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Interview with Santosha Tantra: The Artist Persona

3/30/15 Part 1 – This interview was a beautiful revelation about Santosha Ma’s life and work.  Devotee:  This question is about Your doing art Your whole life, when You started doing art… Santosha Ma:    It wasn’t My whole life, I didn’t do it in My childhood. It was more the intensive time of the sadhana period.  There were different rhythms to it, but it started more there.  It started, not as something that the personality, Karen Karolczuk (her birth name)...

Devotion to the Living Guru

Devotion to the Living Guru Spiritual devotion to God often gets a boring rap in our culture – I think that’s because the stereotypical images of devotion we see are of people sitting at Church, lacking enthusiasm, looking for the nearest exit in hopes that some event will cause the torture to end sooner than expected.  And spiritual devotion to a living Guru rarely gets talked about in the West. When it does, most find it abhorrent if someone admits...

Vulnerability is the Answer to Everything

7/22/2016 This is a Friday night with Santosha Ma, and She skipped meditation to talk with us about what was happening in Her circle of devotees at that time, and how to help each other in love. SANTOSHA MA:  It took a lot to convey that other people are suffering, and that in relationship, sometimes you are the cause of the suffering.  It has been hard for all of you to do that, to acknowledge that you might be the...

How I Came to Santosha Ma

I want to write about the life Given to me by Santosha Ma and Adi Da, lived in Her most wonderful Company since 1992.  Before that I had been in Adi Da’s community for 12 years, and I know in my heart that He sent me to Her to serve Her Work and Him here.   And She showed me from the first second of my seeing Her that She is God Incarnate, one with Him, Beloved Adi Da. How I...

Modern Day Ego Hype vs. Actual Experience

Eastern Sierras    July, 2008 Santosha Ma:  Anybody can like music, but that does not mean you are a musician.  You can talk about how much you like about music, and you can say, ‘I like that song,’ but it does not mean you have the experience of someone who has actually spent countless years and days learning something.  But in our culture, because we have affluence and we have access to almost anybody’s experience – people who have real experience...

The Contemplative Life

A talk by Santosha Tantra 10/6/1996 Santosha Ma: What I am trying to do is use this occasion, not just to serve your impulse, but for other people in other places, and other generations. In our society particularly, I feel the need and necessity for the contemplative life is not understood. It is not welcomed, and in most cases, it is absolutely rejected. There is a certain aspect of religious life that can be a little bit accepted. But somehow...

It takes the Guru

The mind cannot figure out Enlightenment 1/9/11     Just do exactly what I have asked you to do, and that’s it.  I don’t care how much TV you watch or anything else, except what I have asked you to do exactly.  Just be obedient and do that perfectly, and then the next thing will be given and you can go deeper.  You can still have lots of faults and go deeper.  These instructions I’m giving you are dealing with your...

Women – The Way To Change

Women, The Way To Changeby Santosha Tantra2011 Women, the way to change and grow out of the female programming is to take action. Always do whatever comes up that you think should be done. Do not go to someone else and tell them and talk about it and decide about it. Simply just do it. Always find a way to go about doing whatever it takes to get something you really want. Try lots of things, and what works will...

Contact

If you feel a connection to Santosha through her writing and art and would like to make a heartfelt communication to her, send us an email at barbss5754@gmail.com and we will be happy to pass it on to her. Santosha has retired from teaching completely, and no longer meditates on Friday nights. Do please contact Torrey for information if you feel the need:email: barbss5754@gmail.comcell / text: 559-769-5133...