To Kalika and All about a Prayer for us All

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Kalika posted:

 

 

>> Oh Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds, and whose breath

>> gives life to all the world - hear me. I come before you, one of

>> your children. I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom.

>> Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and

>> purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made, my

>> ears sharp to hear your voice. Make me wise, so that I may know the

>> things you have taught my people, the lesson you have hidden in

>> every leaf and rock. I seek strength not to be superior to my

>> brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy, *MYSELF*. Make

>> me ever ready to come to you, with clean hands and straight eyes, so

>> life fades as a fading sunset, my spirit may come you without

>> shame.

 

>> --Yellow Hawk, Sioux Chief

 

Dear Kalika ~ thank you so much for posting this. It is beautiful, and isn't

it amazing and wonderful how, when one peels back the "dress up" aspect of

spirituality belief systems, what is found is the Truth, and invariably, it is

consistent across time and throughout belief systems. When I was younger I

did much cross cultural study of different religions, and then

I became very involved with shamanism and with Native American Spirituality.

And then, having already begun to read sacred Eastern texts, excerpted for a

wonderful book, "The Meeting of East and West" (I think), I became involved

in Hinduism.

 

What I discovered is what I first said. Now if only all the people in the

world, all believing in their various belief systems could only get beyond the

"dress up" (and in some cases, the "my way is the only way" thing), imagine

what a sea change there would be in this world. Upon meeting a believer in

Islam or a Buddhist or a Hasidic Jewish person, I would only see God/dess, and

so would they. That I am not wearing a burkah would not be noticed. That I am

white anglo saxon (and so they might think, Christian) would be of no import.

We would all bow down to the God/dess in each other.

Jai Ma ~ Linda