~ Compassion & Dharma.
‘Yató dharma: tató jaya’
Where there is Dharma, there lies Victory.
– Vidura Niti
What does it look and feel like to live in your personal truth?
To make the issue of what it means to live your purpose clear, I’ll put it in this simple way:
Your self expression; showing up in all your humanness, your creativity, your sorrow and pain, your joy and delight — in all your vulnerability — and moving through the world with your unique voice and presence, your fingerprint — is the living out of your purpose.
If you did all these things, what is left to regret?
Until you do this consistently, you will struggle to feel like you are aligned and clear and affecting the deep change that the world needs.
What if you didn’t have to do anything but be yourself? And not give a shit what anyone else thinks?
How would life look like if you moved through the world with your gentle power?
Imagine, just imagine, if more people like you could hear your song and find you? Could hear your battle cry? Your roar?
Stop searching and seeking! Shake the world from where you stand. Live your truth, express your Shakti, your innate essence and soul print.
Your self-expression is your offering to the world.
JOURNAL THIS:
- Who am I?
- What are my top 5 values?
- What 3 things am I deeply passionate about?
- What 3 things can I do this week to express the intense/heavy/vibrant/silent energy — anything I’m feeling now within me?
Music to feed your soul: Lost by Phelian.
I am here to support your warrior’s path, to help you trust your inner wisdom, and awaken your powerful roar!
Sending my love and healing thoughts and energy to all deeply affected by the trauma and grief that has been unearthed through recent public events and continues to be. The voice of the black community is so important right now.
#blacklivesmatter #justiceforbigfloyd #racialjustice #speakyourtruth
To think that the personal is not political, is to think from a spiritually-bypassed place. It is a fallacy that the two can be separated.
Silence — along with not offering support to those who are oppressed and not given a voice in a toxic capitalist system that enforces racist ideologies — is violence. It is cruelty — as victims and survivors of abuse know very well. Grief needs a witness to heal.
When we don’t show up for others who are grieving, don’t lend support or just hold space to listen, that is a sign of how disconnected we are from our selves. How afraid we are of our own shadow.
Remember that yoga practice is not aesthetically putting yourself in poses — it’s doing the work to uphold DHARMA — laws of the universe — truth and justice are among them. As yoga teacher and artist, Shivani Hawkins writes, ‘No matter what our sacred purpose looks like, the time has come to act. Inaction is not an option. It is also not a yogic virtue.’
How can we align with personal truth (svadharma) and collective dharma — the greater causes that require our attention — if we don’t take the courage and bravery to be seen in our authenticity and vulnerability?
As Teal Swan asserts, ‘We must decide that the self-camaraderie that comes with true authenticity is worth the potential rejection we will feel from people who currently feel safer in boxes.’
Another point is that to follow dharma, we must practice compassion towards ourselves and others:
‘Compassion naturally arises as a result of relating to someone’s suffering. Therefore, all we must do in order to feel compassion is to deliberately look for how you relate to their pain.’
–Teal Swan
We must ask ourselves right now, do we have the willingness to pause and listen to those who are suffering the pain and anguish of racial injustice?
Are we willing to put effort into being an anti-racist ally? This ‘effort’ is the yoga practice. It is natural action for those on the warrior’s path. Synchronistically, and magically as always, the energy oracle card I have just drawn is ‘Kriya.’ Effort. Action. Flow.
As sacred leaders, intuitives, mystics, yoga sadhakas and healers we are the gatekeepers of dharma.
In yoga, kriya is the power and energy we exercise to achieve and sustain this role — it’s what we do; where we devote our attention; the self-study, the daily rituals and practices — the right action we take to ensure cosmic balance and order. This oracle is reflecting that action and flow is vital to support the uprooting of old systems and paradigms. It is happening now. The body is the first place we can look to purify the ‘virus’ and ‘poisons’, where we can unlearn the indoctrination and conditioning that was created to separate us from ourselves and others.
As Vedic educator Kaya Mindlin reinforces, ‘Dismantling what is wrong is the yogic path and responsibility … Yoga is a path of dismantling.’
Are you being called to move into the deeper purpose? Do you feel the awakening of your dharmic destiny?
Move with the rising tide. You have a skill, a gift, that is needed.
Commit to connecting with your life purpose. Inner alignment can greatly influence the nature of our physical reality.
‘Aanrsamsyam paro dharma’
Compassion is the supreme doctrine.
–Valmiki Ramayana
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