Shivratri Havan: Collective Evolution, Personal Revolution

Today's havan was a sort of revolution. It started off with unprecedented heavy agya chakra, and no vibrations. Its at these times I feel a little unsure, will there be vibrations... a suspense of sorts. It was a havan with 108 names of Shri Shiva, appropriate for the shivratri season. From the 15th or so name, I slipped into a stupor of sorts, the hands doing the "swaha", the body saying the mantra's but conciousness in a different dimension. At times the conciousness would peek back into the havan, while doing "swaha", help the hands to do the motion.

The agya cleared quite gradually, and around 45th name or so became much lighter, with the heaviness reducing and moving to the Sahasrara. Quite light now, a trickle of vibrations of the hands and conciousness integrated back with the present moment. There wasn't much to do, just focus on the beautiful names of Shri Shiva. The one that became etched in the mind was "Dhyanamoolam" or something like that which translates as "Root of Meditation". Deep....

The second half was pure enjoyment in the bliss of vibrations. After the havan we have the offering of negativities.

The collective has evolved from what it was. It was so beautiful as our one and only yuva proposed a t-shirt, and given the diversity of nature it was natural to expect a wide range of opinions. In the past we have been notorious for taking a simple project and messing it up with individual opinions, and grounding the idea forever. But the idea came forward, we all liked the first thing pitched, color, design content, with little corrective input. In 45 seconds, we were all set and the poor yuva was dissapointed at the ease of getting the legislation passed into a bill. I felt the contentment that the yogis enjoy that they don't bother with trifle matters like, what color and design the collective t-shirt will be. No one's ego coming up to impose something, no one's individuality creating hurdles of pride and the decisionmaking is smooth but conciously within the boundaries of concious collective decision making. Felt some nice deep evolution there, man. Righteous.

-- Ruth/vic/k