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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...

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)...

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...

Open letter to Julie Anderson, Jan 2020

Dear Julie, I want to send you a note of support and appreciation from me and Santosha Ma and the gang! I have read a listened to all of your interviews with Beezone and Ed, and I really appreciate all the work you are doing for Beloved Adi Da! You are a good communicator! In a near void of leelas and tales about Sri Adi Da and his passionate life with his intimate devotees, all you are telling is wonderful...

Letter to Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani

Dear Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani, Hello, dear sister of and as the Heart. I am writing to you today to tell you of my secret, though it is an open secret and given freely to all those who are in need of it, today is the day I need to make a special specific gesture to reveal it in this personal way to you. I recognize your special dedication to the life and work of Avatar Adi da Samraj; your...

My Love and Submission to Adi Da

from The Innocence of Her Form by Santosha Tantra (p 124). . . my love and submission [to Adi Da] were not as one who submits to law, to mere belief in rightful knowledge, or to superiority. But it was as one who is guided and attracted beyond conditioning into the disposition of the vastness of unknowing, of Divine Ignorance, as Heart-knowing and Heart-revelation in direct experience. His Presence in my life was not one of demanding forceful submission, or...