America, North and South, is the Visshudhi chakra of the planet Earth, knowing this, recognizing this, understanding this sheds light, on what might otherwise be darkness. An example, two guys are standing outside an apartment building on Bailey Avenue in the Bronx. They have no money, can’t afford to buy musical instruments, can’t sing. Guess what? Necessity being the mother of invention and all that, they invent hip hop. Had they lived on another continent, most probably that would have been the end of it, but they were in the Visshudhi and within ten years, their invention would have spread across the entire planet, aided and abetted by the World Wide Web, the internet, which itself spread through the Visshudhi chakra. It was not for nothing that Hollywood movies, jazz, Broadway musicals, rock ’n roll, rhythm and blues, soul music, creole music, bluegrass, country’n western, Afro Cuban, Salsa and Americana, to name but a few, plus, of course, the whole of 20th Century literature that emerged from North and South America that emerged from the Visshudhi in the 20th century.
This being so, how is it that we Sahaja yogis, blessed as we are, have consistently been unable to connect to the power of the Visshudhi through the arts to reach the public at large?
Is it worth asking, what is it that we’re not doing that we might be doing?
Jai Shri Mataji Alan
This question was posted to a number of artists, musicians and actors, outside writers and here are some of the responses so far:
Here’s an idea: Let’s make a collection of short stories. It could be a book, a website, a workshop, a laboratory of creativity.
Short stories are wonderful because they are short. They are easy to read, difficult to write.
Let’s choose a topic, something broad like spiritual ascent or awakening or revelation/realization, so that the stories are thematically linked.
Let’s see what we come up with. Let’s surprise ourselves and each other.
Richard Payment
Poornima Kirby
Thank you for asking this question - been pondering this for a while! I believe a BIG piece of the answer is that we, as yogi artists, need to find a way to be collective in our creation. Of course it’s important to strike out into these artistic industries as they exist now, and we can reach a certain level of success or ‘fame’ as individuals. But in terms of sharing the Culture of the Spirit - it’s very nature is collective, so how can we be effective instruments unless we create collectively? Even just two yogis collaborating seems to have amplified vibes - and the more we add, the more potential there is to reach the world! But it only seems to work when we keep the love and the heart open - and that’s our big project here in the Vishuddhi, and why its so powerful when we collaborate across continents and distances. Also, I think the Divine’s sense of timing is different from our expectations. Sometimes we have to plunge into things before we’re “ready”! Other times, the inner incubation is much longer than our impatience was prepared for.
Anyway, love to you all - and if anyone needs someone to read your poem, or listen to your song, or give a bandhan as you head in for an audition - I got you!
Matt Malley
Lovely wisdom Poornima! Jump - together - and see the hand of God, paramchaitanya, sweep the world!
Here are two replies, one from Tarciso in Boston and one from Australia:
Tarciso
Yes.it is really worth to ask this question. Interesting question. Two boys in NY inventing the hip hop. The potential to spread is here. Quicy Jones said it comes from Africa, the Hip hop itself. We’re not been able to connect but we might have been doing this slowly, so slowly that it would take lot of generations. In a world that everyogoes fast. The w w w speeds that up even more more. But it a good question. Sometimes I wonder if my utopia os a new spiritual society was an utopia like the modern ones.
Australia
Some questions engender silence. But after restraining myself for a day, may I take this as an invitation to the world collective to comment - because it feels to me like a world problem?
My feeling is that we have not fully evolved yet. The culture of Vishwa Nirmala Dharma is so vast and many of us feel after decades that we hardly able to articulate what we have absorbed, let alone express it in any medium which could arrest the attention of the mesmerised masses.
Meanwhile we are watching the obvious decay around us, confident that the lotus will one day become visible.
When that happens the flowering of the new culture will be so utterly different from what is now popular.
It is pretty obvious at the moment that the root, Australia, the Muladhara, has yet to develop wisdom and innocence. We are all mostly still at chrysalis stages - some emerging but with wet, weak wings.
When we are all able to take flight together the world will notice.