Aug 26 2008
Devotion
The sun is rising. The sky is awake. Colors of crimson and orange paint the morning. I breath in the tranquil Maui dawn sounds. My eyes open. My heart is alive. I relish the hours before the bustle of daily life begins. Yoga crawled into my bed and woke this lumbering body. Whispering of sweet nectar to be shared. A beautiful book named Yoga Gems leaped off the shelf as I enter my yoga room. Authored by Georg Feuerstein. A book of philosophical quotations illuminating yoga concepts. A particular quote struck me this morning. A passage on devotion by, Shankara. “Like a cloud drifting in the sky, devotion pours down showers of bliss. He whose mind gets filled like a reservoir reaps the entire fruit of his birth, none other.” Can you see the clouds in the sky and imagine your dedication spanning the heavens? Can you move in you daily life, like the clouds of the sky, showering down what comprises your Self? Does this mean that the body is filled with bliss and it is through our devotion we experience the the essence of what is true within us?