Shaken, not stirred

I was meditating on my deck - connected deeply to fierce form of Divine Mother who is my Ishta Devata...

Amidst the noises of my surroundings one came particularly clear, accompanied by man's muttering. Hesitantly, I opened my eyes. And saw a man with clipboard stumble through my wild yard - he saw me look at him and dropped his clipboard. He saw my posture, mat and mala. "I am so sorry, I didn't know you were praying! i prayed this morning too, so I know! I know!!"

Shaken off meditative state myself, I calmly said it's Ok, does he need my help, etc.

He would hear none of it, but keep apologizing profusely. Until I finally asked him to calm down and breathe a little. He was AAA home inspector, here to inspect my house for insurance estimate. He proceeded throughout the house, asking permission to step one foot in front of the other, while continuing to apologize profusely, almost crying, hands shaking - clipboard and all.

I've never seen a man so scared in my life. He must have known that to disrupt a yogi from samadhi is 1 of 5 instant ways to collect negative karma. And if it's a Yogini... Well, my grand teacher even warned hapless fellow I once knew: "you shouldn't make a woman angry".

A Yogini is far too powerful on her own.. That is why, throughout the world she is always  "tempered" by a man (or attempted to be). Why? Because, if she is not - this wouldn't be a man's world anymore. It would just be a ... gasp! ...
WORLD
in which man, woman, child, beast, all can just ... gasp! ...
BE
​Because that is what our Mother would want for us, would she not? To just BE. Would you not want this for your child?.. 

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