January 11 Homa

This Morning begins a new phase. The monks performed their usual early-morning homa, aligning their energies with the devas and mahadevas for the coming week. This will be a five day phase. Tomorrow, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami leaves on his trip to Australia. On Sun 3 we have a tour day, on Sun 4 is Thai Pongal and on Sun 5 the monks observe Ashram Sadhana Day, when the whole monastery gets a good cleaning. After this morning's havana, Satguru gave his Upadesha on the Self within us all, which is always already there within us to be discovered. Om Namah Sivaya.

\"The Self God is within all of this. It is beyond all bodies. It is beyond all form. It is beyond all intellect, beyond time, beyond space.

That is the big realization on this planet, the thing that should be yearned for, sought for; all desires should be pointed in that direction.

And then, once realized, you live out the life of the physical body and do what you can do in service to your fellow man, who is also coming along the same path that you have walked on before.

All knowing also is right within you. This body of light of the soul is the body of the super?conscious mind. It is all-knowing.

We have to approach it through the physical brain, and it takes a little time to draw forth inspiration and knowing, but the more refined the physical body becomes, the more like this soul body, the knowing is there superconsciously.

It\

s a beautiful thing to think about, that all knowing is within man. '

Everything that has been brought through--all books, all systems, all religions, all philosophies--has come through man, but not always through the intellectual man or the instinctive man, but through the man whose body of his soul and his physical body have merged as one.

Each experience that we have is a good experience, because it molds us.

It shapes us, just like an artist would mold a piece of clay.

From an ugly hunk of clay can emerge a divine being, molded by the artist. In that same way, the experiences of life, even those that boomerang back on us and those we think are terrible, mold us.

But they only mold us quickly and benefit us tremendously if we hold our perspective as the inner man, the timeless man, the immortal being.

Only in this way can this happen. That\

s the attitude, the thoughts we must have, as we go along on the path of enlightenment.'

The mere fact that you want Self Realization in this life means that you have been through hundreds of thousands of experiences.

You have been nearly everything that there is to be on this planet. And now, in your last lifetime, you are finishing up the experiential patterns that you didn\

t handle in a life prior. '

Life is a series of experiences, one after another. Each experience can be looked at as a classroom in the big university of life if we only approach it that way.

Who is going to these classrooms? Who is the member of this university of life? It\

s not your instinctive mind. It\'s not your intellectual mind.'

It\

s the body of your soul, your super?con?scious self, that wonderful body of light. '

It\

s maturing under the stress and strain, as the intellect gives back its power to the soul, as the instinct gives back its power to the soul, as the physical elements give back their power to the soul, and all merge into a beautiful oneness.\" '

Om Namah Sivaya

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