Sankalpa as we saw in the last blog is aligned with the highest truth. It is a life resonant with the cosmic heart. Even if we do not have an experience of our wholeness we place our trust in masters or those who have experienced it and tell us we are essentially whole. If we cannot place our trust in anyone because we feel betrayed and wounded we can think of it as an experiment to shift and uplift the whirlpool of unresolved emotion or the cycle of wounding and betrayal we might be stuck in.

Wishing everyone a year filled with ease, grace and many blessings. We have heard of new year’s resolutions and used them many times. A resolution requires will power to move away from that which does not serve us or the goals we think we need to reach. It has the element of motivating ourselves to reach certain milestones.

A sankalpa is a sanskrit word that has its root meaning in kalpana. Kalpana is imagination, an idea, a dream, a vision. San and sat means truth. So sankalpa is a dream or vision aligned with the truth. This is the truth of one's being and the truth that is the song in one's heart that sings in tune with the cosmic heart.

Today, the 10th of September 2021, is Ganesha Chathurthi or Ganesha's birthday. Till today vedic astrologers are able to calculate the exact date in the vedic calendar. This birthday is celebrated all over India with a lot of excitement. The food that is Ganesha’s favourite is made, like kozhukattai (as it is called in south India) and modhak (as called in the north). His symbolism is seen in the picture above and below is an Ode to Ganesha.