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"If you are ready, then this emptying actually brings relief, humility, restfulness, and a true sense of belonging. It ends loneliness.

Otherwise each of us is a yantra wandering about this universe from this loca to that loca, all alone. But when we make room for God to move through us and we dissolve into it, this is really, if you ask me, the beginning of Nirvana, the beginning of Samadhi. This is not self erasure."

As this Karma Yoga course draws to a close, we invite all students to join this reflection session to discuss the concepts and teachings most striking to you.

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86968428741?pwd=BJDpaZQraOOco4Av6hFc6Krir6WHVg.1#success

Meeting ID: 869 6842 8741Passcode: 339357

Jai Maa,

I was reading a news article about a Sumatran orangutan that was filmed crossing over a road via a canopy bridge. The wildlife conservationists who built the bridge had been waiting for this crossing for nearly two years. The natural habitat of these Sumatran orangutans had been fragmented due to road construction.

As I watched this orangutan crossing the bridge, perhaps to reunite with the rest of its group, I found myself reflecting on my

own fragmented reality in this life. I felt a quiet sympathy for this brave animal that chose to cross the bridge after such a long time. What made it decide to take that step, we do not know. Yet it is often a leap of faith that allows us to overcome fear and make such a bold move.

I watched the orangutan cross the bridge several times. Its courage to take the firs…

Jai Maa, Jai Guru Dev! 🙏

Just a gentle reminder that our Karma Yoga Reflection Circle is happening tomorrow - Sunday April 26 - at 7 PM CET.

Feel free to share your reflections, or simply join and be present with us in Satsanga.

Hope to see you there 😊

Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83688609152?pwd=AUbgZiAJaVhAQ3edGCRgUXLvkA7XHk.1

Durga Lakshmi Saraswati

Resident cats Chubby and Kashi

A few flowers, trees and birds

Jai Maa kula! Posting an image here that came to me during our last karma yoga session with the Sadhvis. We were given questions to contemplate on Remembrance and Empty. For some reasons a pile of rocks came up for me. The pile of rocks represented all the suffering I have put myself through, along with the good and the lovely of life. This pile of rocks could have remained but I was graced with a teacher and teachings to question "who am I?" These months of karma yoga study have shown me what was once a big pile of heavy rocks (samsara and vasanas), currently are mostly a pile of pebbles and dirt, with the promise of flowers and green grasses (sattva to moksha).

Jai Maa, Jai Guru Dev

I've been rewatching the Karma Yoga sessions, and just completed Session 27. I wanted to share that this teaching has helped me to release a lot of shame and feel so much more comfortable in my own skin.

I had an earlier experience that opened the same doorway. When I first saw Shunya Ji in Boone in 2025, shame fell away then, too because I like to wear eye makeup. When I noticed this radiant soul speaking such deep truth while also wearing eye makeup, something shifted. A great weight, which I now recognize had been placed upon me by ego, was lifted.

In its place came an understanding that it is fine to just do me and that there is no shame in enjoying some things of the world; I am not a lesser seeker because of it. It was truly like cosmic permission.

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Day three of the spring detox—The amazing food prepared by Chef Sanjaiji is healing nectar for the body and the mind. All five senses are nourished and soothed. The stars of the day were ghee, kitchari, mung and carrot salad , takra and detox greens 🥬😋

Jai Guru Dev!

Usha Devi, Annapurna Devi, Durga, Shiva Shakti