Life Invites You To Dance

In the quietude of the morning, as the sun gently rises with a golden glow glistening through the trees, I feel a calm within reflecting the clear blue sky. The season is changing. The heavy heat and humidity of summer has dissolved into an idyllic balance of coolness, warmth, and lightness in the air.

It is a time of transition, moving toward autumn, but not fully there yet. For me, it is a season of revitalization and renewed inspiration. The vastness of nature expands all around and the interconnectedness of every soul within it reaches the forefront of my awareness.

Today, I will be intuitively teaching a dancing with nature class at the World Peace Sanctuary nearby. All of life is a dance with nature and its Creator. We are invited into that partnership and party of life, to move together in joy and harmony.

But how do we join the flow? It begins at the feet, at the root of the tree of life. In Srimad-Bhagavatam, the great celestial sage Narada instructs, “As pouring water on the root of a tree energizes the trunk, branches, twigs and everything else, and as supplying food to the stomach enlivens the senses and limbs of the body, simply worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead through devotional service automatically satisfies the demigods, who are parts of that Supreme Personality.”

Not only are angels, nature spirits, and demigods part of the tree, but so are we. Like leaves upon it, we are connected not only with the twigs, branches, and trunk, but with the root, the very source and sustenance of all life. By watering that root with our whole-hearted attention and intention, we are nourished, supplied, and satisfied.

But what does this mean practically? It means peace and growth rest not in pursuit of individual desires, but in harmony with and service to Divine desires. Endeavoring to serve separate interests is futile and unfulfilling, just as watering the leaves and limbs of a tree individually would be. They would dry up and die if simply watered separately.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Only watering the root serves the whole and individual parts simultaneously. Similarly, dedication to Divine desires pleases God the source of them, every feature and creature of the universe, and the eternal self synchronously.

Getting in touch with the will of Divinity can be accessed in several ways. The Vedas indicate that the primary means of self-realization and God-realization in this age of quarrel and hypocrisy is the chanting of God’s holy names. The Bible, Quran, and other literatures of various spiritual traditions also speak of the power and hallowing of God’s name. That sacred sound cleanses the mind and the heart and draws it in sync with the highest spiritual vibration. Such pure chanting is like tuning into the God channel.

Along with the invocation of sacred God-sound, sincere prayer and heart-centered meditation are also very helpful in hearing and aligning with Divine will. The more genuine the desire to understand, know, and serve Divine desire, the more it will be reciprocally revealed by Divine grace.

The journey between who you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place ~ Barbara De Angelis

Revelation comes within, through the heart purified by devotion, and all around in the signs,  signals and synchronicities of life and nature. One sure way to know if your desires are aligned with Divine desires is in the ease of flow or obstruction on the way toward them. Divine will is always fulfilled. Try as we might, nothing will happen without it.

So, through the channel of clairaudience I thus hear: “Let go, look, listen, feel, and flow, inside and out. Pray, chant, dance. Place your bare feet on the Earth to sense the beat of her heart and the pulse of all life with which we are connected. And then pour everything you have and all that you uniquely are into the loving service of the root, Source and Creator of it all. That is the invitation of life, nature, God, and our relationship with the whole.