with Sri Ganesh

Its own means Of plenitude and progress –

Let Earth be protected

Aum Namo Bhagavate

- 10-05-14:

... There are tiny new leaves everywhere and the grass is bright and vigorous... ... As I go round after the Aarti to offer incense I suddenly see that someone has put up a very large board right against the compound wall facing West onto the Highway; at once I go to remove it, but it takes me a while to undo all the bindings and pull out the poles from the ground. In the meantime, Senthil has arrived and is waiting for me in the garden. He brought me the documents for the 5 new Fixed Deposits which I opened with the funds transferred from Barclays, and for which I have named Auragni as the Nominee. I have done this transfer after the episode of the fraud, taking it as a sign that it is time to gather all resources here itself; now, in fact, I have nothing left to my name in France, as even the house in Brittany has been donated to Auragni. Ironically, as present from the SBI, Senthil has also brought me a brand new, very elegant little suitcase, like an invitation to travel, when I can’t travel anymore...! (I am noting these details down in this context of my service with Sri Ganesh for several reasons = the first is that naturally I wish to present all matters of physical and material harmony and economic maintenance in this transparent milieu, as one does before You, Mother, for all things. The second is that this notebook is actually a kind of personal journal as well, as I do not wish to hold any arbitrary separation between my individual sadhana and this service. And the third is that such difficulties and knots and obstacles or contradictions or violations happening to “me” must be seen and offered in the inner space where this service with Sri Ganesh also takes place and Sri Ganesh’s processes must be called in.) Later on, two men from Edayachavadi come in, looking very angry: they are the ones who put up the advertising board for a new water- bottling factory... I happen to have known one of them a little for several years, a wealthier villager who owns land and farm equipment and he has to agree that he ought to have asked permission or, at the very least,

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