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Birthday Bliss

Sweet Light, Sweet Bliss

A Gallery in Celebration of Birthday Bliss 2019

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It was a very heartwarming experience for me to view these beautiful images. I was especially drawn to the photograph where Gurumayi is holding a little baby. This image invokes in me feelings of sweet motherhood and the magnanimity of the Guru's love, compassion, and protection, as well as the expansiveness of the Guru's grace.
 

Mumbai, India

For me, these images are divine expressions of the Self that help me to open the eyes of my inner wisdom and to perceive that all is love. Viewing these images, I feel my heart full of joy, sweetness, and happiness. I recognize the Self in all beings and experience the "sweet bliss" of nature, birds, trees, and flowers in all colors and shapes. The red, coral, and orange colors fill my heart with smiles.
 

Madrid, Spain

I enjoyed viewing the beautiful images in “Sweet Light, Sweet Bliss” throughout this month. Each image has had the effect of stilling my mind, and each one has inspired me to be fully present in the moment and to savor life. The message I received through these images is to stay focused and enjoy the state of Witness-Consciousness.
 
 Happy Birthday Bliss, Gurumayi!
 

New Delhi, India

My heart is overflowing as I view this gallery. Each image holds me with its radiance of grace. Each image reflects the Guru's love for me and invokes my love for her. I feel this love pulsating within me, holding me close to other living beings.
 
What a magnificent way to reflect on the birthday of a great being. 
 

Arizona, United States

Viewing this gallery, I experience darshan. There is the same sensation of a warm awakening, feeling the touch of the Guru whose teachings give me a better way to live, a better way to find my own being. 
 
I am so grateful to be a part of the Siddha Yoga sangham.
 

Guadalajara, Mexico

I felt such joy at viewing these images, which give me a profound experience of what an awakened life is. The sweetness is abundant in all of them, from children with their hands on Gurumayi's knees, to the handsome dog, its paw laid so gently upon her lap.
 
The depth of what they all reveal for me is that I am truly awake and enjoying every moment of walking the Siddha Yoga path with Gurumayi!
 

London, United Kingdom

The photo of the sun reflected in the gorgeous, still waters of Lake Nityananda reminds me to breathe and savor my breath’s journey.
 

New York, United States

Hands held
gentleness touches
joy bubbles up
inside out
boundless bliss
timeless.

New York, United States

I am two months pregnant, so it is especially touching for me to see Gurumayi holding a very young child. I can feel how much she loves me!
 
Happy Birthday Bliss, Gurumayi!
 

Kishangarh, India

Yesterday I had a very meaningful meditation in which I met myself as a little eight-year-old. It was so sweet! I embraced myself in that form with so much love. Heading into my seventies now, it is astonishing to me that for the first time in my life I felt such immense love for myself. It felt so healing. And now, as I open this Sweet Light, Sweet Bliss Gallery, I see the photo of Gurumayi embracing two little girls, and I see that the picture was posted on the very same day. 
 
I perceive a sweet dialogue between my Guru and myself, and I feel so supported and guided in my sadhana. I feel that Gurumayi is with me, always. I offer my salutations again and again to my beloved Gurumayi.
 

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Delightful feelings of simplicity and gratitude washed over me as I scrolled through this photo gallery. This has made me most aware of how vibrant everything is in my own surroundings and has brought me an upwelling of sweet love and appreciation for the glory of God's creation.
 

California, United States

I love the photo of Gurumayi’s hands reaching out to caress the slender, feathery leaves of the Japanese maple tree. As an observer, I inhale the softness and freshness of this timeless moment. I hold my breath to allow the softness to linger awhile. I feel the tenderness and surety of the Guru’s love, a love as solid as the deepest burgundy-colored leaf, a love as dazzling as the silver-toned leaves that shimmer in the breeze, a love as alluring as the red and orange hues splashed upon nature’s palette.
 

California, United States

As I engaged with the images, I could feel a wave of serenity and silence rising and coursing through my whole being. It was tangible. The energy drew my awareness inside. I felt as if the light that exists in those images exists in my heart as well. It was a sweet darshan!

 

Pune, India

Luminosity and sweetness, indeed! I experience Gurumayi’s darshan each time I come to the Siddha Yoga path website, as I do in meditation as well. I feel the power of Gurumayi’s intention in each of these captivating images.
 
How blessed are we to be celebrating the birth of such a one as our Gurumayi!
 

Washington, United States

As I was looking at this photo gallery this morning, I was so touched by the play of light and the delicacy of each beautiful image. Receiving Gurumayi's darshan in this way is such a great gift during Birthday Bliss Month! I was filled with inner joy and great love. These images fill my heart with peace, love, and respect for nature. And they connect me directly to the virtues we are studying every day.
 

Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve, France

With this darshan I experienced the photographs as a teaching about being fully present in every moment, with focus, love, reverence, and service; and that everyone and everything is here for a purpose, the role that God has intended for each. I am to live that purpose fully in every moment, as does my Guru and all of nature.
 

Washington, United States

As I was contemplating these images, I felt the atmosphere to be filled with the purity, quietness, brilliance, and delicacy of these images—paradise on earth.
 

Rodez, France

My heart is melting with joy to have this darshan with our loving Gurumayi ji. The flowers, birds, and nature in this photo gallery are the sweetest reminders for me to see my Guru's presence and love in nature.
 

Illinois, United States

As I gazed at the photos in this gallery, I was listening to the chant Om Namo Bhagavate Muktanandaya. The light from these images has wrapped me in a cloak that I will not take off for a long time. I am feeling an unexpected sweet blessing in my heart.
 

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

In viewing these images, I am immersed in the awareness of how God's love permeates and shines through everything—the lakes, the birds, the plants, and my sweet Guru. My eyes take in the delight and my mind shimmers with the light of awareness and the joy brought forth in these images.
 

Pennsylvania, United States

The essence of beauty and eternity,
the essence of love and freedom,
the respect in all essences.
 
Thank you, Gurumayi, for giving me such glimpses of blissful devotion.
 

Ravenna, Italy

I am stunned as I see and experience my Self looking at the image of the blazing sun reflected in the pristine, still waters of Lake Nityananda. Such grace is conveyed in this eternal beauty.
 

Connecticut, United States

In viewing this photo gallery, I had the experience of gratitude, abundance, love in my heart, and an awareness of the countless blessings of Shri Gurumayi ji.
 

Gurgaon, India

As I see and experience these images, my heart is full of love.
 

Massachusetts, United States