You are the Changemaker

 You are the Changemaker

Satsang is like the sowing of the seeds. The sadhana plows the field and the satsang sows the seeds. It’s all very well having a plowed field, but you have to plant in it, otherwise, the same old stuff will grow. Even when you sow new seeds, the old stuff will still grow alongside the new stuff; weeds still grow in a planted garden. You have to continue to go over your shrub bed before you have a handle on the weed situation but the main thing is that the new growth is taking place within that. Gradually, the new growth gets stronger until it is a forest, the weeds no longer get the light and the ground clears by itself. In that situation, even if weeds start to grow, they become irrelevant next to the huge forest that you are. 

One of the greatest messages to plant inside us is that we carry the power of change within ourselves. That message is sometimes palatable and sometimes not. Only you carry the power of change for yourself. 

We can change anything. Everything within us can be changed. There is nothing outside of the realm of change because everything was created in the first place. It can all be transformed. But understand this: you are the changemaker, you take responsibility for the transformation. 

Watch how quickly your mind will throw up a ‘but’! Because there is always a sense in the mind that things happened to us and that is why we are the way we are. That is not true. I know it feels true, but it is not. Nothing ever happened to us, it just happened. Everything that happened in our lives actually happened within us, and that is why it is changeable. If not you would be a disempowered being, with no choice but to remain a victim. 

The yogi is a victim of nothing.

That is what makes a yogi, a yogi. One who is in the process of taking charge of everything that is taking place inside of them. One who has recognised that they are the alchemist who can use each experience to transform themselves and grow. It is magnificent to take this stance. 

We are uprooting a lot of illusions about our existence. A lot of psychological constructs and limitations that we have been holding on to are being shattered. We do this simply by contemplating and realising that actually that is not the way it is. We start to see what is reality and what we are making up within our minds. 

When we feel like small, separate individuals, then we start making up stories that reinforce that feeling of disconnection and so we start reaching out everywhere looking for the connection that our story is telling us we don’t already have. But we all know something different now, we know the stories are not true and we already have it. When we start to see the error in the stories then they become easier to drop. 

Meditation means to unshackle, drop the bondage, and merge with the immensity of existence, which has no limitations. If you drop yourself into the infinite ocean of existence, then you start getting out of the box of yourself. Then, when we come back into the box, so much about it is not going to fit you any more. Gradually over time, the construct fits less and less. It starts to feel like it doesn't sit right anymore, like it is not true, so you change it. 

Once one way of doing things doesn't fit anymore, we change it. So much of your thinking won’t fit anymore, it is almost like it's been stuck on to you. You no doubt ask yourself sometimes, why am I thinking like this? These are wonderful moments when we realise that our thinking is no longer painting an accurate picture of who we know ourselves to be, so we change it. Only you can change it.

It becomes less and less satisfactory that events, situations and people outside of us, can make us feel a certain way inside of ourselves. The feeling of being a victim to external happenings is not going to sit right with the feeling of freedom we are creating inside of ourselves. We will catch ourselves feeling hard done by, like life is unfair and it is not going to be okay anymore. You are too big to be determined and controlled by external factors. 

These things we think are affecting us aren’t actually doing anything to us currently. No doubt they happened a long time ago and we choose to re-invent them with our thinking. We are the ones trapping ourselves with our own thinking. I would rather be Love.

Meditation is giving us a choice and the ability to choose something different. You might not have been able to before because you hadn’t trained yourself, but you can now. Sometimes you might choose not to and that is totally permissible, but we can and that is the important thing. 

What a joy this path is. To be able to sow the seeds of my existence according to what I know to be true inside of myself. I don’t know what you thought yoga was when you took it up but now you must be realising that you are on a path to liberation, a path of love and this entails change. Do you want it? 

You have found the teachings, the practices and the divine within yourself. What will you do now?