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By Swami Chetanananda
(from a talk given at the July 2008 Retreat, Portland)

Swami Chetanananda, July 2008 Retreat, Portland, ORThe inner work we are doing here is very important.

We are in this world to grow as human beings—to grow creatively in our capacity to express a fundamental human caring. We are also here to increase awareness that our essence is the power of spirit. This is the essence of every living being.

For a human being to truly evolve, their deepest creative energy—the Kundalini energy—must be awakened.  The awakening and circulation of this energy brings a vibrancy and health to this basic mechanism that we are.  It also takes all the experience we have in the world deeply inside us, without the filters of our tensions, personal history, and struggles. We simply take it in as straight as we can.

We absorb that energy, all of this information about the world that is our life. As we take it in, free of the limitation of our environments, we absorb it as nourishment. With this contact and flow, we can be nourished in a completely different way than we’ve ever been nourished before.

Taking that energy deeply in shifts the mechanism. It shifts us. We understand. We learn. Circulating that energy delivers that change. It actually provokes a response from the deepest place inside us. The circulation of that energy changes awareness in every part of our body/mind system. Because there is no separation between our body and our mind. Lots of research proves that the physical body, the nervous system, and the mind are all one completely integrated mechanism.

Circulating the energy also allows us to adapt much more rapidly to the changing circumstances of our life. This is because it puts us in touch with ourselves. From there, we can make contact with the people in our lives. We can meet everyone with love, an open heart, appreciation, and respect.

What I profoundly care about is that you believe in yourself; and that you have the tools going forward to take responsibility for yourself and the quality of your own life. So that in lifting your own life, you can value the possibility that is present in the people you share your life with.

You can find new ways to love them and share with them. And you can find new ways together to rapidly and effectively adapt to the changes, and peacefully for God’s sake, which are coming our way.

My main concern is to support you in becoming people who can remain balanced and poised, and live from compassion and loving kindness, through every kind of impossible circumstance. I support you in this effort by sharing with you tools that have proven profoundly valuable to human beings for God knows how many thousands of years.

We will create new lives for ourselves based on values that support the enrichment of our society, our country, our culture, and all humanity—from now until human beings no longer exist. Knowing why we are here, being able to circulate the energy so that we can adapt as rapidly as human beings possibly can—this is what we want. This is what we can do.



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