Yogic Wisdom Blog

Namaste. The world today is a changing place. Finding your dharma, your place and your right action in a world that is shifting and changing in a process of transformation from one age to another can be difficult.

To know your place, to your know dharma at this time can be challenging because there are so many distractions, so many electronic engagements to be made, so many ideas available by so many people, and so many beliefs. The world of information is vast, encompassing knowledge from all parts of the globe, encompassing the ideas of all manner of people.

And so, people follow different leaders, some opposed diametrically to others. It is confusing and easy to become polarized for in times of great change polarization is natural, it occurs.

But for those to aspire to think of sadvipra, one who encompasses all of the different points of view and connects with the divine flow, then it is not taking one side or another but going within and finding the light within, the guidance within. And from that guidance find your true path for you amid all of the ideas, confusion, beliefs, doomsday predictions, and so on between the emergencies, the fears, the literal storms of weather, the droughts, the hurricanes.

Amid all of this, do not look with fear to the outside for answers, but calm your mind, go within, and there, with your divine guide, find your dharma. Find what it is that will be in harmony with all life and with the divine flow.
I have said this year that divinity will come closer to the earth plane, and be more accessible to living beings, but this means that there will also be more turbulence because that subtle frequency disrupts the status quo, but it is a push to the times to come, to the age to be.

Sattva guna will be increasing on the earth plane, but this increase in sattva requires that there be change. Change that is so fundamental is not only a change of attitudes, a change of beliefs, a change of habit, but a change of frequency. For those attuned that will be a great relief. For those not attuned it will cause disruption.

​Yet each individual, according to the configuration of time, place, and person, is a unique flower opening to the vistas of the sublime and each has a different and unique way. If you are here, now, and another is in a different time and place, and, of course, has a different personality, it may appear that you are moving in different directions. But, in fact, you are both moving toward the same center, which is Truth. You both are being drawn towards a unified purpose and, in reality, moving in the same direction.

Your unique path towards dharma requires dynamic movement of both rasa and seva and is influenced by the type of seva you perform. There is service in the physical sphere, service in the psychic sphere, and service in the spiritual sphere. According to your inclination of mind, you will be drawn to do service in different areas. Everyone may realize the greatness of their essential nature, or Truth, but through different means.

In the garden of this world, the Divine has created endless varieties of beautiful expressions. Each of you, like a beautiful flower, is unique and special, with your own qualities and characteristics, your own capacities, your own development, and your own specific potentiality.

The realization of your own unique potential constitutes your Svadharma, your personal expression in the world, and your unique path to enlightenment. It depends on the inclination of your mind, the development of your spiritual nature, and the samskaras (reactions to past experiences held in the subconscious) which have given you your specific manifestation. Just as each flower in the garden of the Great has its own singular loveliness and no two are alike, though they share the dharma of flower-hood, so you are unique in your Svadharma, though you share with all people the common bond of human dharma, of Bhagavat Dharma.

Bhagavat Dharma is the core flow for everyone. But how do you move in this Bhagavat Dharma? What does it look like for each of you? Is it the same exact movement? Do you move like soldiers, each one exactly the same, wearing the same uniform, arms moving up and down in unison, legs marching to the same tune?  No, that would be preposterous!

That is not at all the way of dharma, certainly not the chosen method of Parama Purusha, the Supreme Consciousness. The Divine loves variety. This entire creation is made of variety. No one can possibly imagine all of the variety that there is in the universe. In this variety, you are unique in your journey, unique and special. You have your own way to move, your Svadharma.

To maintain Vistara or vision, you need a consistent meditation practice, called sadhana, and to have rasa, the feel or taste of life. You also need seva. The seva that is right for you, is unique to you and will be different from the seva of others. How a rose grows from the ground and blooms in the sun is different from how a lotus flower grows in the mud of a pond and blooms in the sun.

​One is coming through the water, and one is in the air. and their leaves take different shapes, their buds are different, and their color and their fragrance are unique to each. Yet they both grow towards and open to the sun. In a similar way, your Svadharma is unique to you and yet in harmony with the collective movement of all beings to open to the deep Source of Being.