Good Morning!
As I was experiencing the exquisiteness of last night's Commemorative Service for Swami Sri Yukteswar, I thought, "How can I possibly communicate what I am experiencing...and transmit the effect it is having on me?"
It's true...I don't really know how to share it all with you. I could use some words I guess: sublime, exquisitely otherworldly, life-changing, soul-permeating.
I keep thinking that surely after THIS time nothing ever could be better. Then the next time I go to Escondido it IS better. How can that even happen?
We arrived early and sat really close with the giant photo of SY in direct line of sight. The leader, per usual, was amazingly prepared. I figured out something about that phenomena at least. These are usually lay folk who get to do this maybe once or twice a year, so they hold it as a huge privilege. They go all out to offer the very best they can...because it is such a rare chance to even do this. So time after time they deliver absolutely over-the-top service leadership.
Then there was the kirtan. I truly have never heard anything like this in my life. It has taken kirtan/chanting to a whole new stratosphere. The leader was so subtle, so facile with his instrument and his direction, that the music actually took one deeper and deeper into the SOUL. He would just play one note for awhile, then very softly layer in another...then another. The rest of the group followed suit and very delicately built this musical rhapsody that was ASTRAL. We all left earth far behind...and traveled to the Land beyond our Dreams.
The fulsome Presence of Sri Yukteswar was staggering. Tears were rolling, on and on. I felt embodied...I don't know how else to explain it. My whole being was filled with the Presence of the Divine...and the utter Divinity that IS SY.
Dennis turned to me on the drive home and said, "It's just what we said before. There is nothing, no place, no experience, no anything, that could possibly be finer and more desirable than the experience tonight!"
And I thought to Sri Yukteswar, "I wish every day could be Your birthday!"
Loving you always, k
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