HOW IT WAS - BASANT PANCHAMI THIS YEAR 2023 - SARASVATI PUJA WELCOMING GODDESS SARASVATI – LADY OF WISDOM – IN APPRECIATION OF DIVINE FEMININE

HOW IT WAS - BASANT PANCHAMI THIS YEAR 2023 - SARASVATI PUJA

WELCOMING GODDESS SARASVATI –

LADY OF WISDOM – IN APPRECIATION OF DIVINE FEMININE –

Come,

My Goddess – Sarasvati

Into my study -

Follow the path strewn with flower petals

and the scent of divine, open roses.

Feel yourself drawn to the most beautiful

place that you can imagine.

A space where I remember

that beauty

is a pathway to the Divine.

Come to

This Place

My Goddess ,

where I feel your feminine soul

awakening in delight!

Come to the this Study Temple.

Come, my Goddess Sarasvati !

You enter a pathway, embraced on both sides by gardens of flowers, trees, and scented honeysuckle. As you run your fingertips along the blooming petals, you see the ocean in the distance. The salt air kisses your face, and you breathe in the clear love permeating every cell of your being.

The temple grounds are bursting with flavor, color, and beauty.

In the stillness, it feels as though you’re being beckoned, called gently, to continue walking the path. A butterfly flutters across your nose, and a doe is nestled under an oak. Peace settles within your heart.

Soon, you approach a large, ancient gold door engraved with the flower of life in the very center.

It is the gate to the temple.

The door gently opens and you are met by me. My long, gentle fingers reach out to her hands, holding them; she looks directly into my eyes.

Her presence silences me.

I gather my strength to lovingly say :

Welcome home to this temple,

My Goddess Sarasvati -

I stand as your son.

I hold the temple door open so that you can choose to enter

the potent mysteries of the Divine Feminine.

I am so honored and grateful you are here.

I have been waiting for your arrival, dear one.

She says -

Come, let us tell you a story.

Let us bring you to the remembrance

of who you really are.

I follow her into the main room of the temple and feel the soles of my feet upon the cool, exquisite quartz floors, shimmering in glistening light. The room is illuminated with warmth and love. Gentle music of Sarasvati chant echoes throughout the vast space, lulling me. I feel safe, as though I have returned home.

Breathe this into your being…

Slowly, as though you are in a timeless space.

Temple sisters quietly arrive and attend to you, bringing a bowl of rose water. Their sweet fingers slip around your feet, washing, anointing you with sacred oils. While the intoxicating scent of neroli and champaka fills your nostrils, the sisters bring trays with delicacies— the prasada of sweets laced with honey nectar and rose petals.

Receive one of these and let it slowly dissolve

into your mouth… taste the beauty.

I sit next to her, She looks at me

directly in the eyes and transmits:

My arrival is no accident, dear one.

I am here because you have a powerful stirring inside…

You are awakening and remembering an

ancient calling sounded eons ago.

You are responding to this resonant

sound within you,

and you find yourself here...

This Temple is the place where the ancient

sound is alive.

This sacred space is here to serve

your deeper calling.

Feeling the deep presence of unconditional Love, I am drawn in by what she said ; your heart is stirred.

This Is a Temple of Remembrance - As I sit next to this radiant, sapphire robed Goddess , there is a sense of familiarity or remembrance of her. She smiles with softness and adoration. When she gazes into my eyes, I feel connected to her heart, to a fire within that is alight.

My Goddess Sarasvati -

We are so honored you have arrived at the temple.

This is a place of remembrance.

A place where we feel at home.

Awakened.

Alive.

Familiar.

This is what it means to remember.

Take my hand, Goddess .

I will tell you more...

Remembrance is a full sensory experience. You can feel it, communicate it through all channels of perception.

When you see an image that sparks something within you, hear a piece of music and you know how to play it or dance it, find yourself being transported to a different place while in your devotion, sense a fragrance that brings tears to your eyes… without any conscious knowing of why…you are remembering.

There is a beautiful mystery in remembrance precisely because as much as we try to quantify it and understand it through science and logic, we cannot.

Remembrance is poetic.

Mythic.

It is felt in our bodies. It is unlocked in moments of surrender and release.

It is during these times that we allow ourselves to move between the veils.

Take a moment to breathe this in, my son

Breathe in this temple.

Breathe in its grounds.

Breathe in the scents and the stones.

Remember...

On this Path, we are invited into the possibility that we can access memories of not just the past but also the future; we do not live in the confines of a time-space continuum. Memory is not anchored to times gone past.

It’s almost a paradox that when we are fully present in a moment, we can remember. It is in this place we connect with our ancient-future self and all of its vast possibilities for the present.

Yes, we can remember other lifetimes.

Yes, we hold family heritage within our bodies—yet we also have our spiritual lineages that may not be the same as the familial lineage you were born into. So we can remember not only our familial lineage but also our spiritual heritage.

We carry our collective remembrance in our DNA. We understand this. And here, at the holy Presence Temple, you can feel in your bones that we are one.

So, my son. You are at the gateway of your remembrance.

Will you surrender and remember?

Will you remember our Great Mother.

The Mother of all Mothers.

Our Goddess.

Her.

The Goddess gently squeezes my hands and my eyes flicker.

Divine, infinite, unconditional Love.

Expansive, holy, sacred Love.

Nurturing, nourishing, regenerating Love. ...

This is our Great Mother.

Whenever you feel these,

you feel

Her.

She is that.

She is this.

She is All of It.

Great Mother is the birth of us all.

Great Mother is the Shakti of the Universe,

the explosion,

the stars of us.

She is everywhere.

She is everything.

She is in you.

Yet, my son Sudhanshu - we have been in the Forgetting Times. Goddesses ( Divine Feminine) have “apparently” been absent from our conscious psyche for thousands of years. She was once held as the center of the Universe out of which all was born; but since then She has since been shrouded in mystery.

She has been both revered and denigrated. She has been reviled, and yet we are all born from Her. She has been plundered and disregarded, but without Her, we know we will die.

Now, we are in a time that we are hearing Her voice again; we hear Her murmurs deep within each and every one of us:

“I never went anywhere. I am here. I am here.”

Men as well as women— have felt the disconnection from the Womb of the Divine Feminine (Mother, Sister, Wives, Daughter). This has resulted in a collective yearning to be held and supported, leading us into difficult emotional territory. We forgot She was here and entered a chronic amnesia.

The truth is, we were all born from Her, my son. All of us. Each of us are interconnected.

Yet, in our Forgetting Times, we could not remember this. We felt separate from one another. Separate from our deep gnosis.

Many of us have wounds connected to the Mother—both our personal mother and the Great Mother. On a personal level, we have felt issues around self-love, nurturance, and feeding ourselves… so we’ve felt fears of being unloved and finding it difficult to receive love. And as women, many have felt “less than”… a chronic and abiding sense that somehow we are “not enough” along with the opposite sense of being “too much”—too sensitive, too emotional, too irrational. This maddening pendulum swing between “not enough” to “too much” has led many of us to lose our inner truth, to lose our connection to our inherent Essence.

At the core of the Great Mother is a sense of sustenance; feeling separated from this causes us to constantly look “out there” for our needs to be met.

Have you felt this scarcity of love?

Have you felt that sense of not ever being enough?

Have you felt the deep-rooted need to

compete for survival?

Yes, my dear… So many of us have.

But we are coming into a new age, my son ...

That is why you are here.

We are remembering Her.

Surrender, Sudhanshu -

Receive Her unconditional support.

Allow Her to transform and alchemize your pain.

You are never alone.

Feel the circle of Love around you.

Divine Feminine sings to us.

She wraps Her arms around us.

She sings into the womb of your heart.

She sings across the inky, vast sky.

You are here.

She is here.

We are One.

So - Welcome Goddess Sarasvati -

DIVINE FEMININE AS THE LADY OF WISDOM -

MUCH LOVE

sudhanshu