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Jai Maa everyone,

In today's session, exploring Brahman through Shunyaji's satsang and contemplating on it together with Sadvhi Ishani's guidance was really eye opening and full of new insights for me.

The session was early in the morning for me, so I had a chance to contemplate on it further throughout the day. It was a beautiful spring day here in China where people flooded the parks to see the new blooms. I also had a chance to stroll through an inspiring park with bonsai gardens, koi ponds, flower paths, little streams and mini waterfalls. As I was watching nature's beauty surrounding me and especially enjoying a school of koi fish making their usual rounds in the pond, I started contemplating on the inherent essence of Brahman.

Understanding Brahman with our mundane and usually confused minds is not possible. Today, Sadhvi Ishani provided us a very useful thinking tool for understanding Brahman with our everyday mind. She suggested us to use the inherent essence or aspects of Brahman as entry points or gateways to a deeper, subtler knowing of it. Our initial understanding of Brahman is intellectual. To make this understanding more inward, we need to enter inside through these gateways that were provided to us to get a feeling of the limitless, birthless, beginningless, all pervading and eternal essence of Brahman.

For me it feels like waiting in the gateway, knocking on the door of Brahman, pleading and telling that , "I am here and I have a yearning to unite with you, so please let me in!". I imagine that everything starts with that yearning to know Brahman and then it progresses to something more integral once the door is open and we are in. Then we don't need to knock on the door anymore because Brahman is now revealed from within. At this stage, there is no door, no plea, no conversation. There is only the knowing of Brahman. Everything becomes one wholesome, full beingness, with awareness fully aware of itself.

I feel like this actually closes the gap, the split between me and Brahman, because it is in that gap itself that I can accommodate the conceptualization of Brahman. When I realize that the essence is me and there is no gap, no separation; Brahman ceases to be a concept and becomes a magnet pulling me inside to the core where unity exists.