I have heard how people worry about how to reach other people who are not impacted by Shakti directly. I read an obscure book decades ago which gave me some perspective. It was written by Yogananda's Guru, Shri Yukteswar. He talks about the ages of Brahma. We are currently in an age where man cannot perceive anything but "gross material creation". So I guess that is why we are here!
The heart is like a being which is asleep and receiving a sharp blow it awakens. Also the heart is like a stone and the fire which is hidden within it can only he brought to life when it is struck by a hard material. Then the fire appears. So it is with the heart. The fire which is life, love and feeling and which is the most sacred thing in us, is hidden in the heart as the fire in the stone. When it is struck with force, the fire appears. That is why we receive great blows in life.
Sufi - Inayat Khan
I was just about to pose a question to the group about the heart and just saw your post...I was going to ask if anyone else had found the heart opening, healing, thawing and expansion process to be one of the most challenging parts. What I find fascinating is that I was tuned into universal consciousness, and experienced bliss, and yet my heart was wounded, closed...and for the past two years in particular it has been broken, beaten...I refused to close it...and now something which feels like thawing, opening and feeling are taking place.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
note: the experience below happened in my 29th year
Hello folks,
These are a few personal ideas in regards to: letting go of the past, hurts, guilt, blame...etc. Since we've created the blockages which prevent the energy from completing it's task, it is up to us alone to remove them.
There can be no method, we've all lived different life experiences. To take these blockages and remove the impediment which holds them in place. An attachment to a concept, an individual, a painful experience, a promised solution...etc. As long as we are attached or held in any manner, we become limited. It is this limitation which creates an energy blockage.
In one sense true freedom from self requires not only understanding but a willingness to face our problems with deadly honesty. To win the war, a few battles will invariably be lost.
What it's like losing a battle:
Thanks, Yukteswar's 24,000 year cycle is an interesting take on the Maha Yuga which in the classical Puranas is a cycle of 4,320,000 years.