How Being a Student of Love Prepares You for Life

The Awake Yoga Meditation Podcast

Dear Feel Love Now Community,

When we feel distant from the Divine, scripture can become a mirror. Each character reflecting something within us. Swami Shankarananda taught that the magi represent the part of us that longs to offer what is most precious, while Herod reveals the ego’s fear of the light we carry. And yet, within each of us is also the child of light, innocent, radiant, and divine. You haven’t lost your connection; it’s simply waiting beneath the noise, inviting you to return with reverence.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“No doubt, we have heard this passage before, but for each of us, listen with a fresh heart. One of the teachings that Swami Shankarananda loved to share was that all the characters in scripture speak to an aspect of ourselves.

“So as we listen, an aspect of ourselves is magi. It’s the magi. It’s asking, ‘What in me is most beautiful and good and precious that I can offer to the Divine?’ There’s also, potentially, an aspect of me that is Jesus, this little child of light.

“So, for each of us, to give that little child of light in ourselves to be here and to see how incredibly precious and beautiful that little child of light is that is here. There’s also a reference to Herod in this passage. Herod represents the ego that is really afraid of the arrival of this little child of light.

“So if there’s any aspect within myself that is afraid in relation to the arrival of this little child of light, then this meditation will help me to transform that and to bow to the little child of light.”

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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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