I met with Swami Atmananda Udasin yesterday evening, the head monk of Ajatananda Ashram in India, and I can still feel the tingling. Some people call that kundalini energy. I call it: happy as a clam.
"When do you feel happy?" he asked me.
"Now. Here," I said.
And then he just smiled and kept smiling.
It wasn't until I was driving home when I heard what he actually had asked me:
When are you Not happy?
The answer came simultaneously with the question:
When I overlook it.
The happiness that we overlook is not the kind of happiness that comes and goes. It's that thing that's always at rest, the one that knows that everything is OK even when it looks as if it's not OK. I call that thing:
The Silent Partner
The reason I call it a partner because it is cooperative. And the reason I call it silent is because it is silent. It is the quiet within us. All it wants is for us to acknowledge that it's there. It's saying, "Hey, remember me? I'm always at rest. I am what is always content within you. See me. Feel me. Acknowledge my presence. Don't pretend like I'm not here. Work with me."
Work WITH your silent partner.
Your silent partner will be with you no matter how you're feeling or what else is going on. So, it's best to work with it, rather than against it. And the cool thing is, even when you work against it, it's still with you. When something has got your full attention, acknowledge that your silent partner is with you too. You'll be rewarded for your awareness. Suddenly, that pressing thing that had you all riled up becomes less pressing and more curious. Silence has that effect on everything that's not silent within or outside you.
Engage your life situations while holding Your Silent Partner's hand and it will take you where you need to go.
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