The Challenge of Divine Fertility

The last pause in the Vishnu invocation is right before the note of Re, representing the Sacral Chakra, which is focussed on fertility, including sexuality and pleasure but also creativity and emotional balance. This is the ultimate challenge for the Divine. By fertility I don’t necessarily mean babies, although that is included too. Rather the challenge here is for the divine to go beyond expression to fruition, to the creation of a reality or a lived experience wherein the divine and the human are one and the same. A perfect union, or yoga, as it were. When manifest, this would appear both psychologically and in the observable world.

This is difficult to further describe. But it isn’t difficult to recognize when the divine clearly succeeds, or fails.

Whenever we are lucky enough to be in the presence of someone being good, we know. Fortunately this happens quite a lot. Generally speaking, we can tell when people are being kind and good. In extreme cases such as Mother Teresa or Mahatma Gandhi, it is clear that the divine union with the human form has no only brought about divine expression but also brought about more good than bad in the psychological and physical realities of a great many other human beings. That’s what successfully meeting the challenge of divine fertility looks like in famous cases but it also happens all around us all the time. My grandmother for example was someone whose love and dedication to those around her was clearly a blessing.

And we can also tell when the Divine fails, as is the case with spiritual leaders who often at first appear to have met the challenge of divine expression - I’m talking about gurus who genuinely seem to have a clear line of communication to their divine self and are able to express this clearly - but then go on to abuse their followers, sexually or otherwise. That I would say is the clearest example of the Divine failing to meet the challenge of fertility in the sense that the fruits of its expression end up causing immense suffering and destroying the love it sought to manifest in the world.

In conclusion I should like to point out that this round trip is a path that we must travel again and again. Although I explained as if this was a single round trip journey and even though that’s how I originally thought of it, I now realize this is very much a cyclic or spiral path in which each stage gets revisited over and over during and across lifetimes. It’s also becoming clear to me in describing each challenge that whatever progress is made in meeting one challenge, helps meet the others. Compassion helps with fertility and vice-versa. Same with surrender and expression, or compassion and expression, or fertility and surrender. As we go up and down again and again, we become more and more divine but also more and more present, embodied, and human in the best possible way.

And, to get back to my question in my original post (Why This Blog?) that is what decided me to start writing this blog. For years I was stuck just trying to escape. The purpose of my spiritual life was to flee from the suffering and 'Is that all there isness?' of this world into the next. I'd had enough free samples of Home - or Heaven as some people call it - to know that’s where I belong and that’s where I want to be. But I could never stay. I felt angry I kept getting kicked out. I thought I needed to meditate more, to renounce more, to be more present, etc. So I was not acting from the knowledge of my own nature. I was acting like a human being wanting to escape this world of sorrows. I was only ever interested in the first journey, the first leg, from human to Divine.

As a result of practicing Naad Yoga and the Vishnu Invocation, I can see now my efforts were doomed to fail. I was rejecting life. I was ignorant. I was resisting. But you can’t escape yourself. And in fact there is nothing to escape at all. You and I, we are nothing but the Divine in human form. And to deepen that until it becomes all that we can see, touch, think and feel, we must meet not only the challenges of compassion and surrender but also the the challenges of expression and fertility as individual human beings. And we need to do it over and over again until there is no doer left. Whether it’s through devotion or self-inquiry or giving or meditation or any yoga at all, that’s the path and I believe it will eventually lead the highest source back Home to the lower root. And we will know it when we have made our world divine.

So on this path, I am going to also write and talk about this with those who also seek. So I can better understand the situation I’m in and my own thinking through the process of sharing. So I could connect and get feedback from anyone interested enough to read this.

That’s it. Thank you for your time. Please send me a question, a critique, or a comment via the contact page. Or request being added to my email list if you’re curious about what I might write next.

Blessings upon you and yours, may you all be happy and free from suffering.

"The Tao that can be spoken is not the Tao"

En quête de résonance

- Lao Tzu