with Sri Ganesh

… Before the year ends I want the whole shrine to be refreshed – and so these days, between the usual daily steps, I remove the soot from each slab of marble and have no time left to sit before Sri Ganesh… Rs. 10/- are offered…

- 15-12-14:

… D and I finally have selected the main component of the music system: it is an Apple IPad, which I can also use as a computer to store text and images for Sri Ganesh and even use for e-mailing as well. For this I am spending another Rs. 14,000/- ! I am now learning to use the whole set at home before I bring it here…

Namaste Sri Ganesh Master of Generous Harmony Aum

- 16-12-14:

… There was a nip in the night air and, early this morning, the sky clouded over and it slowly began to rain – not fast, but fairly densely… … Rs. 20/- are offered…

Namaste Sri Ganesh Namaste

- 17-12-14:

… Rs. 10/- are offered… An elderly man of some authority, who has come once or twice before, today decides to sit through the puja and the Aarti and it feels rather as if he was some kind of Inspector for Hindu temples and shrines, a slightly unpleasant judgmental stance and, when the headman arrives he is not sure what to do nor where to sit and in his confusion has an unplanned gesture of offering…! Sri Ganesh, Namaste, Beautiful Ganesha I feel that I am somehow preparing for a deeper engagement in the body sadhana and, Sri Ganesh, that your help is needed to establish an atmosphere for the path and process – an orientation and a receptivity to serve the Lord in Matter and open the ways… Beautiful Ganesha, There is no other aim Worth serving…

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