Karma Yoga
Offering 2
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.