This week we will begin studying a 2019 special issue of the Blue Mountain Journal celebrating the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday. The editors introduce the issue by highlighting Easwaran’s unique message on the significance of Gandhi’s example: “that anger can be transformed into irresistible compassion, and that even ordinary people like us, through the practice of meditation, can make ourselves instruments of peace whose influence can spread to everyone around us.”
Here is the journal, Gandhi & Nonviolence: Love in Action, Transforming Anger. Let’s focus on the first half of Easwaran’s article, “Gandhi's Message,” on pages 5–7.
What is Easwaran telling you about the workings of your own mind? This week, use this new understanding to get some cooperation from your mind when it is being uncooperative. Tell us how it goes!
How is your evening routine going of turning off other media, reading from Easwaran for a few minutes, and then going to bed repeating the mantram?
For an additional spiritual treat, we hope you enjoy this recording of Easwaran reading the passage “The Path” from Mahatma Gandhi!