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It has come to me in a very clear fashion that everything one does is Yoga, is part of the journey back to The Beloved, the Self, God. All of our acts, everyone and everything that we encounter, are part of our spiritual path.

There is no other path than that.

This way of looking at things is reassuring to me. It helps to remove the worry that I am getting off track, that I have made a wrong choice. Not that I think this removes any responsibilities. We still have to pay attention and notice what is happening. We still have to do our own work. But that is just it. You do the work that you have before you and that is exactly the work that you should be doing. In the meantime there can be all this doubt, all this wondering if I am on the right path. Just do the work that is in front of you. There is it is, right there.

Many years ago before I moved to California to join a yoga meditation ashram, I read a description of the yoga they taught in a book by Baba Ram Dass, The Only Dance There Is. It said that when the Kundalini was awakened (through the Grace of the teacher), all things that you needed to progress on the spiritual path would come to you naturally. It’s true. I am not sure that awakened Kundalini is a requirement for this. It seems that this is true for all people. (Though I do definitely recommend Kundalini Awakening, which is another story altogether!)

The fact that the star of the movie was once the president of the NRA not withstanding, the other night when watching the movie Ben-Hur, I had a pretty explicit Mystical Experience.

There is a scene in which Judah Ben-Hur (the Charlton Heston character) gives Jesus a drink of water as Jesus is carrying his own cross to his own crucifixion. As I watched that scene, I was thinking what a great honor, what an amazing bit of karma to be the person who was right there in that moment, to be able to give Jesus a drink of water. What a great honor. I imagined the infinite blessing that must have reigned down upon him in that moment. I imagined all of the angels rejoicing in such an act. And as I was thinking these things, I heard a voice in my head, the voice of Jesus. He said, “No, no act is any more sacred than any other act. Every good thing, every kind act, every time one person gives anything to another person, it is a Sacred Act. And each time, infinite blessings reign down upon all people.”

A bit later in the movie, we see the blood of Jesus flowing across the ground as it runs down the cross. I thought about the fact that there is a place on the planet where that happened, where to some extent there is still some trace of the Blood of Jesus, however slight. Again I heard the voice. “No, no place is any more Scared than any other place. The fact that I as a man walked there, that I particularly walked there, is not important. You are not supposed to follow me, to walk on the same ground as me. Embody my Spirit. Into your hands I commend my Spirit.”