Thanks to all who joined in this year’s Celebration of Easwaran’s Life and Teachings, including last Sunday’s culmination! Taking part in that five-week program with you was a joyful and inspiring experience. Let us each continue our united effort to infuse the spiritual renaissance with a little more life, a little more love. We have Easwaran’s support in this. Our daily meditation and our mantram are healing forces in the world.
Our shared study here in the eSatsang each week supports this effort as well. Now we return to The Mantram Handbook. This week we begin chapter 11 of The Mantram Handbook, which puts the mantram in the context of the other spiritual disciplines Easwaran teaches. Easwaran tells us that the disciplines he presents are comprehensive, providing the tools to transform our lives into the highest form of art, in which we make “our every word and deed an expression of the unity of life.”
And he emphasizes that “these disciplines are suited for life in the modern world.” With these disciplines we too can follow the approach of his beloved granny, “in which we live in the midst of the world but never take our eyes off the supreme goal of life.”
This week let’s read pages 157–164,* which include Easwaran’s introduction and his descriptions of passage meditation and repetition of a mantram.
Read this article as if you and Easwaran are having a conversation. What advice does he give you, and how can you apply it this week?
As we continue our mantram exercises, we are looking for ways to deepen them, for example by practicing more consistently or via a bit of extra effort or preparation.
This week, on your regular mantram walk, try repeating the mantram very loudly (in the mind).
In a few weeks, on November 25th, the eSatsang will begin studying Easwaran’s Climbing the Blue Mountain. To prepare, make sure you have the book available.
We offer a 20% discount on books sold through our distribution partner Indiepubs.com. Here is a link to Climbing the Blue Mountain on that site.
* For those using electronic versions of The Mantram Handbook with different page numbering: this week we are reading from the start of chapter 11 and ending before the subheading “Slowing Down.”
