Weavers of sunshine

Our world goes via attempting instances… Local weather change and environmental destruction, ongoing or new wars that awaken the potential of one other globalised battle, the vitality disaster, pure disasters whose damaging power is amplified by rising inhabitants density as tragically illustrated by the earthquake and Syria…So many shadows…

Our teachings inform us that such is the transition into Dwapara Yuga: the forces of Kali are tugging, pulling, pushing, making it tough for the upper consciousness of Dwapara Yuga to emerge. This resistance is scary, painful, tragic, however possibly that is what helps the consciousness of Dwapara Yuga to rise with extra energy. As duality dictates, the stronger the forces of darkness, the stronger the forces of sunshine should be.

In my meditations and prayers, particularly throughout our collective prayers for peace, I usually see our planet encircled with an internet of rays of sunshine that join factors of sunshine, dotted on all continents and even within the oceans. These rays of sunshine grow to be brighter because the meditation deepens and the prayer intensifies. I see on this net of sunshine the therapeutic love of Divine Mom that helps, comforts, nurtures, offers us power, lightness and pleasure, whilst elements of our world appear to collapse.

Yoganandaji and Swami Kriyananda invited us, via their examples, to grow to be gentle bearers. I really feel this invitation is more and more coupled with an invitation to be gentle weavers: by connecting the dots of sunshine that shine on this planet, we are able to amplify the online of sunshine that’s so essential to help the world on this time of transition.

“How might we actively weave this net of sunshine?” I’m wondering. The reply is whispered in my coronary heart: “by nurturing connections…”

The primary is, after all, our personal interior communion with the sunshine, with Spirit. The sunshine that shines within the religious eye and warms our coronary heart, in deep meditation.

The second is connecting with one another. Everyone knows how valuable our gurubhais’ help is for nurturing our personal interior communion: going deeper in meditation is by some means simpler after we meditate collectively. I really feel this energy strongly through the Tuesday morning Kriyaban meditations, in our weekly meditations with Ananda Francophone, and our Sunday night prayers for peace. I really feel our collective meditations are additionally nourishing an vitality subject of sunshine and love that we are able to activate in varied circumstances. The opposite night time, due to the Ananda Europe whatsapp chat, a number of of us spontaneously prayed on the identical time in help of the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Inside seconds of sitting down in prayer, I used to be drawn deep inside and felt the ability of our collective prayers in an uncanny approach.

There are two different methods of weaving gentle I see as more and more essential:

Connecting with Spirit in Nature. Within the Western tradition I’ve grown up with, the notion of Nature spirits is related to paganism. The teachings of our path invite us to not determine or connect ourselves an excessive amount of with the fabric sphere, remembering we’re Spirit. However this doesn’t imply ignoring the opposite manifestations of Spirit throughout us. So lots of Grasp’s poems and songs (e.g. “Of God Lovely”) invite us to have a good time Spirit in Nature. Our pal Bharat additionally affords us many instruments to take action, via the attractive motion he set in movement, Sharing Nature.

In Lightbearer, Asha recollects how Swamiji stated in a group assembly that “the character devas and different angelic beings in control of this planet, discovering themselves unable to affect mankind towards concord with Nature, have been abandoning the trouble, leaving us to face on our personal the results of our actions.”

My sense is {that a} rising variety of people are remembering our intrinsic bond with all of Nature’s expressions and are reconnecting with the Nature devas.  I additionally more and more sense that the angelic forces in Nature are calling us to reconnect with them, somewhat urgently.

The forces of regeneration – so apparent within the blossoming of flowers, the greening of a desert after a touch of rain, within the songs of younger birds chirping within the spring – are additionally upholding the sunshine, serving to the world via the transitions and the variations required to outlive local weather change. They’re supporting us and may accomplish that much more if we help them[1].

Connecting with Spirit in Nature is without doubt one of the methods I search to apply Ishwara pranidana(“Devotion to the Supreme Lord”) and it’s opening new dimensions for me, together with better consciousness of the energy of place.

Some locations on Earth maintain nice religious energy, similar to Assisi, Rishikesh, the Holy Land. Findhorn, the place the primary eco-village was created, additionally involves thoughts. I’m certain every of you may consider many magical locations. I’m fortunate to dwell close to Cluny (a former heart of Christendom within the 12^th century) and the ecumenical group of Taizé, which pulls hundreds of youth from around the globe. There are numerous church buildings devoted to the Divine Mom and plenty of traces of historical, pre-Christian, sacred websites. The land right here holds such magnificence and energy, an influence that has been nourished by the devotion of pilgrims over centuries… I sense that by inviting the life-giving vitality of the lands the place we dwell in our meditations, by associating them to our prayers and by connecting them via our pilgrimages, we are able to additional strengthen the online of sunshine that spans the globe.

Lastly, the opposite approach I see we are able to weave the online of sunshine that helps the world in these tough instances, is thru connecting with gentle bearers from different religious paths. What offers me hope in these darkish instances is to see so many people drawn to a renewed, extra private and experiential type of spirituality, the place interior communion with Supply, via meditation, is central.  This may be throughout the construction of current spiritual establishments, or outdoors. I like the picture supplied by Grasp of the existence of quite a few wells that each one connect with the identical aquifer of Spirit. We might drink from a number of wells, to search out the water that most accurately fits our style. However sooner or later, we must always choose one and go deep within the nicely our soul chooses, lest we keep on the floor. I’m so grateful to have discovered the nicely of Self-Realization, which watered the seeds sowed by my Christian schooling and religion, making them blossom right into a a lot nearer relationship to Spirit.

I’m additionally grateful that my life has given me the chance to make pals with people from around the globe who’re ingesting from and going deep in different wells – be it Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, or additionally chamanism, mindfulness, heartfulness… We meet in our connection to the aquifer of Spirit. Collectively, we may also help the waters of Spirit irrigate the world, which is so thirsty for peace and concord. There are rising actions of collective and inter-faith meditations for peace and for the well-being of planet Earth. I really feel the sunshine of Ananda can deliver a strong ray to those gatherings, which nourish the sector of sunshine that may protect our planet via the trials of our instances.

This morning, through the Tuesday Kriyaban meditation, I used to be meditating on learn how to conclude this text, when Gioianna from Germany invited us to finish our meditation with a stupendous affirmation. The right conclusion; an ideal approach for every of us to nourish the online of sunshine every day:

“Welcome gentle, enlighten my life.”

I’d additionally add “Welcome gentle, enlighten the world.”