Meditating in the Himalayas

एकै वाहं जगत्यत्र िद्वतीया का ममापरा  ।  पश्यैता दुष्ट मय्येव िवशन्त्यो मिद्वभूतयः  ।। "I am only one here in the world. Who is the second besides me?  See, O Dushta, these my manifestations entering into Me!" ---Devî Mâhâtmyam, X-5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Her home is small, in small, minute particles of existence; her home is big, the whole, when we count the totality of the universe. The entire universe is her big home. 'Big' we say from our standards of big and small; for her, big is her unmanifest, infinite, unbounded, eternal, immortal reality of Being, which fortunately is there present in the deepest state of every expression, small or big, in the whole universe. For herself, everything is even; for a mother, all the children are alike; for Mother Divine, the existence of straw is her home. Straw is as dear to Mother Divine as the elephant, as man, as Shiva. All the enormously enchanting expressions and even the tiniest, inert particle, they are all her...