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“If anything disturbs your peace, practice having faith that divine grace is already actively at work restoring wholeness and well-being.

Then make any necessary adjustments in harmony with that insight.”
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, Spiritual Director, Center for Spiritual Enlightenment

Acharya Vandana's  Weekly Inspirations

​August 24, 2025

Thrive In Divine Love
Paula Whang-Ramos


"The only thing that stops us from experiencing divine love is us - our thoughts about who we are." 
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, Living For The Sake Of The Soul, p. 110


If we tell the truth, we would all love to experience unconditional love in our daily lives, right? We desire an uncompromising love that loves us when we are at our best and when we feel most vulnerable and broken. We deserve an unapologetic love that loves us when no one else understands us. We need a compassionate love that helps us remember that we are so much more than our greatest loss or trauma. We pray for an eternal love that sees, honors, and reminds us of our essential wholeness, especially when we forget. 

Divine love is the spiritual birthright of every one of us. It is not defined by or contingent upon our life experiences or our thoughts about them. Divine love is ever-present within and around us right now. If we want to experience divine love in our lives, then we consciously choose, again and again, to stop reinforcing ego-based thoughts of limitation. Instead, we repeatedly choose to consciously live into the uncompromising, unapologetic, compassionate, eternal Reality of divine love that is available within us all right now. Kriya Yoga offers a path to thrive in divine love. Join us at BLC and choose to live in the divine love that you are and deserve to experience in your life today. 

Blue Lotus Kriya Yoga Meditation Center welcomes sincere seekers from all backgrounds. Beginning and experienced meditators from all traditions are welcome at all gatherings. 


​August 17, 2025

Inner Soul Power
Paula Whang-Ramos


"To live powerfully, focus…Focusing our attention gathers soul power like a magnifying glass captures rays of the sun and lights a fire." 
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, Living For The Sake Of The Soul, p. 115



Living from our soul power reveals inner unchanging clarity, courage, joy, and wisdom in our daily lives. To access our soul power, we need to learn to discipline the distracted mind that reacts to life's desired and undesired changes. A disciplined mind is able to hold the single point of focus needed to STOP and redirect our attention and awareness within, where our soul power resides. 

Our daily superconscious meditation practice helps us discipline the distracted, reactive mind. When the mind is sufficiently quiet and our attention is inwardly focused on a single point, then our awareness naturally opens into the innate soul power waiting to be expressed through us. Soul power blesses our lives with clarity during life challenges, gratitude during moments of loss, and unconditional love in the presence of those who we perceive as different from ourselves. If you would like to experience more innate clarity, gratitude, and unconditional love in your daily life, then join us for meditation at CSE and BLC. Share your soul light with all of life!

Blue Lotus Kriya Yoga Meditation Center welcomes sincere seekers from all backgrounds. Beginning and experienced meditators from all traditions are welcome at all gatherings. 


August 10, 2025

A Blessing In Every Moment
Paula Whang-Ramos


"Look beyond what you see with your eyes and peer into the day with a clear mind and an awakened heart. 
Enter the day as a child ready to play and wonder in the shining moment
." 
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, Living For The Sake Of The Soul, p. 101



Everyday moments can be deeply nourishing when lived from the soul. When we take a moment to stop reacting to our busy lives, we can appreciate how divine Wholeness is expressing within and around us right now. What may appear as ordinary on the surface reveals new meaning when we dive a little deeper into its true essence and discover the wonder beneath it all.

We can be inspired by the authentic wonder of the sweet fragrance, radiant color, and amazing symmetry of a rose in our garden. We can experience how a stranger's smile can elevate our mind to grateful from grumpy in an instant. We can recognize divine grace at work in our lives as the occurrence of unexpected support just when we need it. 

When we intentionally live through the deeper inner lens of the awakened heart, we can directly experience the fundamental Truth that we are so much more than our busy minds, bodies, and lives. Beneath earthly experiences and our reactions to them, we are enlivened, inspired, and loved in an eternal Wholeness that constantly blesses our lives. From an awakened heart, we can step back, slow down, and see the extraordinary beyond the ordinary, the sacred beyond the mundane, and the divine blessing in every moment.

Blue Lotus Kriya Yoga Meditation Center welcomes sincere seekers from all backgrounds. Beginning and experienced meditators from all traditions are welcome at all gatherings. 


August 3, 2025

Sweet Simplicity
Paula Whang-Ramos

"Keep it simple, keep it sweet."
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, Living For The Sake Of The Soul, p. 114


When we are beginning or deepening our spiritual practice, it is often more useful to begin simply. If we are new to meditation, we do not need to begin with several holy chants, complex body postures, special shawls, or even blessed prayer beads. While those items can support our practice, they should not encumber or define it.

Because the truth is that we already have the 3 most essential meditation tools in our possession. We have a mind, a body, and breath. When we learn to skillfully use these 3 tools, and we keep our meditation practice simple and sweet, we make more space in our lives to experience the innate peace, love, and wholeness that indwells us all. 

Blue Lotus Kriya Yoga Meditation Center welcomes sincere seekers from all backgrounds. Beginning and experienced meditators from all traditions are welcome at all gatherings. 

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