546. Om bandha-mocinyai namah: I bow down to Amma who is free from bonds; who gives release from bondage.
When we are under Amma's grace, we find messages around us. From writers, thinkers, children, parents, helpers, friends, nature. Strewn around for us to pick up and make our own! I like to think of them as Amma sending us messages from different sources. Here's one I found from Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now:
"Intense presence is needed when certain situations trigger a reaction with a strong emotional charge, such as when your self image is threatened, a challenge comes into your life that triggers fear, things 'go wrong' or an emotional complex from the past is brought up. In those instances, the tendency is for you to become 'unconscious.' The reaction or emotion takes you over- and you 'become' it. You act it out. You justify, make wrong, attack, defend...except that it isn't you, it's the reactive pattern, the mind in its habitual survival mode.
Identification with the mind gives it more energy; observation of the mind withdraws energy from it. Identification with the mind creates more time; observation of the mind opens up the dimension of the timeless. The energy that is withdrawn from the mind turns into presence. Once you can feel what it means to be present, it becomes much easier to simply choose to step out of the time dimension whenever time is not needed for practical purposes and move more deeply into the Now. This does not impair your ability to use time- past or future- when you need to refer to it for practical matters. Nor does it impair your ability to use your mind. In fact, it enhances it. When you do use your mind, it will be sharper, more focused."
Om Amriteswariye namah!
When we are under Amma's grace, we find messages around us. From writers, thinkers, children, parents, helpers, friends, nature. Strewn around for us to pick up and make our own! I like to think of them as Amma sending us messages from different sources. Here's one I found from Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now:
"Intense presence is needed when certain situations trigger a reaction with a strong emotional charge, such as when your self image is threatened, a challenge comes into your life that triggers fear, things 'go wrong' or an emotional complex from the past is brought up. In those instances, the tendency is for you to become 'unconscious.' The reaction or emotion takes you over- and you 'become' it. You act it out. You justify, make wrong, attack, defend...except that it isn't you, it's the reactive pattern, the mind in its habitual survival mode.
Identification with the mind gives it more energy; observation of the mind withdraws energy from it. Identification with the mind creates more time; observation of the mind opens up the dimension of the timeless. The energy that is withdrawn from the mind turns into presence. Once you can feel what it means to be present, it becomes much easier to simply choose to step out of the time dimension whenever time is not needed for practical purposes and move more deeply into the Now. This does not impair your ability to use time- past or future- when you need to refer to it for practical matters. Nor does it impair your ability to use your mind. In fact, it enhances it. When you do use your mind, it will be sharper, more focused."
Om Amriteswariye namah!
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