Ananda Healing Prayer Ministry Newsletter

Visualize the planet floating in space between your divinely charged hands...Invoke the blessings of Babaji and Christ to fill the planet with Healing Light...See Divine Mother blessing all in Her Love. August 311 Dwapara Dear Ones, I recently returned from visiting family on the east coast. My husband, Tim, and I drove back to California taking the scenic route through America, starting in New Hampshire and Vermont, with its beautiful villages and mountains. We drove across New York State on a highway full of hills, trees and pastures, and eventually along the shores of Lake Erie, and then up to the top of Michigan. We ferried over to Mackinac Island, which is in a narrow strait between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. There are no cars on the island so we rented bikes and rode the 7 mile road along the waters edge. We were blessed with a heavenly day and beautiful, shining blue water. Later, in South Dakota, we saw the Badlands, Mt Rushmore, and we were surprised by the beauty of the Black Hills. Divine Mother even blessed us with a double rainbow that day! I then recalled the words of Paramhansa Yogananda describing his own travels around beautiful spots on earth. We crossed Wyoming as the sun was setting. The play of light was beautiful over the big sky country. The next day we headed out for Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. We spent a couple of days there, seeing mountains covered with a blanket of yellow flowers (just as Master mentions in Kashmir!) along with geysers, and wildlife such as bison, elk, a baby bear, and even a moose. In Yellowstone we celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary at the historic Old Faithful Inn. Tims mother had eaten there when she was a young girl, and Master had likely eaten there when he traveled through Yellowstone. We headed home through Utah, being treated to lovely views of the mountain there. On our last day we crossed the high, hilly desert of Nevada, which has its own stark beauty. Divine Mother blessed us with an overcast sky, and even some rain, so the day was not as hot as one might expect. And by evening, we felt blessed to return home to beautiful Ananda Village. Remember Gods beauty as you send healing energy around the planet, His whisper of love and healing light for us all. Nurture and appreciate it in large and small ways; may it bless all. Thank you for your service through healing prayers. God bless you, now and always. Joy to you, Mary Kretzmann

Ananda Healing Prayer Ministry

From Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda: Chapter 2, We visit Kashmir ...Our strenuous race was rewarded by a breath-taking view. For the first time in this life, I gazed in all directions at sublime snow-capped Himalayas, lying tier upon tier like silhouettes of huge polar bears. My eyes feasted exultingly on endless reaches of icy mountains against sunny blue skies I rolled merrily with my young companions, all wearing overcoats, on the sparkling white slopes. On our downward trip we saw afar a vast carpet of yellow flowers, wholly transfiguring the bleak hills.... We took several trips in the shikaras or houseboats, shaded by red-embroidered canopies, coursing along the intricate channels of Dal Lake, a network of canals like a watery spider web. Here the numerous floating gardens, crudely improvised with logs and earth, strike one with amazement, so incongruous is the first sight of vegetables and melons growing in the midst of vast waters. Occasionally one sees a peasant, disdaining to be rooted to the soil, towing his square plot of land to a new location in the many-fingered lake. In this storied vale one finds an epitome of all the earths beauties. The Lady of Kashmir is mountaincrowned, lake-garlanded, and flower-shod. In later years, after I had toured many distant lands, I understood why Kashmir is often called the worlds most scenic spot. It possesses some of the charms of the Swiss Alps, and of Loch Lomond in Scotland, and of the exquisite English lakes. An American traveler in Kashmir finds much to remind him of the rugged grandeur of Alaska and of Pikes Peak near Denver. As entries in a scenic beauty contest, I offer for first prize either the gorgeous view of Xochimilco in Mexico, where mountains, skies, and poplars reflect themselves in myriad lanes of water amidst the playful fish, or the jewel-like lakes of Kashmir, guarded like beautiful maidens by the stern surveillance of the Himalayas. These two places stand out in my memory as the loveliest spots on earth. Yet I was awed also when I first beheld the wonders of Yellowstone National Park and of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and of Alaska. Yellowstone Park is perhaps the only region where one can see innumerable geysers shooting high into the air, performing year after year with clockwork regularity. Its opal and sapphire pools and hot sulphurous springs, its bears and wild creatures, remind one that here Nature left a specimen of her earliest creation. Motoring along the roads of Wyoming to the Devils Paint Pot of hot bubbling mud, with gurgling springs, vaporous fountains, and spouting geysers in all directions, I was disposed to say that Yellowstone deserves a special prize for uniqueness. The ancient majestic redwoods of Yosemite, stretching their huge columns far into the unfathomable sky, are green natural cathedrals designed with skill divine. Though there are wonderful falls in the Orient, none match the torrential beauty of Niagara near the Canadian border. The Mammoth Caves of Kentucky and the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, with colorful icicle-like formations, are stunning fairylands. Their long needles of stalactite spires, hanging from cave ceilings and mirrored in underground waters, present a glimpse of other worlds as fancied by man...

"Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deep enough."
Paramhansa Yogananda The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda

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