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...

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...

Let The Revolution Begin

Let the revolution begin. In this day, the right to not be the ego-I, had not been won. Many of the other differences—different ethnic, racial backgrounds, different sexual attraction, differences between men and women—all the hard-fought needs and rights that were ‘signed into law’ to be openly allowed and assimilated into the culture were being lived openly and widely accepted. All except the right to no difference, the actuality of not actually being a private citizen, or a public one....

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...