Anura Mathis

My Mom

My mom is and was an extraordinary person and spirit. She influenced people from all over the world. My mom unexpectedly passed away this January but she taught me many lessons that have helped me through the grieving process and beyond. My mom is a mother of seven children and six of which she had through natural birth at home. And she loved us very much and decided to obtain her teaching certification and open a school with others like her to teach your children about the world and about Love. My mom's biggest lesson to me it's one of the Heart. She worked as a volunteer in a temple for over 40 years, never taking a salary and always committed to her work. She was an avid meditator and challenged herself with month-long fasts and intense periods of self-healing. She overcame many medical issues by correcting her nutrition and reinforcing her relationship to meditation, nature, and herself. She taught me that each one of us is a spark of divinity and we all have the capacity to Love. She passed unfortunately because of health conditions she kept secret from all of her loved ones. My mom taught me that real unconditional Love comes from service and unwavering compassion. She taught me that if you want to change the circumstances in your life that you must start with yourself and it must be with Love and for Love. I now have an extraordinary opportunity to train and practice as a trauma therapist, a career path I've been working towards for two decades. I have an opportunity to put my mom's lessons of Love into action with people suffering the most. I’ve included a letter I wrote shortly after my mom passed to an international group organized to study and practice meditation and concepts of Love. The instructors, Greg and Theresa, taught my mom and dad in the same classes I’m currently taking 30 years ago. My mom has made a lasting impact.