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		<title>Refractions of dew</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lotuses in a pond at Durban&#8217;s Botanical Garden &#8220;Clear and colourless, a tiny drop of dew, sits round and perfect on a red lotus petal in my pond. The sun’s illuminating rays refract from the innermost surface of that little drop of dew. It glows with delight, clear and colourless on the glistening velvet lotus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=satchitaananda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7464501&amp;post=77&amp;subd=satchitaananda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h3 style="padding-left:60px;"><em><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;">&#8220;Clear and colourless, a tiny drop of dew, sits round and perfect on a red lotus petal in my pond.</span></span></em></h3>
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<h3 style="padding-left:60px;"><em><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;">The sun’s illuminating rays refract from the innermost surface of that little drop of dew.</span></span></em></h3>
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<h3 style="padding-left:60px;"><em><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;">It glows with delight, clear and colourless on the glistening velvet lotus petal.</span></span></em></h3>
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<h3 style="padding-left:60px;"><em><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;">When will my heart, like that small and seemingly insignificant dew drop, become pure?</span></span></em></h3>
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<h3 style="padding-left:60px;"><em><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;">When will it be filled with the light of Sri Ramakrishna?&#8221;</span></span></em></h3>
<h3 style="padding-left:420px;"><span style="color:#000000;">Prem Namaste</span></h3>
<h3 style="padding-left:420px;"><span style="color:#000000;">Kamal</span></h3>
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		<title>Reflections of Faith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[God is the sum total of all souls as a forest is to trees.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=satchitaananda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7464501&amp;post=59&amp;subd=satchitaananda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-67" title="Blue Lotus" src="http://satchitaananda.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/1342-images-soh-and-family-1261-copy-1.jpg?w=320&#038;h=160" alt="Blue Lotus" width="320" height="160" /><span style="color:#003366;">Once more I find myself gazing at reflections on the lotus pond of my mind, wondering about what was, is and will be.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Bubbles of inspiration rise from dark and murky depths, languidly defying the beckonings of gravity.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">It seems they are seeking liberation, for as soon as they reach their destination, the surface of the pond, they burst open and emerge in the infinite space, gone.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">I am like that transparent bubble. My life, a fragile wall, separating me my soul, from God the sum total of all souls.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">I believe that this is one of the definitions of God, the sum total of all souls. I read somewhere that He is like a forest wherein I am a tree.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Sri Ramakrishna said that we should see the infinite in the drop. What a vision! To see the infinite in a drop&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">And he actually saw this. In Cossipore he shared some of these revelations with His inner circle. He said</span></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#003366;">“Both inside and outside. The Indivisible Satchidananda – I see It both inside and outside. It has merely assumed this sheath for a support and exists both inside and outside. I clearly perceive this.”</span></em></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Space confined in the walls of a bubble seeking freedom from its spherical confines like the soul on its journey to the infinite.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">May all be blessed!</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">May all see auspicious things!</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Prem Namaste</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Kamal</span></p>
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