June 30, 2023

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How I Came to Santosha Ma

I want to write about the life Given to me by Santosha Ma and Adi Da, lived in Her most wonderful Company since 1992.  Before that I had been in Adi Da’s community for 12 years, and I know in my heart that He sent me to Her to serve Her Work and Him here.   And She showed me from the first second of my seeing Her that She is God Incarnate, one with Him, Beloved Adi Da. How I...

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)...