The Yoga Of The Center
Divine Life
Society Publication: The
Eye Of The Hurricane by Swami Chidananda
Master Swami Sivananda always
used to have this clarion call, “O man, the goal of life is God-realization.
Things do not make you important.
You are important. You are the real value. The law of Karma says that you can
reap any harvest that you wish, provided you sow the desired seeds. Do not sow
the seeds of darkness and bondage. You are the master of your destiny. The key
to your future lies in your hands and in no one else’s hands.
The essential reality of one’s
being is totally forgotten. I am always thinking of myself as being so and so,
as being such and such, never for a moment as I AM. This condition is termed
MAYA and it is the root cause of all the sufferings in this Universe. Reality
is crystal consciousness. Realize Reality.
You must be Truth-centered;
you must be Reality-conscious. If the mind takes you away from the centre and
makes you conscious of things other than the Divine, then you are creating
Karma for yourself. You are weaving the web of bondage.
Your Reality is a mass of
Divine Light. The Reality within is the eternal part of the Universal Essence.
Fourfold nature of the Psyche are
– Outgoing nature, objectifying, state of vacillation and being prone to
reaction. If you want to bring about a state of inward spiritual health leading
to illumination, bliss and peace, there is no option but to bring about a total
transformation of your psyche.
In that state of total
absorption, absolute, one-pointed concentration of the mind, the supreme
mystical state comes. We are now moving towards a state of spiritual health.
Yoga is the inner therapy where a total transformation of the inner psychical
nature, the mind nature, is brought about in a systematic and a scientific way.
The mind loses its nature and thus becomes no mind.
Mind absorbed in the Reality
is itself liberation. Mind turned towards the Eternal and absorbed in It is
liberation.
Reflect on these ideas. Pursue
this line of thought and investigation further so that in this very body, in
this very life, you begin working upon yourself and affirming your Reality and
refusing to let the mind take you away from the Centre. Affirming the Reality,
keep your interior in a state of wakefulness and consciousness, fullness and
intense awareness. Let the darkness of the interior give place to the luminous
state of awareness. Live in that consciousness and attain the goal of life. May
the Grace of God give you fullest success in this great inward journey towards
perfection which ever abides in all its fullness in the innermost center of
your being.
Practise the Yoga of the
Centre. There is the Yoga of the Circumference—Hatha Yoga; and there is the
Yoga of the entire area of the circle—that is, the various techniques of the
science filling the world everywhere today. But there is the Yoga of the Centre
which is the Universal Yoga the simple and direct path of holding on to God
within, holding on to this awareness. No matter what the body is doing, what
the state of the mind is, what you are required to do according to your Karmic
pattern unfolding in your life, be ever God-centered, Truth-centered. That is
the Yoga of today. All other practices may be helpful—the Yoga of the body, the
Yoga of the circumference, the various techniques of meditation and inner Yogic
disciplines, and so many other methods and schools of thought. They are the
Yoga of the area of the circle, but apart from the circumference and the area,
there is the Centre and the Yoga of the Centre is the Yoga of continued
abidance, the Yoga of Awareness, the Yoga of Luminous Consciousness. That
requires no special place, preparation, incense, altar, or seat. At all times,
in all conditions, everywhere, this can and must be practiced—the Godward,
divine movement. May this Yoga now enter your being—the Yoga of the Centre—the
spiritual Yoga of continued and unbroken Self-Awareness, the Yoga of the Inner
Spiritual Consciousness. Through that may you attain liberation.
That is my prayer at the feet
of the Lord, the Divine who abides equally within you and me. This is His
mysterious play, beyond description, beyond understanding. Mind cannot
understand it, intellect cannot grasp it, but here it is. It is THE EYE OF THE
HURRICANE, where we are all one. May we practice the Yoga of the innermost
abiding in that Centre of peace and bliss. That is the Yoga of the New Age. It
is a sure antidote to the universal spiritual disease of non-awareness. When we
come into our own, all problems will vanish, all doorways will open...harmony
will prevail, unity will become an established fact.
Excerpts from:
The Yoga Of The Center: The Eye Of The Hurricane
by Swami Chidananda
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