This is an excerpt from the book "Second Chance" by Sydney Banks.
Mamma Lila broke the silence by saying, "The knowledge that my kupuna kane taught me was a gradual process. It took many years to find out what he was trying to get me to See. It wasn’t until I was seventeen that I finally broke through to the world beyond our senses and found the secret of Mana.
"I remember as if it were yesterday. My kupuna kane cried with joy when the pearl of wisdom was handed to me from the spirits.
"It was only two weeks later that my kupuna kane decided to leave this material reality and join my kupuna wahine—my grandmother—who had died two years earlier."
As she spoke about her grandfather her face revealed her great love for him. It was obvious that there had been a very close bond between them.
We sat quietly for a moment, then I said, "Mamma Lila, please tell me more about Mana."
At this point she rose and walked toward the ocean. She stood gazing out at the sea for a couple of minutes then beckoned me to her. "You asked me to tell you about Mana. Mana, in essence, is a spiritual power that, when grasped, can open the doors to all cosmic consciousness. Mana is love.
"True love is pure spirit power being manifested. The manifestation can take many forms. There is a mother loving her child, a doctor caring for his patient, a father playing with his children, a child with a new puppy, people caring for the less fortunate.
"Love is a positive feeling and if people cultivate this feeling in their lives, they will free themselves from any unbalanced conditions that surround them.
"Love is not just an idea. Love is a living, breathing essence that the wise can pluck from the air at will and then like a master artist mold it into something beautiful.
"Love, my dear Richard, makes the impossible, possible." When she stopped talking, an incredible tranquility came over me and before I could say anything Mamma Lila said, "Look within yourself for the answer you seek." With these words she stepped forward and embraced me saying, "It is time to part and if it be written we will meet again. Until then, Aloha, my young friend, and may God be with you."
I love when Mama Lila is speaking about Mana or love. This is at the core of all human beings. When we look to living from this positive feeling, life sorts itself out. We don't ever need to go into a negative feeling to "fix" it. If there is a negative situation that we want to change, actions will be obvious from the space of beautiful loving feelings. Look to the love, look to the Mana.
With love,
Sara Joy