Feb 20, 2022 Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton, focus on ”Accessing Inner Vitality,” live on Zoom

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TOPIC: Accessing our inner vitality through Baba

One of the greatest challenges facing all of us today is accessing the vitality and enthusiasm to carry out what we have to do in this life. As a result of this pandemic and its disruption in our lives, many of us are turning to Baba more deeply for inspiration and adopting daily practices that open us up to our inner resources.

There are many approaches to accessing our inner vitality through Baba. In one approach, Baba has said,

Before beginning anything, the aspirant thinks that it is not he who is doing it, but the Master who is getting it done through him. After doing it he does not tarry to claim the results of action or enjoy them, but becomes free of them by offering them to the Master. By training his mind in this spirit he succeeds in creating a new ego which, though provisional and working, is amply able to become a source of that confidence, feeling, enthusiasm and "go" which true action must express.

Baba has also said,

Modern psychology has done much to reveal the sources of conflict, but it has yet to discover methods of awakening inspiration or supplying the mind with something that makes life worth living…

The most important requirement for the satisfactory resolution of conflict is motive power or inspiration, which can only come from a burning longing for some comprehensive ideal. Analysis in itself may aid choice, but the choice will remain a barren and ineffective intellectual preference unless it is vitalized by zeal for some ideal appealing to the deepest and most significant strata of human personality.

In highlighting this proactive approach, Baba has said, "A new line in the divine picture is sketched only when some individual takes life forcefully in his hands, breaks up the old patterns and insists on creating something new by his own inner vision."

Ongoing work on our ideals, which over time may have lost some of their dynamic effect in our lives, requires that we sometimes revisit and redefine those ideals in order to meet our present circumstances. What methods or practices have you discovered that re-ignite your inner vitality?

There are other invaluable ways of accessing our inner vitality with Baba, among them:

Repeating Baba’s name and saying the Prayers

The determination to please Baba in all that we do, which taps into His unlimited vitality

Darwin Shaw’s practice of focussing on our flowing invisible current

The practice that Baba spoke of: "Dress your soul with Baba”

Overcoming worry, which Baba said is one of the greatest drains on our psychic energy

In His love, Jeff

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