The Silver Lining of a Vasana; or, Turning our Lemon Lives into Lemonade | Steve Beckow

Our vasanas leave us with tremendous … errr … skills

By Steve Beckow, February 19, 2023

(Golden Age of Gaia)

A vasana or core issue is like an endless hunger. No matter how much we feed it, it persists and wants more of our energy. I get weary just thinking about it.

Nonetheless, it’s also true to say that every vasana has a silver lining.

When we get over a vasana, we may find that we’re left with a consummate skill.

I’ve greatly expanded and revised Vasanas: Preparing for Ascension by Clearing Old Issues. You can download it here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Vasanas-Preparing-for-Ascension-R2.pdf

I have a friend, John, whose family lived on top of a mountain. When his Dad went to work, the family had no means of getting down off it.

So John became an excellent networker. He made friends with everyone on the mountain so that he wouldn’t be left with no exit when he or the family needed it. He helped others, building up his social capital.

In present time, he’d hold parties, maintain contact with his circle, etc. When he saw that he was doing all this in service to the vasana, the truth set him free.

BUT he still retained the skills of a consummate networker. He simply wasn’t run by his ancient and obsolete concern. The skill he developed as a networker proved to be a silver lining.

I can cite my own example as well. My Dad called me a lazy, no-good, good-for-nothing. Well, I’ll show him.

Books, databases, cultural exhibits as a historian, the largest collection of artifacts in the National Museum of Man’s history, reinterpreting several fields of study (popular culture, artifact study, cultural history, cross-cultural spirituality) … have I done enough?

Well, yah, I’ve done enough … to demonstrate to myself (my dad isn’t even here any longer) that I’m not lazy and no good. But the vasana is voracious. It only knows “More!”

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No matter how much we feed a vasana, it persists and wants more of our energy. I get weary just thinking about it.

There’s a skin condition that itches and, when we scratch it, it gets better for a moment and then gets worse. A vasana is like that. It’s hard to like a vasana. And yet loving it is essential, I’m coming to see, to having the vasana go.

And, when the vasana does go, we see that we’re left with a skill. We see one way in which our lemon lives (if they are so) are turned into lemonade.

I’ve greatly expanded and revised Vasanas: Preparing for Ascension by Clearing Old Issues. You can download it here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Vasanas-Preparing-for-Ascension-R2.pdf