Today marks the day Carla was born to this world for this present incarnation. Astrologers tell us there is significance to the exact moment of birth. I can only say that I have noticed that I always had very good days on the much maligned Friday 13, and on just such a day Carla was born.
Because Carla’s nature is to quietly serve, I wanted you to know just a few things about her that I find noteworthy. From the very beginning Carla would make comments on something she heard in a talk of Mother’s or mine, and how she had been thinking about it for the week, putting it to work in her life. So many hear a talk and get a great upliftment from it, but taking a theme and staying with it all week or longer is really something to admire.
As I say, Carla serves quietly in the background. From the wedding day forward, powerful spiritual forces have been at work in her. We immediately embarked for Anandashram, and it was there that Carla began the Mystical Crucifixion. The Kundalini force rose powerfully through her spine, creating great internal heat. She was “nailed” upon her cross, her body, with “thieves” on either side, one pulling her up, and the other triggering every dark fear and mood. She went to the Bible to look for the truth behind the words. Through it all she never turned away from the Light or what God asked her to do.
To this day powerful forces are at work in her. It can make her service to me and others a great challenge at times, but she strives always to do all she can. If anything, these internal experiences makes her nature even more indrawn, it is easy to see why yogis look for isolated retreats in order to deepen their communion with God. But it brings balance to our lives to be in joyful seva, service. And Carla serves so willingly, wanting to bring the teachings to one and all, to create beauty in this world, to so serve as to make Mother say, “Well done!”
So these are just a few notes, to “lift the veil” and reveal a bit of the extraordinary Soul residing in her current form. It always gives me such joy when others recognize, as many do, those great qualities that run in those still waters.
Carla, from all of us, Happy Birthday!