Guruji said, “Day and night, affirm what you really are.”
I'll read it first and then we'll do it together:
“I am the Changeless, I am the Infinite.
I am not a little mortal being with bones to break,
a body that will perish. I am the deathless, changeless Infinite.”
So together: “I am the Changeless, I am the Infinite.
I am not a little mortal being with bones to break,
or a body that will perish.
I am the deathless, changeless Infinite.
I am the Changeless,
I am the Infinite.
I am not a little mortal being
with bones to break,
a body that will perish.
I am the deathless,
the changeless
Infinite.
”I am the deathless,
the changeless
Infinite.
Guruji said if you again and again repeat these thoughts, day and night,
you will eventually realize what you really are: an immortal soul.
And, you know, even the body, even the physical body
is an emanation of that divine consciousness.
Sometime stand in front of a mirror with feet apart and arms outstretched.
Then close your eyes, look up at the point between the eyebrows
and visualize that spiritual eye —
the golden, misty ring surrounding that opal blue sphere,
and then in the center of it, that 5-pointed
silvery-white star of cosmic consciousness.
And know and feel that that star-shaped body is an emanation
of those causal creative thoughts, those causal consciousnesses
that flow from that 5-pointed star.
That’s why we have 5 fingers, why we have 5 toes, why there’s 5 limbs, you might say—
a head, two arms, two legs —
creating that star-shaped human body.
That’s why we have these 5 senses,
why there’s 5 pranas or five life-energies,
five organs of action that make up our physical instrument,
all emanating from that immortal consciousness in the spiritual eye.
And we should remember every time, morning and evening,
when we practice those Energization Exercises — visualizing the life current
flowing in at the medulla and then going out to all the different body parts
with concentration —
we should feel that immortal life energy
that is actually the substance of our body,
the substance of this vehicle through which we make our way through life.
Every time we do that we’re reinforcing the consciousness
that we are an immortal being.
In other words we are developing courage.
Guruji said, “The SRF Lessons teach you how to contact Cosmic Life,
the ocean of God’s cosmic energy, directly from the inner source.
Then you can say, ‘I am not the flesh.
I am the charge of divine electricity that permeates this body.’ ”
So let’s together: I am not the flesh.
I am the charge of divine electricity
that permeates this body.
I am not the flesh.
I am the charge of divine electricity
that permeates this body.
I am the charge of divine electricity
that permeates this body.
I am beyond everything finite.
I am the stars.
I am the waves.
I am the life of all.
I am the laughter within all hearts.
I am the wisdom and power
that sustain all creation.
I am the wisdom and power
that sustain all creation.
I am the wisdom and power
that sustain all creation.
There’s something that we quickly come to understand
when we practice these affirmations, these thoughts of immortality.
And that is, cultivating courage, cultivating endurance,
it’s not a defensive posture.
You know, it isn’t something where — a mindset that we’re constantly focusing on,
“I have to protect myself, I have to shield myself.”
The real yogi takes a positive approach.
And it’s not a defensive posture,
but rather a positive expression of the nature of the soul.
That real fearlessness the Gita describes as this quality of tejas,
it’s a word that means the fiery manifestation
of the qualities of that immortal soul within us.
Guruji says in his Gita commentary,
“Radiance of character, or tejas,
comes from the cosmic fire of God's supreme consciousness.
And he says, “Through long meditation on God,”
— through long meditation on God —
“the devotee becomes permeated
with the effulgence of this cosmic fire.
Tejas bestows on man mental and moral boldness,
and the radiation of irresistible confidence in righteousness
that emanates from devotees who have felt within themselves
the surety of the divine power.
Such experiences develop a heroic spiritual nature.”
Do you want to have that?
All right, here’s another one.
I’ll read it through, then we’ll do it together. “I am fearless;
I am made of the substance of God.
I am a spark of the Cosmic Fire of Spirit.
I am an atom of the Cosmic Flame.
I am a cell of the universal body of the Father.
‘I and my Father are one.’ ”
Together: “I am fearless.”
Close your eyes and feel that energy; feel that divine consciousness.
“I am made of the substance of God.
I am a spark of the Fire of Spirit.
I am an atom of the Cosmic Flame.
I am a cell of the vast universal body
of the Father.
‘I and my Father are one.’
I am a spark of the Fire of Spirit.
I am an atom of the Cosmic Flame.
‘I and my Father are one.’
‘I and my Father are one.’ ”