SIGNS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF
YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE #4
(As usual all quotes with no author assigned are attributed to the Ancestors.)
The process of "Being," Becoming" or "Awakening" is often subtle and almost unnoticeable. It is also frequently accompanied by periods of frustration, being in the doldrums and a feeling of a lack of any noticeable progress. As one goes deeper it often gets harder, not easier.
These are some of the reassuring guidelines as to what may be happening as one progresses:
Increasing levels of equanimity and being able to rise above the challenges, stresses and strains of human existence.
Manifesting and experiencing some of the sensory aspects of Kundalini vibrations happening in your body during practice, or at any time, even in sleep. This is not essential since the increase in vibration is often slow, subtle and may go unrecognized.
The soul’s essence should lodge comfortably in the body. "From the sound of my sighing has my essence (soul) cleaved onto my flesh (body.)" King David
It will be given to you according to the measure of your love.
The most challenging chakra to open is the heart chakra. Our heart or a feeling of love will tell us how we are doing. Forgiveness – both of oneself and others - is key to not only opening the heart but also informing that the heart chakra is opening. This is love as a commitment, not necessarily an emotion or feeling but as in; love your neighbor as yourself, however, while still protecting your "Self" at the same time.
There is no light as illuminating as the light of love.
There is no wisdom as transcendent as the wisdom of compassion. Learn love! Learn compassion!
An increase in compassion, empathy and the ability to forgive and let go of grievances.
It is all about cosmic union. Go forward with forgiveness which is essential to substance and joy.
The most profound sound of all is that of silence - not the silence that is the absence of noise, of quietness but that in which we hear the longings of our heart and ponder our response.
How can you be sure you are progressing? Does it serve love or acquisitiveness? Does it bring you closer to the Infinite One?
Gratitude is also a manifestation of the heart chakra, as is joy. Having more gratitude in one's life and paying the joy inherent in gratitude forward to others, is another good indicator.
There is no joy as transforming as the joy of gratitude.
Learn gratitude!
"Joy is not incidental to one's spiritual practice, it is vital!" Rev Nachman
It will be given to you according to the measure of your humility.
Being able to subordinate ego to the higher Self and to one's mission in order to help others and any of the Four Beings of Nature; Still Beings (the planet,) Growing Beings (the plants and trees,) Wild Beings (the animals, wild and domesticated,) and the Talking Beings (us.) It should not be about our selves as in the little self. Rather it's all about the Big Self which reaches out to others. After subordination of the ego as well as releasing from the attachments we have to our desires and compulsions this teaching is attainable ...
"God cannot be realized if there is the slightest trace of pride." The Upanishads
God’s breath is heard in quietness and felt in stillness.
Beware the noises and clamor of ego which drown at the Divine whisper.
We need to empty ourselves of Narrow mind’s obsessions and venture into the expanse of Spacious mind. The more we look for the Divine in all Creation the more we will encounter Him/Her – “search for Me and you will find Me, seek Me with all your heart and I will let you find Me. (Jeremiah)”
Being more and more congruent with one's true Self and one's unique destiny or archetype given to you and you alone by the Creator. Experiencing the healing of having meaning in one's existence through one's mission in life.
It will be given to you according to the measure of your faith.
The measure of your faith is the only limit to realizing the Creator's potential for you.
Increasing levels of trust and surrendering to something much bigger than oneself, accompanied with the faith that you are on the right path.
The journey itself is the place of Being. It is never finished. The Being is always Becoming. The road to this place is the road of Surrender.
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