For me, Gurumayi's Message for this year has been like a multi-faceted diamond, and engaging with the Workbook has been a deep-dive into the different facets of this diamond.
The Workbook has supported me in implementing the Message in my
sadhana and in my day-to-day interactions with people. It has given me a deep understanding and experience of the Message, which continues to evolve.
London, United Kingdom
This year I joined a study group focused on the Workbook for the first time. Getting together weekly has been very uplifting and supportive during this challenging year. I find myself wishing it would continue forever, as I love
satsang and reflecting on Gurumayi’s teachings with other Siddha Yogis. Each person brings a different perspective and experience, and we have all delved deeply into Gurumayi’s Message and the Siddha Yoga practices and teachings. This is the highlight of my week!
California, United States
I have been pretty steady in my study of the Workbook this year. Sometimes the results of this practice seem miraculous to me. Today I completed the Workbook activities for Week 28. Then I recited
Shri Guru Gita in honor of my maternal grandmother. I experienced a profound shift in my body awareness after these practices—I felt a strengthening of the protective energy around my body and an enhanced ability to experience this protection. This appeared to be directly related to my engagement with the Workbook.
New Jersey, United States
For me, the Workbook is an amazing tool to study Gurumayi’s Message and to learn about myself. I find the questions challenging, but when I start working on the mind map, the answers flow easily. In this way, I am learning from the Workbook and discovering my inner wisdom.
New York, United States
I am so grateful that Gurumayi has given us one question every week. This summer I have been engaging with the Workbook every week, and it has really helped me to let go of the stress of my experiences as a public school teacher this past year. I have found that the Workbook evokes the power to redirect my focus in essential ways at this time. I feel that the inner resources that I am developing through engaging with the Workbook every week are truly a gift of Guru’s grace.
New Jersey, United States
I have allocated every Thursday to be my day of dedicated spiritual practices. On this day, I look forward to doing the exercises in the Workbook with heart and enthusiasm. I am so grateful for this amazing tool. My understanding of the Self is becoming clearer, and I am beginning to know how to listen to the inner sound and to quiet my mind.
I feel so blessed to have such a great teacher as Gurumayi ji. I am humbled and inspired by my Guru's compassion. What a great gift it is to be on this path with so many like-minded people. Truly, I thank everyone from the bottom of my heart who has helped make it possible for me to have access to my Guru's teachings in this way.
Versoix, Switzerland
In the last year and a half spent engaging with the exercises in the workbooks on Gurumayi’s Message, I have noticed a huge transformation taking place within me. I have begun to see long-lasting, limiting patterns in my thinking and personality change. All this is allowing me to become more anchored in myself.
The exercises are also helping me develop my artistic, poetic abilities. My understanding of what is true is expanding too. I now value focusing on the arts and nature as much as I value my daily work to earn money and my devotion to regular spiritual practices.
New York, United States
Like a flower,
the Guru gives
a gift of nectar.
Like the honeybee,
it’s up to the student
to make honey.
Illinois, United States
I experience that writing my responses to Gurumayi’s questions connects me to the experience of the Self within and makes my mind stronger. I experience gratitude welling up, beaming light from the base of my spine, through my chest and head, and radiating outward.
Missouri, United States
I am so grateful to be studying the Workbook with questions from our beloved Gurumayi. These questions seem to be infused with life-giving knowledge; they illuminate my mind and heart and call forth the divine virtues within me. They remind me again and again of the immense value of contemplating the Guru's words; we are truly blessed to have a living Master in our lives. I feel like I'm swimming in an ocean of holy words that are dipped in divine grace and blessed by God as they take me on a glorious journey into my Self.
Florida, United States
I thought I was
an empty cup
hoping to be filled
with Truth.
Then I approached
the Master
and my cup dissolved
into bliss.
I was no longer
empty,
nor cup.
Just bliss.
Illinois, United States
One of the questions in the Workbook on Gurumayi’s Message 2020 has brought to me a renewed conviction that my voice—through my singing and chanting—can help to bring harmony and balance into the world. In the midst of power tools, sirens, and traffic noises, I can also experience the birdsong and the singing that comes from inner serenity.
So much honor and humility come with the practice of chanting. My practice of study and reflection, through the Workbook, brings that to light.
California, United States
I live in Manhattan, and my day felt stressful as I prepared to stay indoors for an extended period of time. By the grace of the Guru, I turned to the Workbook on Gurumayi’s Message for 2020, where Gurumayi’s words gave me a sense of inner peace. Later on, I in turn was able to share that calm with someone else.
This will be a time of contemplation and creativity as I return to journaling and drawing. I am blessed to be on this path.
New York, United States
As I contemplate Gurumayi's question for this week, a whole new world of understanding and experience opens up—way beyond my normal rational and emotional understanding. I feel like I am entering a field of living intelligence which re-orients my understanding of the learning process. I find this so invigorating and exciting-- like entering a land of living knowledge. It is humbling and leaves me filled with awe and gratitude.
Auckland, New Zealand
I was so excited when I opened the website in the morning before I went to work and saw that
The Workbook on Gurumayi's Message for 2020 is available. I couldn't wait for the evening when I could start the Workbook. Last year it was so much fun, so inspiring and full of wonderful teachings. I am grateful to have this great opportunity again to practice Gurumayi’s Message.
Obing, Germany