Yogic Wisdom Blog

Today is a new beginning, a new day. Every day of your life is a new beginning, a new day, a new opportunity to be all that you can be. Never think, “My life is useless. My life is downcast. I’m doing nothing.” 

On each day you awake you have the opportunity to bring your life in connection to all life, in connection to all living beings, and to live in service to all living beings. This is the opportunity that presents itself every day.

So never dwell in the past, in regret, in guilt, in fear, in worry. They do no good. Rather, wake up each day and think, “This is my opportunity. This is my new beginning. This is my connection, here and now.” What has been gone. What will be is not here. What is now, that is what you have.

And so, every day, arise, brush yourself off, forget the past. And live your day afresh.

Every moment is an opportunity to know the supreme, for that one lies within you, all around you. The Self of yourself, the nearest and dearest to you, infinite beyond description, beyond words. That one always is, always has been, and always will be. It is your innate nature. 

That infinite consciousness, that aware self-being that knows who you are, that knows everything that you think, feel, see, hear, experience. Everything is known to that divine one, to Parama Purusha, the supreme entity, the supreme aware being.
For that is the real Self within you. There is the ego self, the small self that says, “I am the person who lives in this body and perceives and does this and does that and suffers this and is accomplishing that.” That I-person, that small person, that’s not you. That is a function.

But the Self within, the real Self, is not that small person. It is the self-aware intelligent consciousness that knows you, knows your existence, sees out of your eyes, hears with your ears, and is in every other living being, even in the rock, though it is quiescent in the rock. But in the cat, in the dog, in the bird it is alive. It is seeing out of eyes, hearing out of ears, feeling the feelings. It is alive in the being.

But it isn’t limited to that being. It is everywhere, this intelligent, self-aware being alive. And its flavor, its nature, is love unconditional. It is the base of everything that is, the substance of all that exists.

That substance, that solid Self, is the one true reality that doesn’t change. It never changes. It appears to change in all the colors and forms of creation, in the appearance of past and present and future. It appears to change, but it doesn’t change. It’s unchanging. It is this quiescent, infinite love. It is the Self of yourself. You exist—you feel you exist in the body, the mind, and the senses that your awareness is attuned to. But the reality is you exist in all living beings and all living beings exist within you. 

You exist in all of creation, and all creation exists within you. For your true nature is this undying, quiescent beingness, awareness which abides, conscious, intelligent, infinite love, beyond description with words and language. It abides. You abide. For that is your nature. And you abide in all beings. All beings abide in you.

You are those suffering the horrors of war. You are those seeking power. You are those being born. You are those loving. You are the deer in the wood, the bear prowling, the coyote, the squirrel, the bird. You are in all that is. And all that is, is within you. 

The you that identifies as a little body and mind is only a speck, a grain of sand on the great sea of creation. But your true nature abides in all that is. You are vast beyond comprehension. You are in the smallest of the small, in the tiniest molecules, in the subatomic materials. You are in space itself. You are born in the stars. You are in multiple dimensions. There is no end to the vastness of the true Self.

The human mind cannot comprehend the nature of the Self. It is better understood with the heart. Its quality is more akin to love, though the love that is the nature of being is beyond words.

This is the reality of your existence. Lives come and go. Identities come and go. But the Self remains always, unblemished, unchanged. Forms a rise and fall within you, but you remain ever as you are, the infinite supreme unending bliss of being. Even the bliss is but a passing form. 

In the true nature of Self, there is all form and no form, quiescent; a deep peace beyond the comprehension of the mind abides. An infinite love draws all existence into itself. From the one abiding in the one drawn back into the one, creation unfolds, exists for a time, and returns to the quiescent peace, the eternal nature of being.

So, you identify as a person in a body. You identify with the senses, with experiences from the past, with reactions to those experiences, with Samskara, Karma. You identify and you dance the dance, believing that to be your reality, until one day, awareness, your awareness turns away from that and looks at your nature. 
And when that aware self-beingness becomes self-conscious, aware of your own nature, you become timeless. You become unbound, undefined. Time and space do not tether you. 

For you to realize that witnessing consciousness, that infinite aware intelligence—and intelligence is not simply the mind, it is the heart that is intelligent—that intelligence lives eternally. That intelligence of unbound love, of quiescent peace in which all of the features of creation, time, and space abide.

When you become self-reflective, your aware intelligent mind becomes immersed in this divine Self, in your Baba, in your Ma, in your divine father, in the divine mother, and you feel that you are forever immersed in this eternal, infinite Self. Where is there to go; what is there to do? That restlessness that searches always is, that wants to go, to do, to find, that restlessness comes from that feeling of separation. 

But when your light of aware intelligence moves to the divinity within, to the self-resplendent eternal being, you realize that is yourself, the Self of yourself. There is no separation. The drop of water is not separate from the sea.  You, your beingness, your aware self, is not separate from the eternal, immortal beingness, the great love, the quiescent peace, the eternal one.

Dissolve the small, separate sense of yourself into an immortal being. Then there is no death, for you have always been you will always be you are eternal quiescent peace beyond thought, beyond mind. And you are expressed in the whole of creation. 

The smallest of creatures, their pain is your pain. The ones who suffer—you are those. The ones who exploit—you are those. The ones who live simple lives enjoy being alive, are those. You are a small woodland creature. You are the whale in the sea. You are the stars being born. You abide in all things and all things abide in you. 

Quiescent in the rock and the inanimate objects, yet their forms abide within you. Quiescent, asleep to eternal nature. But even those sleeping objects, that consciousness, will return. All is drawn. There is a restlessness in creation, a small memory. Ah, there is something more. And that something more draws back to eternal being, where there is no separation, no “I” and “thou,” no differentiation. Eternal one life, one existence, one truth. And this truth is your Self.

Let go; let go of the constructs in your mind, the beliefs of your identity. Let go.

Namaskar. Every day is a new opportunity, a new beginning, an opportunity to live the life you truly want to live. Spirituality uplifts the human spirit. It is governed by love, lovingkindness, compassion, and awareness.
 
When the mind and body and spirit are aligned, there is a flow from that infinite one into the mind and the body, and out through the voice, through the eyes into the world. When that is there, there is a diminishment of separation. There is a love that flows from the heart into the mind and out into the world. It permeates the body.
 
That love is unconditional. It does not require that you like this, like that, do this, do that. No; it is unconditional, and it is for everyone.
 
When you align yourself with that divine love, you align yourself with a love that knows no boundaries, that does not see race, that does not see sex, that does not see species, that does not see good and evil. A love that is so unconditional—an unconditional shower of grace…
 
Can you love everyone? Can you give that unconditional love not only to those you admire or are close to but to every living being, even those whose behavior you find abhorrent? Unconditional love does not mean that you approve of all actions or that you even stand by a person in their actions.
 
But it does mean that you care for them, you love them, you understand them, and if they will listen to you, you give kind advice, and if not or if you are in no position to talk to them or have any influence—such as bad leaders—you understand with compassion what has caused them to be as they are. It does not mean you support their behaviors that harm others, but you understand, and you love them; you love the person that they are beneath the difficult behaviors, the wounded child who has grown to a man or a woman and then due to their own wounding and mental, difficulties they enact them in the world and do harm.

For when you are aligned with that shower of grace from the divine, there is nothing else but that, for that is the nature of the infinite aware loving consciousness. There is unconditional love in a shower of grace, and when you align with your divine progenitor, when you make that one the center and the core of your life and you mean it; you align with his qualities, his characteristics; you become one with him, with her; you become one with their qualities and characteristics.
 
And what is the characteristic of that most precious divine one that you know in the core of your heart? The main characteristic is unconditional loving consciousness, is it not? You feel that shower of grace. It does not mean that it changes the world so that everything goes your way. No, that is not what grace is. Grace is not imposing your ego on the world.
 
Grace is receiving this unconditional love, attuning and aligning yourself with the nature of divine being. When you attune and align yourself with that nature of divine being and you go to the Guru within, the Guru of your heart, the love of your life, and you surrender, you say, “Lord, Lord, there is nothing for me in this life but you. I want to walk in your footsteps,” then, bowing down and giving all of your assumptions and beliefs and vanity to the infinite one, that one takes you. You surrender yourself.
 
What remains but that flow of unconditional grace and love? For that is the very nature of that divine one. That one loves everyone; be they good or bad, still they are all his children. They’re all the children of Parama Purusha. And that love is for everyone. It does not discriminate.
 
When you truly align with that divinity within, with that Guru of your heart, then you align with this love, with this shower of grace. And it becomes who you are. The love you seek comes from within.
 
And when you seek it within and to everyone without, you just allow the shower of grace and love to flow through you with kindness and support for all living beings, be they human, animal, plant, or even inanimate objects like a rock or a mountain. Can you not love it all, love this creation? For it is the form of the beloved of your heart. That one has complete love for all beings, complete love in the shadow and in the light, in the dark, in the sun; all is of the one.
 
 Aligning yourself with that beloved of your heart, you become a vehicle of love unconditional. That becomes your nature. And the more you align with that one, the more that nature rises to the surface, and you become that infinite love. You become one with the beloved of your heart. That divinity flows through you in this grace and love.
 
This is your natural home, and it is from that one within that you find your deep love. Some people may return your love; others may not. But can you love them either way? Not seeking the return from them, but knowing it is within you, in the heart of your beloved. There lies the love. There is the one who gives you love, who always loves you, who always cares for you.
 
Others may show kindness and care and love, or they may not. It doesn’t matter. You give love to everyone.
 
Then you begin to truly know your Baba, then you begin to truly know who you are and who Guru is. And you align yourself with Guru, with that infinite grace. Take this message to heart. 
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