Karma Yoga
Offering 5
Karma Yoga
Offering 5
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayatri.
1
We offer to You as the Completely
Perfect One, more subtle than the air,
aether, or intelligence. Enveloping
and suffusing the visible and the
invisible, You transcend all,
including No thing, the metaphysical.
2
We offer to You as the first, Last and
Greatest Witness of Infinite, Eternal,
Omnipresent Peace. Through our
spiritual practice of always offering
to You, our consciousness is purified
and attracts thoughts of
You.
3
Thoughts of You are the most
edifying. They help us associate
with You, and transcend thoughts.
At the same time, they are
improving us morally,
intellectually, and spiritually.
4
Our consciousness is increasingly
tranquil as we associate with You
and are purified. This purifying
process aligns our awareness as
well as our consciousness evermore
with You.
5
Through association with You, our
thinking, feeling, willing, and doings
are pure, positive, and edifying. This
is true because, to the degree
consciousness, awareness, and
intelligence are purified they allow
in only like thoughts, or no thoughts
at all, if they are not edifying.
6
We think of You as the first, the Last
and Greatest Purity of Being. As a
result of Your association,
consciousness, awareness, and
intelligence are purified, emptied
of thoughts.
7
Free of thoughts and doing all as
offerings to You, we transcend suffering.
We are responsible for our own
suffering or joy. People, places, things,
circumstances, or other sentient beings,
are simply instruments through which
our Karma, good or bad, returns to us.
Offering all to You is associating with
You, the Most Pure, and transcending
suffering.
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Association promotes assimilation.
Associating with You through this
spiritual practice of offering all to You
helps us associate with You and gradually
assimilate Your Divine Attributes.
Thanks and praise be to You for helping
us in our efforts to always think of You
and unite with You by offering all to You.
9
This spiritual practice of offering all
to You is practical, rational, and depends
on no material considerations. Whatever
predicament or circumstance we find
ourselves in, we can always offer to You.
10
We can even offer the frustration,
disappointment, confusion, failure,
despair or joy to You. The point is to
remember to offer to You, be purified,
and progress in the way of union with
You.
11
To offer to You all we have to say is:
" My Supreme Being", whatever the name
of Your Supreme Being, "Please accept
this humble offering". We can offer,
loudly, softly, or silently. We should offer
everything, every breath, incoming or
out going, to You.
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We can offer all we hear to You. All
we talk about can be offered to You. All
we remember can be offered to You.
All of these are ways we can awaken
ever closer to You. No matter the
circumstances. We can give thanks
and offer all to You.
13
Our spiritual practice consists primarily
of always offering to You. This discipline
helps us remember You. Remembering
You is association with You, the Most
Intelligent.
14
Via Your association our consciousness,
awareness, and intelligence are freed
from all traces of Self-misidentification.
Identifying the Self as no more than
senses, body, consciousness, awareness,
or intelligence, is Self-misidentification.
15
Proper Self identification is seeing the
Self as Divine Intelligence pervading and
transcending the senses, body,
consciousness, awareness, and
intelligence. We are identifying the
Self as the Eternal Light of Divine
Intelligence.
16
While identifying the Self as this Divine
Intelligence, we are engaging in our
spiritual practice that is helping us
associate with You and remember You.
Consequently, our reason and common
sense are clarifying constantly.
17
Associating with You is definitely healing
us while uniting us consciously with You.
You. In the light of Your association,
we are becoming more consciously
awake, scrupulously straight,and
intellectually enlightened. On all
levels, in all ways, we are becoming
healthier by associating with You.
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You pervade and transcend all. By offering
all to You, we are awakening to our internal
environment which is essentially spiritual.
We offer to You as the Eternal Light of Divine
Intelligence. This is the Eternal Light of
Unalloyed Being.