Bhakti Yoga

Hearing 13

 You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.

Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayatri.

1

offering of praise and thanksgiving 

to the Most High, the Greatest, our 

Supreme Being. 

2

 It is for the never-ending blessings 

of all Sentient Beings that we first

 offer all we think, feel, will, say, and

 do to God before we do all honorable 

things.

3

Purification of consciousness, awareness, 

and intelligence, as a result of Your

 association, demands that all we think,

 feel will, say, do be virtuous, frank,

  ethical,  principled, decent, and

 therefore righteous in the fullest 

sense of the word.

4

Always thinking of You, hearing about 

You, and remembering  You in this way,

 restores our self-knowledge, self-esteem, 

self-respect, integrity, and self-respect, 

all the virtues that make up our self-

confidence.

5

We remember You, we think of You, 

we concentrate on You, we meditate on

 You as our Supreme Being.  We have 

heard of You, and have a little

 experience of You as beyond visible 

      and invisible, personal and impersonal.

6

Inside and in excess of formlessness and form,

You are our Supreme Absolute, within and 

beyond all dualities.  We have heard of You, 

and we are beginning to remember You, as

 our Absolute Divinity, immanent and

 transcendent to all firsts, middles, and ends.

7

We hear of You, and we have some 

experience of You as being here before,

 during, and after the light and the

 darkness. 

8

 By chanting Your Holy Names, and offering

 You everything we associate with You and

 gradually hear, remember and experience

 Your Omnipresence.

9

Hearing about You, thinking about You, 

speaking about You, we are associating

 our intelligence with You.  Since You 

are the Most Pure, our intelligence is

purified and we are coming into greater

 alignment with You.

10

As a consequence of hearing, speaking,

 and offering all to You, we are evermore

 aligning with You, disentangling from

 Maya, and reuniting consciously with 

You.

11

The more we are purified and aligned with

You, the less we are hindered by the

sufferings caused by our own past evil

deeds.

12

The greater our progress of reawakening

to You, our Eternal Source, the more

we hear about You, and strive to engage

in those activities that help us remember

You. Gradually, we are entering our

Eternal Life of Tranquil Bliss, here,

now.

13

Hearing of You, and thus thinking of You,

 enlightens our intelligence, gradually 

cleansing us of the insidious problem of 

reaping and sowing suffering. Divine

 compassion and Love unfold from our 

own Supreme Being as our intelligence

 is purified and enlightened.

14

Before enlightenment dawns in our

 intelligence, we awaken, realizing, 

we are not a physical being trying to 

have a spiritual experience. 

15

We, like You, are the eternal spiritual

being, pervading and transcending the

temporary material body,

consciousness, awareness, and,

intellect.

16

Only You really exist. Everything else,

including the "I", is illusion; having

no endurance, it does not exist in the

truest sense of the word, "Existence."

17

We have heard through Disciplic 

Succession, and we have some experience 

that You are Smaller than the smallest, 

and larger than the largest; the power 

 which animates all bodies, gross and most 

subtle.

18

You are our Supreme Omnipresent, 

Omniscient, Omnipotent Supreme Being.

This we have heard through Disciplic

 Succession and from other Saintly 

Teachers. Though we may seem alone, 

we know Your Omnipresent, Loving 

Tranquility is always with us. Your 

Omnipresent Eternal Kingdom, 

within our own Being, will never leave 

us.