You have not danced so badly, my dear, trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One. You have waltzed with great style, my sweet, crushed angel, to have ever neared God’s heart at all. ~ Hafiz There is something so simple and yet so extraordinary about hands, coming together. I find the manner in which [...]

“I do not reside in Vaikuntha, or in the hearts of ascetics. I dwell in the hearts of the devotees who sing about me.” Padma Purana Back in March of 2009, I wrote about the music of Sundar Narayana in http://luthar.com/in-his-grace/   Since then, he has had another stroke, but that has not stopped him or his [...]

Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies. Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. ~Brother Lawrence ~ It is the last full day of our summer  vacation. Tomorrow we will be returning home. As I begin to walk slowly down the dirt pathway towards the lake area, I think [...]

Days grow shorter and shorter.  Time has shrunk, so our tempers. More things to do than we possibly can think about and never enough time to even count the days anymore. There was an age when never growing up was a real possibility. Days were stretching from working the land and school – and nothing [...]

Written by Ramon Leonato based on a satsang from Gururaj Ananda Yogi There is nothing that is really apart from another thing. That is the greatest delusion man suffers, finding separation in this world.  You have never been apart from Divinity, never ever.  You are eternal,  immortal, as Divinity is, and you have never been [...]