Energy of ritual and consciousness

My tree puja is a yoga practice - it tests my resolve for continuous, sincere effort, as instructed by Patanjali in Yoga Sutra 1:14.

23rd March, 2010

I nearly didn’t go to the tree. I was wanting to save time and not go to the tree.

I put the blind up and looked out at the unlit jyoti, the unvisited puja, the tree rooted to the spot. So I went, because it looked neglected without the energy of ritual and consciousness.

I did the things and there I stood.

The tree said, “thank you, you must come.”

And now the wind has blown out the flame, but it doesn’t matter, the energy was lifted, it was imbued with consciousness and that effect cannot be blown out.