“…We’re in a practice of trusting authority, but continue to question what isn’t working. How do we see something that happens negatively upon us as a part of pure light of humanity?  Everything is a form of spanda, or pulsation. With enough cloaking over time, the cloaked person behaves this way, it becomes the way of doing. Many things cause bad behavior. The question is always how do you come into contact with this stuff when it arises? How do you interact with it? Discern your place? We’re made up of same consciousness. Those that make decisions that destroy or impede upon the fundamental flows of positivity have less foundational grip on life, on spirituality. If you’re committed to community, family, love, you will have it…”

2009

Spanda Karikas, stanza 21:

Atah satatam udyaktah spanda-tattva-viviktaya jadgradeva nijam bhavam acirenadhigacchati

Therefore, by becoming alert to the spanda even in waking life, the yogi becomes quickly established in her Self