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The soul has its own power if the power of the soul is invoked.

So we ask, “How can I invoke the Power of Soul?” In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna is talking to Arjuna and says that the guy who takes up the spiritual path because of a tragedy in his life has a mediocre motivation. What Krishna is trying to say is that that guy doesn’t really have a good connection with the Power of Soul because he’s using a circumstance, a polarized circumstance in his life, as his reason to start on the path. Krishna says it’s far better that, if you’re sitting here with nothing to do, and you say, “Okay I’m going to connect with God.”

He’s saying, the way to discover Infinity, to discover God, certainly may begin with a tragedy, with a polarized tragedy in our lives. We may say, “I sure don’t like the way my life has gone, and so now I have this opportunity to begin to make a choice.” And that’s kind of how we began on this path of Deity Yoga. We begin to say, “I want a sense of a quality of a Deity, a quality of Divine Expression to be part of my action, to be part of the way I think, to be part of what I’m doing. And we don’t even have to use spiritual words like ‘divine.’ We can be very mechanistic and say, “What I want to do is have more options. I feel bound, and I really want more options. And so I’m opening up to possibilities.”

And it can be just that simple. I mean, who would argue with that? You can’t have much resistance to thinking about opening to possibility and exploring my options. So then what happens is, I do that at a certain level and I begin to incorporate, I begin to have a connection. In our Deity Yoga Practice we were saying that you begin entering into a greater sense of physical manifestation. And so with the circle you’re doing the AA- UU-MM mantra.

This mantra is exciting the whole of the physical manifestation as you’re gazing at the circle. With Shiva you could be doing the ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ mantra. And so you’re doing that, and you can get very comfortable, very dynamic in that, and you can begin actually making changes in your life, making changes in the direction of your life from that place. And this is really cool, but there are deeper layers. This is when it starts getting down-right fun, when you explore the deeper layers.

Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation and The Everyday Sanyasin.

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