Today’s One-Liner (#124)
It was not in vain that the ancient Fathers used to say: sit in your cell and it will teach you everything. –John B. Dunlap, Staretz Amvrosy, Model for Dostoevsky’s Staretz Zossima, 150
Category: Namaste Forever
Seeing and Being Seen
Suddenly I realized that [Maharaji] knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that. —Ram Dass [Sri…
With Unswerving Steadfastness
Swami Prabhavananda, The Eternal Companion: Brahmananda—His Life and Teachings A while back, through reading the spiritual works of Christopher Isherwood, I became acquainted with his guru, Swami Prabhavananda, who was a devotee of Brahmananda,…
Looking Ahead to a Spring Trip to Washington, D.C.
I want to listen to your tales of triumph and disaster I want to massage your feet, long oppressed by heels I want to be present to all you cannot say I want to be…
Scribbled in a Cherry Red Moleskine
28 March 2013; 8:14 p.m. I want to sit on the front porch with Srimatiji Tell her that wherever she goes in life Our connection will deepen in time Because namaste is forever
Saluting the Ātman
Dear Sunil, Thought I’d share one of my recent reading binges with you. I read a book late spring called American Veda, about how Indian thought has influenced the USA (from Thoreau and Emerson through the…
A Disciple and His Guru
Dear Max, I never read Christopher Isherwood until this summer. What drew me to him was not his fictional output but his spiritual journey. My Guru and His Disciple is his engaging memoir of several…
The Mantra Nirmala Invited Sunil To Focus On, So As To Cool Out His Predictable Slash-and-Burn Anger (Accompaniment/2,074)
hare kṛiṣhṇa hare kṛiṣhṇa kṛiṣhṇa kṛiṣhṇa hare hare hare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare
What Would Sri Krishna and Walt Whitman Do?
Dear Srimatiji My heart aches Reading the last chapter of Dear Layla You are Layla Yet you’re as far away For practical purposes As the Gaza Strip You are a psychiatrist You are a resident…
So What
Dear Srimatiji So what if David Harvey’s Marxist analysis is verified by each day’s dispiriting news? “Full effort is full victory.” So what if the interlocking system of oppressions appears stronger with each passing month?…