We had a beautiful time on Sunday when Didi Ananda Hiteshana, an international mediation teacher for Ananda Marga from India, led a house blessing for Lake House Health & Learning Center. Meditation students, Lake House practitioners and friends danced through the house, chanting in rhythm simple ancient words before returning to the house's Fireplace Room to give this blessing:
May the wind bring blessings with it!
May the ocean yield felicity!
May our herbs be blissful!
May the day and night be sweet!
May the dust particles be blissful!
May the world’s spiritual realm of the divinities and the venerable ancestors prove sweet!
May our plants be charming!
May the sun shower felicity!
May our domestic cattle be blessed!
Onm Madhu
Onm Madhu
Onm Madhu (Brahma is sweet.)
We must admit, we giggled at the "domestic animals" part. We also have our share of dust particles here at Lake House, no matter how much we try to keep the floors clean. We like the fact that they will be "blissful," more than ordinary dust bunnies.
Thank you, Didi, and friends, old and new. For more on the Ananda Marga, the social and spiritual organization the promotes meditation and awareness, see http://www.andandamarga.org.
P.S. This is the second house blessing for Lake House in a second indigenous st yle; the first came from David Granados (Eight Eagles) who blessed this house in the Native American tradition on Sept. 7, 2005.
