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Teachings to Live By
11

~ Baba Muktananda  

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Teaching 10

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  Spoken in English by Lizan Mitchell
हिन्दी में धारणा-वाचन : राशि चौधरी
 

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    I’ve been meditating with these dharanas every morning. As the days pass, I feel as if a reservoir or storehouse of shakti is building inside me. Every day a little more gets added with each teaching, each dharana. It’s like having a live connection with Baba, with his powerful shakti, every morning.

     

    It’s as if I’ve received a concentrated form of shakti from Baba during the dharana. I journal and I experience the shakti diffuse and spread throughout my heart, my whole being, into my day, into my home, into all the people, animals, and plants who live there, and in the world around.

     

    I feel like I’m in Baba’s presence and he’s sitting with me as I navigate some uncertain times in my life. He’s taking care of me and my family. He is alive in my heart. My heart and my being have been enlivened by Baba’s presence, by his shakti. I feel assured and comforted.

    Bangalore, India

    The powerful and comforting voice of the meditation teacher washed over me like a safety blanket. Hearing Baba’s teaching, I found myself floating in the vast universe. My form expanded and was filled with my Guru’s grace. My eyes welled up with tears of gratitude.


    Pennsylvania, United States

    This meditation made me feel very safe. I could identify how the power of grace has surrounded me with protection, comfort, and warmth. I was extremely grateful when I paid attention to the blessings all around me. 
     

    Thane West, India

    I love how Baba describes how grace is found in all directions. It is so comforting to know that Shri Guru’s love for us—in the form of grace—is surrounding us all the time and in every place! Such bliss!
     

    Ville St. Laurent, Canada

    Very soon I will be taking my first long-distance trip since the pandemic began over three years ago. Because traveling by airplane has become so unfamiliar to me, I have been very nervous about almost every aspect of the trip. But when I read this teaching of Baba’s about the all-pervasiveness of the Guru’s grace, I was very touched and felt as if Baba were looking down on me and knowing that I needed just this kind of reassurance.

    Since I will be traveling from east to west and back again, and since I will be flying high above the landscapes below, knowing that “the power of grace” will follow me on every step of my journey comes as a great blessing. And when I remember how much grace has accompanied me on earlier, much more complicated trips I have taken, I can see that this teaching is the ideal antidote to all my prior worries! I am deeply grateful for its arrival in my life—and in my heart.

    Illinois, United States

    Here is what arose for me after doing the dharana for Baba’s Teaching #11:  There is nowhere where this grace is not. There is nowhere I can go, nothing I can do that would ever separate me from this grace, the power of the Guru’s benevolent intention. 
     
    This grace is always surrounding me, embracing me, and it is also within me, in every particle of my being. This grace is God’s love, the Guru’s love—forever, untiringly, unstoppably guiding me toward freedom, toward recognition of the Truth of the Guru’s teachings.
     

    California, United States

    I went into deep meditation following this dharana. As I meditated, I felt as though I was bathing in a vast ocean of Guru’s love, which was all around me. After a few moments, I experienced the presence of Kundalini Shakti guiding me in my meditation. By surrendering to my Guru, I was able to follow that guidance, which brought me to a state where I experienced nothing but bliss. It felt like a moment of oneness with the Guru’s grace, which was so beautiful.

    Delhi, India