With our worldwide celebration of Easwaran’s life coming Sunday, October 27, we continue to enjoy the 2018 Blue Mountain Journal Do You Know Who You Really Are? You can read details of how to participate in the Life Celebration at www.bmcm.org/celebration.
This week in the eSatsang, we’ll read Easwaran’s article “The Three Stages of Meditation” on pages 31–44. In the initial two stages, Easwaran writes, we discover first that we are not our body and then that we are not our mind either. With these discoveries, he explains, a great deal of power comes into our hands: “You can tune the engine of your mind very much the way you choose—in fact, you can come to have such mastery that even in your sleep, negative thoughts like resentment, hostility, and greed will not arise. You take full responsibility for your mental states as well as for your behavior.”
Then in an astounding section, Easwaran describes what happens in the climax of meditation, when we travel deep into our real nature: “In this profound state all petty personal longings, all hungering and thirsting, all sense of incompleteness vanish. We discover, almost in every cell of our being, that deep within us we lack nothing. Our inner reserves of love and wisdom are infinite; we can draw on them endlessly and never diminish them.”
What is one statement that speaks to your heart in this reading? How will you put it into action this week?
Continuing our reflection for Easwaran’s Life Celebration, survey your life as it stands right now – your relationships in the family, at work or school, and in your community. Think of one small way you could decrease a sense of separateness and increase harmony in the upcoming year. Write down a specific step you could take. If you’d like, you can use this reflection worksheet to keep your notes.
We look forward to spending time with Easwaran – and with you – in BMCM Satsang Live this week.
And here is another “spiritual bonus” from Quietly Changing the World!