Dear Ones, sometimes there are events which disable one from performing activities, which one enjoys doing. I have been affected by one such experience. I left my overnight bag in Yoga Vidya. It had my laptop, kindle and my puja purse.

The shock hit me when I reached home. I was at a loss and then my husband loaned me his laptop. He has been extremely kind; in the sense I use it for 75 percent of the time. I refer to it as co-sharing but I would say it is more.

I miss my puja purse. I have been telling all my students that one must always have one’s chanting mala with one. I had put my morning chanting mala in my bag. I had my night chanting mala in my bag. What is the difference? My morning chanting mala was given to me by my Guru in 1981. It has travelled everywhere with me and has been to the hospital many, many times.

The night mala I use for a shorter chanting at night. It is placed at my bedside. It has been hard for me to accept the fact that I will not have my mala with me sometime. So, I ordered a crystal mala and I am using it now.

A test

Anyways I guess I just have to accept it. I miss my laptop, my kindle, my ear pods and my prayer shawl. Look at the number of times I have put me.

My ego is overwhelming me and I have to learn my lesson, that one should cease wanting. The rajasic guna is predominant and so is the tamasic guna as I also have a bag of earrings in that bag.

Temporary loss of things can affect all of us. One way to handle it is to use what one can get. It is a test, which I think I will get a C+.

If you are not careful, you can spend your whole life looking for what you have lost. – Moira Fowley-Doyle

The problem is that the path of neutrality is arduous.

Aim Hrim Klim