In loving memory

Sonali and I first met Kim and Danny at the World Yoga Festival and the first thing that came to mind was ‘courage’. They had the courage to be there with family young and not so young, to love and learn something new, something they felt compelled to know. Kim and Danny were on a path of knowledge. They knew that knowledge has the power to eradicate ignorance once and for all. They came to understand that while knowledge has a beginning, it has no end.

Knowledge requires a teacher. Kim & Danny sought out great teachers and stayed humble at their feet while they learnt. Their humility brought great teachers to them like flowers in full bloom attract bees. Nobody asks them to come, they simply appear when the time is right.

Kim and Danny realised that this life was theirs to learn and as they did so, to teach others in turn. If they had more to learn, they would be amongst us now and we would not be here today. This is not a time for sadness but a celebration that two of the kindest souls one could hope to meet had achieved their life’s ambition at such a tender age. For them, the teaching here on earth was complete, it was time to move on to greater things.

Yet, we sit here in our sorrow for all that we have lost, never once acknowledging what has been found. The supreme peace that comes from knowing that we are not these transient minds and bodies that come and go but we are, in reality, the power that animates them. We are THAT by which we see, touch, hear, taste and smell. We are THAT by which we know our thoughts, feelings and emotions.

We are like the light that illumines a room. Without the light the room would be dark and we would not know what was going on yet the light does not care what it shines upon good or bad. It is untouched by the activities of the room. It is the light by which the activities are known, it is not the room, the contents or even the activity. The light lives in another order of reality completely untouched by what it illumines.

And so it was with Kim and Danny, they brightened the lives of many. Their divine light touched so many souls, mostly good and a few bad but their light never faltered, never ceased to be the clean pure light of consciousness that it always was. Thank you dear, kind souls, it was a pleasure and a privilege to have known you both.

Life is but a stopping place, A pause in what’s to be, A resting place along the road, to sweet eternity. We all have different journeys, Different paths along the way, We all were meant to learn some things, but never meant to stay... Our destination is a place, Far greater than we know. For some the journey’s quicker, For some the journey’s slow. And when the journey finally ends, We’ll claim a great reward, And find an everlasting peace, Together with the Lord.

Author Unknown