The Niyamas Week 5 - Ishvara Pranidhana: Surrender to the Supreme Reality
We gather again, the final week of initiations into the yamas and niyamas. Dan dropped by for tea earlier, and we were talking about beliefs. he asked — what do I actually believe in? And it got me thinking… You know how I often use God and Life interchangeably. Not because I planned to, but because hardly anyone can deny that they’re alive. So that’s my evidence of the Divine: You. The fact of being. An intelligence so vast it’s living you — breathing you — right now. It doesn’t ask for belief. It doesn’t say, “Convince me before your next breath.” It just gives it. What a mystery, that Life lives us uniquely — each configuration never to be repeated. That doesn’t make you special, it makes It special. And that’s something I can bow down to completely. Because despite billions of lives before, there has never been this one — this pattern, this heartbeat, this consciousness. So I sit in awe, in devotion to that force which keeps living us even whe...