“I am a victim of my own habits; I want to change, but I’ve been conditioned to act this way all my life. What can I do to save myself from the bad karma I have been accumulating?” Easwaran relates this impassioned plea – which may be all too familiar to us – in our reading this week, pages 109–117 in The Constant Companion.*
And he assures us that when we ask this of the Lord – our real Self – help comes. “The answer the Gita gives,” Easwaran explains, “is that our selfish conditioning begins to fall away when we learn to put others first and to return sympathy for resentment and love for hatred.” Our efforts together during this book study are helping with this purification.
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?
Spiritual Reading is our current focus for practice extension. This week consider how these stories are speaking to you about how we can help heal the earth.
* For those using electronic versions of The Constant Companion with different page numbering: this week’s reading is Easwaran’s commentary on the names The Immortal Craftsman through The Purifier. (Please note that the latest edition of our ebook is titled Names of the Lord.)