Dear Feel Love Now Community,
"All that matters is what God wants." These words, spoken by Swami Shankarananda in his final days, hold a profound truth. Our existence—every breath, every moment—is a gift from the Divine. To recognize this is to let go of fear and surrender fully to love.
How can we open our hearts so completely that the Divine flows effortlessly through us? This is the invitation: to serve, to love, and to trust that we are always held by something greater than ourselves.
Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:
“He [Swami Shankarananda] says this, ‘this is where the healing comes in. I will love you in spite of yourself.’ You can hear the humor in that. I will love myself in spite of myself because nothing feels better than self-love because there's no room for separation, negativity, and limitation. So, if you become aware of anything other than love, he says the solution for that is to love.
“So, if you become aware that you are feeling cut off from a feeling of love, turn within to the source of love and connect with a source of all the love in the universe, which is with you and within you. And then allow that to fill you completely. And, so I will also just say, this is something that we're not inviting ourselves to look outside of ourselves for. We're inviting ourselves to feel it from within.”
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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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