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...