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September 6th Homa

Today begins a new phase for the monks after having had a two day retreat from their regular routine. Today is also Ardra nakshatra, so at 9am it will be celebrated with our monthly Ardra abhishekm to Lord Nataraja. Following today's homa, Satguru gave an upadesha on today's Master Course lesson about internalizing worship.

What do we mean by internalizing worship? In external worship we are trying to see God and communicate with God with our two eyes and our physical nerve system. We enjoy His darshan and feel His shakti. In deep meditation, the external worship is deliberately internalized, and we are trying to see God with our third eye and feel God's all-pervasiveness through our psychic nerve system. Externalizing bhakti is really much easier than internalizing it. But once the externalized bhakti is perfected, it will be easy and natural to internalize bhakti right along. When this is accomplished, the most rigorous hurdles and time-consuming practices of yoga, which often lead the person onto anava marga, will have been side-stepped.

To internalize worship, after the puja is over, sit before the Deity and draw into yourself all the pranas you feel around your body. Then draw those energies up the spine into the head. This is done with the mind and with the breath. It is very easy to do. It is especially easy when one is at the end of a major karmic cycle. The bhakti of uncompromising surrender, prapatti, to the God during a temple puja awakens the amrita. The amrita is the sweet essence from the sahasrara chakra. It is the binding yoke to the Divine. Bind yourself in the lotus posture after temple worship and simply internalize all the feeling that you had for the God during the worship. That's all there is to it. The yogi yoked within enjoys the amrita that flows from the cranium throughout his body. Devotees who want to awaken the higher chakras and sustain that awakening on the safe path will throw themselves into becoming uncompromising bhaktars. Then all the Gods of all three worlds will open their hearts and shower their blessings upon them.


One Response to “September 6th Homa”

  1. Thillaiampalam Sivayogapathy, Toronto. says:

    Aum Namasivaya!
    Aum Siva, Siva!
    Aum Shanthi!
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    Anpdan,(With Love),
    Sivathondan,
    T.Sivayogapathy,
    Toronto.

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