7 September 2009

Dear and blessed children:

Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru.

I intended writing this e-mail soon after the 3-day video-lecture series ended. I wanted to tell you how wonderful it was to be in your midst for the 3 consecutive days, to see everyone individually and to see every part of the Centre. When our visit got cancelled, for some days I really missed you, our Centre, the Satsangs there and everything, knowing very well that all that happened was for the best. I was particularly pained thinking about the tremendous amount of sadness and disappointment you all would undergo after having waited a whole year for Poojya Swamiji to step into your midst, touching each and everyone’s heart by His radiant smile, benevolent and compassionate glance.

If your mind is what imprints the sky, stars, sun and moon, what should be its vastness? Greater than the sky or smaller? It is like the reflecting potential of the mirror, whereby the most distant object is seen inside it. The mirror is material, insentient, whereas the mind is spiritual and sentient.

Sentience is thus the `magic word', the first and last in spirituality. When confused and contaminated, it becomes the mischievous cause of all torments and agitations. When clarified and purified, the same becomes magnificent, contented and expansive – the sentient spatial presence. It becomes the noumenon, the world being the phenomenon.

Spiritual enquiry and introspection, pursuit and perseverance is the esteemed holy journey into this inner sentient horizon, leading you to discover and realize majesty, splendour and magnificence of the noumenon, the Self, to eschew all ambitions, agony and agitation.