Last week, Easwaran described inspirational passages as “blueprints” for the mind. “When we meditate on passages which bear the imprint of these pure minds’ experiences of God, we find that their words are like the working drawings a contractor follows.”
This week, have a read through the passage “Entering Into Joy” below as a blueprint for re-engineering the internal freeways of your mind.
Can you pull out some of the phrases you see that might help you with re-engineering?
Is there a particular situation in your life where some of these lines might be helpful?
We’d love to hear your thoughts about some of the qualities you think this passage would help you cultivate.
We’re pleased to offer an audio clip of Easwaran reading “Entering Into Joy”. If you are inspired to, feel free to use this passage in your meditation this week, or optionally you can begin memorizing it to include it in your repertoire.
Imagine if all the tumult of the body were to quiet down, along with all our busy thoughts about earth, sea, and air; if the very world should stop, and the mind cease thinking about itself, go beyond itself, and be quite still;
if all the fantasies that appear in dreams and imagination should cease, and there be no speech, no sign:
Imagine if all things that are perishable grew still – for if we listen they are saying, We did not make ourselves; he made us who abides forever – imagine, then, that they should say this and fall silent, listening to the very voice of him who made them and not to that of his creation;
so that we should hear not his word through the tongues of men, nor the voice of angels, nor the clouds’ thunder, nor any symbol, but the very Self which in these things we love, and go beyond ourselves to attain a flash of that eternal wisdom which abides above all things:
And imagine if that moment were to go on and on, leaving behind all other sights and sounds but this one vision which ravishes and absorbs and fixes the beholder in joy; so that the rest of eternal life were like that moment of illumination which leaves us breathless:
Would this not be what is bidden in scripture,
Enter thou into the joy of thy lord?