Divine Alchemy
It is quite fantastic to begin to open our eyes. And yet that’s just the beginning. Once I open my eyes, I begin to see how I have used the organizing structure of being a victim, of being in a hostile universe, how I have used that to select circumstances in my life that end up supporting that victimization that I’m experiencing. As I begin to see that, then I have this option, I have this choice; and the choice is: I can, through prayer, through visualization, through a meditation practice, begin to open up to a deeper, more fulfilling organizing structure of perception. In doing that, I then actually can begin to live and act in that way.
This is really cool because one of the conclusions that we make in our culture is that the only way to happy, to be free, is to get out of our culture. I put on Tibetan robes and shave my head and live in a Tibetan monastery.
Somehow that opens the door to real freedom because that’s what they’re convinced about. Yes, of course, in the long run yes, somehow that makes me holybut the person who’s doing this is doing this, because they’re genuinely looking for real freedom.
They will find the way to be free of the old patterns that are inside of them. And, again, doing something in the circumstances of your life can be helpful, very much so. But the biggest recognition you have to make is that, it’s inside of me where the changes have to be made. I have to make the changes in terms of the organizing structure of my perception. We called it ’super-structure.’
And so we begin our journey together into Deity Yoga, into experimenting with the circle, with adding a Deity inside the circle, and a ring of fire, a ring a flames, of activity of manifestation around the Deity. And then we begin to get into doing a chant and expressing the chant, and this whole process is gradually bringing my sense of self into expression as the Deity.
Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and a principle officer of the Sadhana Society.
