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From the day I first set eyes on Swamiji, I sensed that he knew me better than I knew myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I sought his advice, his answers were always directed toward the liberation of my soul. It was always a heartfelt reply that would plunge me into silent reflection. It could be disconcerting, because he spoke as a spiritual father, a spiritual grown-up whose perspective was vastly broader than mine. To be in his presence was, in a way, like being a newborn, dependent on its mother for spiritual sustenance and counsel. It was seldom comforting to my ego, which too often wanted to know it all, and be good at everything, and be able to figure it out for myself, and be coddled and praised for my comfort.<\/p>\n

His guidance extended into fathomless realms. There was a sense, at Ananda, that Swamiji was always silently present in the background of our lives. I often felt that we were living in a spiritual kitchen where God was baking happy people. (Nayaswami Haridas called Ananda \u201cFort Bliss.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Living at Ananda wasn\u2019t always easy, but by God\u2019s grace it was never dull, and it was thrilling for those who went along with the game. We weren\u2019t leading an ordinary life, existing as beautifully as we could manage for a few short years before expiring atop a pyre of our worldly goods, painfully accumulated. There was a real chance, at Ananda, of growing up and becoming in some small measure more like Swamiji.<\/p>\n

It was the early summer of 1976, four months after I had moved to Ananda Village. An annual Ananda India Faire was in the planning stages. We had invited a troupe of young female dancers to perform \u2013 they were students from a school of classical Indian dance in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The day before the fair, I found myself tumbling spiritually. It wasn\u2019t that I was in pain. My ego wasn\u2019t screaming, mortally wounded as it would be on other occasions. But my heart was strangely, mystically burst wide open.<\/p>\n

I was suddenly all about feelings, feelings, feelings!<\/em> I found it impossible to think in my usual way \u2013 my rational brain seemed to have been cauterized or extracted from my skull! I had grown up living very much in my mind, relying on objective thought. I had done well in school, and had approached each new experience with objective logic. And now that familiar, comfortable instrument was torn away.<\/p>\n

I knew that Swamiji was working on me. It was scary! Where were my familiar mental props? Who was I? How could I cope? My girlfriend laughed, \u201cRambhakta, you\u2019re experiencing what it\u2019s like to be a woman!\u201d<\/p>\n

I was lurching inwardly when the dance concert began. I was the Village\u2019s \u201cofficial\u201d photographer, by default because there were no others.<\/p>\n

The concert took place on a rustic wooden platform that had been specially constructed for the event under an oak tree in the meadow where the Expanding Light temple would be built several years later.<\/p>\n

The concert was wonderful. The dancers performed the life of Krishna, weaving a magical spell.<\/p>\n

They danced in the kathak <\/em>style, their feet making a wonderful sound with the dozens of small bells attached to their ankles as they portrayed Krishna\u2019s life with the gestures of their hands and the expressions of their eyes. They were students of Chitresh Das, a well-known teacher from India.<\/p>\n

I found it impossible to resist the dance. I entered into it completely, with a heart unimpeded by the rational mind. I took many photographs and later made 8×10 prints which I sent to the performers at their school in San Francisco. They replied that they had never seen photos that captured the spirit of kathak so beautifully. It was, of course, through no skill of my own \u2013 the dance, the music and the photos had flowed in an impersonal spirit of artistic inspiration. It was not my doing, but Swamiji\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Swami encouraged me to be active in the arts \u2013 writing, singing, chanting, and taking photographs; anything that would serve the work while helping to open my heart. He knew that I needed to expand the feeling side of my nature.<\/p>\n

I had an interview with him around that time, where I asked him a stupid question. It wasn\u2019t actually stupid, but it was a question that I could have answered easily on my own. He said, almost sarcastically, \u201cWell, let\u2019s see now\u2026\u201d and proceeded to work out the answer logically.<\/p>\n

But generally, where the spiritual path was concerned, he never recommended that I spend more time thinking and analyzing.<\/p>\n

In another conversation, he said, \u201cYou have a very objective mind.\u201d He said it dismissively, as if to suggest, \u201cAnd, well, what is that <\/em>good for?\u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t have agreed more, because my \u201cobjective mind\u201d told me that I could never find God except by offering Him my heart.<\/p>\n

For years, as I\u2019ve mentioned, I had a spiritual dharma, a life\u2019s duty, to discover how yoga principles could be applied in exercise and sports training.<\/p>\n

It took me more than twenty years to find the keys. How can we exercise in a way that will bring us to a state of intuitive, inner attunement with Truth, so that we can most efficiently achieve physical health and fitness and find joy? I tested many theories, but the art of it continued to escape me.<\/p>\n

There was a period of about six months in the late 1990s when I ran hundreds of miles on the trails of the Coastal Range without feeling the barest hint of inspiration.<\/p>\n

On a hot summer day, laboring up a long hill, and beating myself up for my spiritual shortcomings while praying fiercely and thinking, thinking, thinking, I heard Master\u2019s voice. He said, chuckling with wonder, \u201cYou\u2019re making it much<\/em> harder than it needs to be!\u201d<\/p>\n

Though I tried to relax, the great secret of joyful exercise refused to reveal itself.<\/p>\n

Weeks later, toiling up another long hill, I exclaimed inwardly, \u201cWhat is wrong? <\/em>I want to do the right thing! I will do anything<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

I heard Swami Kriyananda\u2019s voice. It said, quietly and simply: \u201cDo it to please God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whereupon I spent months trying to figure out how to please God. And, to make a long story short, I found that it required a difficult but very simple practice: I had to give God everything<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t mean that I had to exercise in a particular way, but that I had to put God in charge. If He wanted me to run or not, and if He wanted my runs to go well or poorly, or if he wanted me to run fast, slow, short, long, or not at all \u2013 it was none of my business. It had to be completely and utterly, humbly all right, without the slightest resistance.<\/p>\n

The strange thing is that once I began to run without caring about finding happiness, I began to find it.<\/p>\n

Exercise became much more relaxed and enjoyable. I no longer graded my runs by how strictly I was able to conform to a set of imagined spiritual \u201crules.\u201d<\/p>\n

It mattered only to be able to talk quietly and openly with Divine Mother. That was the true challenge \u2013 and a challenge it most certainly was. It isn\u2019t easy, as an adult with a heart that\u2019s encrusted with all manner of grown-up self-definitions, to find the soul-self inside that can talk to God with the innocence of a little child.<\/p>\n

I realized that the way to find happiness is to enjoy each moment, rain or shine, and not care if my body sped along or if it was exhausted. It wasn\u2019t the results that defined the quality of my runs, but the inner feeling of harmony.<\/p>\n

I found that I could have horrible runs where my body could barely limp along, and that I could finish those runs with great joy. The secret, always, was to do the right<\/em> thing. If my body was only up to running at a snail\u2019s pace, and if it was the right<\/em> thing to do, and if I happily complied, I found that it opened passages to an un-dreamed-of happiness. I realized that this was what it meant to \u201cgive it to God.\u201d<\/p>\n

While trying to feel the right pace for the day, I began to look for a feeling that I thought of as the \u201charmony zone.\u201d I discovered that there was no single answer to the question of how to \u201cexercise spiritually,\u201d or how to train on a given day, but that each day brought new answers that could only be known by listening inwardly for that subtle feeling of guidance \u2013 of rightness.<\/p>\n

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