When I read Baba Muktananda’s teaching “There is an ocean of peace in every person’s heart,” I immediately thought of my many years of scuba diving. I have experienced how the surface of the ocean can be full of movement—waves, wind, changing currents—yet, as I descend, another world reveals itself: silent, vast, and deeply peaceful.
Underwater, I naturally detach from the movement above and turn my attention inward. I become aware of my breath, my movements slow down, and I feel held by the immensity around me. This has often reminded me that peace is not the absence of movement on the surface. It is something deeper.
Oscar’s elucidation on Baba’s teaching helped me see this experience in a new way. Beneath the fluctuations of daily life, there is a quiet depth within me. Just as I have learned to trust the stillness beneath the waves, I am learning to trust the quiet depth within my own heart.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
I have found this teaching and every other teaching in the series “Baba Muktananda’s Timeless Teachings” deeply moving experiences. Each short reflection accompanying these teachings carries immense depth and has touched my heart in a profound way.
I feel truly blessed and grateful to have the Siddha Gurus guiding me on my very own Siddha Yoga path. While life brings its share of challenges, this divine guidance is what changes everything.
Today, my heart feels filled with love and immense gratitude. I can feel the vast ocean of peace within. Only gratitude, and nothing else, remains.
Pune, India
This morning, I had a restless meditation. In search of peace, I went to a cafe by the sea and then for a walk along a path by the water. I sat down on a rock and opened the Siddha Yoga path website to find this wonderful teaching of Baba’s.
As I contemplated the teaching, I recalled the love and peace I had seen and felt in the waitress’ eyes in the cafe. I realized what a beautiful moment it had been.
Warrnambool, Australia
Upon reading the words of Baba’s teaching, I instantly felt their truth extending throughout my being: peace and only peace.
My mind is now settled in a thought-free state, and I feel completely at ease and happy, as if reposing at the very depth of an all-consuming, boundless ocean. Such is the power of a Siddha’s words for me!
I adore Baba and am ever grateful he is in my mind, heart, and soul forever.
Washington, United States
