“The surest evidence of the Lord’s compassion is how swiftly a deep, heartfelt change in our ways of thinking and acting today can bring a better tomorrow.” – Eknath Easwaran
Our reading from The Constant Companion this week covers three of Vishnu’s names: Lord of Past, Present, & Future; The Immeasurable; and Peace (pages 42–49). Easwaran’s commentaries on those names are wide ranging: practical, playful, and profound.
One theme is the good news Easwaran derives from the first of these names: “if our thinking and acting today shapes our tomorrows, then the future lies to a significant extent in our own hands.” Together our eSatsang community is helping to shape that future with light and love.
What is the most important thing that Easwaran said to you in this reading? How can you apply it in your life?
We are working to strengthen our practice of Spiritual Reading. Can you find ways to share parts of these stories with the children in your life?
For bonus spiritual entertainment, here is Christine Easwaran reading the passage “The Nectar of Immortality,” Eknath Easwaran’s translation of the Amritabindu Upanishad.