This week we’ll continue Easwaran’s article “A Prayer for Transformation” from the new Blue Mountain Journal A World in Crisis – Part 2: Our Role as Instruments of Peace, picking up with the section “An all-out effort to understand” on page 21 and reading through the article’s end on page 30. Here Easwaran continues the story of Saint Francis and describes the marvel of meditation on the ideals illuminated in Francis’s prayer: “You go to work on your own mind and change whatever needs changing, making yourself into the kind of person most suited to meeting the challenges of the day. There is cause for enormous hope here.”
Which lines particularly strike you, and how can you apply them to your life this week?
Continue your effort to imitate Easwaran’s evening routine. Even if some nights you can’t do it, try again to see the evening as a time for lighthearted, loving harmony with others and yourself. At the end of the day, build your routine of turning off other media, reading from Easwaran for a few minutes, and then going to bed repeating the mantram.
We’ll end with another spiritual treat: we hope you enjoy this recording of Christine Easwaran reading the passage “Prayer for the Peace of the World” from Hazrat Inayat Khan!