Retreat - Pathways to Silence
These words - essence of the eight verses in the chapter “Stillness” of the Ashtavakra Gita - Durgamayi Ma gave to us in this retreat.
 
    During these days we experienced how Ma took us along to the great river of pure awareness. Ma showed us that we can hand over everything to it: all anger, all fear, all feelings of inadequacy.
What remains is the rushing stillness of the moment, which the presence of the Master allows us to experience.
- All things arise, 
 suffer change
 And pass away.
 This is their nature.
- God made all things. 
 There is only God.
- Sooner or later, 
 Fortune or misfortune
 May befall you.
- Whatever you do 
 Brings joy or sorrow,
 Life or death.
- All sorrow comes from fear. 
 From nothing else.
- “I am not the body 
 Nor is the body mine.
 I am awareness itself.”
- “I am in all things 
 From Brahma to a blade of grass.”
- The world with all its wonders 
 Is nothing.