I have realized today how the second half of Gurumayi’s Message in Sweet Surprise 2023 has led me to the first. When I have “the friendship of the mind,” I am able to let go of limitations and resistance. I realize I often say no because I don’t like being told what to do. However, when I offer my service willingly, I feel the devotion and love in my heart. I connect with the perfect news within, and experience “the fulfillment of life” through action.
Warrnambool, Australia
In each heart dwell a million stars.
In each star dwell a million souls.
We are all one and the same.
A tiny bit of golden dust
moving endlessly around
the magnetic Great Heart.
Closer, my heart. Closer.
Stay with the Guru’s love.
Pray for the Guru’s grace.
Rest at her lotus feet in silence and devotion
until you become one and the same
with the all-pervasive Great Heart.
Quebec, Canada
As I gazed at what looked to me like a thin arc-shaped line of a galaxy, I felt as if Gurumayi was inviting me to watch Sweet Surprise again with a new sense of wonder and a fresh perspective. When I contemplated the image of what seemed to me like a rose made out of galaxies, I experienced that I entered into God’s heart. I felt as though I was taken on a journey to the chidakasha, the inner sky of Consciousness. This space was filled with great silence and the beautiful splendor of light and love. As I rested in this place, supported by Guru’s grace, my mind was able to repose in the experience of Oneness.
Bhubaneswar, India
Recently, I took the time once again to watch the
Sweet Surprise video.
The gentle sounds of the chimes soothed my mind. It felt as though the images of the vastness of the universe manifested in my innermost being.
Inside and outside seemed to merge into a single space. This vast space that I experienced was filled with silence, harmony, contentment, gratitude, and love. It became clear to me that this state of inner silence is the goal of my deepest longing. In this inner silence I feel so close to God that all my resistance melts away. My heart opens trustingly, and I realize that I am Shiva.
Konolfingen, Switzerland
The sound of the chimes quieted my mind. The images of the universe took me deep within. Then, as I listened to the words of Gurumayi’s Message, I glided deeper and deeper into my heart. I felt my heart opening, making room for Gurumayi’s blessings, love, and compassion.
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
As I received Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 again, I experienced Shri Guru’s words coursing through my being. I became a musical instrument and Guru’s grace—in the form of her words—was playing notes which produced the sound of chimes. My consciousness expanded into the universe of numerous stars and planets that were visible to me on the screen.
I realized that receiving Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 at this time of the year is a blessing for starting anew by refreshing my sadhana. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to our beloved Gurumayi ji for showering her grace so compassionately and generously.
New York, United States
It was so refreshing to reconnect with Gurumayi’s Message for 2023. Through Gurumayi’s soothing voice, each part of the Message became further grounded deep within my being. As I sat in silence contemplating each line, I realized that it is possible to re-experience the precious Message that our beloved Gurumayi has given us this year. My longing, combined with regular self-effort, will make this happen.
Nairobi, Kenya
When I saw the galaxy in the video just now, I had a completely fresh impression compared to my previous viewings. To me it seems like a depiction of birth. I see two main arms coming from the center or heart of the upper galaxy. They remind me of a mother and father. The lower part reminds me of a bird’s nest with an egg in it.
I like the very slow motion around the galaxy at the end of the video. It slows me down and gives me a feeling of harmony and dignity.
Hindelang, Germany
I have just watched Sweet Surprise 2023 once again and I noticed this time how each of the cosmic “arms” that seem to be carrying the stars are drawn into the center and become one with it. It reminds me of Baba’s wish for “a world full of saints.”
I pray that we may follow the teachings of Shri Guru Vachan to make our hearts pure and our minds become friends with the Self in order to reach the ultimate goal of our sadhana.
Sweet Surprise 2023 ended with the image of the sun. I pray not only that its light be the center of every thought, word, and action, but that, with the Guru’s grace, it may spread through each of us and out into the world.
Melbourne, Australia
When I focused on the stars, I felt a sense of wonder and eternity, and the chimes awoke love in my heart. I feel this is what I need for my sadhana right now as I prepare to move from a place where I have lived for almost thirty years.
The first part of Gurumayi’s Message urges me to offer forgiveness to myself, feeling the healing vibrations deep within. The second part of her Message inspires me to be my own best friend by being gentle with my mind, rather than seeking joy outside myself.
Thornbury, Australia
On January 1, 2023, as I watched
Sweet Surprise 2023, I was reminded of a dream that I’d had the previous autumn. The words of Gurumayi’s Message so perfectly encapsulated the essential teachings of Siddha Yoga for me and illumined the majesty of living those teachings. The visuals of the journey framed Gurumayi’s
prasad in the most expansive way.
The dream I recalled was of the entire Siddha Yoga
sangham on a journey into the cosmos. We were all together in an immense spaceship traveling in complete unison and wonderment as we ventured past galaxies and nebulae. Baba and Gurumayi were seated at the front, clearly directing the ship’s movements, as the huge windows before them revealed the seemingly boundless expanse of moving bodies of stars, planets, and vast clouds of many-colored dust swirling before us. Everyone sat in complete awe, silence, and love.
Florida, United States
I have been listening to and studying Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 every morning. The magnificent visuals and the beautiful talk by David Katz prime me, allowing the Message to unfold in a new way each and every day, always ushering me into a place of supreme peace.
As the year progresses, I have developed a sense of curiosity for what will be revealed to me by each day’s contemplation. I have begun to feel a greater sense of kinship with the stars and the galaxies, aware of myself as a soul traveling through time and space, grateful for God’s creation and for my openness to experience it.
New York, United States
This morning, as I was contemplating Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, the word unchanging came into my mind and I saw myself in front of a painter’s canvas. Whether the painting represents a tempest over an ocean or a peaceful sea, a cold winter landscape or a scorching desert, I know I have the choice to let my mind be influenced by the scene my eyes perceive, or to remain at the window of the Self, discovering and observing with the dispassionate attitude of the Witness.
Imbued with a sense of the stability and timelessness so beautifully expressed in the Sweet Surprise video by the images of galaxies and the sound of chimes, my mind leads me as a friend to this unchanging abode of the Self—the heart.
Rodez, France
As I listened to Gurumayi’s Message again tonight, I began to contemplate each individual word, feeling into each word and then connecting the words back to Gurumayi’s entire Message. One word led to another, one insight to another. Infinitely deep and comprehensive, each word manifested and led me to begin to understand it more and more.
I am motivated to contemplate the Message even more deeply in order to fully absorb the divine fragrance that emanates from it, and to make it my own.
Unterlangenegg, Switzerland
As I view the Sweet Surprise video every day, I experience the entire galaxy within Gurumayi’s picture. When I listen to Gurumayi saying the Message out loud, I am able to connect to each part of its meaning, knowing that they will all turn into reality with the support of my dedicated sadhana in studying Gurumayi’s Message.
The chimes allow me to meditate while experiencing the universe and galaxy within me. When I open my eyes, I see the stars disappear and the sun rising slowly for a new beginning.
Gurugram, India
As I sat in contemplation, having just received Gurumayi’s Message, I kept seeing the image of the revolving galaxy. I had the feeling that the bright core of the galaxy is the pure essence of my heart. And the revolving darkness surrounding this core is the movement of impurities slowly being washed away through my Guru’s grace.
A Gurukula student in Gurudev Siddha Peeth
As I listened to the chimes after receiving Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, I experienced the ring of the chimes as bells. I felt each bell touch the inside of my head, healing me. And I glided into an inner universe in which I experienced “I Am That.”
I’ve made it a regular practice to view the video at the end of every day. It supports me in imbibing and understanding Gurumayi’s Message.
Deventer, Netherlands
While I was participating in Sweet Surprise 2023, my attention was focused on the images. At first when Shri Gurumayi’s picture appeared in the starry sky, I believed that the picture was Gurumayi’s Message: to contemplate my beloved Guru as the Heart of the universe.
Then when the beautiful image of the galaxy appeared, and Gurumayi spoke her Message out loud, I was drawn to the sound of Gurumayi’s voice. Her words sounded like a single AUM vibrating in the depths of outer space, and I was absorbed within, where I experienced that the same universe appearing on the screen also dwelt within me, and that Gurumayi was at the center of my heart.
I felt I had a lot in common with that galaxy! If I could have described the energy underlying my true nature while I was meditating, I would have said it was just like that galaxy. I perceived that what was happening through my gaze was also happening inside me. In the space of my meditation these words arose: “Without support.”
Macerata, Italy
I am ever grateful to Gurumayi for the continual opening of inner doors and the enlivening of my life through the Siddha Yoga teachings. Because of Gurumayi’s grace, I continue to mature and life continues to unfold in ways I could not have imagined previously.
Sweet Surprise 2023 feels both timely and necessary for me. I could feel the vibrations of the chimes in my head, cleansing my mind as the gong warmed my heart. I feel trust that these experiences are another beginning of new and beneficial understandings.
Ohio, United States
What a wonderful surprise and amazing gift: the live stream of the
satsang celebrating the 51st Anniversary of
Shri Guru Gita recitation. It was sublime and divine to recite
Shri Guru Gita with Gurumayi. I felt cozy and protected. I made the commitment to get up an hour early every day to participate in this
satsang for as long as the webcast was available. I found I was given the grace each day to get up! It was easy! And I felt the Guru’s grace supporting me throughout each day. Now it is January 16, and the webcast is no longer available, but I still got up to make more time for my spiritual practices. Now it has become a habit! What a miracle this path is!
Georgia, United States
One day while participating in Sweet Surprise 2023, I noticed that there was a reflection from the window behind me projected onto the image displayed on the computer screen. There was nothing inherently wrong with the reflection. However, I realized it modified what I was seeing because an outside element was superimposed onto it.
It occurred to me that it would be easy for me to overlay my own ideas onto Gurumayi’s teachings without realizing it. In that moment I felt this deep prayer arise from within: “May I receive Gurumayi’s Message untarnished. May I recognize when my thoughts and concepts diminish or unnecessarily complicate this most precious gift from my Guru. May I understand and experience Gurumayi’s Message as purely as Gurumayi has given it to me.”
Michigan, United States
Each time I watch Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, it deepens my initial experience. The sounds and images are powerful aspects of Gurumayi’s message for me.
As I listen to Gurumayi’s voice and journey into the vast, celestial images, I feel Gurumayi’s Message moving swiftly throughout my being with the footsteps of the tinkling chimes, taking me to a place of deep tranquility and delight. Each word is so intimate and yet filled with wonder, gently swirling and shimmering with Gurumayi’s limitless love. The enticing wisdom of Gurumayi’s Message calls me to follow its footsteps closely and make it my companion.
California, United States
A day before participating in Sweet Surprise 2023, I started feeling so much love that every cell in my being was pulsating with the energy of love. I was feeling my whole being radiating the light of the heart, and every cell of my being was radiant with divine exuberance. My whole being became super-sensitive—to the earth, the air, nature, everything. I did not want anything; I was just feeling purna, absolutely full.
This state continued until the morning of January 1 when I heard Gurumayi ji’s Message for 2023. As soon as I heard the first phrase of her Message in Hindi, my heart was filled with love and gratitude—not only because I was receiving my Guru’s Message directly from her, but also because she had given me the experience of her Message throughout the day before.
It was through Gurumayi’s bountiful grace that I could recognize it in this way.
Varanasi, India
The video of the rotating galaxy that accompanies Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 is an open-eyed meditation for me. The inward-spiraling, slow-motion movement circling around what I perceive as a still space draws me into the still space inside myself—to the Self.
Relaxing into this experience, I feel connected to and part of our mysterious, ever-expanding, ever-changing, majestic cosmos. And the gentle musical strikes of the chimes feel like a lullaby to me, inviting me to remember that I can be born and reborn in every moment of the day and night—ever fresh, ever renewed, ever rejuvenated.
This open-eyed meditation is now etched in my consciousness—that restful space in the fast-moving outer world that I can return to again and again for profound renewal.
California, United States
Participating in Sweet Surprise made me feel as if, after a journey through the cosmos, we have all arrived together at the perfect place. We have traveled far, and come to rest among benevolent wonders, gently singing us well. I feel a restfulness, like coming home, in my being. I understand that I am in the perfect place at the perfect time, and I have the full support of the manifest universe—and the Guru’s abundant grace.
Watson, Australia
Most mornings I recite Shri Guru Gita silently; I am irresistibly drawn to recite it to express the gratitude in my heart for the Gurus, for all they do in the world, and for their blessings in my life.
The day after I participated in Sweet Surprise, my silent recitation of Shri Guru Gita was with complete focus, ease, and pleasure; there was nothing at all distracting in my mind, no conflicting thoughts pulling me here and there. I had never had this experience before. Suddenly I recognized that I was having an experience of “the friendship of the mind”!
I am grateful to Gurumayi for this gift, which I will continue to foster.
Washington, United States
The fire of yoga
the divine virtues
reveal “the perfectness
of the heart”
which transforms
into a vessel
of molten gold
that flows through
every molecule
that shimmers and glows.
My mind,
my ally, my support,
my friend, my beloved,
an exquisite harmony
a perfect symphony.
The inner glow
is reflected wherever
I go.
I rejoice, I rejoice, I rejoice.
North Fitzroy, Australia
Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 gave me so much peace, because I understood that each phrase in her Message is connected to the previous one; none can be understood in isolation from the others. I envisioned a sort of dancing circle made of the Guru’s words and with all of us inside it.
It has been wonderful to listen to Gurumayi’s Message again and again since the beginning of the year. It nourishes me, soothes me, and makes me feel that I am very lucky.
San Giorgio a Cremano, Italy
Each time I participate in Sweet Surprise 2023, I experience something new. What remains the same is the depth of meditation that I enter into after hearing and reading Gurumayi’s Message. For several years now, I have not been regularly experiencing deep meditations. From Gurumayi’s Message, I now believe this is because I was not befriending my own mind adequately.
I feel so grateful to Gurumayi for the profound words of her Message. They will now guide me all during the year, and I feel hopeful that I will again be able to meditate deeply on a regular basis, and to return to a more vital relationship with the Self.
Washington, United States
I received Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 in Ganeshpuri, India. After receiving her Message, I went to Gurudev Siddha Peeth to have Baba ji’s darshan in his Samadhi Shrine. I repeated Gurumayi’s Message to Baba ji, and suddenly had the experience that Baba ji was singing the Message in a sweet melody. This feeling made my heart jump with joy!
Malpura, India
In the minutes that followed my hearing Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, I went into a deep place of stillness and contentment. Afterwards, as I sat and contemplated the experience, this poem took shape:
There is no striving here.
You are
Exactly
Where
You are meant to be.
Embrace it! Love it!
Your life is uniquely yours
As you spiral through this universe,
An indistinguishable piece of the One.
When I heard these words,
My life, like a sail in a sudden gust, snapped open
Buoyant
Energized
Glimpsed in its fullness for the first time.
I am huge
I am great
I am
A particle of immensity.
Massachusetts, United States
Thirty-seven years ago I received shaktipat from Gurumayi in a Shaktipat Intensive at Shree Muktananda Ashram. During that Intensive I experienced the vision of the cosmos that the visuals in Sweet Surprise 2023 displayed. Participating in Sweet Surprise this week took me back to that experience.
Since that Intensive I have never been the same! My world view has shifted and instead of seeing the world as it appears to my outer vision, I remember that moment when the veil was lifted and I experienced seeing the world as conscious, undulating light, twinkling stars, and rocking, soothing, protective silence. For the first time in my life I knew I was home.
And now, Sweet Surprise 2023 has taken me back home again. I never left.
California, United States
For me,
Sweet Surprise 2023 was very powerful. The breathtaking visuals, beautiful music, and succinct instructions by the host prepared me to receive Gurumayi ji's Message for 2023. The experience of receiving the message in Gurumayi ji’s voice was as if a long-closed door deep inside had been pushed open, bringing with it an expansive silence and an ocean of gratitude.
After listening to Gurumayi ji’s Message, I felt enveloped by the sound of the chimes and the changing yet constant visuals on the screen. It was like coming back home!
New Delhi, India
I gathered with a small group of Siddha Yoga students to participate in
Sweet Surprise 2023 on the bright, clear, sunny morning of January 1. It had been raining for days before but, on this first day of the new year, the sunlight shone everywhere, revealing everything cleansed and refreshed. The sense of a new beginning was exhilarating.
Our host had a huge computer screen on which to watch
Sweet Surprise. As it unfolded, I was taken in by the amazing visuals. I had the experience of being on the beautiful, small, blue earth suspended in an infinite universe. Everything fell away—body, mind, stories. And all was well.
California, United States
When I heard Gurumayi’s Message, it felt as if the
shakti in her voice reached across the space between us and entered my heart. It stirred the
shakti in my own heart. And then, very gently and softly, Gurumayi installed her Message within me. As she did this, I felt a soft, warm, and gentle glow spread through my whole being. It was as if the Message had dawned within me. It was so beautiful, so elegant, so graceful, so profound.
The feeling that the Message had been installed within me was so precious and delightful! I felt I had received a treasure! My eyes filled with tears at this gift from my beloved Shri Gurumayi. And now, with her grace, I look forward to unwrapping this exquisite gift through the year.
Bangalore, India
The sound of Gurumayi’s voice is all that I need to hear to know that everything will be all right, and that everything is as it should be. For me, Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 answers the fundamental question, “What is the purpose of a human birth, and why am ‘I’ here?” What I learned from
Sweet Surprise 2023 is that life emerges from the cosmos and merges back into the cosmos—and in between is
sadhana.
Maine, United States
When I saw the millions of stars vibrating and going toward the golden light at the center, I felt that the hearts of all the Siddha Yogis from all over the world are vibrating similarly as they are drawn toward Gurumayi’s Message for 2023.
At the end of
Sweet Surprise, when all the stars went back to their places, I felt that I had received their golden energy. And as I went back to my home, a new journey of change had started for me—a journey of change in the golden light.
Jaipur, India
I woke up today with faith in my heart and gratefulness for my sweet and precious Guru, Gurumayi.
The chimes that rang after Gurumayi’s Message and the bell-like tone in her voice when she was giving us her generous Message are a balm for my nerves and my mind. I have been listening to
Sweet Surprise over and over, and feel that I am receiving a blessed assurance for the unfoldment of divine grace in the coming the year.
California, United States
Gurumayi’s Message has had a profound impact on me. I feel submerged in the beauty of the star-studded sky, the galaxies, and the words of Gurumayi.
Then, when I look at the heart of the galaxy and its counter-clockwise motion, my being is nourished by the deep silence that emanates from it, maintained by the tinkling of the chimes and enveloped by the
sankalpa of Gurumayi and all the Siddhas. I rediscover my purity, my beauty, my original peace. I am living where there is no time.
Callac, France
Sweet Surprise 2023 was an amazing
satsang! To experience being in the cosmos with these images of our galaxy placed me in total awe of this universe, and for my tiny presence within it. Gurumayi’s words provide me with sustenance to accompany my feelings of being in and part of this amazing cosmos, of being one with the innumerable aspects of Consciousness. I pray that her Message for 2023 will help me deepen my understanding.
Massachusetts, United States
Just hours before I participated in
Sweet Surprise 2023, I had a sudden experience where I was creating a symbol with my hands. It seemed to emerge from my hands, in a rhythmic movement that created a symbol of eternity, never-ending, like it was the principle of creation! My hands had created this for my inner eye.
Later, when the incredibly beautiful image of the galaxy appeared on the screen, I was overwhelmed because it was so similar to what had appeared in my inner eye just a few hours before! I was so touched to recognize this, and I felt the sacredness and immense beauty of Gurumayi’s Message to us. I bow in deep gratitude.
Oslo, Norway
Every time I listen to Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 and then meditate with the gentle sounds, I feel like I am sliding deeper and deeper into a velvety stillness and peacefulness. I feel that something deep within me is relaxing and expanding.
During the day, the slowly spinning galaxy keeps coming to my mind. My mind tunes into the serenity, the stillness, the evenness, and the slowness of the galaxy. This slowing down of my life rhythm is very calming. I become more aware of the present moment.
Unterlangenegg, Switzerland
As I listened to each line of Gurumayi’s Message, spoken in Gurumayi’s own voice, I felt so happy and so secure. In the silence that followed, the words continued to resonate, and with eyes closed, I could just make out the delicate outlines of their forms. It seemed as though they wanted me to know they have a life of their own and that they are with me.
Then, when the cosmos melted into the morning sky, I realized: it is the same sky! The cosmic form of the Lord is one and the same as the sweet form I adore. And now, I feel very peaceful.
California, United States
Every element of Sweet Surprise 2023 drew me deeper into the blissful realm of the Self, where my whole being finds such sweet rest. Absorbing myself in the sounds, words, and images, I saw that while I sometimes seem to be caught up in the hurly-burly of life, in reality I am—just as we all are—sparks of scintillating light, arising out of divine Consciousness and revolving gracefully, unfailingly, and with utter peace toward the still center of God’s creation once more.
I bow my head to the Guru and to God in gratitude and astonishment for their unerring guidance.
Castlemaine, Australia
Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 left me speechless. Its subtleness and profound meaning are spectacular.
I felt as if the images of the galaxies, the stars, and the cosmos were uniting with supreme Consciousness to prepare us to receive and contemplate Gurumayi’s Message for 2023. And the final image of the sunrise was for me a great promise of light, hope, new beginnings, and divine blessings.
I am so thankful to my beloved Gurumayi for giving us once more such precious prasad.
Virginia, United States
Shri Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 is indeed great prasad for me as it is most powerful, making its way straight to my heart so that I am feeling blessed and contemplative right from the first day of the new year.
When I saw Shri Gurumayi’s compassionate gaze during Sweet Surprise, it felt to me as if the whole universe were emanating from her eyes, and receiving the Message in the galactic environment of the visuals made me feel as if I were expanding into the infinite expanse of Consciousness. After the Message, the sound of the chimes took me deep within to meditate and experience bliss.
I pray that Gurumayi’s grace will give me strength and determination to assimilate this prasad throughout the year.
Udaipur, India
While watching the Milky Way, and knowing that there are billions of such galaxies, or even greater ones, in this universe, I realized that this earth, our home, is just a speck in sand, a tiny grain—not to mention our physical selves. The visuals in Sweet Surprise also reminded me that unless one identifies with the Creator—"I am That,” “I am this universe,” “I am Shiva”—one will always feel very small and insignificant.
New York, United States
I am so thankful for Sweet Surprise 2023 from Gurumayi ji. For me, listening to Gurumayi’s Message was a very peaceful and calming experience; I was drawn deep inside and am still experiencing that peace. Listening to Gurumayi ji has always been magical to me and I yearn to listen to her more and more. I am very grateful to have received this maha-prasad.
Pune, India
As I closed my eyes after receiving Gurumayi’s Message, I found myself out in the vastness of space—with the divine light as stars, and divine sounds as their movement. On the screen of my mind, Gurumayi appeared, smiling and joyous. She walked deeper into the void of space and opened a door out in the stars. Beyond this door was light, infinite light. That light was me. It was the void and everything within it—utter stillness and total peace, the living brightness.
New Jersey, United States
Before I participated in Sweet Surprise this year, I read David Katz’s talk first, which gave me great encouragement about participating. Then, just as soon as I turned to the video, I felt that familiar, clear, calm, and loving presence I experience every time I engage with Sweet Surprise during the Australian summer.
The thought arose, “I don’t need a long talk to experience the full flood of Gurumayi’s grace. Just hearing her say the Message gives me everything!” For me, Gurumayi’s Message contains both the steps and the goal of sadhana—as well as the Guru’s sankalpa.
My heart is full of love and gratitude and I feel great enthusiasm to see how my sadhana will unfold in 2023.
Hurlstone Park, Australia
In the summer of 1998, while I was meditating in a satsang with Gurumayi at Shree Muktananda Ashram, I experienced myself floating on a rubber raft on the water, looking up at the stars in the night sky. I was surprised to feel the stars welcoming me, radiating love to me. It blew my mind, because I had been conditioned to think of stars in some kind of scientific, rational, neutral, and even unfeeling way.
Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 had reignited my awareness that divine space is benevolent and welcoming, embracing me in its love. And I know I will not truly rest until my heart and mind experience full Self-realization.
New Mexico, United States
After absorbing Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 several times, I sat quietly in meditation. Then suddenly I received a totally new perspective. I understood that Gurumayi is showing us, inviting us, into an entirely new realm of existence—the realm of the Self, infinite, majestic, vast, and mysterious. “I am That I am,” both infinite and finite.
And since then, I’m no longer looking for Gurumayi in the everyday— although an occasional glimpse is sweet. I am communing with my Guru in the pure, eternal Self.
Ajijic, Mexico
To see the beauty and vastness of space from these images gave me a powerful and direct experience of sat-chit-ananda—existence, Consciousness, and bliss absolute. I eternally exist, I am forever conscious, and I am the bliss of creation.
Georgia, United States
After receiving Gurumayi’s Message and releasing into meditation, I felt myself going deep inside. Then I wondered, “Will I be able to remember her Message?”
Slowly, as if out of a luminous mist, each phrase of her Message came to me, exactly as I had seen it on the screen. Without trying to analyze their meaning, I just sat with the feeling. What emerged was the understanding that her Message was like a sutra that reflects the endeavor of my
sadhana over the last four decades. Having long experienced the primacy of the heart, I find my life more joyful and rewarding. And achieving some headway in making the mind my friend has made access to the Self easier and more natural for me.
Contemplating the beautiful images in the video, I mused that, to attain the goal of
sadhana, one must feel one with, and have affection for, everything and everyone in the world.
Again I wondered, “How is attaining all this possible?” Surely only through the grace of the Guru and devotion to her and her teachings.
Washington, United States
As I repeated and savored each line of Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, watching the subtle shifts inside with each perfect phrase, I felt more and more settled inside, as if I’d come home to a place I’d been searching for all my life. The Message feels like a map home. How great! How grateful I am!
As I meditated with the Message this morning and repeated the third phrase to myself, I could feel the palpable energy of meditation completely suffusing my head, sending waves of nourishing, restoring, and loving energy to my own mind. I experienced that meditation itself is an act of befriending the mind, loving the mind, and loving myself. Then these delightful words arose, “Meditation is self-love in action!” Ah, yes!
New Mexico, United States
Gurumayi’s Message was like a balm to my soul, a healing Message that both navigates and holds. It’s a reminder to come back to the beauty and “the perfectness of the heart” in all that I do. For me, it’s also a call to tend carefully and lovingly to my mind, treating it with reverence, respect, and tenderness as I would treat a dear friend.
As I work toward achieving the goals that I have set for myself in 2023, Gurumayi’s Message reminds me to stay grounded and present in my heart and to care sweetly for my mind.
Pennsylvania, United States
I’m so thankful for this gift of Gurumayi’s prasad. It was so special to receive her Message for 2023 on New Year’s Day. I felt a sense of inner harmony as I thought about the meaning of her words. The phrase “the friendship of the mind” reminds me of the Siddha Yoga teachings about how powerful and awe-inspiring the mind truly is.
During meditation I received clarity for my New Year’s resolution—to refresh my commitment to sadhana and the key practices of Siddha Yoga. I am inspired and excited for the year ahead, and so, so thankful for Gurumayi’s grace in my life!
New York, United States
I’m so grateful for the Guru’s grace—in the form of Sweet Surprise 2023!
As I followed the instructions to create the foundation to listen to Gurumayi’s Message, I felt an expansion happening within myself. Then as I looked at the video images, I felt and saw that I am this expansion. The chimes added to this awareness within. As I heard Gurumayi’s Message, it reverberated as aliveness within me!
New Jersey, United States
Gurumayi’s Message feels like a sutra to me, with nothing to add, nothing to remove. At first, I placed this teaching in my heart, then allowed it to pulsate sweetly within as I slowly committed it to memory. I experienced its concision as a gift, allowing me to experience its vastness, just like the images of stars and galaxies.
California, United States
Participating in Sweet Surprise 2023 was for me a very moving meditative experience of the mystery of “I am That.” It led me to a profound silence full of gratitude and humility.
I intend to focus my attention on the phrase, “the friendship of the mind,” since that is the clue for me to be open to the rest of the Message. And remembering the images in Sweet Surprise will bring me back again and again to the transcendental perception of “I am That.”
Mexico City, Mexico
The grace of Gurumayi’s love reminds me that the “perfectness” she speaks of in her Message for 2023 is indeed within my own heart, just as the beautiful galaxy in which I live is held within a larger, even more exquisite universe.
And Gurumayi’s Message reminds me that with the profound support of my own mind, I can discover the Self I once sought—only to find that it was within me all along.
Washington, United States
My first experience of Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 is that this is the recipe for living. It teaches me to go deeper into the heart to love more, and to watch my thoughts to make sure they are loving and kind, both to others and to myself. In doing these things, I can be immersed in the Self. All of these steps will take me further down the path to “the realization of the Self,” which to me means remembrance of, and being one with, the Source.
Delaware, United States
I know that every word of Gurumayi’s Message, endowed with her flawless love, is alive with divine purpose. With respect and wonder, I’ve placed the words of her Message on the screen of my awareness, watching them assume new patterns, hearing them echo within me, inquiring about their interrelationships. The deep space of inner exploration they unfold is as vast as the heavens. Having traveled there, my mind returns still and empty as the night sky.
As I reflect on how my focus on a single word, Listen, in Gurumayi’s Message for 2022 awakened unexpected depths of compassion and self-awareness in me last year, my heart bows in reverence as I commit to following the calling of this new prasad. So far I’ve taken just a step or two—not yet a leap. Yet already I’ve begun to examine every perception with new eyes. I’ve taken flight.
California, United States
When I heard Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, it entered my heart directly and I felt a great joy and gratitude. I felt Gurumayi is giving me the blessings to be able to practice and experience her Message fully. As I watched the beautiful images in
Sweet Surprise, I saw the words of the Message moving through them. As I watched them and mentally repeated them, I dived deeper and deeper into the feeling of boundless joy.
Trieste, Italy
After I participated in Sweet Surprise, I sat smiling, thinking, and looking at the words Sweet Surprise 2023. Then my eyes moved to the number 2023— and just like that, the numeral 3 appeared to me as an OM sign!
So now these few days into 2023, every time I write the date, the numeral 3 becomes an OM sign and I say “OM”inside very quietly, dedicating it to the year ahead. May its vibration be powerful for all throughout the year!
California, United States
Sweet Surprise 2023 is amazingly beautiful so I am once again awestruck by the beauty and design of the elements on the Siddha Yoga path website.
Like others who have shared, I have participated in Sweet Surprise 2023 more than once and hope to do so for as long as possible. And I too have been repeating the Message silently throughout the day—sometimes as a prayer beginning with “May I know…”
Woollamia, Australia
After I received Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, this poem, which I call “Darshan Is Always New,” arose within me:
Windows wiped clean,
the silence at the beginning, middle, and end.
Doors opening to fresh air,
the silence at the beginning, middle, and end.
The world I know
is no place without you.
Your light enables me to see
the Self within myself.
Like the sun,
you keep giving.
Like the moon,
you keep reflecting.
A mirror of infinity’s silence,
your benevolent face,
almost graspable yet unexplainable,
revolutionizes my spirit.
The Heart space knows
when I am with you.
The Heart space,
silent in its cosmic tenderness,
a knowing pointed to
by the word "love."
Pennsylvania, United States
When I watched the start of Sweet Surprise, I became filled with a sense of awe that encompassed beauty, presence, sacredness, immensity, and mystery. My sense of self expanded. I became very calm and very alert. When I heard the first words of Gurumayi’s Message, my awareness went deep into my heart.
Since receiving Gurumayi’s Message, it has found a home in my mind and comes back to visit me during the day and during the night. I feel that this Message is charged with Gurumayi’s grace and I know her grace will lead me back again and again to the experience of the Heart.
I feel immensely blessed and grateful for the perfect love and guidance Gurumayi is bestowing on all of us.
New York, United States
I found such power and sweetness in Gurumayi’s Message for 2023. And now, what I need to do is embrace the Truth within it. I want to thank Gurumayi for giving me yet another opportunity to experience all that is within me—just waiting to be discovered.
Illinois, United States
Ever since I participated in Sweet Surprise 2023, I feel a fully renewed me is unfolding, free from worry and doubt. My mind is becoming more at ease, I am letting go of limits, and I feel real enduring transformation is occurring within me at the deepest level. I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to Shri Gurumayi for the abundant blessings of this Message, which is granting me real peace!
London, United Kingdom
My experience of Gurumayi’s Message was that Gurumayi was kissing me on my cheek and on my heart and all over me.
My poem for Gurumayi’s Message is:
Om Guru Om.
I love my Guru.
Om Guru Om.
I love my Guru.
I love paintings.
I love Gurumayi.
I love everything in the world.
The end.
a four-year-old from New York, United States
I have participated in
Sweet Surprise 2023 several times now and my whole being wants to dive into it again and again! Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 vibrates deep within me through its words, and through the images and divine sounds in the video. As I contemplate the Message and let it settle in my heart, I am in awe.
What a luminous path this is, filled with Gurumayi’s boundless love and grace! My heart longs to discover, contemplate, integrate, live, and savor the precious teachings of my Guru that will unfold throughout this blessed year of 2023. For sure, our beloved Gurumayi is inviting us to the feast of all attainments—nothing less!
Quebec, Canada
What wonderful
prasad!
Today I am celebrating the fortieth anniversary of walking the Siddha Yoga path. I took my first step into a Siddha Yoga
satsang in early January 1983. As a girl full of concepts, fears, and sadness, I walked in and heard
Shri Guru Gita being recited. In the forty years since, I have been on my way to my Self, to becoming alive, to becoming a human being with a heart full of love, joy, and gratitude.
I feel so blessed to have received Gurumayi’s Message for 2023. On this special day, I thank God for having led me to Gurumayi, and I thank Gurumayi for leading me to God.
Rosendahl, Germany
Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 stopped my mind and landed softly in my heart. It creates a remarkably peaceful state inside. I feel myself settling into a posture of acceptance, where there is nothing to do, or fix, or change. Each line of Gurumayi’s Message opens up new awareness and subtle recognitions for me. As I repeat it, I find myself gliding into meditation.
New York, United States
After participating in
Sweet Surprise 2023, I have been experiencing a peace of mind whose quality is brand-new to me. And it is growing every day!
London, United Kingdom
My experience of Gurumayi’s Message felt as if I’d had a glimpse into the state of being in which Gurumayi abides in every moment. The words of the Message themselves awakened a deeper state of being in me. My heart expanded so profoundly that I experienced a remarkable frequency of love between myself and everyone in my life, which kept expanding and expanding into infinity.
I am so grateful to Gurumayi for walking with me every step of the way, and for helping me to see myself through of eyes of her divine nature.
Vancouver, Canada
My experience of
Sweet Surprise 2023 has been one of complete
samanubhuti. I felt my Guru’s compassion and empathy in being welcomed into the Universal Hall and being welcomed into the New Year by receiving her Message. I feel Gurumayi’s Message embodies
samanubhuti in its profound meaning and direction.
When I participated in
Sweet Surprise 2023 for the second time, what really went straight to my heart and brought me to tears of feeling the
samanubhuti of my Guru was the supreme gentleness of the sounds and sights in the video. I feel so very held in Gurumayi’s love.
Colorado, United States
To me Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 is so deep, so vast, so essential, and truly divine. I perceive it as bestowing the flawless touch of divinity, holiness, wholeness, sanctity, and purity. I feel infinite power in this blessing and have this one wish: to be a worthy and responsive recipient of this blessing every moment of this year.
Hindelang, Germany
I feel that the ultimate prescription for 2023 is fully contained in Gurumayi’s Message for 2023. She shares the key for right understanding, identifying the tools necessary for attaining the spectacular reward of her
prasad. I am fully inspired by her kind and gentle words as I embark on a new year that I know will be chock full of adventures, discoveries, and ongoing gratitude for the wisdom, generosity, and boundless love bestowed on me by my living Guru. What great fortune I have in this lifetime!
New Mexico, United States
When I received Shri Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, the impact on me was so deep that I was in undisturbed meditation for twenty-five minutes. I experienced the force behind the words and would now like to repeat
Sweet Surprise as many times I can. I am very grateful to Shri Gurumayi for her divine Message, which will help me to progress on the Siddha Yoga path.
Pune, India
In 1981, one of my
shaktipat experiences happened when I was lying down to meditate. I saw myself walking in a field of white light, and then I dissolved into that light. The next thing I knew, I was catapulted into the stars; I looked to my left and there were twinkling stars all around me.
As I experienced
Sweet Surprise 2023, I felt this experience again in a very visceral way. When I heard Gurumayi’s Message, it was like a jewel, whose every facet is bursting with possibility.
I am so excited to see how Gurumayi’s Message will unfold inside of me and in my life!
Hawaii, United States
I love how Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 was delivered in this
satsang. It was easy to experience sweet stillness in the midst of the sounds in the video.
I have so much to contemplate over the next year. The goal I have chosen for myself is to bathe in the vibrating stillness of the Self as the Self.
Central Coast, Australia
I was so excited to participate in
Sweet Surprise 2023 at the local Siddha Yoga meditation center. As the host spoke, my whole being was focused on hearing—with both ears and heart—what Gurumayi ji would be imparting.
As I returned home, I felt a fountain of joy arising within myself, which spread to my family members, including my children. When I shared the Message with them, I told them that the Message is
prasad from Gurumayi. For many hours I remained in that atmosphere of happiness and joy, which came from my participation in
Sweet Surprise.
I feel confident that Shri Guru has given me enough power and grace to study her Message and go deeper in my
sadhana in the year to come.
Udhana, India
As soon as I heard Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, my eyes closed and I felt waves of calm and silence. It was not the usual feeling of love but a very deep feeling of sweetness, which I understand as another face of love.
I realized how difficult it is to remain in this state of calm and gentleness and silence while also being in the world, because then everything gets restless. I see that this is the challenge I will face in 2023 and I think it is what the Message has taught me through this first experience.
Gissey Sur Ouche, France
Your words slip inside me as I do my winter flannel sheets.
Your words toss me high like the wind does a leaf.
Your words open me wide like an unexpected mountain view.
Your words fling me open to a vision of my true home.
Your words tell me, “I am That.”
New York, United States
Gurumayi’s mahaprasad continues to resound in my chest and reverberate in my thoughts. With such sweet and sublime simplicity, Gurumayi teaches me about the purpose for my life and for my sadhana. I’m grateful for the divine focus and direction for my heart and mind to follow.
The year 2023 feels so blessed with Gurumayi’s Message and the grace that accompanies it. Just knowing that each year the wisdom in Gurumayi’s Message begins and sustains my energy and activities for the year is a profound gift in itself.
Colorado, United States
Sweet Surprise never fails: in its wholeness it offers me just what I need, although I know there is always more to discover. Its beauty and its clarity made me feel new again. I am once again a fresh and eager student of Siddha Yoga… now to explore it further in its brilliant light.
Hampton Hill, United Kingdom
As I heard Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, the benevolence and power of her wish, her will, her divine
sankalpa began to pulsate within my heart space. My mind took in the nature of all the attainment that I know Gurumayi wishes for us. And my intellect told me, “With the
sankalpa of such a compassionate and loving Guru providing the grace for such attainments, how could I ever do other than to choose, intend, and perform all the self-effort I will need to receive these immeasurable gifts of grace from my beloved Guru this year?”
Oregon, United States
Since hearing Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 at 12:15 a.m. early this morning, in my waking hours I have been repeating her Message. I just said the words over and over in my head, sometimes out loud, not trying to figure anything out, but just letting the Message be with me in a gentle, easy way. And as a result I have had such a joyful first day of 2023!
I am so grateful to Gurumayi and for the Siddha Yoga path. And I know if I continue this practice, it will lead me to amazing places, within and without.
Massachusetts, United States
The concision of Gurumayi’s Message, the spaciousness of the satsang, and the pace of the presentation shook me from my characteristic seriousness. I found myself “coming up for air,” so to speak. I became a witness to that part of me that expects to have to struggle to feel loved, and ended up experiencing a delightful inner laugh instead. Then I had the thought: “Wow! I'm there. I don’t have to work so hard. I can get up and go play now!” What a relief that I don’t need to wade through unnecessary layers of complication to advance toward the goal of my sadhana!
This feels like a wonderful celebration! What a great way to start the new year!
Nelson, Canada
Upon receiving Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, these words arose within me: “Surrender to this and all is well.”
I enjoyed listening to the beautiful sounds of the video while resting in the humming within my being and recalling almost all the words of the Message. Trusting the power of the Message and letting go, I began to feel an expansive, cosmic flow. My body seemed to completely open, and the exact same words arose that had arisen in my original shaktipat experience some thirty-five years ago: “I will do Thy bidding.”
As I relived this profound experience of feeling Gurumayi’s hand on my head, beckoning forth these words of deep surrender, a Blue Pearl emerged, and I once again felt that she is always giving me everything. I knew the complete unfolding of her Message would in time take place for me! I remain in awe of Gurumayi’s constant outpouring of love.
Washington, United States
I experienced Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 as a sacred key to a “secret lock” that holds the mystery and purpose of why I am here, why I am alive. Within her Message is a laser-beam focus targeted directly at completing my life’s purpose. I will be meditating on its words, contemplating them, repeating them over and over again to explore and experience the depth of the mystery and revelation that lie within them. This is the beginning of a fascinating year!
I extend my deepest gratitude to my beloved Shri Gurumayi for her unending guidance and love in this extraordinary journey! I feel very strongly that Gurumayi is calling me, and all of us, home.
West Vancouver, Canada
Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 is a very concentrated drop of bliss, and I feel it will ripple out into my life, getting bigger and bigger all year long, touching everything.
Sweet Surprise is a beautiful meditative experience that I will receive as
prasad again and again.
North Carolina, United States
In the twelve hours since I first listened to Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, Gurumayi’s words are already opening me up to the wonders within and guiding me toward my intention to know the Self fully.
What a gift to be able to listen to Gurumayi speak these sacred mantras! How fortunate I am! It is with great joy and anticipation that I look forward to fully knowing the truth in this Message.
California, United States
I listened to her Message right before going to sleep and I repeated the Message silently until I fell asleep. When I woke up, I felt so much lighter as if I had dropped all this baggage. I felt Gurumayi had showered me with God’s grace and I was filled with light.
I decided at that moment that I would repeat Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 every morning before meditation and every evening before going to sleep. This will be a key practice in my
sadhana in the year to come.
San Felipe, Mexico
I just participated in
Sweet Surprise 2023 for a second time. I witnessed myself sitting in the lap of love and brilliant yellow light, like the sun. I cried and laughed as I felt myself rocking swiftly, or gliding in the air much like a feather would. I felt deeply surrendered and in awe as I experienced myself witnessing the unfolding of life, as if awakening from a dream.
New Jersey, United States
When watching this beautiful video, hearing the chimes, and listening to Gurumayi’s Message, I felt myself to be flying in the cosmos with Gurumayi—just us two and the universal sound, with so much sweetness and love everywhere. There was absolute peace in my mind and body, with no need for anything else. I will hold this experience in my heart forever.
Odense, Denmark
Earlier this year, for the first time in twenty years, the Sadhana Circle I participate in decided to find a common intention for 2023. It is: “May we feel connected to our hearts and our love again and again, and may we look at others, the world, and ourselves from this perspective.”
When we heard the first line of Gurumayi`s Message for 2023 today, we just looked at each other and knew she had been with us when we set this intention.
Nottuln, Germany
With Gurumayi’s precious words circulating and swirling through my mind, I experienced a profound cleansing and fell deeply into a glorious meditation.
North Carolina, United States
I receive Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 with immense joy and with deep gratitude. I am touched by Gurumayi’s love for us, her disciples. I feel wonderfully amazed by her Message for 2023—this divine
prasad that invites us to attain the goal of our human existence.
The Guru’s compassion, her immense tenderness and patience for us are immeasurable. I feel comforted by the Guru’s love, protection, and this extraordinary invitation to realize the purpose of our existence. Gurumayi’s Message has renewed my zeal to cross the ocean of the world in 2023!
Montreal, Canada
What an extraordinary experience I felt upon hearing Gurumayi’s Message for 2023! I felt the cells of my being seemingly catapulted back in time to the experience of my ten-year-old self, who experienced life as a gift, open to be received, with no trace of fear or doubt in my being, only bubbling and eager curiosity for its unfolding.
During
Sweet Surprise I experienced the quietest, deepest, most spacious meditation. My entire body was stilled, while I bathed in the softness of that moment. I am so grateful to Gurumayi for the
prasad of this experience, which I treasure and shall return to.
New Jersey, United States
As I listen to Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, the energy of her words enters my being. I close my eyes and feel the incessant pulse of God within me. My heart opens and my mind is flooded with love, silence, harmony, and the awareness of eternal life. I feel the breath of God within me and sense the precious greatness of my existence.
Again and again I gratefully accept the invitation to engage with the words of my Guru and to nurture, care for, and cultivate the precious energy she has granted me.
Unterlangenegg, Switzerland
Participating in
Sweet Surprise and hearing Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 opened my heart as its sweet sounds dropped deep into my heart to blossom and be fully embodied.
I am feeling very blessed and excited for this new year of creating in my life what has now been written in my heart. And I feel especially blessed to have shared this
satsang with someone dear to me who lives on the other side of the world. I loved it that we were able to experience
Sweet Surprise together, stepping forward into the new year together with our Guru.
Oregon, United States
I feel immense love for Gurumayi’s Message for 2023. Its powerful and essential words go straight to the point, like an arrow flying straight toward its target—my
sadhana.
What prasad!
Milan, Italy
Participating in
Sweet Surprise brought me sweet tears, and the experience of infinite beatitude, profound silence, and peace.
Rome, Italy
How sublime and wonderful is
Sweet Surprise 2023! As I participate in it again and again, I feel the stress and insecurities of countless lifetimes are being swept away. And as I listen to the video, it seems altogether possible to me that the turmoil and suffering that many people experience on this earth will become diminished and be replaced by God’s peace.
California, United States
The year 2023 has begun wonderfully for me! Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 reverberated with me today especially because we were able to hold a
satsang in our house for the first time. This was very gratifying. The
satsang was so imbued with love and devotion. Everyone was blissful and happy.
Gurumayi’s profound Message has given the year 2023 a powerful beginning for me.
Chennai, India
As I listened to Gurumayi imparting her Message for 2023, I experienced a deep sense of alignment, clarity, and self-confidence in regard to the purpose of my life and the goal of my
sadhana. Peace, assuredness, and strength pervaded my being. The visual imagery in
Sweet Surprise led me to experience Gurumayi’s Message as I listened to it and then meditated with it. I eagerly look forward to the unfolding of this Message as I engage with it again and again.
Sydney, Australia
After participating in Sweet Surprise and meditating on Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, I went for a walk in nature silently repeating Gurumayi’s words. It was then this insight arose: When I follow my heart, I’m fulfilling my dharma, my destiny. When I listen to the heart and let it guide my decisions, my actions turn out to be just right, even though they might not always make sense from the outside.
I felt a sense of fullness and completeness in my heart. I noticed my body felt more relaxed than usual and a sense of renewed inner strength arose within.
I am so thankful to Gurumayi for this priceless prasad—which I know will keep giving gifts of knowledge as I study, practice, and implement her teachings further this year.
Melbourne, Australia
As I participated in Sweet Surprise, I felt like I was in the company of so many Siddhas. They were there in the Siddha Yoga Universal Hall. When I heard the words of Gurumayi ji’s Message, I felt like I was hearing nada-brahman—the divine music of the Absolute—arising from the silence of siddha-loka and then merging back into its divine tranquility. In this process of upsurge and divine merging, it was lovingly embracing me and taking me along into its golden fullness.
Lucknow, India
First of all, I want to express my gratitude for the sweetness of Sweet Surprise.
When we were looking at the first beautiful image and no words of Gurumayi’s Message had yet appeared, I looked into my heart and the words that arose were: “You are perfect just the way you are.”
Then the words of the Message were revealed. For me the teachings in the Message are four facets of a whole way of being. As we sat absorbing the Message, my awareness was drawn into deep stillness. It felt like my first Shaktipat Intensive nearly forty-two years ago—beautifully still and sweet.
Sydney, Australia
At the end of the video of Sweet Surprise, after hearing Gurumayi’s Message for 2023, I felt refreshed and that my being had been completely renewed. A sense of looking at life with a renovated perspective took place and easefulness was installed in every cell of my body. I am so grateful to Gurumayi for taking care of me in such a gentle and refreshing way!
Rome, Italy
As I closed my eyes, I felt my energy drawn inside. I was repeating Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 over and over, and pausing in between repetitions. I felt myself go deeper and deeper inside, like the spiralling energy of the galaxy. I reached a place very deep, and I was in the Witness state. I felt perfect and complete, and I knew this was the Self.
Sydney, Australia
This astonishing Message is like a string of beads, all woven together so well. It carries innumerable blessings of the Guru, showering upon us in each moment of our breath the oneness of the Self as we bond in the glory of the Guru.
Participating in Sweet Surprise was an ecstatic experience, and I humbly bow to my Guru.
Mumbai, India
With immense excitement I logged onto the Siddha Yoga path website. It felt like a stroke of illuminating lightning to see that Gurumayi’s Message for 2023 was available. And so I received the priceless prasad which will be the pillar of knowledge for me throughout the year of 2023.
Gurumayi is the light of my path. No matter where we are, we are connected in the heart where distances do not exist.
Mersin, Turkey