Unsupported Awareness

To go deeper in the realisation of our spiritual roots we have to be free of all supports – teachings, teachers, ideas, prejudices and concepts – the whole edifice of conditioning. This doesn’t mean we reject life – our friends, relatives, possessions and work – but that we accept the obvious: that everything manifest is transient. This is the attitude that we should have when we are practising Yoga and meditation.

This gives Awareness a chance to fly free of its material and mental fetters. It is our habitual and engrained attachments which keep us totally identified with our body, mind and possessions. Letting go of this identification, albeit temporarily, allows us to realise our fundamental nature. Then, with this realisation, we continue our lives with all its pleasures and pains, ups and downs. We live life more fully.

Then we know that we are supported by That which supports all.

A water lily on the Ashram lake: symbol of the potential and perfection which lies at the root of all of us. Just as the lily grows out of the mud to culminate in the beautiful flower facing the sun, so we, as humans, can grow out of our physical limitations to realise the Reality behind our very existence.