An Intimate Dance with Deity
We’ve spent a lot of time talking about the ways in which we’re already using these techniques, and we’re using them with a superstructure that we’ve analogously said is the victim. When that superstructure is prevalent within me, all circumstance that happens in my world is organized to validate my sense of victimization. Believe me, I feel that very deeply..
When you’re doing that with being a victim, you are using all of the techniques that you want to use with God, with the Deity, to be a victim. You’ve made the term, ‘victim’ your God. You might as well start bowing down and praying to it, because that’s what you’ve done. Now recognizing that we’re doing this already, we already know how to do it, so now let’s do it with a Deity. Let’s do it with a quality of being that I want to manifest.
Let’s make a real Deity. Let’s make Chenrezig and have compassion as the quality of my being. We could take it further and get really fun, I mean we could make it Vajra Yogini and make bringing Infinite Manifestation, Infinite Creativity into manifestation, making that what my being is. We’re talking some far out stuff here. Now, let’s go back and see that what’s happening is, in the practice, I’m sitting there with the circle, and I get the idea, “Okay, now it’s time, I can hold the circle, and it doesn’t go away. I can go, ‘OM,’ and it doesn’t go away. Now I’m going to have the sense of myself arise as the Deity, as dancing Shiva.”
A continuity is now alive in you. And that’s why I said this, and I stressed this in the first portion of this series, so strongly, that you really want to have a sense of continuity. It’s the sense of continuity that says, “Oh, the stuckness, the yuck that I’m feeling right now is not infinite, is not the only thing I have to experience in my life; there is so much more.”
With Deity Yoga, we are inviting the Infinite into ourselves, and it’s very curious, because it’s more than inviting the Infinite into ourselves, it’s using a sense of the Infinite to awaken within ourselves the Infinite that’s there already.
It’s an awakening, but it’s also a getting up out of bed and starting to move around. It’s not the enlightenment that writers write about where, boom, such and such happens and you suddenly see everything. It’s so much more than that, because not only do you suddenly see everything, but your heart beats in what you’re seeing. Your arms move, your feet walk, in what you’re seeing.
Yogi Sean and Swami Ramanada have studied with Tagore, Krishnamurti and Ghandi. Together they created the Sadhana Society in the U.S.
