“What’s coming is coming,” Yogi Bhajan said once about this time before the arrival of the Aquarian age. So what is coming? And what do we do about it?
To put it simply, things are catching up with us. And what we need to do is grow, grow, grow! Technology has put everything at the click of a button, but we are overwhelmed with the amount of information out there. Our economy is suffering from greed, but our only response is to ignore good sense and hold on, hold on to the comforts greed promises. But greed is not a comfort, it’s a karma. Everything that we hold on to must go, and our efforts to chase after things only show that we are running from something – the message our soul is sending to us to drop our problems and go inside and meditate. Be still. And breathe.
Prosperity abounds, and yet all we see in it is power. There is enough to go around, but we cannot bring ourselves to let go of our fear. Power and fear are opposites; they make up the same neurosis. It’s not enough for us to be powerful and prosperous, we have to make sure others are powerless so that they won’t take our power away from us. We hold on to our enemies, creating them where they don’t exist, because to live without an enemy is too much for us to handle; it makes us feel powerless.
Our real power lies in our ability to go inside and meditate, because if the inside is not right, the outside will never be right. If we can’t control ourselves, we will never be leaders of any worth. How can we lead others if we can’t even lead ourselves? We have to lead ourselves into silent moments of meditation, where all our garbage comes up to be released. And when the garbage comes up, petitioning our consciousness like a prisoner asking to be freed, we have to release it, to allow it, rather than hold on to our desire for external things to make us feel powerful on the outside. We may look nice, we may dress nice, but on the inside we are prisoners who think we are wardens.
Our power lies in the navel point; and the navel serves our intentions. As we strengthen our navel, our 3rd chakra starts to spin in its correct, clockwise direction. We are self-contained, self-sufficient. We know who we are, we don’t have to pull from others’ navel centers.
And as our 3rd chakra serves us, connects us to who we are, our intentions themselves change. We no longer want to control others. We rejoice in self-control: Man jeetai jag jeet, the one who controls the mind controls the world. That’s what meditation is.
Meditation is impossible without the navel center, just as growth is impossible without intention. When we sit with a straight spine, our navel holds us in place. When we breathe, we sit behind the navel as a pilot sits in a cockpit. When we chant mantra, our navel guides the tongue along the access codes of the upper palate to change our neurology and break habits.
And this sacred science comes to us just as people’s will to hold on to illusions of power is getting out of hand. Scientists chase DNA patterns around like kittens pouncing on moving patterns of light on the wall, while some understanding that our mental projections, our depression, our nutrition, and our sincere efforts at finding inner peace through meditation can alter these patterns just like Plato’s shadows in the cave.
There’s a lot going on outside of us these days, but this is not the time to freak out. There is much, much more going on inside of us. This is NOT the time to be using technology to hold on to illusions of power. It is time to use the technology of yoga to conquer our habits, our weaknesses, and our minds.
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