Your Valor is Unequaled
Retreat House Partner Lavanga Schlette Reflects on Psalm 105:1-11, 45b
We meditate on:
Your all attractive bodily features such as lotus eyes and beautiful hair.
The fact You are the source of highest pleasure and attract everyone’s senses.
How You are the owner of all knowledge, beauty and power.
We rejoice because:
We know You are never lost to Your devotees and will never fail them.
By Your nature You never deviate from Your word.
Your valor is unequaled.
We are in awe due to You:
Being eternal, boundless and inexhaustible, unlimited by time or space.
Possessing unlimited strength and supreme control.
Having capability of performing all activities marvelously, as if with a thousand mighty arms.
Our hearts are given to You because:
You are the Lord and shelter of the universe.
We are under Your protection due to Your sweet, honey-like nature.
You pervade the entire universe, and deliver us from the ocean of birth and death.
All inauspiciousness is removed by You.
You steal the hearts of Your devotees by serving them.
Lavanga shares a similiar text from her Hare Krishnan tradition:
We know this to be true because You have told us...
"I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.
The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me.
To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.
To show them special mercy, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance."
LIsten to Rev. Dr. Lil Smith's Guided Meditation for Praying the Lectionary for Psalm 105:1-11, 45b
Lavanga Schlette is a licensed massage therapist and yoga teacher who has found her passion and calling in the Hare Krishna community. Retreat House is delighted to share more of Lavanga's faith journey next week on the blog as we continue to celebrate our core value of cross pollination this month.