A Bit More on Satguru’s Visit to US Mainland

While in the San francisco Bay Area, Satguru visited scenic Mount Tamalpais to retrace our late Gurudeva’s first walk to the summit. Here is what Gurudeva said in Merging with Siva lesson 123 about his times there: “For eleven years I led a bhakti pilgrimage, a devotional pilgrimage, to the top of Mount Tamalpais in California, the first Sunday of every month. I never missed one. The devotees, in looking over three cities with me, could intuit that within each city there were problems. Each home in each city contained an area of the mind that was problem ridden.

“Those who had the devotion went to the top of the mountain. Hence, the opportunity to expand their awareness for an hour or so and look over the external states of the mind. There they set their pattern for meditation for the ensuing month. It takes great dedication, devotion and bhakti to disentangle awareness from that which it is aware of, to flow into and become aware of expanded areas of mind. The rewards are great. We are able to look over and through our expanded vision the totality of the exterior area of our mind and intuitively know the answer to the experiences that we are going through.

“This may seem difficult to comprehend, but it is really very simple. When awareness is burdened in the exterior area of the mind, we simply release awareness from that area of the mind that it is aware of. Release the burden—but not by taking on more burdens or trying to find out the whys and wherefores of it all. In other words, we alleviate the pressures that awareness and our nerve system feel because of being involved in the exterior area of the mind and thus become devoted to our own superconsciousness.”

After flying to Dallas, Texas, Satguru held a satsang at the home of sishyas Sanjiva and Tiya Thielamay, where he spoke to those gathered about the purusharthas, the four goals of life. Priest Kumar Gurukkal also joined for the evening.