10.15.09
Integrating the Deity into Daily Life
The challenge is going to be not just to ride the wave, but to find the ways to integrate the Deity, what you’re experiencing, into the ways in which you live your life on a daily, momentary basis. And you said, “Whoa, this is really going to be good because it’s snowing outside and I have to drive home in the snow.” Those people who are reading this book, who have read The Everyday Sanyasin will remember that we actually did a practice with Bill about driving in the snow, because it’s so scary to drive in the snowy streets with crazy drivers. I said this is an excellent opportunity for you to manifest, to bring into being, these qualities when you drive home. This is the idea. You’re progressively making, bringing, introducing, and integrating this sense of change amidst nurturance into your life. It’s very interesting what you’re saying because you said, in fact, that the blue-green flames began to not be a dominant part of the visualization.
You don’t have to rely on them as much because the chant makes you so strong that you felt like you didn’t need that much protection. You are able to make those changes from a place of internal strength.
This is very cool because you are beginning to see the evolution of the visualization.
What you want to do is be fastidiously honest with yourself and to make sure that you are getting as much benefit from the visualization as you can. If you feel like it’s happening, you’re embodying it, and the flames begin to be less visible now that you’ve internalized them. You don’t have to externalize those flames anymore.
I’m guessing it’s probably a compassionate, nurturing strength. You feel comfortable acting in this realm of change.
You’ve been hanging out with Shiva now for a few days, and you feel pretty safe now with it. That’s really beautiful. Now, if you’re ready, we can begin to play.
Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation and The Everyday Sanyasin.
