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Eight Limbs Of Yoga 7- Dhyana
October 7, 2008 by Ray Baskerville
With dhyana we go deeper into the domain of grace, and the reality of our inseperable nature begins to grow clear. We are entering the depths of meditation where our focused awareness reveals ever deeper aspects of our true nature.
In the growing expansiveness of this state we clearly perceive the grace by which we are here. In this perception of grace we experience the love that is the Divine’s presence and spontaneously our own heart opens in response. Dhyana is then the natural devotion of the heart in proximity to the Divine.
Philosophically you might say the Divine is ever present and this is true, what is missing is undivided awareness of the presence.
In this openness things can become crystal clear, profound insights can be gained through a level of intelligence that is beyond mind as we normally experience it. Such clarity and insight arises spontaneously like precious gifts of grace. In this we realize
the enormity of the Divine and the smallness of our egoic identity. It has been my own experience to know in this, the fundamental selfishness and self serving nature of ego mind, and yet at the same time experience the love of the Divine in action in everything that ever occurs.
As we said in Dharana we cannot guarantee arrival here through an a-b-c process. We can prepare the ground through the previous limbs but the Divine itself carries us this far and we are helpless to arrive here without her. We can also be left in dismay when another who has done no spiritual endeavor arrives here.
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Swami Param –
1: perhaps you can tell us the sutra where Patanjali states this.
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