As we move out through the Holiday Season and end of 2016 into a New Year. I hope that you will all contemplate Adhi Shankara’s vision of the Divine Mother and his description of the totality of reality.

1. Life is beautiful because it is a manifestation of the Most Beautiful One
2. Life is a gift from the Divine
3. I am part of the Divine
4. The world is an endless ocean of ambrosia, my body is but an island
5. All that happens is waves rising and falling, neither inauspicious nor meaningful