The law of unity sounds like an abstract spiritual concept, but throughout the Spring 2021 issue of the Blue Mountain Journal, Easwaran guides us through its practical applications for healing our relationships and our world. In this week’s reading on pages 48–53, the application is selfless service, as he enumerates “Nine Ways to Work in Unity.” We are eager to hear about your experiments applying these in your own live. Here is one excerpt that inspired us: “How we work is as important as what we do. Spiritual values are not so much taught as caught, from the lives of those who embody them. Your job may be nothing more glamorous than janitor in a hospital, but if you are practicing sadhana sincerely, you will be contributing to other people’s lives, even though you may not see it happening. These are spiritual laws.”
Which lines particularly strike you, and how can you apply them to your life this week?
Is there someone who you see often, who you feel critical towards? If so, smother the criticism with cheerful mantrams; pre-empt the criticism with the mantram as a reminder that the Lord is in this person. This is a version of “mantram forgiveness.”
For our spiritual bonus this week, here is Christine Easwaran reading the passage “When I Lose Myself in Thee” from Tukaram.