The goal of spiritual development is the purification of love. Love is our innermost essence, our nature, and our fulfillment. But the love that is the very life energy of our Being is occluded by the false consciousness that developed in childhood and which has been petrified by unconscious conflicts, adaptation to social norms, and entrancement by ideologically determined limitations of our horizons. To free our minds from such constraints and open our intellects and hearts to our vast untapped potential, as individuals and as a united community of God-realized beings, is the focus of aspiration of the great work of self-transformation.

We have the potential to create a harmonious world, to apply our intelligence to the solution of all the current problems the world is facing. The obstacle is the human ego. The ego in its current dominant form represents a failure of humanity to grow to our ultimate stage of psycho-spiritual maturity. That failure must now be rectified. This is our transformational imperative. (more…)

The other day a student reacted to the idea that we should be working to save the world by insisting that he didn’t give a damn about the world and he only wanted to straighten out his own life. This attitude is far too limited to allow success, even in its own terms. It may therefore be useful to clarify the Sat Yoga position.

There are two primary reasons to be dedicated to saving the world. The first reason is operational. The very act of dedicating one’s life to that project will impel the emergence of the greatest compassion and wisdom from within one’s being. This emergence and unification of the highest qualities of our essential nature will transform the ego.

Clearly, God does not need your ego’s help to save the world that God created, a world that includes you only as a short-lived, egocentric, pathetic animal. And if God wants this world destroyed once and for all, no ego has the power to contest that. It is for your own sake that the effort to save the world should be undertaken. The consciousness that so dedicates itself will thus become detached from its egocentricity and will come to function effortlessly as a vehicle for the Supreme Self. One will have created the conditions for the realization of the Unconditioned Essence to fully blossom. (more…)