Contemplations
from the 11th lesson on the Shiva Sutras
Sutra
10: Svapadam Shaktihi
We already have everything we need, inbuilt
within ourselves, to deal with whatever our lives might bring.
Everything we are seeking is already here.
We are not lacking anything and there is nothing missing from us. We are
abundantly endowed with everything we need to fulfill our lives. We need only
look to our Self.
If you are in any doubt of this, play the
following little game……
When someone dear to you appears after a
long absence and you experience a surge of joy, where are you experiencing that
joy? - in the other person or within yourself?
When someone speaks some inspiring words
and you feel a surge of new strength to face a challenging situation in your
life, where do you experience that new strength?
When someone shares some wisdom with you,
and a light bulb goes on for you, in whom does that light bulb turn on, in the
other or in you?
When you feel love where do you feel it?
Can you locate the source, the actual physical location from which love
emerges?
Yes, we are all pointing to the same place!
So, in all these situations the outer
object was simply a trigger for the inner experience, but the experience itself
emerged from within YOU!
It’s natural to thank and appreciate the
triggers and the catalysts, in fact our lives are full of them as if part of a
great design, but these will only be useful to us in the long term to the
degree that we can recognise the place within ourselves that has been triggered.
The experience you are having, good or bad,
is never IN an object outside of you, it is always within you.
So, Shiva says, ‘all the power lies within you!’. Everything you need is already
contained within you. Your life is created from within your Self.
If you can find the source of love and
bliss within yourself, the place from which it rises when triggered, would it then
not be wise to rest at the source and drink from the well, Direct! Why sit around waiting like a beggar for
something outside to trigger what is already inside.
Svapadam Shaktihi – You will find your
power by resting in your Self!
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