Oh my dear one how comes my beloved Hermann Hesse's poem "In the mist"(Im Nebel")comes to mind every time I see your name. Strange, is in the mist to wander! Lonely is every bush and stone,.. Certainly, no one is wise, Without knowing the darkness, The inescapable and the quiet, Separates him from everything. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-5f-7sCOE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-5f-7sCOE Please, please do re-read the posting also in context what has been written here at FFL. If for any reason, how you say it in US-over there, you "do not get it", please do reply.Since as i already mention it these are discussed open in TMO circle now. Hope I don't have to but will explain it in two or three sentence plain and simple. So we can "get" over it -this darkness. wandering darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and may the icy earth not Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Which installation are you referring to ? " While Maharaja's message was being read the rain came pouring down, but before closing the meeting Shankaracharya Ji gave his blessing to all. Success of the Smarak Inauguration Dr Girish Varma related how he had contacted an expert Pandit to ask about the significance of the heavy rain that curtailed the inaugural ceremony of the Maharishi Smarak on the 15th of February. The tradition of Smarak is that a Shivalingam is installed, which represents the person. Dr Varma asked the Pandit if rain should come or not (during or after the ceremony). The Pandit replied that rain HAS to come, and he quoted Slokas that say Varuna Devata has the right to the first Abhishek of the installed Shivalingam (i.e. rain should bathe the Shivalingam first, before any other liquid). He said the first drop of rain that falls on the Lingam completes the ceremony of inauguration. `Then your celebration is done'. Still not quite satisfied, Dr Varma then checked with a number of people whether the rain had actually fallen on the Shivalingam. It turned out from those who were there, that the first rain to enter through the unfinished roof had fallen directly on the top centre of the Shivalingam. He gave this fulfilling news to the Pandit, who said `You should feel Maharishi's presence is really in that Shivalinga. The inauguration is complete.'"
