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Hanaû, the Monkey and the Truly Inspired

Part Four — The Link and the Spark Had Hanaû been changed by entering a vortex for the second time? When he had fully immersed himself into the vortex for the first time, he had lost his precious sense of a personal self and found out that having one was a joke. There was no such true thing or True person that was apart from the One Being that animated us all. He was still laughing from that first immersion....

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...

The Master Trickster, the Coyote and the Brokenhearted

By Santosha Tantra Yakataboof got up every day for the last week and noticed the scrawny looking coyote resting on the dirt behind a mesquite bush. He wondered why the coyote had settled into that spot not more than a hundred feet past his swelling. The coyote disappeared from that spot in the early morning and late evening to hunt, Yakataboof surmised. He saw him once lapping water up from one of his fountains and ponds and began leaving 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 Link and The Spark

By Santosha Tantra Freedom Rider was geared up with her hiking boots and sticks and a full tank of gas. Today was an ascension day—up the mountain road till it ended. As she ascended, Freedom Rider handled the mountain curves with a steady push—up 1,000 feet, to 8,000 feet above the valley floor. Freedom Rider always got her there. The mountain air was twenty degrees cooler than the valley, a fall nip in the air causing the aspens to turn...

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...

And Yes, There Will be Treachery Involved: A Love Story

She was seventy years old and she was getting married (again).  And to a much younger man; a man half her age.  Theirs was a most peculiar arrangement and relationship.  The reasons why this is so will unfold, but will that shed light on this couple’s dynamic?  We’ll see. It was her spontaneous urge to pull off the road and park at what was discovered to be a trailhead.  They decided to hike up the mountain, perhaps all the way...