{"id":1339,"date":"2019-04-15T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:24:46","slug":"everything-we-need-is-provided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/everything-we-need-is-provided\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything We Need is Provided"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joan loved to chant. In the last months and weeks, even the last days, of her embodied existence, we chanted every single day. Sometimes I was quick enough with the recorder to capture those precious, spontaneous moments of what she described as \u201cjoy expressing itself as sound.\u201d Below you will find a 2-minute recording of Joan introducing and leading the chant,\u00a0Ananda Mayi Ma<\/em>. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n

You can\u00a0lire<\/a><\/u>\u00a0Joan\u2019s response to a question about\u00a0kirtan<\/em>\u00a0(the call-and-response chanting of the names of God) in a 2008 interview that appeared in\u00a0Yoga Mondo,<\/em>\u00a0a French Quebec yoga magazine. An excerpt of the original interview, in French, is found\u00a0here<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n

Below is a transcript of a more personal explanation of her relationship with chant offered during a 2014 seminar on\u00a0Pratyabhij\u00f1ahrdayam: The Recognition of Our Own Heart<\/em>. It begins with Joan quoting one of her favorite biblical passages.<\/p>\n

Love,
\nKathleen
\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1st Corinthians, chapter 13 is about love:\u00a0Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

It is an extraordinary exposition of True Nature as it manifests through the heart, through love, through\u00a0hrdyam<\/em>. One of the beautiful, beautiful things that we experience as part of our evolutionary path is this blowout Love.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t happen perhaps all the time \u2013 it may happen to us maybe only when we fall in love \u2013 in those first few days of falling in love where there is no other and there is no I; there is only Love.\u00a0 And of course some saints like Anandamayi Ma lived in this state all the time, also my childhood next-door neighbor, Mrs. Bollinger.<\/p>\n

So in the\u00a0bhakti<\/em>\u00a0tradition of yoga there is a practice of chanting the names of God, or the names of the divine, or the energies of pure consciousness in a slightly more specific form.<\/p>\n

Q: How is it that such a hardcore\u00a0jnana<\/em>\u00a0yogi as yourself came to lead\u00a0kirtan<\/em>? How do you reconcile the two apparently different paths?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>Well I remembered Mrs. Bollinger\u2026 \u00a0you know I\u2019d forgotten her for many, many years \u2026 but my next-door neighbor, no matter what we did, she was just fine with it \u2026 she just laughed. She was just radiant. Always radiant.<\/p>\n

I remembered her after I had been through enough disillusionment that the love aspect in my life kind of went underground. There were emotional reasons for the love aspect going underground, so it didn\u2019t come through in my spiritual life at all.\u00a0 Then, as the emotional healing started to take place, the \u201clove thing\u201d started to come through again. And then I remembered Mrs. Bollinger.\u00a0 And then I remembered when I was 12 years old saying, \u201cI want to be like you when I grow up.\u201d It was such a strong intention of a 12-year-old that, by the time I got into my 40s or 50s, the\u00a0bhakti<\/em>\u00a0part started to come out.\u00a0 But it didn\u2019t come out then as chant, it came out as this profound, heartfelt appreciation I felt for Mrs. Bollinger, who was really my first spiritual teacher.<\/p>\n

So I think that the transition came as the emotional healing took place.\u00a0 The intellect was a very strong, protective thing in me when I was in graduate school and after.\u00a0 And that transferred into my spiritual life. Later, as the healing from that intense\u00a0jnana<\/em>\u00a0phase started to take place, then the love was able to come back in and the devotion was able to come back in, and I was able to chant again.<\/p>\n

Listen to the\u00a0chant<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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