In the tales of the goddess Kali, and her slightly less fierce warrior incarnation Durga, the ‘demons’ she kills are the attachments that come from Ignorance and create Fear.
On the Yogi’s Path, each Deity teaches us about a different aspect of Consciousness. Durgamaa is my alter ego on Twitter because she has special significance in my life, so I especially loved receiving this video as a gift from a new friend. A great performance of traditional Indian dance…
I challenged a yogi a few months ago on the Yoga Journal Online Community, and he came through with flying colours…
Beauty in words.
MY question…
This is a quote from Yogi Bhajan and can be used interchangeably with the following one:
A relaxed mind is a receptive mind.
Do you know why?
Here was the yogi’s answer…
‘When the mind is tense or filled with something, it is focused on that thing and cannot be open to outside experiences or teachings. When the mind is relaxed it is open to experience all that is going on. It reaches into the experience and gleans the wisdom that the experience has for it. At least that’s my thoughts on it.’
‘The creative part is an extension of gleaning the wisdom from experiences and people. The Infinite flows through the relaxed mind in such a way that time, expereince, and mindfulness, come together in one point. Creation is the result of the mind being in oneness with the Infinite so that our natural being is expressed out into the universe. The tense mind is unable to do any of that, or to much degree, because it is so focued on itself that it cannot see.
Ah, the ramblings of a fool!’
Yogirev
Contemplating and meditating on the ‘real-self’ accelerates this process of self-development and makes Liberation possible.
~ Arthava Veda
Saraswati... goddess of secular and Divine Knowledge, the knowledge that leads to Liberation (moksha).
As yogis, we are training ourselves to be observers, observing the Self.
But what is the Self? It is NOT our thoughts, our bodies, our feelings, although they are all part of us.
It is the Awareness that is ABLE to Observe… the Peace that is our true Nature.
You can’t find it by talking, by writing, by constantly externalizing because it busies the Mind, disconnecting us further, from our Hearts and Truth. This is the doing that we do too much of.
You find it by going inward, by letting go, over and over and again, until there is nothing left to let go of.
Then you are Free…
(first published on Yoga Journal Online Community)
