Hinduism and Embracing the Darkness:
A Garland of Blessings from the Hinduism Module, Nov. '08
OM and salutations to Kali and Durga for 'Holy Shake and Wake Up.'
The same sky that illuminates us in the day stretches out into cool infinite darkness in the night. As the sky is, so are we: both light and dark in one.
May the concentric circles of the Divine embrace and nurture us, both in our darkest and lightest moments.
May we become more sensitive to that place of inner wisdom that waits patiently to be heard.
May we breathe in acceptance and breathe out surrender.
“I stand sustaining the entire world with a fragment of my being.” (1)
“The world is the ever-changing foam that sits on the surface of a sea of silence.” (2)
May we rest in the arms of the Divine Ocean, to whom we all return.
May you find your source of peace within.
May you feel a garland of blessings surrounding you with beauty.
May you have the strength to know your soul and freely make choices.
May you find the power within that the darkness can bring.
May you always find the Light and Love in every night.
May all aspects of yourself, the dark and light, form the beautiful pattern of your divine self.
May golden light surround your soul with a luminous protective healing radiance.
I pray that the divine flame will glow within you, now and always.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.
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About the Bead Blessings: A bead ceremony serves as a ceremonial closing to the five days of classes. Each person receives a bead from each of the other participants, together with a closing blessing. Thus students leave the module with a small treasure of reminders from the week, as well as blessings for the journey.
The above blessings are from the November 2008 Hinduism module.
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SOURCES
(1) Ch. 10, Verse 42, The Bhagavad Gita, tr. Barbara Stoler Miller (Bantam Classics, 1986).
(2) From Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (The Macmillan Co, 1930).
