Jai Gurudev, my Beloved

For Michael, my Teacher, my Beloved, my all. Dearest Michael, you have my love, respect and gratitude. Thank you for your love, your strength and your grace. I am yours for always. ♥


YouTube link: By Your Grace, my beautiful Michael

This video features the beautiful song "By Your Grace/Jai Gurudev" by Indian kirtan singer Krishna Das, who I've recently discovered and adore. If you enjoy this song, I highly recommend his others too! To understand some of what the song means, "Jai" translates to "victory" and "gurudev" (Sanskrit: गुरुदेव), is a term denoting "teacher" and "greatness", such as the greatness of the higher mind and spirit that is vast and of/in/with God. It has been used sometimes to address gurus/spiritual teachers (which I find fitting, since I often call Michael my love guru! ;), but it is more widely understood to mean VICTORY TO THE GREATNESS IN YOU ... to the great joy and truth of love that is the higher self. MAY OUR GREATNESS PREVAIL!

Also included in this is a clip of Michael's speech at the Heal the World press conference in New York City on Nov 24, 1992. Through HTW, 46 tons of supplies were airlifted to Sarajevo during the war. And from 1992 to 1993 Michael performed for 3.5 million fans and donated all the proceeds from the Dangerous Tour to his charity, Heal the World Foundation. Many millions of dollars went to disadvantaged children around the world, including the full payment of a Hungarian child's liver transplant (Farkas, the little boy you see in this video at 5:00).

"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts. Being with them connects us to the deeper wisdom of life. These children are a reminder of the preciousness of all life, especially young lives untouched by hatred, prejudice and greed. Now, when the world is so confused and its problems so complicated, we need our children more than ever. Their natural wisdom points the way to solutions that lie waiting to be recognized within our own hearts. Children are the world's foremost idealists and optimists. It is for that reason that 'Heal The World" is organizing the World's Children Congress next year, made up exclusively of delegates, aged 8 to 16. The world desperately needs their innocent perspective on the world's problems. We have to heal our wounded planet of the chaos, despair and senseless destruction we see today. The mission of HTW, my mission, is healing. Pure and simple. To heal the world, we must start by healing our children." ~ Michael Jackson 1992

Thank you, Michael. I love you so much. ♥