Yeah, about feeling the energy and essence of your whole lineage personified...
I actually felt it today, after I just totally opened up and let all the cats out of the bag.
It is an essence instilled within, like a kind of 'spiritual DNA' and it hit me like a sledge hammer about half an hour ago!
Swami Krishnananda taught me Advaita Vedanta.
Swami Satyananda taught me Tantra and Hatha Yoga.
Swami Chidananda taught me perseverance and steadfastness.
...and of course, Swami Sivananda taught me Bhakti Yoga and love.
I'm the essence instilled....the culmination of them all!
...and it all started when, at 14, I wanted to love and worship Lord Shiva after His darshan during Thaipusam, then I found, under my hotel room bed, a book..."Lord Siva and his Worship" - Swami Sivananda...my path/course had already been set!
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