Where Being Meets Bhakti
When our actions and thoughts align with the intent of the heart, life begins to flow. The coherence we often seek—a sense of ease, connection, and purpose—arises naturally when our choices come from this pure, unconditioned space. Rather than nostalgizing the idea of living from the heart, how do we embody it—as a practical and living way of being?
Pure consciousness is the source of thought, the source of matter. By transcending the fluctuations of the mind, we access more subtlety and more resonance with our fundamental, most baseline nature. As we rest in this state, we start to live from it.
Direct experience with Being lessens identification with thought, creating space for the mind to detect the impulses of the present moment instead of operating through conditioned patterns. This clarity allows us to attune to the impulses of nature through the heart, giving rise to a kind of ‘clear-mind Bhakti’.
This is where Bhakti and meditation meet. To truly feel and act on the impulses of the heart, we must engage in a dance between deep feeling and cultivating clarity of mind. Without this clarity, we risk being guided by fleeting emotions, which are not the heart, or by conditioned patterns of the mind, which pull us out of alignment with life’s natural flow. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says to Arjuna, “Be without the three gunas,” referring to the qualities of nature—activity (rajas), inertia (tamas), and balance (sattva)—that bind us to attachments, including the fruits of our actions.
This invitation reminds us to establish ourselves in pure Being so that our actions emerge from that space, unconditioned and aligned with our relevance to the whole. When we show up to give, rather than to get, life begins to support us. When we cease trying to figure everything out, we drop into engaging with the moment as it is. And here, we find ourselves naturally moved to a kind of action that funnels us right into the flow of evolution itself. Clicking into this kind of flow, we get more to give more. And isn’t this the essence of the heart’s dance?
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