I've been in a strange energy space the past few days. It's not a bad thing, it's just not where I'm used to being. I don't know what is at the root of it but I feel like it's happening for a reason. I've been mentally busy trying to figure out the best way to approach the projects that I have going on at the moment. This is pretty typical for me seeing as I am always...always...always...over-committed. (c:
Some of us just really like running around like crazy people all the time. I promise. Or, we're masochists.
One of the hardest things about being over-committed is that I tend to forget all of the things that I've agreed to do and am only reminded when my phone alarm starts squawking at me for seemingly no reason at all in the middle of my work day, or I get a phone call from someone that seems to think that they know me and that I agreed to meet them somewhere...usually 10 minutes after I was supposed to be there.
All of this leads to some really great shoot-from-the-hip Improv on my part. If only I was that clever in real time.
So-in light of all of these Things I Have To Do I've chosen a mantra that is about self-respect, love, light and-ultimately-calming. It's a more commonly used and heard mantra but it seems appropriate since I'm feeling a bit wrung out and yet filled to the brim with unrealized Potential.
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha.
You may have heard it before-there are some really beautiful versions of it out there that have been put to music. Deva Premal does one of my favorites. The guitar accompaniment is just so sweet and lyrical it seems perfect.
This is a mantra that is associated with and often said "to" Tare-which is a Bodhisattva of compassion. But, the gem of this mantra is that it can't really be translated. It holds a certain meaning or understanding of spiritual deliverance and release from the secular ties that bind-greed, hatred, etc.
I'm not a huge fan of delving into the argument as to which is better or more "right"-this world or the one that we can strive to reach via Nirvana-but I do really love the idea of being spiritually delivered, even if only on a small scale, from a place of bound energy to a place of free energy. A space where the soul can take a deep breath and simply sit. A place where it can be still and find quiet.
I was thinking about memory the other day and the space that it takes up in our mind and how we are always growing and changing but that memories stay with us. The truth is that memories are proteins-physical pathways and things that have been written in our gray matter. It's a beautiful concept really to think that people and places that we remember are actually physical things but that need our Spirit or Mind or whatever you want to call it, to be decoded.
None of that has anything directly to do with this mantra or this moment but it is a cool perspective to consider our minds and the things that they mull over and how and why. It's also an interesting way to consider the value that we place on things, mentally speaking.
While I was at Shoshoni Yoga Retreat I learned about the power of Svaha. We were sitting at the early morning Fire Pudja Ceremony and we were chanting and saying Svahas. I wasn't quite on board with it all but now, every time I hear it, I think about throwing all of the gathered energy around my heart center into the fire. It's done as an offering and as a way of purification. I think, for this mantra, it should be considered as a means of offering-offering yourself and your energy into the Universe. Letting it go for the time being and then waiting for it to come back to you as something more complete or just as it is and was, but as a gift this time. A part of you returning home.
I have a hard time with the idea that "we" or "our" energy is bad or impure and that it needs cleansing or changing--sometimes it just needs to be released and to have the freedom to wander and then come back to us. I feel that the only thing "wrong" with our energy sometimes is that it s limited to only us and that it needs to be shared amongst others.
Anyway-enjoy the mantra. Here is Deva Premal's beautiful rendition.
Namaste!
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