Karma Yoga

Offering 2

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

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

  1

Maya's biggest game, the source of 

all the other games, is the game of 

making us believe the temporary 

material body and the bodily

identifications are the Self.

2

Maya's illusions have us chasing

 temporary material joys and pleasures. 

 Failing to attain them, or failing to attain

 them as we planned, we are left confused 

and frustrated.  Hankering and lamenting

 follow such illusions bringing more pain

 than gain.

3

You are the only One capable of helping 

us overcome the power of Maya.  That 

confusion and frustration can be

eradicated by always thinking of You 

and remembering that we are spiritual 

beings, Pure Intelligence, having fallen

 into the strong material illusion, Maya.

4

We offer to You as Infinite, Pure 

Intelligence, saturating and surpassing

 the power of the material worlds, Maya,

 and all therein.

5

 Maya is strong, nonetheless, Your power

 saturates the illusory material worlds 

and Its inhabitants.  Although You saturate 

Maya, You are never touched by It. 

6

 If we are to be truly free from the Maya,

 the illusory worlds, we must hold on 

     to You.  We began holding to You by the 

  offering of chanting Your Holy Names.

7

You are forever free from lust, anger

and greed, the brigands of Maya.  They

 contaminate and rob our consciousness, 

awareness, and intelligence, of love,

 compassion, and charity.  Most of all,

   they rob us of knowledge and experience

 of Self.

8

The root cause of suffering is lack of

 knowledge and experience of Self.  As 

this happens, we fall deeper into the 

suffering of Maya.

9

We offer to You the chanting of Your Holy 

Names.  They are a kind of spiritual rope 

that, when held on to very tightly, can pull 

us out of the ocean of suffering, the

 material world of Maya.

10

You are always within and beyond the

physical and metaphysical even as You 

pervade the  worlds of Maya.  This 

spiritual practice of offering all to You 

and chanting Your  Holy names is our 

way of grasping and holding tightly to

You, the Absolute. 

11

Holding on to You enables us to be 

awakened and pulled up out of the 

illusory worlds, while awakening in Your

Transcendental Loving Omnipresence 

again.

12

We offer to You as the Omnipresent 

Source of thought, and the foundation

 of all clear and solid reasoning,

 understanding, and discernment.  

13

As we reawaken in Your Holy

Omnipresence, Ecstatic Bliss, One in

union with You is experienced as who

 we really are.

14

We offer to You as the Greatest Harmony,

 Justice, and Bliss filled Intelligence. The 

more we are in union with You, the clearer

 and more palpable is our experience of Self.

15

The true Self, in quality one with 

You, has no  material designation 

such as race, creed, color, nationality,

 sex, or species of life.

16

This True Self is within and beyond Pure 

Intelligence, more  subtle than the Aether

 and Space.  It is our Supreme, Eternal, 

Quintessence, God of all. 

17

You, the True Self, pervade and transcend

the space between the subatomic particles

that make up Maya, the temporary

material worlds.  Simultaneously, You are

suffusing and overflowing our

consciousness, awareness, and

intelligence.

18

 This purifying spiritual practice of offering 

all to You helps us associate with You.

  Gradually, we awaken and remember You

 as our Omnipresent, Innermost Self, 

our Greatest Reality.