Weavers of Gentle — Ananda

Weavers of sunshine

Our world goes by means of making an attempt instances… Local weather change and environmental destruction, ongoing or new wars that awaken the opportunity of one other globalised battle, the vitality disaster, pure disasters whose damaging drive 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 horrifying, painful, tragic, however perhaps 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 online of rays of sunshine that join factors of sunshine, dotted on all continents and even within the oceans. These rays of sunshine turn out to be brighter because the meditation deepens and the prayer intensifies. I see on this internet of sunshine the therapeutic love of Divine Mom that helps, comforts, nurtures, provides us power, lightness and pleasure, at the same time as elements of our world appear to collapse.

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

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

The primary is, in fact, our personal inside 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’ assist is for nurturing our personal inside communion: going deeper in meditation is in some way 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 discipline of sunshine and love that we are able to activate in varied circumstances. The opposite evening, because of the Ananda Europe whatsapp chat, a number of of us spontaneously prayed on the similar time in assist 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 facility of our collective prayers in an uncanny approach.

There are two different methods of weaving mild 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 a lot of Grasp’s poems and songs (e.g. “Of God Stunning”) invite us to rejoice Spirit in Nature. Our buddy Bharat additionally presents us many instruments to take action, by means of the gorgeous motion he set in movement, Sharing Nature.

In Lightbearer, Asha recollects how Swamiji mentioned in a neighborhood assembly that “the character devas and different angelic beings in command of this planet, discovering themselves unable to affect mankind towards concord with Nature, have been abandoning the hassle, leaving us to face on our personal the implications 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, quite urgently.

The forces of regeneration – so apparent within the blossoming of flowers, the greening of a desert after a splash of rain, within the songs of younger birds chirping within the spring – are additionally upholding the sunshine, serving to the world by means of the transitions and the diversifications required to outlive local weather change. They’re supporting us and might achieve this much more if we assist 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 positive every of you may consider many magical locations. I’m fortunate to stay close to Cluny (a former middle of Christendom within the 12^th century) and the ecumenical neighborhood of Taizé, which attracts hundreds of youth from world wide. There are numerous church buildings devoted to the Divine Mom and lots of traces of historic, 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 stay in our meditations, by associating them to our prayers and by connecting them by means of 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 mild bearers from different religious paths. What provides me hope in these darkish instances is to see so many people interested in a renewed, extra private and experiential type of spirituality, the place inside communion with Supply, by means of meditation, is central.  This may be throughout the construction of current non secular establishments, or outdoors. I like the picture supplied by Grasp of the existence of quite a few wells that every one connect with the identical aquifer of Spirit. We could drink from a number of wells, to search out the water that most closely fits our style. However in some unspecified time in the future, 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 associates with people from world wide who’re consuming 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 might 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 robust ray to those gatherings, which nourish the sphere of sunshine that may protect our planet by means of 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 good looking affirmation. The proper conclusion; an ideal approach for every of us to nourish the online of sunshine day by day:

“Welcome mild, enlighten my life.”

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