Thursday, May 31, 2012

I found out this morning from an email my cousin sent out last night about 10:30pm that my Mother Gena Bouquet had left to the Other Side 2 hours before... Wed. May 30th, about 8:30 pm (of course, i feel a phone call around that time might have been nice... regardless...) According to the Tibetan Calendar, She left on Guru Rinpoche Day, one of her favorite Guides... His Mantra is one of her favorite mantras as well, i recall: Om Ah Hum Benza Guru Pema Siddhi Hum We can all do that mantra when we think of her "Bliss-Permeated Spirit" Merging w/the Bright Light of Great Spirit... Or Buddha Amitabha's mantra, Om Amee Dewah Hri (or as i like to say, "Om Mommy Dewa Hri!" And/Or any Hindu Mantra like "Om Namah ShivayAH" Or Self-Relization Chants that i grew up with, like "Oh God Beautiful/Hey Hari Sundara!"... "Cloud Colored Christ Come"... Sufi Songs (sorry i don't have them memorized)... SHE is SO Eclectic-= ! =- (& re; these images... although i did not "know" when she was actually leaving her body w/my "conceptual mind," after moving an RV all day- which i have to admit helped take my mind off of the anxiety of not being there physically next to her... And there is the photo i took of her last fall w/her holding the sketch of Hopi Elder Grandfather Martin [who fortunately came to be with her once more last Sunday!]... And Last BUT not Least- a photo i shot yesterday of the RV and is it just me... OR Is That Ah Rainbow-Clown-Angel Gena Flying Ah-Round to Guide US on Our Physical RV Journey as She is getting ready for her Meta-Physical Journey? Oh My Goddess-=~!~=-Jai Ma!)
Well, as i've been telling people recently (among many other stories), i remember that when she went to Ganeshpuri, India 3 or 4 decades ago go be w/Baba Muktinanda... She had her astrology done by an Indian astrologer, who told her that she would live to be 86 years in this lifetime... I guess that is what she programmed her"self" for, as she just turned 86 Summers last month! Merge With the Bright Light in Every Bardo Now, My Earthly Divine Mother, My Ananda Moya-MA/Bliss-Permeated Mother, Mother, Grand-Mother, Great Grand-Mother, Gena Bouquet -= ~!~ =- Your Love-In Son, Sunny

2 comments:

sundowner said...

What Gena's Grand-Son Loren just posted:
My Grandma, Gena Bouquet, passed away last night after 86 epic years on planet earth. She followed the winds west from a dusty farm in oklahoma to LA, where she riveted plane wings to defeat Nazis. She met Steven Downer, had 3 wonderful kids and raised them in the world-famous self realization fellowship, founded by 'Autobiography of a Yogi' author paramahansa yogananda. She taught elementary school and painted amazing paintings under the tutelage of masters. She divorced granddad in '69, took off to india to hang out with Gurus and perform miracles. You know, no big deal. She painted portraits at Knotts berry farm and Disneyland. She spent the rest of her days climbing Peruvian mountaintops, becoming a certified sha(wo)man, swimming with dolphins, meditating, doing yoga and singing in choirs. And she never stopped being an awesome artist even when her hands became shaky after 8 decades. Oh yeah, and she was a 40-year survivor of the dreaded C-word--a fierce warrior spirit. Most importantly, though, she was (IS) an amazing, sweet, caring, compassionate and understanding Grandma and I could never have asked for a better one.

Mortamus said...

Very cool as we all move on