Effortless Being

The mental body (manomaya kosha) is what most people have come to identify with. It is the mind. It is a collection of the concepts and beliefs we’ve accepted, and it helps us navigate this human experience.

There is first awareness of them, then there is the option to make them personal.

For spiritual seekers there’s often the “life should be better” ride. They are triggered by seeing someone else who seems more at peace or the familiar thought that things just aren’t good enough yet so there must be more seeking to do.

There is a real liberation in the declining of any sense of hierarchy. When you have total respect for all life, the forms reveal themselves to you more fully. Relationships with humans, animals, and all lifeforms can reach new potentials and be a source for great experiences of love and joy.

This is why when children get hurt or something painful happens to them, they move on more quickly than adults. They don’t make an illness, injury, or loss part of their identity the way most adults do.

When it comes to the law-of-attraction, it’s important to look at why you want to manifest something. What you’ll probably find is that your desire is based on scarcity and a sense of lack. If I can manifest this money, this house, this partner, then I’ll be happy.

you functioned less from effortless being and your intuition, and you eventually became mind-predominant.

One meaning of the word "understand” is to “stand under one’s authority.” This is what we do when we consent to the invitations of the mind—we give it authority, and in return our experience reflects what we’ve consented to.

What an expert or mentor says may be valid, but it is your intuition that is more valid.