Through my preliminary studies and readings of Yoga textbooks, philosophy, and history....I am starting to sink into the heart of yoga...literally. Some pretty profound experiences and realizations have occurred inside of me that I am just starting to open and investigate. Through a very poignant meditation experience, I feel myself drawn to Hanuman, the Hindu monkey-god...who is the "knower of hearts" and lives only to serve God within us and prepare us to live fully in the spirit.
I love the wonderful truth that the more we look inside our own hearts, we find that everything we see in this world is a reflection of our own past conditioning...and if we can clear away all our past emotions and judgements connected to those "things" then we can see life for what it truly IS....pure consciousness = God.
I think acceptance in my heart is where I am right now...Trying to accept this truth on the deepest level of my existence. Fear wells up in me and I try to grip onto the rungs of time and doubt...
"When we sincerely take refuge in a "higher power," it is an implicit recognition that we need help. More than that, it is the recognition that help is available. This is the beginning of devoloping real faith--not blind faith, but faith based on our own experience. It is opening to the realization that things are not the way we think they are, and that someone is there to help us--someone who knows what is to be known." ~Krishna Das, Flow of Grace
I think it is important for me to add that God, Hanuman, Jesus, Ram, etc. are all the same. Different paths to lead to the same Infinite goal....being part of the One! As Michael Franti sings, "God is too big for just one religion."
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