Daily Contemplations On Living Ahimsa
Taking the Vow of Ahimsa is a life transforming experience. This commitment provides you with an instant spiritual awareness to filter all of your choices. Before you endeavor any major decision, or goal ask yourself the imperative Living Ahimsa question: “Does this decision or choice support inner harmony?” The answers that arise from this question are solid stepping stones to your sacred journey and destiny. These verses of wisdom for ahimsa, harmony and love are gleaned from the ancient Hindu Scriptures of the Vedas.
Monday:
The Creator of the world sought the Mother Goddess with veneration when she was shrouded in the depth of the ocean. A vessel of gladness, long cherished in secret, the earth was revealed to human kind for their joy.
Tuesday:
O Mother Earth, may your dwellings flourish for us. May the Earth be free from sickness and wasting? Grant us a long and conscious life, so may we always offer our reverence to you.
Wednesday:
O Earth, O Mother, dispose my life and karma in gentle fashion that I am always at ease. O Mother, in grace and good fortune, establish me in harmony with all your powers of the heavens.
Thursday:
Praise to the Prana- breath of life - praise to your uproar. Praise to your thunder. Praise to your lightning. Praise for your rain. Praise be the breath of life.
Friday:
Just as the magnanimous earth bore the seed of all life, so may you carry or foster the child and nurture the children of ahimsa.
Saturday:
If we perceive our own faults as we do the faults of others, could misfortune ever come to us?
Sunday:
Agni - hidden in the two fire-sticks and well guarded by the mother like a child in her womb - is revered day after day by people who are awakened to consciousness and by those who offer oblations to Agni, transformative fire.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM YOUR PRACTICE:
- Living Ahimsa Daily Meditation and Contemplation teach you to invoke your inner witness-self and to be accountable to your purpose.
- You discover how to accommodate the inevitable.
- You learn to cultivate a strong sense of awareness through being conscious of your thought process.
- Less-than-peaceful thoughts will arise in and out of meditation. Accept this as a natural occurrence.
- Acknowledge any bothersome thought and adhere to your daily affirmation: I hold each though in the cosmic space of ahimsa.
- You learn to become the witness of life, and not the engager.
- In this practice you learn that you do not have to be in control of each and every situation.
- You experience a progressive shift toward more leisure of mind.
- You invest in cultivating an informed trust in the Divine Energy.
- You recognize situations for what they are.
- You begin to cultivate a sense of objectivity.
- You respond with awareness in all situations
- The solution to a challenge becomes clear.