We are now entering the month of our annual Celebration of Easwaran’s Life and Teachings. You can read details of how to participate at www.bmcm.org/celebration.
Here in the eSatsang, to deepen our connection with Easwaran, we will be studying the Blue Mountain Journal Teacher and Student issued in Fall/Winter 2017. Let’s start by reading “An Inner Command” on pages 5–14, where Easwaran tells his own story. In one gripping section, Easwaran narrates, “Late in the evening and long before dawn, while the world slept, I would be alone and awake in meditation, searching inner realms for a forgotten path that would take me home – some bridge between the world of change and the changeless, the transient and the eternal, the individual and the universal, the human and the divine.”
What is the most important thing that Easwaran said to you in this reading? How can you apply it in your life?
Let’s also start a personal reflection process for Easwaran’s Life Celebration. This is a tradition for many of us at BMCM. We keep our notes from year to year to reread and reflect on, as a record of our own spiritual journey. Each week over the next month we’ll give a prompt to guide you through this process. If you’d like, you can use this reflection worksheet to keep your notes. To begin, think back on the last year, particularly on the benefits you have received from your practice of passage meditation. Write down your observations.
To complement this study, please join us for BMCM Satsang Live this week.
As special spiritual treats this month, we’ll end each eSatsang post with an excerpt from Quietly Changing the World. These videos include rare archival photos and recordings of Easwaran and his wife Christine, together with interviews with longtime students. (If you’d like more, you can access these videos here on our website).