The Lotus Of Awareness

We grow by walking through times of stress and pain and turning to the Divine again and again. This is the mud of the lotus of awareness—and by transcending it, we grow. It is important not to get stuck in the pain, but also not to rush out of it, because these difficult periods are dissolving our complexes.

If we are ambivalent and caught in the ego, this process cannot fully unfold, and there will be less transformation into light. The more sincere we are on our spiritual journey, the more profound the changes can be—and the greater the gift it brings.

Even if we lose faith for a while, being a good person and following the heart still carries us forward.

Transcript

So, I was talking about how this work, The power of it is in its precision, Which has come through walking through the kind of emotional upheavals and distress that you guys walk through, And learning to keep turning to the divine. And when you do that, This material turns, It's the mud of the lotus, It turns into the lotus of awareness. And you can even go through periods where you, You, You know, You don't, You even lose your faith for a bit, Doesn't matter, Just, You know, Just keep walking, Keep doing your best. You will find the, You know, Amma talks about how you learn how to blow on the embers of the fire. You, You blow on, You know, Burning, Something blow, And it catches this flame again. And that happens over and over in our spiritual journey. So, Please be reassured, And it's not to stay in the pain longer, You know, But also not to rush out of the pain, Because it is, It is your complexes leaving. If you keep your focus, You know, If you've given your life to Amma, Given your life to the spiritual journey, These, These, These painful periods are removing your complexes. You know, If you're ambivalent, Like if you haven't really given your life to it, And you're trying to do kind of walk in two places at once, With, You know, Trying to get the best out of the worldly life and trying to get the best out of the spiritual life, Then the pain that happens won't do much good. Yeah, I mean, It won't, It'll, Yeah, It won't, It's, It's not the mud of the lotus. You know, Even if people are in their egos, They go through painful periods, But that, That pain doesn't really help them either. I mean, Over time, It might bring sort of a wisdom, But the thing is that your pain gets more severe, The more intense you are in the spiritual journey, The more severe your pain will get, But the more the dramatic change it creates in you, The more transformation, The bigger a gift it brings. You're, You know, You can have a three-month period of going through difficult, Difficult, You know, Feeling, Ah, I'm unhappy, My body hurts, And three months later, Your life has just changed dramatically. And especially on an inward way, It can just change so dramatically. If you learn how to just go through these periods, And actually, This is what this work is around, Is helping you guys clear your emotional complexes, So that you can do Amma's will, So you can live the life you came here to live. Yeah, And it can be done even by an, In a non-religious outlook. You can even, You know, Not be sure about God, But if you're, You know, If you're good to humanity, And you're, You follow your, The guidance that comes, And you're open to your perceptions, It, In a way, It doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, In a funny way. Yeah, It's like, Amma says that she has more, She has enormous respect for good-hearted people who, Who don't believe in God, But they still live really good lives.