Arjan’s Sister (Kelly) lives about 5 hours up north in Crested Butte, Colorado. Here she is with a friend hiking in the mountains. This is another amazing place. Take a look at this view! Quite a backyard to have!
I think it is important to get out into nature often. It helps ground me to the reality of being a part of this earth. It is too easy to get caught up in every day life and loose the connection with the earth and our environments. As a result we take nature for granted and miss out on the chance of enjoying the treasures of mother nature.
Turn of off the TV (or computer, for those people like myself who are on all the time) and go outside! Get some friends together and go somewhere nice and natural.
“What does it mean to master a mantra? When you have repeated it so much, so often and so well that you hear it within you, and it comes handy to you……especially at the moment of death……..you have mastered a mantra.” - Yogi Bhajan
This quote reminded me of the stories that I posted last week about Bhai Fauja Singh and how he was chanting “Waheguru” till his last breath. I can imagine how much “Waheguru” was a part of his everyday life and how much he chanted it. I’m SURE he mastered the Waheguru Mantra.
I also think about a line that I used to sing a lot when I was very young: “Hummee Hum, Tumi Tum, Waheguru…. I am thine, in mine, myself, Waheguru“. We used to have a tape playing all the time with these words put to music. I used to sing it while walking home from school (KG-2nd grade). The thing that was cool was that I sang it so much that it became part of me. Whenever I was scared or just needed some support these words just popped into my mind automatically. I think that is what happens when you take Gurbani and Mantra and repeat over and over (Mindfully). It becomes a part of yourself. So…I guess when you are in need and when you die…it comes to your aid and guides you. This is the power of Gurmantra! Try it and see/experience for yourself!
Another New Mexico evening sky. The skyscapes is one of my favorite things about living here. You can see a bunch more pictures on Prabhu Singh’s Blog. He drives down from Los Alamos and got some great sky pictures.
Part of the 3.5 acre back yard and the shed. I was cleaning out the irrigation ditch so that we can flood the field with water. It’s quite a process irrigating the field. Our friends who live nearby have horses that she helps take care of and ride. Arjan wants to get things cleaned up and ready so that we can have the horses graze on our property. The grasshoppers this year have infested everything and eaten everything in it’s path. When you step on the grass a few hundred of them jump. They are like aliens from another planet. It definitely effects the local farming community (not to mention all of us hobbyist gardeners..like me)
Well…we finally did it. This is an old horse shed that is out back in my parents property. It was full of all kinds of old stuff that had bene in there for ages. We started at 7AM and pretty much ended up throwing everything out. You cnasee the huge pile of trash. Arjan wanted to get it ready so that we can have some of our friends horses over on the property to graze.
Dharam clearing brush away from around the pile of wood, getting ready for the bonfire. We had all kinds of scrap wood and weeds from around the property which we gathered together.
Narayan sitting by and watching…
Dharam and Harbhajan helpig me with the fire
Nervously watching the fire blaze high into the sky. It was a little windy so the flames were going pretty high and also along the ground. We were standing by with buckets of water, just in case. Luckily the wood was pretty dry and the fire died down within 10 minutes.
It’s so fun to just hang out and talk by a fire at night. We used to do this a lot on camping trips.
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