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Renewing the Heart

02 Saturday Jan 2021

Posted by AjmaniK in energy, identity, life and living, meditation, practice

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On the face of it, January 1 2021 didn’t look much different than December 31 2020. New Year’s day was ushered in with the same cold, cloudy, grayness and wetness that has characterized our Northeast Ohio winter for most of December. If anything, the amount and intensity of rain that fell on January 1 reminded me of a summer monsoon in Mumbai.

And yet, that was all on the outside. The intensity on the inside had been changing since New Year’s Eve with the three-day ‘Reset, Refresh, Re-Heart’ initiative that I had been fortunate to be engaged with. Amid the thundering rain that was falling outside on New Year’s Day, Sister BKS Shivani was setting forth the challenge before me during the second day’s meeting titled ‘Refresh’:

“Let us take responsibility to raise the #healing vibration of the planet, by raising our own inner vibration” – BKS Shivani

I am not one for making many, if any New Year resolutions, but this was a challenge that spoke to me. The intensity and urgency with which she said these words seemed to silence the sound of the rain pelting the windows. Her words made me ask – what if? What if I were to refresh my heart’s commitment to raising my own inner vibration? What if I were to take responsibility for the multitude of conflicting reactions that my mind creates in response to the words and actions of others — some of which aren’t even directed towards me?

What if I could train my mind to violate Newton’s law of ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’? Is it possible to violate physics? Tall order for an engineer, I thought. Newton’s law as stated above applies to the physical world. Vedanta says that the mind is also a physical entity – a fine physical entity – and hence subject to the laws of action. What do our reactions do to our mind They set off vibrations within us, which reach our heart, and the heart then creates impressions or samskaras. These impressions are the ones which we carry with us throughout our lives and beyond. If we train our mind to interrupt the reaction at the point of action, then, we we could rise above Newton’s law by dissolution of the “mind stuff”. 

This dissolution is what the sage Patanjali refers to in his seminal treatise of the Yoga Sutras. Life happens because or our living, and we are all vibrational beings. If we choose a path that helps us raise our inner vibration, and keep it in that raised state, we will find ourselves on an elevator which has no down button. This doesn’t mean that we won’t feel the cold, dark, gray, wet winter days of our lives. By raising our own inner vibration, our heart will evolve to such an elevated state that no amount or intensity of external action can cause us to react in a way which brings us back to our previously lower state. 

The question thus becomes – will we accept the challenge to raise our own inner vibration? If we do so, and if enough people also do so, then this New Year will indeed be one of renewal of the planet’s heart. I invite you. Join me. Let’s raise the vibration. 

Kumud

P.S. Join in with the #SpiritChat community on Sunday, Jan 3 2021 at 9am ET / 730pm India as we gather on twitter and raise the vibration. I will bring some questions, some of which may even challenge you. Invite a friend or two. We have a lot of work to do together. Namaste – @AjmaniK

Reference: The entire “Reset, Refresh, Re-heart” series is available on YouTube. Three days. Three hours. Happy New Year! 

Heartwork by my daughter, A. Ajmani

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The Path of Spirited Action

07 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by AjmaniK in Uncategorized

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As we step into 2014, some of us will be making resolutions – to change a certain aspect or aspects of our lives which need change. A resolution is a determination, an affirmation. In and of itself, it can serve as the first step towards change. If we were to combine this first step with determined action, an action plan, we can considerably improve our chances of creating lasting change.

What does an action plan do for us? For one, it can create new habits for us. As we create new habits, we edge out the old habits – the ones that we are trying to get rid of, those old habits that are weighing us down, inhibiting our spiritual growth. It is action that helps us shed our inertia, helps us feel better, raises our self-image – for every small step that we take towards keeping our new-found resolve provides us additional energy to keep moving forward. We can use inertia – the tendency of a body to stay in motion once it is put into motion – to our advantage!

The discussion in our weekly twitter chat on Sunday January 5th at 9amET will revolve around the topic: “A Spirit of Action”. I invite you to join us and share your action plan – or get inspired to make one, for 2014 and beyond. For the habits that you will form with your renewed spirit of action will serve your mind, body and spirit for a long time…

Namaste!

Kumud @AjmaniK

The #storify summary of the chat can be found at http://storify.com/ajmanik/the-path-of-spirited-action-spiritchat – Enjoy! The full transcript (#hashtracking report) is also available at https://www.hashtracking.com/reports/spiritchat/spiritchat/action – 125 contributors, 1107 tweets, 1.33M reach, 7.26M deliveries.

Here are the questions that were asked during the hour of the chat.

Ready? Q1. “Spirited action” – how does the phrase, the thought, the idea energize you? Or does it? #SpiritChat

Q2. Was there an instance when you were “frozen in inaction”? What path helped you overcome? #spiritchat

Q3. Are there any life situations where a lack of action may be beneficial? #SpiritChat

Q4. How do we ensure that our actions are “spirit-centered” rather than self-centered? #SpiritChat

Q5. Say we become spirit-centered, detached from results… How will we be motivated to act? #SpiritChat

Q6. What may be the connection between desire, goals, and spirited action? #SpiritChat

Q7. When our actions seem insignificant to affect change, how do we act? #SpiritChat

Q8. Some final thoughts… which will inspire your spirited actions this year… #spiritchat

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