I am immensely grateful that Gurumayi is giving us the focus of studying Baba’s words about “the value of the human body and the value of human life.”
When I read the news each day, I notice exactly what Eesha is describing: “Every day, lives are being lost to war, disease, famine, natural disasters, and other tragedies of this kind… It is easy to become desensitized to death when it happens so relentlessly around us, and at such a massive scale.”
I have been finding it overwhelming to read about lives senselessly lost and find myself needing to distance myself from thinking about these situations that I feel helpless to improve.
I am looking forward to seeing how my perspective shifts as I study and steep myself in Baba’s teachings in this series, “Meditation on Swami Muktananda’s Words.
I am grateful to have a living Guru who gives me a focus of study that is so timely for me in my own sadhana and at this time in human existence.
California, United States
This morning I reread Eesha’s introduction, and then I sat for meditation.
As I meditated, I experienced light in my being and the presence of divine energy in my body. I was very excited to think, “This is what Baba is talking about—why the body is so valuable. I can experience God’s presence right here in my own body.” I began feeling so much gratitude for my beautiful body. I gently massaged my head, then my neck, my shoulders, and so on, and thanked each part of my body as I did. I also thanked God for giving me this body.
My efforts to study Eesha’s introduction seemed to bear fruit immediately! I am grateful to Gurumayi for giving us this focus of study. I am eager to learn how my inner experience of the sacredness of my body and my life will affect my relationship to the outer world and its unfolding of events.
California, United States
I am so grateful for this sweet introduction. I am looking forward to immersing myself deeper in Baba’s teachings and reconnecting with an appreciation of the sacredness of life.
As I start to anticipate our learning focus for this month, one thing I am aware of is that I intend to read each installment slowly… to come to them with focus and attention, to allow myself to linger over them so that the full glory of Baba’s teachings can shine forth inside myself.
Guildford, United Kingdom
