Developing Your Personal Deity Practice
10/10/2009
There is a reassurance here, too. There is a sense of partnering, partisanship, and enjoyment, so to speak. At this point, there are various things that you can do. One of them is to now stretch it beyond the planet and out towards the Infinity of the Universe. And then, boy, if you’ve got the jets, let it go out to alien life forms, to all kinds of possibilities allow them to taste the steam and absorb it in whatever way they do. Then, allow their forms to dissolve into this beauty.
You expand the energy way out, and you let all form dissolve into it so that all that is left in the entire universe the entirety of perception is this is sense of ease of change. Just now, you have really enhanced a quality of being that has been within you. And you’re right, it’s going to challenge superstructures; it’s actually going to begin to change the way in which you perceive change. And, as in any great practice, it’s going to challenge, change, reduce, or alter reactivity. In some cases, it might even make reactivity obsolete as a way of behaving in certain situations because your previous strategies were based upon motivations that say, “I’m not being nurtured, I’m not at ease.” So when you replace those motivations with, “I am at ease in change, I am nurtured by change,” all of those strategies that were based on the old motivations aren’t any good anymore.
Now, an option that you have is, once you’ve expanded the mist the mist of your energetic sense of ease and nurturance in change beyond the boundaries of the universe, and once everything has dissolved into it, you can then bring it back. Bring those boundaries back into the heart of your being, with yourself as the Deity. Then, as it all gets smaller and smaller, just let it get smaller and smaller until it disappears. Just reside in that place of no sense of form for a moment, and you then take form with the vibration of the Deity once more, inside of you.
It is a deeper wave of personalization. In fact, in Tibetan practices, you go through the eight phases of the dissolution of the elements of being. In those practices, you basically dissolve into vastness, and reside in that vastness for a while. From that vastness, you would feel a sense of coming back into being within yourself as the Deity as the qualities that you have cultivated with the Deity. In a way, we did the same thing just now. Because of where you are at, I did not want to make it too complex right now.
Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and a principle officer of the Sadhana Society.
