The Most Courageous Part of You Is Your Soul

Meditación con Mataji Shaktiananda

13·08·2025

Become present with your breath.
Become present and let the present be in you,
there where you are today, breathing like this,
conscious of yourself, wanting to be present, to be,
to establish yourself in what your Being is.
And the best way is to communicate with yourself like this, with you,
breathing with serenity,
offering yourself calm, tranquility.
That is what the breath does.

Let your mind go on being quieted
and let it permit you, in principle,
to feel yourself in the breath itself.
Do you feel your breath? And it should be so.
It is the only thing that you should feel: your breath,
until it permits you to remain there, suspended,
with your vital breath, that which accompanies you,
and that you activate and deactivate, depending.

You will say: What does it depend on?
And at times, so much,
above all when you lose focus.
So breathe, taking in just the right amount,
retaining just the right amount, and releasing it.
This is what balances the breath,
what permits you to be alive, to feel alive,
because there are those who breathe and are dead.

For this reason, value your living breath and how you produce it:
If it is easy for you or difficult.
If the mind yields or if it hinders.
If trust springs forth or if you fear.

Without thinking, without feeling, set a pace,
open a space, long for, glimpse, grant yourself,
produce the possible space
and conceive yourself there, situate yourself there, elevate yourself.
Detach yourself from this body and experience the soul,
so subtle, so radiant, so willing,
so profound and so free.
Give it breath.

Let your mind observe, let it respect,
and may be equally incited to express itself,
to manifest itself, to know how to free itself,
and may it experience, experience you.
It is not a question of you feeling it nor that it feels you,
how could it? If you are so detached, so ethereal.
It is that it dwells in your breath,
and that is true existence.

How could you not surrender?
How could you not demand more from the mind?
And it’s not that it is reduced, it is that it expands
from that which your soul is:
The subtle substance that expresses you,
that defines you, that encourages you,
that lives through the breath and dares toward so much.

The most courageous part of you is your soul.
You will say: Is it human? It is divine.

Breaths reduced, courage added,
and the mind loving,
and the possible instant.
Suspension.
Complete unprecedented contact,
the Nothing made possible, the unrecognizable silence,
the supreme goodness, the present Being.
The present Being. The present Being.

Do not evade it, it is a subtle breath in your soul
that fills it completely if you so wish.
It is the expression of your inner light,
it is the burning fire, it is the active consciousness,
and everything your breath is.

What else exists? Who else exists
Or do you believe all of this?
Will you continue tormenting yourself, faking moreover, evading yourself,
pleasing others, punishing yourself, resenting?
Although evil exists,
clamor for your goodness and that which you produce,
join forces and resist.

Not everyone nourishes the soul,
so, thank yourself for your communion,
your surrender, your disposition,
and how you love your consciousness.
Encourage yourself always, trust in yourself, love more,
you exist in the Being, and that is more than everything.

Om Namaha Shivaya