Why would a Perfect Being, instead of remaining eternally concentrated in Himself, go through the trouble of manifesting the Universe? Why does evil exist? Do love and beauty have a purpose?
True deliverance of man is the deliverance from ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.
– Rabindranath Tagore in Sadhana
Tagore masterfully brings the spiritual truths behind these profound questions to light, with his lucid explanations of the Sanskrit verses of the Upanishads (Indian spiritual texts dating to ~800 B.C.) and the eternal teachings of Lord Jesus and Buddha.
Sadhana is one of those rare books that need to be read slowly, as each sentence contains an immense amount of wisdom to be digested!
In the end, Tagore’s captivating and rational explanations will leave you feeling breathless, exhilarated and brimming with peace, happiness and joy, as you become aware of the tremendous unifying force behind this immensely diverse and awe-inspiring Creation!
Here is a beautiful sample of one of the many profound passages found in this book:
Where a man tries to raise himself to eminence by pushing and jostling all others, to achieve a distinction by which he prides himself to be more than everybody else, there he is alienated from that Spirit.
We have a glimpse of the same truth in the teachings of Jesus when he says, “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven” – which implies that whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
He who is bent upon accumulating riches is unable, with his ego continually bulging, to pass through the gates of comprehension of the spiritual world, which is the world of perfect harmony; he is shut up within the narrow walls of his limited acquisitions.
Hence the spirit of the teachings of Upanishad is: In order to find him you must embrace all. In the pursuit of wealth you really give up everything to gain a few things, and that is not the way to attain him who is completeness.
– Excerpted from the first chapter of Rabindranath Tagore’s book Sadhana – The Realisation of Life.
The opening sentences of Tagore’s preface:
Perhaps it is well for me to explain that the subject-matter of the papers published in this book has not been philosophically treated, nor has it been approached from the scholar’s point of view. The writer has been brought up in a family where texts of the Upanishads are used in daily worship; and he has had before him the example of his father, who lived his long life in the closest communion with God, while not neglecting his duties to the world, or allowing his keen interest in all human affairs to suffer any abatement.
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