Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton: Effort and Grace, Feb 12, 2023, live on Baba Zoom

We have some informal chat after every arti, the "post-arti party"! But once a week, Jeff Wolverton joins us for some serious mining of the spiritual depths. Join us for conversation, more readings, songs, quotes - you never know what treasures will be uncovered!

Topic: Effort and Grace

Dear Folks of Baba,

By popular consent, over the next three Sundays we are going to delve into Darwin Shaw’s book, Effort and Grace. It is a classic that deals with one of the major approaches to Baba, the conscious inner journey to an incredible intimacy with our Beloved. It is primarily an approach of the effacement of the ego. Darwin shares with us his own insights gathered from Baba, all the while quoting from Baba’s own words.

He takes us on the journey of consciousness beginning first from the head which for almost all people is their base of operations, the realm of beliefs, theories and ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, virtue and vice. From there, after much effort and grace, our consciousness drops down to the inner realm of the heart which then becomes our base of operations. At the superficial level of the heart are the emotions, desires and wants—lust, greed, anger, jealousy, revenge, etc. At the deeper level of the heart are our better angels—the divinely human qualities of patience, empathy, forgiveness, purity, enthusiasm, joy, generosity, creativity, intuition, etc. The battle between the two levels of the heart, as Darwin affirms, is hard-fought, but when our better angels gradually win out, we move toward merging with the soul, divine love, Baba Himself. Darwin goes into great depth with many of the challenges we face along each stage of this journey of consciousness, which evokes excellent discussion. We are not in a hurry going through this profound book, as there are many nuances worthy being delved into.

You don’t have to worry if you miss a session. Each session is more or less independent, like facets of one diamond, Baba, and do not have to be followed sequentially. And of course, each session is being recorded if you miss one.

In His Love,

Jeff

To join the email list for Late Night Chats, contact Angela

This event was recorded live. To be first to be notified of a new video on this channel, please hit the red subscribe button, then the notifications bell. To join future live events, see www.babazoom.net. Please join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/meherbabafamily