My mother's journey to the Light.....

Namaste friends... as many of you are aware,  my mother,  Mary Christian Heising,  returned to the Light on Friday, January 9 at just before 10 AM when she took her last breath in this realm.  Her journey became part of my own journey as I spent much time with her,  especially since she went into hospice in mid-June after a near fatal bought with viral pneumonia the end of May on memorial day weekend.   As I was with her,  I watched her continue to fight on for each day,  even against extreme physical and I assume emotional pain.  But during the holiday season,  after Christmas and New Year's,  her soul seemed to settle into the realization that her body was indeed passing and in the final dissolution process.  It was especially auspicious to me that on Monday, January 5, the birthday (jayanti) of my guru, Paramahansa Yoganandaji,  that from 3-4 PM,  I felt she had completely accepted this and was beaming rays of peace and love through her beautiful blue eyes as I held her hand.  That was indeed a special gift from her to me and also certainly from God and guru.

Namaskar friends..;. OM blessings.. peace and love ..._/\_

{NOTE: the following online conversation just occurred regarding my mother's passing with one of my dear facebook friends,  Amrita Akhand:

• Amrita Akhand I read your blog entry as I listen to Deva Premal chanting and I can neither explain nor stop the tears. Thank you for sharing. You are Light. 

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  Carolyn Heising Namaste Amrita Akhand ... Dr. Ram Sharma and I chanted OM shanti shanti shanti for my mother, he through skype on my cell, at her last moments of breath... I lay my hands on her head, and also on her eyes... as Dr Ram guided me to do... and then I also played Deva Premal chanting om shanti shanti shanti on my cell from youtube... this was very soothing... soon thereafter, mother took her last breath..}

Receiving darshan from guruji.... the long awaited film AWAKE arrives in Fairfield Iowa....

Namaste friends... the last three days,  beginning with the purnima (full moon) on Thursday, November 6 through Saturday, November 8th.... have been highly auspicious for me.  The long awaited film AWAKE about my guruji Paramahansa Yogananda 's life arrived in Fairfield Iowa for a showing at the recently renovated antique Orpheum theatre.  I found out about this showing from the film's producers listserv that I am on at 3 PM on November 6th,  and was delighted that I could manage to make it down to Fairfield for the first showing of the film at 7:30 PM Friday November 7th.  It seemed that master himself had made these arrangements for me,  because I was giving up on being able to see the film on the big screen since I had missed the opportunity to see it in Los Angeles in mid October when I couldn't make it out there for a business trip due to a bad cold.  Then,  the nearest place the film was showing was a four hour drive one way to Kansas City,  and I just wasn't up for that this weekend since I didn't want to miss our annual homegrown Iowa potluck at the Unitarian Universalist  Fellowship of Ames (UUFA  or just "UU")  as I am scheduled to bring a fresh kale and swiss chard salad today.  So,  guruji seemed to have arranged that I could be there,  and be there I was,  right in the middle of the front row of the theatre!!  And guru must know how much I love Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City,  so I was delighted I could view the film there surrounded by like minded people resonating at high spiritual frequencies. 

All I can say now is I definitely received darshan from guruji.... what an incredible blessing,  and I am sharing my experience with all of you.   May you all have a wonderful day,  and OM blessings..
_/\_

Ganapati.... has come... Saturday November 1... All Saints Day.... 200 days... until 5-15-15...

This morning in meditation it came to me why Ganapati is coming now... the white mouse appeared as a decadent white chocolate this last Sunday as a gift from friends facing the end of their lives from cancer.  .. and represents kama... desires... even addiction to  the pleasures of the material world. As the true son of Bholonath, Lord Ganesha has come at this most auspicious time as I begin my last 200 days as a professor in this incarnation... Ganapati  came on Saturday November 1 through Dr Ram Sharma of Meerut India,  my long time collaborator,  and the great guru Paramahansa Nityananda of Ganeshpuri of Maharastra who has recently been appearing to Dr Ram.  Maharastra is  renowned for devotion to Lord Ganesha throughout Bharat (India).  Ganapati came 200 days before my most auspicious retirement date of 5/15/15..51515...reads the same both forwards and backwards...jai Ganesha... He has come in his mouse driven vehicle to take me to his Father the Great Yogi..
Bom Bom Bhole... Om Namah Shivaye

[PHOTOS:   Lord Ganesh is driving his mice/rat driven vehicle....
white chocolates in form of mice from Chocalaterie Stam in Ames, Iowa]

 

You are deeply manifesting from the unmanifest Source within you...

In each moment, you are (deeply) manifesting from the unmanifest Source within you. You could say that in each moment, you are born again. -- Dr Carolyn Heising
— at Badrinath Temple


Namaste friends... today I want to talk about the manifest and the unmanifest Source within you.  What you are is not what you eat,  although that keeps your body going,  and useful nutrients are extracted from food surely.  Yet,  many saints throughout history either ate very little or not at all,  seeming to survive on the life energy emanating within them.  In Sanskrit,  this is known as "prana", the life force energy.  In my own case,  the energy within seems to surge especially when I enter certain meditative states.  Certainly,  on all six of my trips to India,  I seemed to be existing on very high levels of internally produced energy. And never so much so as on that third trip to India,  and on the day of June 24, 2011 when I rose before dawn to go to Badrinath temple.  That was a very high point of my life.  Namaskar friends ... OM blessings to you all _/\_

 

Go with the flow...

FLOW IS LIFE
POEM BY DR. RAM SHARMA
One is guided by hope
one is guided by ego
one is guided by inspiration...
but where ?
we do not know
you will blossom by love
the flowers of mind will dance
these will even grow in destruction
then the lamp will lit
you will decorate life with light

This poem has me thinking about the purpose of life in this body.   For the One described is clearly not the body...nor is the "you"... at the pure essence you are light... so true... go with the flow...

 

Six trips to India... a total of nine months in that blessed land.. Maa Bharat...

Six trips to India... a total of nine months in that blessed land... Maa Bharat.   As I have been doing service (seva) to my mother now in hospice this summer,  of course my mind often wanders back to reflect on the six trips I have been so fortunate to have made to India.  There is such a blessing in having had these six opportunities and the mixture of pilgrimage with scientific and humanitarian visits and talks has been most auspicious.  Thanks so much to Dr Ram Sharma who has been instrumental in five of my six trips in facilitating much of the journey and pilgrimage locations. 

The house of peace and light...

Namaste friends... yesterday my mother told me of a dream she had on Sunday night after receiving holy communion from her former Lutheran minister and longtime friend,  who incidentally is now 85 (my mother is almost 88)... at her resthome... I also received this blessing.  My mother dreamed that my father was coming to her in an array of white light in a white house of peace and light.... this frightened her perhaps because she is still attached to this material dimension and has not yet agreed to move on to the higher dimension.... I had a dream on Memorial Day (May 26 2014) that was equally powerful... my father appeared and informed me that within 40 days he would be coming for her... perhaps what he meant was that he would appear in her dreams...  this was after a sermon at the SRF 2nd street temple in Encinitas on Sunday, June 29 about the topic of marriage and relationships..  the brother included this example in his sermon about his own mother and father... how his father had passed on to the next astral plane of existence and that three days before his mother's passing,  she related a dream to the hospice chaplain that her husband had come for her... well,  that very night was when my mother had her dream...namaskar friends...