How do we surrender all of our efforts & actions to the divine? Eileen Delehanty Pearkes questions isvara-pranidhanat, in the 9th of a 10-part series exploring the yamas & niyamas.
From ascent magazine, issue 39, autumn 2008:
A decade ago, some crows built a nest and reared their young at the edges of my garden. I have been thinking about those crows lately, as my oldest son prepares to leave home, testing the range and wingspan of my devotion. From the crows,I received a message of effort and dedication that has taken me years to sort out. Only now, as the purpose for my own dedication as a mother winds to an end, can I begin to see what the crows were teaching. The effort over many years was not, as it turns out, for me. It was for my son, who is in the process of leaving the nest where he has been fed, protected and loved for nearly two decades…