“Only when you have lowered all the barriers between yourself and others will there be no barrier between you and the Lord within,” Easwaran explains in this week’s reading. “Deliberately, then, from the very first, you begin to chip away at those walls in consciousness. You do it in little ways, throughout the day, by trying to see the needs of others as clearly as your own and to act in harmony with them.” Let’s pick back up on page 12 of this article, titled “Seeing God Everywhere” from the Fall 2019 Blue Mountain Journal and read to the end on page 22. As we enter the new year, we are so happy to be studying Easwaran and practicing the eight points with you!
Is there a relationship in your life that you wish you could improve? Read this article for tips from Easwaran. Try applying those tips, even if you can’t apply them directly to this particular relationship.
This week have the goal to begin repeating the mantram as soon as you wake up in the morning. Devise a strategy for making this happen, and devise a way to check to see if this is happening.
For our spiritual bonus this week, here is Christine Easwaran reading the passage “Only God I Saw” from Baba Kuhi of Shiraz.