A Tiny Space Within Your Heart

यावान्वा अयमाकाशस्तावानेषोऽन्तर्हृदय अकाश उभे अस्मिन्द्यावापृथिवी अन्तरेव समाहिते उभावग्निश्च वायुश्च सूर्याचन्द्रमसावुभौ विद्युन्नक्षत्राणि यच्चास्येहास्ति यच्च नास्ति सर्वं तदस्मिन्समाहितमिति ॥ ८.१.३ ॥

“Vast as the space without

Is the tiny space within your heart:

Heaven and earth are found there,

Fire and air, sun and moon,

Lightning and the constellations,

Whatever belongs to you here below

And whatever does not,

All is gathered in that tiny space

Within your heart.”

~ Chandogya Upanishad 8.1.2-3

In this invigorating moment of pause and regeneration that is the Equinox, it is good to take stock of our true mission here, especially in this time of transfiguration, when Glory infuses the earth.

Of course our avocation is to do what is needed to support ourselves and our families. But our vocation, our true calling, is to pour a New Creation through the Hridaya, the heart chakra, putting into practice this ancient Upanishad, which is the essence of Vedic science. As above, so below. As without, so within.

How does one do this? First, one doesn't "do" it, but allows it. Consent to the breath of the Divine. The "work" is to allow, allow, allow. And how does this happen? Breathe down trillions of stars through your tender, vulnerable, wide open crown. Let the radiant braid of the Milky Way pour through your spine into the grail of the solar plexus. Then breathe out rainbow beams of a New Creation through your heart, co-mingling violet rays of Wisdom with ruby shafts of Love.

It matters not whether you call these twin rays of wisdom and love, Rahman i'Raheem, Logos and Sophia, Govind and Radha, Jesus and Magdalene. And there is no need to visualize the Kingdom in order to manifest it. Just allow the exhalation of the beams. Angels of fire, air, water, soil will churn and spiral, fractal and Christolize this light into a new species of energy, both flesh and spirit, matter and consciousness.

This divine energy we call Glory: "Kavoth" in the Hebrew of the Old Testament, "Doxa" in the Greek of the New. It is the substance named "Soma" in the Vedic literature. No, not the juice of some mythic mushroom, but a neuropeptide molecule produced in the fully awakened nervous system, through the interaction of the brain’s pineal gland with the nerve ganglia around the heart.

Soma permits us to participate in the act of creation, through our perception. Soma activates latent DNA codes, and higher-dimensional cell crystals, to behold what the Elohim creator angels are doing around and through us. When Soma enlivens the senses, awareness pervades the object perceived. I Am tasting and seeing my Self in a dust mote. "Yatha drishti, tatha srishti: as is my mind, so appears my world."

This prayer, inhaling heaven through the crown, exhaling paradise through the heart, may happen spontaneously with each breath. But first one needs to set aside periods of meditation, ideally at dawn and sunset, to practice luminous breathing. This devotion is effortless, yet intentional. It is our highest honor and deepest pleasure to breathe forth the New Earth, as co-creators with the Divine. For in the ultimate hologram, a singular I Am affirms, "I Am you, I Am me, I Am the universe."