Dear Feel Love Now Community,
Feeling stuck or mentally cluttered? This teaching reminds us that our inner world shapes our experience far more than outer circumstances.
Every thought is an invitation—am I creating flow or friction? Peace or pressure? When we choose love, clarity, and goodwill, we align with the energy of heaven—right here, right now.
Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:
“Any time we have a thought, just notice: Is that a pure thought? Is it a thought that helps me feel as if I am living in heaven right now?
”The energy of love—the energy of unconditional, universal kindness and respect and goodwill, the energy of pure life force that we were connecting with in our opening meditation—that’s the energy of the kingdom of heaven.
”We know how it feels. We know how it feels in our own hearts. It feels amazing. There’s a sweetness. There’s a simplicity. There’s an openness. There’s a clarity. Of course wisdom and discernment are present, we just naturally have this awareness.
”So that’s what it feels like to be in that energy of the kingdom of heaven. Swami Shankarananda says, ‘By our negative and selfish thoughts and desires, we create our own hell.’
”So you can just notice: Are my thoughts and desires creating a feeling of a traffic jam? If I am resisting myself in some way, if I am obstructing myself in some way, I’m actually creating the feeling of a traffic jam in the flow of energy within me.
That will make it feel as if I am in hell. Nothing changing externally. Same conditions. Same circumstances. It’s: Where are my thoughts and feelings? Where are my desires? Where are my choices?”
We also shared this video on YouTube, but wanted you to be able to have it on your Substack video player as well, in case you prefer that.
Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Heaven on Earth Series by clicking here.
If you have heard this teaching before, we invite you — as Swami so often invites us — to hear it as if you are hearing it for the first time. Often we receive these teachings right when we need them.
In loving service,
The Karma Yoga Team at AYM
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