Going Directly to God
We’re trying to connect with the soul’s expression at this age, and the soul’s expression at this age wanted to feel nurtured and loved. You can take that child and give him the nurturance and the love that he wanted, through the Divine Presence of your Deity Yoga visualization.
This to me is a radical new direction in this type of practice. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of such a thingusing a Deity to help you with the selves of your pastbut it’s still a very beautiful thing. I mean, I sure could’ve used Shiva when I was five years old, I’ll tell you.
Essentially, the source of the image that I’m creating is Divine Radiance. It could be called the Clear Light. It is the source of all things, of all possibilities. It is God. In particular, we talked about the fact that it actually isn’t clear or white, but more like silver. It has a more reflective quality than either clear or white light, and it’s sizzling with potential creativity.
When we use the term God, we’re saying that the source of my visualization is this quality of all-giving. Even though I have said that I arise as the Divine Shivathe manifestation of Divine Change that is only an aspect, or a form, of the radiance.
The manifestation of Divine Radiance is an aspect of God. I’m not saying Shiva is everything; I’m saying Shiva is a form of the Divine Change. So the source of my visualization is the Divine Change, and I go to my child with that visualization.
So when you touch the child, when you put your arms around your child, when you speak to your child, the Divine Source is what’s radiating from you. Basically, you’re choosing one that is an aspect that works for you. You’re going direct: you’re going to God. You’re reaching out to the godhead and you’re saying, “I’m in form, and so I’m going to experience the godhead in form, as a quality of expression.” For Shiva, that quality of expression is Divine Radiance.
Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation, The Everyday Sanyasin, and Experiments in Awareness, a workbook for yogis.
