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.

Letter to Group:

My mom was a Server to humanity. Her whole life was an embodiment of service. She showed me the way and my family the way to true Love. She became our teacher as children by getting her teaching certification and starting The Robert Muller School with other members. She helped organize and develop GEMUN - Global Elementary Model United Nations which helps children from all over the world learn about the United Nations and helped us learn how to solve the world’s problems. She raised me and my siblings in The School and taught us meditation and Divine Love from infancy (she also has 6 of her 7 children at home with no medication). She was brilliant; she taught me how to write grad papers. She managed our household from anywhere to finances to cooking us vegetarian meals (raised us to be vegetarians from birth). She was a mother to everyone she met including my 15 nieces and nephews, my in-laws, and every single person she met. She dedicated her life to the temple, worked and cared for the temple everyday, but never took a salary. She never earned a cent for her work. She truly lived in her Heart Center and radiated that Love to the whole world.

She was not treated well by many people she served throughout her life; she was mistreated and abused. She grew up in Dallas, TX through the Civil Rights movement and suffered through racism her entire life. And although she was never given back all the Love she gave, she kept giving. She showed us the way.

I am grateful to be apart of this group and I wanted to ensure that I shared these details about my mother. My life with her taught me to trust that the wisdom is manifesting even when we don’t notice it. It taught me I am human and must nurture my physical, emotional, and mental bodies but also that I am a spirit that is infinite and connected to all parts of the universe.

I am so grateful for these classes because it is because of their service through these classes that I was able to shatter (through meditation) the glass that was trapping my family’s consciousness and helps us all to evolve. Stella has mentioned many times strange coincidences in her life through the people she has encountered. My message to *Shelia and the whole group is to please trust yourselves. The experiences may register as strange but in my experience that is our Higher Power working through each of us. Whatever label we give to our Higher Power doesn’t matter because it is all the same and we are all the same.

If I can offer any feedback from the classes I took from Greg and Theresa it is to trust yourself and focus on realizing you already know everything you need to know to evolve. The obstacle is letting go of your fears, insecurities, shame, guilt, or otherwise any emotional connection to the ideal that you are not good enough or that this work is too hard. We just have to realize who we are; that’s the goal. We are all One and that is what my mom and Greg and Theresa have helped me realize. We are all in this together. So in times you have doubt, rather that manifests in your relationship with your boss, your family, your community, aim to silence those voices that create any barrier to being our true selves. You are already doing service by showing up to this class. David C. has always said to me “There is no rush but there is no time to waste.” I think that means to be vigilant but do rush the process. He told me the day after my mother passed “Put your oxygen mask on first before you try to save. You can be of service to humanity but remember you are apart of humanity. It’s okay to serve yourself.”

So I will go forward keeping these special principles in mind and I hope this was helpful to you all. I think the time is now to be vulnerable, be brave, take action, and to love. We are all in this together.

Please feel free to contact with me outside of the group. We are always connected no matter what.

In Loving Kindness,

Anura Mathis

*Shelia – Adapted for privacy reasons