Valentines Day is a lovely holiday but it has very little to do with Real love. Real love is something most humans have not yet experienced. It is a surrender to a power that transcends human thinking and feeling. It stands by the lover and waits patiently sometimes for the lover to catch up. Real love is transcendent and is experienced between souls who have similar vibrations. These vibrations are beyond words or even actions at times. It is an energy that is so magical and magnificent that it would take an observers breath away. Real love lasts through centuries of living in space and time and has nothing to do with appearance or gender. It is when two souls recognize each other as one unit of magnificence, each complimenting the other.
Real love is found in the higher vibratory levels of consciousness where radiant Light rules and music plays in such a harmonious way that all are filled with a desire to simply Be. If a human could grasp for a moment the passion and intensity of a higher love, they would not know what to do with themselves. It is so sublime and enduring and in such an intensity that the idea of existing in any other consciousness is punishment. Every once in awhile a soul with this elevated love consciousness arrives in a flesh body to help other souls discover what Real love is. This elevated soul does not express verbally what it feels because it cannot. Human language is not angelic language, the language of light. Real Love is far beyond any human expression and is only captured when the heart has been given away to the Divine. The heart beats to the rhythm of its Creator and to all the other souls who have merged with their individualized spirits. Real love is worth waiting for. It is permanent and has no flaws, no questions, no doubts, no sadness...only Itself to revel in as a permanent relationship that is amazing and beyond time and space.
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Increasing Our Spiritual Wattage
I offer Sanskrit mantras in our Circle Classes. A mantra allows the chakras to "switch on" safely and to operate at a higher "wattage." By doing a mantra for a specific reason, we increase the ability of the chakras to hold a spiritual charge. It is as if a 25-watt bulb becomes able to hold 50 watts, then 100 watts, 500 watts, 1000 watts. The power comes from the vibrational effect they create when they are pronounced repeatedly. As mantra stimulates and energizes the chakras, allowing them to take in and send out more energy to the subtle body and the physical body, there is yet another effect that is taking place: karma is being burned off.
The vibration produced by chanting mantra begins to alter our inner condition, both physically and spiritually, and to break down energy patterns stored in the subtle body. These can be anything from subconscious habits or predispositions to karmic potential for mishap. It can be causes that we created this lifetime and possibly burn off karma from past lifetimes.
Modern scholars and Vedic priests differ about the age of mantra writings. The earliest hymns and mantras contained in the Rig Veda are traditionally considered to date back to 1500 B.C.E. and possibly even to before 4000 B.C.E. Even though Sanskrit is no longer spoken, many Western languages can trace their roots to Sanskrit, which dictionaries often classify as Indo-European. Our lives are filled with sounds of all kinds, and our responses to those sounds help create who we are from moment to moment and from year to year. Throughout history, the power of sound has been recognized, celebrated and investigated. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who developed basic principles in mathematics and astronomy, was also one of the earliest investigators of the physical, emotional, and spiritual effects of sound.
Sound developed during the Renaissance and the power of poetry and more recently through music's well-documented effects in Peter Tompkins book, The Secret Life of Plants. Actually, the chanting human voice is the world's oldest musical instrument. Chant traditions span the centuries and are steeped in ritual and sacred ceremony. The indigenous peoples are well known for their chants. Some indigenous peoples are willing to share their secrets with outsiders. Native Americans have used chants to call on the twenty-eight different powers, whether in a life-or-death crisis or the activities of daily life. In Christianity we have the chants that are part of the Roman Catholic Mass, the daily devotional services sung by monks, and Gregorian chants. My family has an interest in Kabbalistic chanting. The similarities between jewish Kabbalistic thought and Vedic thought are quite remarkable. As H.P. Blavatsky writes in The Secret Doctrine, "In Sanskrit, as in Hebrew, every letter has its occult meaning and its rationale; every letter is a cause and an effect of a preceding cause. These linkages very often produce the most magical effect the vowels, especially, contain the most occult and formidable potencies." In the days ahead, I will share the traditions of chant and how they are characterized by a deeply felt spirituality and a belief in the power of sacred sound to create change in our everyday lives.
The vibration produced by chanting mantra begins to alter our inner condition, both physically and spiritually, and to break down energy patterns stored in the subtle body. These can be anything from subconscious habits or predispositions to karmic potential for mishap. It can be causes that we created this lifetime and possibly burn off karma from past lifetimes.
Modern scholars and Vedic priests differ about the age of mantra writings. The earliest hymns and mantras contained in the Rig Veda are traditionally considered to date back to 1500 B.C.E. and possibly even to before 4000 B.C.E. Even though Sanskrit is no longer spoken, many Western languages can trace their roots to Sanskrit, which dictionaries often classify as Indo-European. Our lives are filled with sounds of all kinds, and our responses to those sounds help create who we are from moment to moment and from year to year. Throughout history, the power of sound has been recognized, celebrated and investigated. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who developed basic principles in mathematics and astronomy, was also one of the earliest investigators of the physical, emotional, and spiritual effects of sound.
Sound developed during the Renaissance and the power of poetry and more recently through music's well-documented effects in Peter Tompkins book, The Secret Life of Plants. Actually, the chanting human voice is the world's oldest musical instrument. Chant traditions span the centuries and are steeped in ritual and sacred ceremony. The indigenous peoples are well known for their chants. Some indigenous peoples are willing to share their secrets with outsiders. Native Americans have used chants to call on the twenty-eight different powers, whether in a life-or-death crisis or the activities of daily life. In Christianity we have the chants that are part of the Roman Catholic Mass, the daily devotional services sung by monks, and Gregorian chants. My family has an interest in Kabbalistic chanting. The similarities between jewish Kabbalistic thought and Vedic thought are quite remarkable. As H.P. Blavatsky writes in The Secret Doctrine, "In Sanskrit, as in Hebrew, every letter has its occult meaning and its rationale; every letter is a cause and an effect of a preceding cause. These linkages very often produce the most magical effect the vowels, especially, contain the most occult and formidable potencies." In the days ahead, I will share the traditions of chant and how they are characterized by a deeply felt spirituality and a belief in the power of sacred sound to create change in our everyday lives.
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