Very Dear Swamiji "The whole world is pulsing with the power of God...wave after wave of bliss. My heart is like the shore, and the Ocean of Infinite Love is breaking on the shores of my heart" This is adapted from the divine words of Paramahansa Yogananda on my engagement calendar for this week and they are so appropriate for the way I am feeling since you came into my life. I have followed all your talks this week and today at the Hindu Temple I finally got it! You rounded off the talks on Love/God perfectly and for me a deep peace and joy has come. It seems that something opened and cleared in me with your healing touch and I was emptied of past accumulations and then in your satsang the following evening filled me up with divine love of the Lord. This is quite mind-blowing! I am struggling to put in words how I feel but it is amazing to say the least. Just after the healing session I felt very energised, like I had been pumped full of God’s love. My body was feeling vibrant and alive, tingling with the flow of energy. Nothing else seems to matter but surrender to God, his love is all that there is…During the session I felt moved by the experience. At a certain point a knowledge came to me, a deep knowing that my God is always with me. I can always connect, I don’t need anything external to do this. My heart centre feels huge and full of divine bliss, divine love. A strength of emotion came into my being and I knew, without a doubt, that I have the strength to do whatever is asked of me by my Lord, to believe in myself and to let go of ego, selfishness and expectation. Swamiji you ARE love. This reminds me of a text about us being aware human beings, not asleep. And it says, "if you are aware you will never fall in love, because as an awake being you can never fall. You will be rising in love. People who rise in love are mature. Then love becomes not a relationship but it becomes a state of your being. Whosoever comes near you, you share with them. Whatsoever is happening, you give your love to it. You touch a rock and you touch as if you are touching your beloved's body. You look at the tree and you look as if you are looking at your beloved's face. It becomes your state of being. Not that you are in love, you ARE love. This is rising and not falling. Love is beautiful when you rise through it. This kind of love will give freedom, it will give wings and it will open the vast skies. …..” You have really made a profound impact on my life in a short space of time and I will miss being in your divine presence, in the presence of the innocence of a child yet the ancient wisdom of centuries. However, I know we will meet again and so will close with the following from the autobiography of Rumi. His teacher gives reflection on three things a spiritual aspirant needs. “Let the tongue speak the holy name, let the heart be thankful for Gods presence, and let the body be patient.” Rising in Love Jes , Canberra , Australia.