Love is Molecular - Marie Teresa McDaid

Love is Molecular

Marie Teresa McDaid

“If you split the atom you will find Love. Therefore, Love is everywhere throughout the entire universe.”

The above sentences came to me in a recent meditation. The feeling was an intense awareness of how we are all lovingly interconnected. I felt we were all being pulled towards a molecular interface which was transmitting and exchanging love between all our hearts.

The Heartfulness Experience

In Heartfulness Meditation, this unique experience is known as Yogic Transmission or in Sanskrit, pranahuti. It is simply the transmission of divine love for the transformation of our lives, to live in moderation with love and peace at the center, and to realise the Source of our own Self within.

This transmission of love assists us to transform by our own will, but also it independently assists in our progress.

Pranahuti is not a force as we know it, but is very subtle; it is like a breeze that blows softly through our hearts, calling us to awaken and transform to our original state at the time of creation; to become once again subtle beings of love. It assists us to grow and expand, and allows us to clear those aspects of ourselves that no longer serve us.

This beautiful transmission of love is given to us through the heart of our spiritual guide, Daaji, and from those loving hearts who assist him in the work around the world.

As we are all beings of the universe, we are all interconnecting and affecting not just each other but everything around us.

Our thoughts, words and actions are all being exchanged on a subtle level and affecting His universal heart.

Through Heartfulness I’ve become more aware of how we all independently affect the whole, and that when we all share love molecularly through our hearts, we can affect each other. Let us join as travelers as we journey together on our beautiful planet and our infinite universe.

How blessed are we to have Heartfulness. May we share it with the world around us every second of every day.

Transmission - Two Historical Examples

By Radheshyam Miryala MD (Sahaj Marg Abhyasi, SRCM Preceptor)

As abhyasis of the Sahaj Marg mission, we are very fortunate to receive this nurturing transmission from our Guru. Although Transmission is unique to the mission, it is not a new phenomenon. Transmission has existed for many centuries, and there are two examples that are very important for us to learn from.

The first example is that of the exchange between Arjuna and Lord Krishna. On the battlefield of the Kurukshetra, Arjuna has a dialogue with Lord Krishna. Arjuna beseeches Krishna to withdraw from the battle.  Lord Krishna then educates Arjuna on the laws of duty and expounds on Karma, Bhakti, and Jnana Yoga in the form of the Bhagavad Gita. How was it practical for Lord Krishna to stand in the middle of the battle field and ‘reveal’ His True Personality to Arjuna and elucidate the voluminous virtues of the Bhagavad Gita?  The answer is Transmission. Lord Krishna transmitted the knowledge of the Gita to Arjuna in a matter of seconds. It is Lord Krishna’s greatness in having the capacity to transmit, but it is equally remarkable that Arjuna was able to receive the transmission. What made Arjuna deserving of this Grace? Arjuna had surrendered his will to Lord Krishna. Arjuna loved Lord Krishna. When given the choice between Lord Krishna’s armies or the opportunity to have Lord Krishna as his charioteer, Krishna chose the latter. This is the essence of the Guru-Disciple relationship. Arjuna is the consummate disciple as he had love for the Guru, faith in the Guru, and had surrendered to the Guru. This is a great example of how a disciple can prepare himself to receive Transmission.

The second example is that of the exchange between Swami Vivekananda and his Guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. When Vivekananda came to get the Dharshan of Ramakrishna for the first time, Ramakrishna took his great toe and placed it on Vivekananda’s chest.  At that instant Vivekananda felt a complete transformation take over him. This is another great example of transmission. From that day onwards, Swami Vivekananda spent his time spreading the message of his Guru. This is another great example of the Guru Disciple relationship. Here, the disciple receives the transmission and works hard to ensure that he was deserving of the gift. This work entails service to the Guru, the Mission, and the World. Swami Vivekananda worked tirelessly till the end of his days to spread the message of love from his Guru.

In Sahaj Marg, we are fortunate to be able to constantly partake in both examples from above. We work on ourselves with our sadhana and character formation to prepare ourselves for the transmission that we receive. In the sitting, the generosity of our Guru takes over and showers us with more transmission than we deserve. We should make use of this gift and live in service to the Master, Mission and Method. May the Great Masters Blessings always be upon us.

SRCM Sahaj Marg on Cleanliness: By Victor Kannan

The proverb “Cleanliness is next to Godliness” is well known in Judeo-Christian cultures, and its teaching and supporting belief systems have had a profound impact on our lives. In the casteistic culture of old India, too, cleanliness was observed to an almost inhuman degree. Traces of the same were evident in the old Talmudic Jewish tradition, with their very strict bathing, grooming and dressing practices associated with piety and devotion. These attitudes may have arisen out of a narrowly focused understanding of these scriptural values.

The practice of Sahaj Marg challenges individuals to look within themselves and find this idea of separateness from God as the main reason for suffering. The separateness can result from many things. One is a simple sense of ‘I’-ness: of thinking ourselves to be separate from God. It does not matter if we do this egotistically or ignorantly. It could result from our thinking of desires, whereby we stray away from the thoughts of devotion and remembrance of the Lord as a potential of our consciousness. Another reason is the set of impressions these desires and their actions leave behind. These layers form our personality and bring us farther and farther away from our potential of godliness. So, in Sahaj Marg we undertake this practice of cleaning.

This is one of the unique features of Sahaj Marg. First to recognize, without any prejudice, that we have formed impressions that hide our true divine nature. Hence, they are hiding our godliness. Then we accept the need to clean these impressions. These impressions are cleaned daily by our evening practice and by SRCM preceptors and the Master, using their will and yogic transmission.

Kamlesh D Patel, the current President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission (www.srcm.org) and the Spiritual Master of Sahaj Marg and successor of Chariji Maharaj, says, “When complexities are removed, we become simple, and when impurities are removed we become pure.” If God is defined as simple, and is pure, through this practice we can reach, experience, and exist in the height of simple and pure consciousness akin to Godliness.

So, in Sahaj Marg too we can say with confidence, Cleanliness is next to Godliness! If we think of Godliness as an aim of existence, then all the need for limited belief systems also drops off.  The simplicity and purity of one’s psychological, emotional and intellectual existences are the states of being of joy, peace and bliss.