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Contemplations from the 10 th lesson on the Shiva Sutras Sutra 9:  Hridaye chittasanghattad drisyasvapadarshanam ‘Merge your mind into your heart and everything will feel like it belongs to you’. There is nothing wrong with having a mind, indeed the mind is a most sophisticated and useful tool. But if we start to live in it, if we take up permanent residence in our heads, then we are going to experience some frustrating limitations in our lives.  This is because our intellect is limited in its functionality. It is designed to dissect, divide and analyse life but it is not designed as a faculty through which to love life and feel connected to all those around us. Its not that the intellect is deficient, it’s just not its job that’s all.    So whilst the head may be the penthouse suite of the physical body, living in it full time will inevitably leave us feeling isolated, dissatisfied and divided both from ourselves and from the world. Therefore in th...

Contemplations from the 9 th lesson on the Shiva Sutras Sutra 8:   Icchashaktir Uma Kumari. ‘Align your will with the will of life’ ‘ Icchashaktir ’ is the power of our will, the energy of our intention and the force of our desire. ‘ Uma Kumari ’ is the energy of life, the power of the universe and the flow of existence. Shiva says that if we can bring these two together in our lives then a whole new dimension of possibility will become available to us. An opportunity to consciously manifest and ecstatically co-create with the will of the divine, Uma Kumari. You see, it could turn out that the greatest power we have as human beings is to let go! Of course, for this possibility to arise in us we have to first of all come to terms with that most difficult of truths; that the only aspect of life we are really in control of is our response to it. So what is the fundamental desire of life that we are to align and harmonise with? What is that aspect of nature ...