NEW YEAR GREETINGS FROM MOTHER MAYA

Blessed Soul,

May your New Year be graced with Joy, Health, and Harmony. On behalf of all the sadhakas of Wise Earth School, I extend my deepest appreciation and gratitude for your assistance, help, and prayers for the continuanace of Wise Earth Sadhana education in the world. Our primary commitment here at Wise Earth is to harmony. Satguru Sri Subramuniswami (Gurudeva) who has recently attained Mahasamadhi tells us that we must strive to make this commitment greater than any other commitment or particular goal in our life. Goals change, problems change, perspectives change, but harmony is unchanging. We can find infinite strength when we make harmony our ultimate priority.

Wise Earth Tradition tells us that harmony and health will not be found outside of ourselves. These are not goals we can pursue. Health and harmony are our natural state of being. Indeed, we are wellness. We are consciousness. Disease is an imposter. Once we realize this natural state of being human, we discover that disharmony and disease arise from forgetfulness of the True Self -- the Self that is intrinsically Whole and Conscious.

It is now a quarter century since I first began teaching the work we call Wise Earth Sadhana. During these years, I have guided thousands of precious souls into their healing from devastating disease an disharmony. I have encountered thousands of gentle souls, and also restless souls who have shared a common goal -- a yearning to receive Mother Nature's healing nurturance. But to live in sacred accord with all things takes more than the desire to live without disease or the yearning for healthfulness, happiness, and knowingness. It requires a commitment to harmony and the discipline to strive for wholeness, peace, and health through surrendering every cell, tissue and memory of our being to nature’s rhythms. To seek out harmony and put aside lifelong habits and behaviours that tend to draw us away from the sacred reminders of glorious human nature into negative thinking and disharmonious activities, takes the recreation of the entire Cosmic Anatomy within ourselves. Indeed, Wise Earth Sadhana provides us with a "cosmic vision" rooted in the vision of the rishis -- to discover our greater energies. Wise Earth work also provides us the "cosmic bridge" -- the practice of everyday sadhana -- to cross over life's perilous path and, as a result to achieve this noble goal of harmony. At present, the world is in a time of deep, soul-searching transition --- wherein the passing of old, impure behavior must give way to the attitude of light and harmony and unification that naturally arise from the boon of knowingness of the True Self. In this understanding, we may eliminate the sense of isolation, fragmentation, separation that causes disharmony, and in so doing, we may reclaim our own " inner medicine ", a power that each of us possesses, a power that only Mother can revitalize and sustain.

Wise Earth Sadhana education is "inner medicine" work. As I take time to reflect on the twenty five years I have been serving humanity, I retreat into the winter, burrowing deeply within the bosom of Mother Earth, contemplating my upcoming fiftieth year to Isvara. I remember your kindness, compassion, and generousity . May you continue to bloom in wondrous health. May you drink peacefully from Mother's well. May your inner wisdom continue to grow. May your innate sense of shared responsibility for the betterment of the world be blessed with many sacred gifts of the spirit.

The world's transformation into unity, peace and prosperity depends entirely on a more profound transformation – that of your individual cultivation of good health, and inner peace.

A seasonal reminder of the ultimate way toward rest and replenishment at this year's end: in keeping with Wise Earth Tradition that strengthens health and inner wisdom, Wise Earth School and its offsprings, Wise Earth School and MOM, pare down their activities for the Winter Season. The winter reprieve is recommeded for all to evoke deeper awareness of the True Self. Through lessening our load during this time of year and choosing instead to burrow in the Earth while the overactive, goal-oriented, hectic, modern world of stress and pressure we have created for ourselves –pass us by, we are practicing the sadhana of rest. We surrender to the rhythm of the winter's season so that we may rest and replenish our vital human energy for the new year– a necessary practice that all of nature’s creatures observe without instruction (and one that we humans have sadly forgotten) as we venture to reclaim our good health and strength. The intention here is not to "do nothing", but to lessen the workload and pursuits so that you may focus more on strengthening sadhana practice in your everyday life as a personal discipline for self-development. May you find the Joy in your Winter Reprieve. Sadhana Practice.

Love and Blessings,

Mother Maya