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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Getting there from here


When I sit for 11 minutes at 9:11 every evening, I go through my crea routine (from page 61), set the stage quickly with a thought - tonight it was "getting there from here"- and then slide easily into taking ten or so of the longest, slowest, deepest breaths I can take - it's like getting into a pool and swimming. When I get to the end of an in- or out-breath, I usually pause and listen. Pranov, the OM, rushes in between breaths.

As I breath consciously and rest in the OM, I focus my attention on the area just in front of my forehead above my eyes and at the forefront of my brain, the third eye. Baba's name for the energy center there is the gyral center, which is very fitting, since, with sufficient attention and appropriate action, the spinning of the gyral center will take you into other dimensions.

The answer to how do we get from here, this collision-course existence, to there, a world built on love, comes slowly, over days of meditation.

We get there by doing what we're doing: millions of us are sitting together for 11 minutes a day envisioning the new reality, creating it consciously in the light of the highest good; and we get there by living as if a world based on love was already our collective reality. Instead of physical gifts, gives gifts of attention. Pay attention to where your attention is going. Notice the vibration.

When Ganesh Baba noticed that one of us was being insensitive to the general vibration, the ambiance, he would say, "Don't screw up the pitch!"

Don't screw up the pitch.



TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Money or Love

In today's world it seems pretty clear that the great myth we all believe in is the economy. As my father used to say, "The Mighty Dollar is our god." He was right when he said it in the 1950's and he'd be even more right now. The bottom line is indeed the bottom line.

What if the bottom line was love? What if love was the main myth, the most valued, the way goods are passed?

Relationship would be more important than acquisition. Love would be our currency.

What we pay attention to grows. - Ganesh Baba

The first definition in the dictionary for the word currency is "the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used"- money - but it is also "the property of belonging to the present time." To be current is to be up to date. Time, like a river or like electricity, moves in a current. A current, like the passage of goods, flows.

So currency in a broad sense is a very interesting concept: the warp of space and the weft of time coincide in currency. Currency refers to the Now in the Tollean sense. How telling it is that our civilization values physical currency so highly and has gives so little value to currency in time - when currency in time is the key to such treasures.

Live it light. Only a touch. It is all right here. - Ganesh Baba

What if love replaced money as the medium of exchange in society? Good relationships would be more important than things. We would take care of one another and share whatever we have instead of holding onto it. Being rich would mean being in good relationship with the entire environment: family, neighbors, animals, plants, the earth itself.

Once again, John Lennon had it right.



MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Love as currency

A few years ago, when the economy was failing all around us, a surprising thought came to me: Tomorrow's currency is love. The idea arrived with such force that I had to consider it then and it came back again and again, even though the phrase didn't make much sense to me at the time.

The first night of my 11.11 meditation, the thought came to me right away. My mind would have been happy to analyze and ponder it, to take it apart etymologically, historically and philosophically, to stay with it for the entire eleven minutes, but I chose not to follow any of those enticing pathways. I pushed it aside in favor of a quick wish for a world built on love, listening to the OM and sinking into silence. After the meditation, I was left with a series of questions. How would such a world work? Could it work? How can we get there?

The following evening, I began with the thought of a world based on love again. Images of people relating to one another in loving instead of warlike ways, of unraped landscapes, of harmonious interchanges with animals, arose.

On the third night, the vision took form fairly rapidly but it was less detailed. In fact, its details were veiled in airy color, as if washed over with watercolors. The colors, which were varied, soft and lovely, flowed and changed as people and animals moved and interacted. The changes in their colors in turn affected the colors of the landscape. It all blended together harmoniously in a softly swirling fractal pattern. Afterward, it came to me that I had seen a version of the "fractal world of rainbows and scales iterating about us endlessly" that Ganesh Baba describes and I write about in The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba.

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I realized that to live in a world built on love our senses would have to be much more finely tuned than they are in this world. A world built on love would be based on intuition and inspiration rather than hard sense data; on metaphor, symbolism and ta'wil rather than literal interpretation. Creation would arise more directly out of resonance and likeness. Thus the question that came - but how would we make a living? - was answered, good will provide goods.

By last night, the phrase "love as currency" began to makes sense to me, but I'll have to let those thoughts incubate until I have more time to write.


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Love and Money

For several nights now I've been taking part in the New Reality Transmission, a worldwide event in which thousands, maybe tens of thousands, maybe millions of people are meditating on a world built on love for eleven minutes, at 11:11 (EST), for eleven days, beginning, of course, on 11/11. This is the first of several blogs reflecting on my experience.

Each evening I settle into a quiet place where I can sit comfortably with my back straight - or, as Ganesh Baba would say, my antenna aligned. As I get settled I wiggle a little to loosen up, and exhale rapidly a number of times to clear my lungs, sometimes using my arms like chicken wings to help pump out the air. Then, relaxing more and more deeply, I take about ten of the longest, slowest breaths I am capable of taking, the out-breath roughly twice as long as the in-breath.

I use mantras with my breath practice. Ever since I learned it from Baba, a simple OM on the in-breath, OM on the out-breath, has been the core of my practice. Sometimes I sing the word to myself as I breath, going up and down the scale, or to some melody, but more often I just listen to my inner sound.

The syllable OM represents the primal vibration, the sound of the Big Bang behind space and time. Our ears cannot possibly hear it - but our bodies do sing, some more loudly, some very softly. The body's song is not respected in today's world; we call it "tinnitus." I've always thought of the rushing sound in my head as my personal OM and I find listening to it immensely peaceful. I revert to OMing in one form or another between periods of trying a series of other mantras that have come to me from here and there over the years.

Currently, I am using abundance on the in-breath, surrender on the out-breath. I don't use the word, I feel the idea; it's vibrational.

Eventually, I begin the slow, rhythmic breathing that I try to maintain through rest of the meditation, and I think about a new world built on love, a world where the currency is love instead of money.

Each evening the thoughts that come to me when I set that particular stage are becoming clearer. I've been taking a few notes after each meditation. Over the next few days, I'll try to find the time to put some of those understandings here too.


October 16, 2010

Finding the One Everywhere

GB: We must lose no time in realizing the gravity of our present predicament as a species geared to free will. Though our free will may be not entirely free, it is not fettered by any blind, lack-law or lack-love fate. We must realize the gravity of our failure in our specific property, spirituality, and each of us must make it our bounden responsibility to realize our respective share in the lapse of our species.

Reader: Ganesh Baba, your words cut like the fletcher who whittles and shapes his thoughts. Indeed, the gravity of the situation is becoming more and more apparent - unless we can join together to stop this self-destruction the downward spiral will continue. Only if compassion and empathy return to our hearts will there be a chance to halt this madness.

 

Eve, using GB’s words: We must shed our fear of one another, not for some medieval ideal, but as the only practical course to continue as a species.

 

Reader: Ganesh, thank you for your words of wisdom. I believe also to continue as a species there must be a basic understanding of the cause, why we are at this particular state in our history. I think there is fundamentals in our behavior that need to be addressed before we reach a stage of shedding our fear of one another. I think that stage will occur naturally if we can somehow tackle the root of the problem. What do you see the problems as? Obviously, fear, greed, materialism, anger, and blind faith. How are we to begin to attack these gargantuan problems? I truly believe that there must be a socialist change in our day to day philosophy, i.e., more compassion and empathy before change can become apparent.

 

Eve: I think it goes even deeper than that.

 

Before I try to answer, I should tell you that I am not Ganesh Baba. GB left us in 1987. I recently published his manuscript, Sadhana, intertwined with a memoir as The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba. On this page, I try to use quotes from the book, his unpublished writings or recordings of his talks. That said, I'll do my best to respond as he might have, using direct quotes whenever I can.

 

The issue is rooted in our misguided perception. "Unity is the forgotten factor of modern man." GB often points out that mankind has lost sight of the greater reality - that we are one with the universe, an integral part of Cosmic Consciousness "We often forget, in the hurly burly of our lives, our wholeness, the totality of our being."

 

One of the reasons we've lost our sense of wholeness is physical. We have two eyes, two hands and feet, two halves of our brain. From birth onward, we have a bicameral view of the physical world. Believing our senses, we add layer upon layer of conditioning to our nascent consciousness. We perceive what is outside of us as Other, or at least other, and therein lies the twist.

 

GB says, "Cosmo-numerology underlies all of existence."

 

"Cosmic Consciousness is the Highest Common in the Cosmos, the Unity that pervades the diversity of the Universe."

 

"First there is one pure formless Consciousness: U³, Ultimate Universal Unity.

 

"Then One becomes two."

 

When formless consciousness becomes aware of itself, mirror by mirror, a series of iterations — ever-smaller aspects of the original source of light — creates the complexity we perceive as reality.

 

As a candle carries a spark of the sun, we each carry a spark of the original light of Consciousness - it is the part of us that sees, that understands, that strives. It is in the seed in every life form, in the structure of every inanimate thing, in the light of understanding and the passion of love.

 

But this unitive understanding is shattered at conception; our most basic mindset is inherently dualistic. "We recognize all of existence only by what it is not." From the moment the fetus first apprehends of the outer world pushing it down the birth canal, (see Grof), this is our basic perception: me or not me.

 

"Three is inherent in two. There is one, the other, and both together."

 

Beyond the it's-all-one and the it's-me-or-him perspectives, there is a third perspective, a hidden one, an implicate perspective, one that is both me and not-me and neither me nor not-me simultaneously. It is in and behind and under everything. It is the Philosopher's Stone.

 

"The world isn't a chorus of concords or a choir of discords, but a cosmos representing the consummate harmony between concord and discord."

 

But humanity is so rooted in physical duality, that valuing - or even grasping - such a subtle and fleeting way of looking at the world is beyond many of us. We are each evolving at own pace, taking individual and group lessons from life's experiences - slowly becoming more conscious.

 

"Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, all point to the same thing — raising of the level of consciousness in humanity: spiritualization."

 

And Anandamayi Ma, Ganesh Baba's guru, tells us how:

 

"Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering."

August 3, 2010



July 7, 2010

KCHO interview


July 5, 2010



About a week ago, during that very intense grand cardinal cross, I heard Jon Young  telling stories about his recent visit with a group of Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana. What struck me, other than the tragedy of what "civilization" has cost the human race, was that the Bushmen appear to only have two rituals: a greeting ritual, and what Jon called the spontaneous gratitude dance.

Every time a member of the community feels grateful, he or she does a happy, shuffling and shaking little dance. Whenever someone does the dance everyone nearby joins in and pretty soon the whole group is dancing. Jon showed video footage of the gratitude dance a few times, notably when a bottle of very special water was presented to an elder.

Earlier the same day, a friend leading a solstice ritual reminded us of the Haudenosaunee belief that the only reason for humans to exist is to say thank you, that the proper use of free will is to complete the natural circle of giving by giving thanks to nature and spirit for providing. The main understanding I took from my research on the grand cross was that whatever transpired in that time was likely to have a lasting impact - and there I was reflecting on the extraordinary power of gratitude twice in one day.

At the time I was preparing for a radio interview about The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, trying to decide which of the 4 P's described in the book (Posture, Prana, Practice and Presence) I wanted to emphasize in the interview. I decided that the one that interests me most at the moment is the third, Practice, or conscious action, paying attention to what you pay attention to. What we pay attention to grows because we are shining the light of consciousness on it. What could have a more positive impact on the world than paying more attention to gratitude?

More than any other practice I can think of, taking on the essential human responsibility of giving thanks as Haudenosaunee saw it has potential to create just the shift in consciousness the human race needs right now.

And the Kalahari Bushmen have known how to do it forever.

So I've been doing the spontaneous gratitude dance for about a week. My dance isn't exactly the same as the one the Bushmen do, but my three grandsons picked it up instantly, not only dancing whenever I did but starting their own dances whenever they felt grateful. It's a little silly, of course, but a little silliness coupled with a lot of gratefulness is just what the world needs.

Try it. It works.



June 27, 2010

Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba in the San Francisco Examiner.



June 9, 2010

Random Harvest 4

an excerpt from Ganesh Baba's Sadhana

From The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, page 94:

 

Our psychic fixity or attention to the Gyral Center can lead to the release from the relativity of our dreamlike sense perceptions, leading to our experience of the super-sensuous intuition and this awakening our awareness of the Absolute or Spiritual Existence-Consciousness-Bliss: Satchitananda. At the crucial point or “circle” at the third eye, the kutasth, there is a unique opportunity to directly pass into the causal body from the gross without passing through the various intermediate layers of the complex subtle bodies. It provides a safe springboard for diving into the Divine in man, rousing it, and making it descend into our day-to-day lives, this fulfilling the spirit of the motto: “secularize the spiritual.”

The processes of creation and evolution are analogous to a pair of opposite currents in electronics. The opposing direction of their flows creates a couple. When the cycle is complete, a circuit is created.

 

Creation flows from the Divine (the causal plane) through a series of subtle intermediate planes to the material plane, spirit solidifying into matter. Evolution moves in the opposite direction, proceeding from matter through subtler and subtler planes until it dissolves back into the causal.

 

Yoga’s shortcut, the opening of the third eye through concentrated attention directed by the breath, is a way to bypass the subtle planes and open a direct channel to the Divine.

June 5, 2010

Random Harvest 3

From The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, page 76.

We have lost the paradise. We have fallen from our rightful state of our native nature (swabhava), of subtle and refined living in amity with all life, with which we have a direct biological connection.

 

This excerpt from Baba’s Sadhana speaks to the delicacy of our bonds to the rest of life. An image of Dickon talking with the animals in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Secret Garden comes to mind, or Edward Hicks’ Peaceable Kingdom, "living in amity with all life."

 

The quote is actually from a section on vegetarianism, which Ganesh Baba advocates for keeping the subtle channels of the body clear as well as for maintaining a harmonious relationship with the earth’s animals, but its meaning goes further.

 

Each of our actions causes a ripple in the ocean of consciousness. Ganesh Baba points out that, “It is consciousness which is responds in any chemical reaction. The responses of consciousness to external stimuli in the mineral kingdom are far greater than many realize.”

 

Imagine a world in which we sense the effect of our actions on the world around us, waves of all sizes and shapes in flux, an undulating pattern of infinite causes and effects, denser here, subtler there, but all in relationship. It is our perception of separateness and self-importance that trips us up.

 

Camus says it so well in The Myth of Sisyphus:

If I were a tree among trees, a cat among animals, this life would have a meaning, or rather this problem would not arise, for I should belong to this world. I should be this world to which I am now opposed by my whole consciousness and my whole insistence upon familiarity. This ridiculous reason is what sets me in opposition to all creation.

 

Beyond making peace through conscious eating, what can we do to live in closer harmony with the rest of creation? How can we move from living a life based on quantity to one based on quality?

 

Swami Sivananda, GB's guru tells us: “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”

June 2, 2010

Reader reviews



May 16. 2010
 

 

from The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, page 82:

 

“I didn’t understand then that Baba reflected the color of his surroundings.

It’s difficult to understand why such behavior doesn’t amount to hypocrisy to me, but after many years of wrestling with my thoughts and feelings about this aspect of my relationship with Baba, I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter. By calling it hypocrisy, or even disingenuousness, I attach a derogatory label to a behavior that is beyond my comprehension, part of a higher level of organization that appears “wrong” or “chaotic” only from my limited viewpoint. Probably Baba got drunk with some people to teach them something. Who am I to judge?

Can a legitimate charge of moral relativism be brought to such an argument? It’s hard to say. Ganesh Baba was like the god he represents, mercurial, impossible to pin down.”

 

Being with Ganesh Baba wasn’t easy. He really did take on the flexible, generous, ferocious, expansive nature of a god. He was almost too much for this world – in fact, he often called himself an alien – said he was from another planet. He was certainly nothing like anyone I’d met before – or since.

 

From his trunk-like beard to his round belly, he embodied the archetype of Ganesh and Ganesh’s message of synthesis. Baba was as serious as he was wild, as harsh as gentle, and both pain and pleasure followed him. He was about higher highs and lower lows, but in the end, he taught us to walk with feet in two worlds, to explore consciousness consciously.

He met us in Rumi’s field:

 

There is a field beyond right and wrong.

Meet me there.

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Deniz commented:


May 13. 2010
 
 
For several months I’ve been harvesting little bits of Ganesh Baba’s wisdom from The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, Baba’s unpublished writings, and Ira Landgarten’s and Deniz Tekiner's recordings to post on Twitter. It occurred to me recently that it would be fun to choose longer excerpts randomly and reflect on them here.
 
from The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, page 50:
 
Astanga Yoga and Crea Yoga are related to each other as the lock and the key. As a matter of fact, Crea Yoga is the universal key to all esoteric knowledge—the key to the secret code of sciences, arts, and religions, especially the scriptures, which are written in cryptic languages with confidential codes being handed down from guru to student.
 
This is a direct quote from Ganesh Baba’s “Sadhana,” and quite likely from Tripura’s original.  I would have scoffed at it  – and probably edited it out of the book – had I not had the extraordinary experience of being initiated into kriya yoga by Baba some months after meeting him. The shift in consciousness kick-started then never really left me.
 
I’ve often compared it to wearing 3-D glasses; dimensions of the world you may have only intuited before become clear as day. Images associated with the ritual and the transfer of energy like the tunnel, the dove, and the eye were especially obvious to me. For months after the experience, I saw them everywhere. Literature, poetry and art unfolded in new and unexpected ways. It was like living in a country where you don’t know the language and waking up one day to understand everything people say.
 
Like a new language, the new understanding fades if it isn’t used—thus practice is essential—but a shift is taking place now, and so many of formerly secret understandings are now common knowledge that reminders are everywhere. The reversed perception of reality (“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players”), the understanding that the cosmos is reflected in the body, science’s exploration of the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity, all these are understandings that until recently were only accepted in the expanded worldview of initiates.
 
What the Crea (or Kriya) key does is closely akin to taking psychedelics. It stretches your perception in ways that can’t be reversed. The practical thing about Crea is that drugs aren’t necessary; it’s a transfer of energy and a set of practices to keep that energy flowing, a bag of marvelous psycho-physical tricks that keep growing and changing and revealing more of their magic over time.


Comment:
Baba talks about his own initiations in this recording made in New York City in the early 1980's.






May 10, 2010

CONTENTS (annotated)

 

Publisher's Preface -

          It's a rare preface that's as engaging as this one. Thanks, Ehud!

 

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction:  Sadhana

"A book like this can never be finished. The material: memories, three book-length manuscripts, piles of loose papers, notebooks, audio and videotapes, and countless hours of practice, will never fit into a book; it’s too generative.”

 

1             Crea Sadhana: Once and Always 

The working title of the book was Crea Sadhana: “Crea,” Baba’s spelling of kriya, the Sanskrit for “action,” combined with the English word “creative,” and Sadhana, “spiritual practice.”

 

Crea Sadhana: “Creative Spiritual Practice.”

 

2             The 4 P's 

      Ganesh Baba was fond of formulas and lists, he was a great believer in efficiency (though it was very much the Indian variety!), and he loved alliterative mnemonics like the 4 P’s.

 

3             Cosmo-Constituents: the Four Fields and the Four Bodies

       Anecdotes and cosmology, the alpha and the omega.

 

4            4 P’s for the Present           

In light of the tradition of updating and essentializing ancient passed-down teachings, in grateful recognition of their source both in time and beyond it, I offer 4 Ps for the Present.

 

5            Posture: conscious posture and limb-limbering

If all you learned from Ganesh Baba was one good reason to keep your back straight, it would be enough.

 

6            Prana: conscious breathing and eating

     Prana, carried by the breath and the food we eat, is the connection

     between the mind, intelligence and consciousness, and the physical body.

 

7            Practice: conscious action

                  Imagine what the world would be like if we took a serious look at what

      we pay attention to.

 

8            Presence: constant awareness of consciousness

                 "Consciousness is our very existence; it is our Being."

 

9            Cosmo-numerology

                 During the first few days I spent with Baba, he hammered cosmo-

     numerology, the core of his teaching, into me.

 

10         Psi Delta :  Once a Psychedelic, Always a Psychedelic

                "Since time immemorial we have used plants substances to help us

    recognize the higher frequencies of knowledge."

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May 5, 2010

The books have come! Jai Ganesh!



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April 27, 2010
I've been listening to "The Rochester Raps," the wonderful recordings Ira Landgarten made of Baba in Rochester, NY.

Here are just a few of the many gems there:

"The new age will be an age of even greater awareness, because awareness will come from within."

"Even while everything may pass on, that union of unity of spirit will live on."

"Nothing will save us now but this: Take your own evolution in hand and try to accelerate it."

"I invite the aspirants of the world to accelerated evolution, especially those, who, as Dr. Leary would say, have turned on but not tuned in."

"The fight for the survival of the fittest must now be changed to the fight for the survival of the weakest."

"Everything can wait but individual evolution cannot. It is like missing the bus of life."

"Straight body, straight breath, straight attention to the center of the psyche, and straight remembrance of God."



Deniz Tekiner commented:

Hope to hear these raps posted online at some point. I got a big kick out of the interview posted at the Flower Raj site.


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April 24, 2010

Like an Elephant

Here's a little bit of the book.

Ganesh Baba crashed into our lives like an elephant, knocking down our egos and stomping all over our expectations. He delighted us with his transcendent humor. He graced us with utter generosity and wisdom more profound than any I can imagine. He ate, drank, and smoked with complete abandon. With grand passion, he recited poems and long texts. In joyful bliss, he laughed, he sang, he chanted, and danced.

He talked through the night (“If you would be so kind, my dear, as to fill the pipe again?”) tackling every topic, explaining almost anything to anyone in language they could easily understand, though moments later his words might be equally incomprehensible. He told us stories and led us in song and dance until we were all breathless and only he wanted to go on. Then he slept for days.

Baba had a mercurial quality of reflecting back whatever he saw in us and of taking on the character of his surroundings. I recognized it only slowly. In the beginning, I was terribly shocked to see him become another version of himself with other people.

When he appeared in High Times, I was teaching elementary school in a small town in upstate New York. The last thing I wanted was for my colleagues or the parents of the children to discover my association with the Psychedelic Swami. I didn’t want to hear stories of drunken rants, yelling bouts, and intransigence in arguments. But all those stories were true: Baba could be impossible.

Deniz Tekiner commented:

"This entry mentions his somewhat "darker" side, which is actually one thing I really liked about him. So many of the other gurus I met seemed to have too much sweetness and light, which often seemed phony to me, an act of "piousness" that anyone with a little acting talent could pull off. And in many cases, when you learned enough to know what went on behind the scenes, you found out that "backstage" many gurus are quite different than the onstage pious act. Baba "humanized" the role of spiritual teacher for me, made it seem more real, authentic, and down to earth. "

Eve replied:


Kate Johnston commented:

"This post is too short and too intriguing!  I want to know more.  Guess I have to read the book."

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April 20, 2010

A Beautiful Synchronicity

I just discovered this excerpt in another of Baba's unpublished manuscripts, his autobiography, Search of Self.  He is writing about his guru, Sri Tripura Charan Devasharma, who wrote the original book which is now being passed on as The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba:

The next evening I quietly crept into the temporary ashram of my destined guru and guide along the path of Crea-yoga, the esoteric path of Raja-yoga. There he was, sitting erect, with spine straight like a pine and wearing a Christ-like countenance with a tuft of beard adorning his beaming and benign face. The room, ground floor and cabin-like, stuffy and ill-ventilated, was crowded with the many who had gathered to have a darshan of him.


I consigned the book to the pile of forgotten papers and jolly well forgot all about it till....!

There it lay for quite a time, but I never attempted to look into it. I thought it was all rubbish, bunkum, and I never thought then that that book contained the essential principles on which the operative techniques of active union with the absolute spirit of the universe are based.

In time, it fell to my lot to amplify it in English, along with its companion volumes, Diksha Shiksha, and Kriya Yoga - all in Bengali by the same author, my Crea-guru, Yogacharya Sri Tripura Charan Devasharma.

My first interview did not impress me, nor could I dream then that within the next three months I would be beseeching him to initiate me into Crea-yoga....

from Ganesh Baba's unpublished autobiography, Search of Self

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April 17, 2010

Practice

Suddenly the release of the book is upon me. I thought it would be two months; suddenly it's two weeks.

So my current practice is mostly about attention, "P3" in Baba's language. I'm going to nourish this project with my attention so its birth is easy and it flourishes.

Please give it your blessing too.

Thanks.

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