Kali's Message

The next night, during the svanasna mediation at the end of my yoga class, I invited Kali to help me understand the message. Very clearly came the words, "Slow down on your peace activities, this war must happen. Save your energy you will need it later. The West must be on its knees." I felt very solemn and grim. "The West must be on it's knees." kept ringing in my head.

What did that mean? Destruction of life as we know it? On our knees crying, "Uncle?" I thought, This seems important, but I can't tell anyone until I understand what it means. I certainly don't want to be an alarmist.

Yesterday, while thumbing through The Way to God by Mohandas K. Gandhi, I read this sentence: "It is the universal experience that every calamity brings a sensible man down on his knees." And that was my answer. We need to be in a prayerful state to come through this crisis. We need to be in a prayerful state to ensure that we don't lower ourselves to the same level of reactive, vengeful preoccupation with harming those who anger us and tap into our sense of powerlessness. The West MUST be on its knees.