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Tuesday night after our Karma Yoga session (on Emptying out the small self ) I was trying to fall asleep, my mind doing its usual routine of trying to relax but still relentlessly trying to grasp the ungraspable, when suddenly I felt a burst of clarity in my forehead and I thought, "I don't have to understand! I'm just an instrument!" It was like my ego finally, for a minute, understood how to get onto a leash and be led by something greater. It was so relaxing! I had attended the Study Pod on Monday and also had rewatched episode 36 on Remembering, and I think this combination of efforts plus Shunyaji's review of the material (and probably also doing the Gayatri sadhana) helped me finally start to get it. My ego is still attempting to wander all over the place and straining on the leash but it was such a…

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Jai Maa Jai Guru Dev. Hola community!

Thank you Shunyaji for last week's satsanga, which I am reviewing today.

After the session I definitely felt a shift in myself. I relaxed more into my life. I began to realize I was trying too hard to get it all right and get to the next level toward moksha (the exact opposite of karma yoga). We are such silly humans, sometimes.

Today, as I relisten I am struck by how this vague shift is becoming more clear to me. Somehow I feel more clear about Ishvara as the one living through "all" of us. It was an idea before - somehow it is now a more felt experience. I am sure this deepening will continue as I review, come to more satsangas, attend pod meetings and practice sadhana.

As you reviewed the REST acronym in the beginning at around 10 minutes into…

Jai Maa, Jai Guru Deva,

At the closing of yesterday’s East Coast Reflection Pod gathering, I was asked to post the links from which we can watch our teacher’s satsangs from Sivananda Bahamas, happening next from April 17-20 as of this writing. They are available freely live or via recording after via YouTube, Zoom, or Facebook. Here are all of the link options.

In Seva,

Kalyani