WE ALL NEED TO DEVELOP OUR ABILITY TO HEAR THE “STILL SMALL VOICE WITHIN” of Divine Inner Guidance
How I learned to tap into my own inner guidance and how you can too…
THE DAWNING LIGHT— Daily Journal of Transformational Writing
Volume 8, Issue # 830 for Friday, March 15, 2024
SPIRITUAL SOUP KITCHEN Section # 138 Stories Written by Chinmayan…to inspire you to develop your own ability to tap into the flow of divine inner guidance within your heart.
Top image courtesy of Pixabay Lower image by Dawa Fitzmaurice
WE ALL NEED TO DEVELOP OUR ABILITY TO HEAR “THE STILL SMALL VOICE WITHIN” OF DIVINE INNER GUIDANCE
How I developed the ability to tap into my inner guidance and you can too
One of the principles that we live by is—
“Do not allow what you think you know to blind you to what you actually need to know now!”
—Yeshe Gyamtso
One of my prayers for many years has been “O Lord, please help me to see what I need to see, to hear Your inner guidance clearly without distortion, to learn what You are teaching me and to and know all I need to know now.”
When I am going to prayer with the intention of tapping into the stream of divine inner guidance and direct knowing that is always flowing within our hearts, I have learned to be vigilant to not edit or impose my opinions, but to honestly seek to truly see and hear all that is being revealed.
This flow of inner guidance is being given to every one of us all the time, even though most of us are unaware of it.
It comes down to us like an inexhaustible mountain spring directly from God through our unbreakable connection of our true higher Self with the Divine.
This connection allows all the wisdom of the universe to flow into our hearts and minds with all the vital information and instructions we need…
This flow of inner guidance is specifically for each of us personally…
“The still small voice within” is speaking every minute of our lives in the same way that emails are arriving in your inbox continuously night and day…and are waiting there for the time when you open them to read.
Your inner guidance is a kind of “God mail” which accumulates within and can be accessed and opened by you only when you are focused and still enough in prayer.
The inner guidance literally is providing answers, advice and instructions on every aspect of your life…from the teaching of the principles you need to progress on your spiritual path all the way down to the nitty gritty problems, situations and questions of daily life.
I absolutely rely upon this divine inner guidance.
I have learned the hard way to trust and follow this inner guidance…I do not make any decisions great or small, until I have consulted with the divine voice within.
Since I came to understand this principle through intuition and meditation after a major spiritual awakening when I was a teenager, I have made developing the ability to tune into and accurately hear this inner guidance a priority goal.
It is a natural ability that comes from focusing on attaining the presence of the divine through prayer.
In my experience, the Divine wants us to have and is constantly calling each of us into deeper and deeper relationship and communion within.
Deep in our hearts, everyone of us is longing for, wanting and needing to be living in what I call AGC: active God connection, communion and communication.
The most beautiful thing about life is that the more we awaken to this longing for God and start working on fulfilling it through training in the principles and doing our practices on our spiritual path, the more God actively helps us achieve it.
I know this is absolutely true because I spent many years seeking direct God communion through intense and focused prayer and meditation.
I was blessed to go through five years of such intense suffering, pain and heartbreak that I was driven to seek the presence of God with every ounce of my being or be destroyed…
I literally spent every night alone on a mountain in intense prayer and meditation for all those years because I knew no one or nothing on earth could save me from my overwhelming suffering except attaining the presence of God…
Until one night, in a matter of seconds, my prayers were answered when I was lifted up into a very clear, high and profound state of being one with the divine. Instantly, I went from a broken, depressed and lost man to awakening to knowing who I really am in the ineffable bliss and higher consciousness of being with God.
I knew then that I would always be able to achieve this state of active God communion whenever I go into deep prayer…and that one day I will achieve being with God and being a vessel of the divine’s love and light permanently, without any more rising and falling…as long as I persevere in my practices and inner work.
It is true, as promised in the Bible…”Be Still and Know that I AM God”.
To sum up…
The good news is that….
the stream of inner guidance flows 24/7 in the hearts of all human beings…
The inner guidance is always absolutely tuned to the needs of each individual being..
And is always unfailingly accurate…providing all the answers we need to every problem or situation as well as personal instructions about your own spiritual path.
The challenge is to learn how to hear it and then to always follow it.
The very best news is…if you are willing to make the effort and do the inner work necessary to attune yourself to the Divine, and humbly pray for help to achieve it, you can definitely develop the ability to accurately hear your inner guidance and attain being in active God communion.
All images in this story courtesy of Pixabay, except as noted.
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
HERE IS A WONDERFUL VIDEO of ROBERT FROST RECITING “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN” in his own beautiful voice, with the text of the poem shown on screen…an absolute delight!
Robert Frost reciting “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN”
Original Revelation and calligraphy by Chinmayan
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When you change the way you think about things, and the things you think about change”
—Wayne Dyer
“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.” —Ram Das
“When God is the center and focus of my life, everything else falls into it’s rightful place.”
—Chinmayan
“Everyone one of us needs to learn to access and hear our own heart’s divine inner guidance so that we can attune ourselves to active communion and direction from God, which our souls and spirits are ever longing to attain and knows is our birthright and solution to all our suffering.” —Yeshe Gyamtso
Robert Frost - so moving. Your words about the Devine seem out of reach for me but beautiful to learn …