It’s hard to believe with what’s going on in the world and what is reverberating in our own personal lives, that there is a clear plan for anything anymore. And in many ways none of it seems to resonate at all with the word “love.” But perhaps our inability to rely comfortably on a “predictable” reality is a call to action for us to really understand who IS in control!
As aspiring yogis we are training ourselves to attune to the subtle energies and magnetism of all our interactions with other people, the world and most importantly within ourselves. These conditions influence much of our decision making whether we are aware of it or not! Paramhansa Yogananda has a famous quote: “Environment is stronger than will power.”
These current conditions are certainly testing our likes and dislikes. The ego’s safe space is control but on the other side of this seeming inability to effect change through our usual strategies, is this concept that there is a larger reality of which we are all connected and whose purpose is to teach us, most often through the challenges that defy our inner knowing of Truth while mirroring back to us the work we still have within us to do. The great sages and saints have always stated a similar understanding; the “plan” is ultimately about Love and a compassion born out of a shared humanity. If we can put ourselves in another’s shoes, we will find a way to walk together. If we strengthen our inner knowing through our connection to a Higher Power—greatly assisted by our meditation practices, then we come to understand that it is Love itself that holds the blueprint and is indeed the guiding light for our next steps along this great adventure into the ever unfolding unknown.
Walking together in love and compassion,
Ananda in Texas
