Breaking bonds

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

This quote by Patanjali is one of my all time favorites. It really resonates with my own personal experience of finding personal liberation by questioning my entrenched thought patterns. The world I once viewed as being antagonistic and negative has been slowly transformed into a friendly place and the brightness within myself spills out everywhere.

In yoga there is a concept called maya. It means illusion – the inability to see the truth that is right in front of us. I used to relate this to the Mormon concept of a veil over the earth, keeping us from our memory of a pre-existence. In a sense, that concept of a veil is actually true – we are fogged over of our memory of the fact that we are pure consciousness. That there is something beyond even the concepts in religion.

The most effective way to move through maya is to simply embrace it’s existence, be aware that we are all deluded in some form and start questioning thoughts. Pulling on the thread of “Is that really true?” on every level is the beginning of true freedom and liberation. A breaking of the bonds that limit and a transcendence to a completely friendly universe.

When Patanjali discusses discovering that you discover yourself to be a far greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be, that is the delusion of maya and the embracing of our true divinity.

Welcome to Lotus Liberation and all of it’s many incarnations soon to come. Please join in…

**by Sattva