House Of Love
Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: Moonlight On Vermont
Serving around the Guru’s House on the island so remote yet so intimately close to the hearts of all beings everywhere, alone serving here, noone in sight, I am shown a Divine Revelation. Maybe I should not be exactly here in this moment but nowhere to hide. Noone sees me as I sweep my rake across the lawn
I see a woman walking across the lawn towards the Guru’s House in the ‘Bright’ Sun, walking briskly her long hair blowing ecstatic in the Fiji breeze
I watch her as she walks. I feel a blissful energy. Already the moment feels extraordinary. I am expectant of something. I know not what
Then my Guru walks out of His House to greet her, surrounded on each side by a fan of women devotees, like two wings of a beautiful bird, fanning out, some arm in arm, some stand loose
And like a great bird He walks with His ladies on either side, fanned out like wings, to greet His arriving devotee
I feel this is too intimate to watch, but I have nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape, I have no veil to draw across my face, so I watch, with some guilt, as though I should be elsewhere
They meet in the middle of the lawn Beloved Adi Da and his ladies, and the new arrival
Beloved steps forward and embraces His devotee, He feels so vulnerable and I feel her vulnerability. The love between Guru and this devotee is heartbreaking. I want to cry.
He holds her close and for long, in the sweetest embrace. From where I am standing I too am melting in His Infinite Love embrace, boundlessly ‘Bright’
His House is a ‘House of Love’ He once Said, not ‘a house of sex’
Watching this is like watching the rarest, most beautiful bird, swoop to earth, catch in the most gentle, sweet embrace, the feeling heart of the Jiva, the trapped being, every ‘one’ and swooping her to rescue, rescuing her to the world of Infinite and Eternal Conscious Light
They walk back, all the women, arm in arm, with Beloved at the Centre, all radiantly Happy and Free
It is a Divine Vision and it really happened. Before I leave the island He tells me to tell everyone the details of everything I heard and saw and leave nothing out
Writing this I pinch myself but yes, by His Grace, indeed we are Heart Awake
I prostrate on the lawn in gratitude for This Secret Teaching He gives me of the Truth of Love and sex, the Way of the Heart
The Primacy of Love, the Victory of Love
The Seventh Stage Sign
The Man from the Light returning to the Light from whence He came, and never did He leave, and still He is Here Eternal
