Whispers From the Eternal - Episode 5 now on YouTube
Jai Maa and Jai Guru Deva,
Today's episode of Whispers From the Eternal, "A Leaf, A Flower, A Heart" is a brilliant jewel with so many facets. Acharya Shunya ji reflects on verse 9.26 from the Bhagavad Gita "If one offers Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or even water with devotion, I accept it". This verse gives us the ultimate permission to just show up, with open heart, to devotion. Without obligation or perfection, just presence.
I was struck by a few phrases immediately:
There is a path, right where you are. - Connecting with God is not an external journey, its right here in this moment
It is not the object that sanctifies, it is Love. - Rituals and ceremonial practices and objects of worship are wonderful, but only Love connects us with the Divine.
Even your sorrow can become worship. - I have experienced this Truth personally. There is no one but Maa to whom I can lay my deepest sorrow down. And no One but That picks it up like a sweet smelling rose, receiving it as offering, leaving my heart Light.
What contemplations arise in you with this whisper from our teacher?
In Sacred Surrender to That,
Sadhvi Aparna
My heart is feeling absolutely dewey, overflowing, with these drops of divinely inspired nectar. “The leaf, the flower, the fruit, the water”, yes, let this mantra be written in my heart, pulsating, alive. Thank you Guruji. 🙏🏼💚