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Jai Maa Jai Gurudeva

We warmly invite you to take a sacred pause to reflect on the recent words of our Acharyaji, from class 30 of the Karma Yoga series.

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AUM

Jai Maa

Ambika I am thinking of you today and wondering if you are ok.

I hope you will check in with us here when you can. I'm so sorry for what my country is doing to yours at the moment.

"It is said in India that to meet an Acharya is to meet oneself. Not the self shaped by roles and defenses, but the self beneath them all" Walking with Dharma Page 141. Again and again, I am grateful for these teachings and the Parampara. Indeed, when an Acharya crosses our path, the time has come to truly meet ourselves and seek a return to our true essence. The time has come for the actor to slowly peel off the many roles has been playing and realized that those are just superimposed by the EGO. This return is not a linear path; it requires effort, trust, and steadfastness. Many curveballs will arise, but as long as we allow the Acharya to lead us—rather than hold our hand—we are doing the work.

Jai Guru Deva!

We had a beautiful and beneficial integration session this week. I want to thank Sadhvi Aparna and Sadhvi Ishani for tying the loose ends in our understanding and guiding us toward further contemplation.

As we were led to contemplate on the areas in our lives where we experience more and more psychological cooling, I tried to silently observe the chaos, unsteadiness around me. Then I remembered Acharya Shunya's words from the recent satsang.

"There is a divine order in this disorder."

And I asked myself, how do I see this divine order, this calm and serenity amidst so much chaos and uncertainty?

The image of a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle flashed in my mind. What is going on around me is like a jigsaw puzzle that I am striving to put its pieces together. However, no matter how hard I try, there is always one piece missing . Then begins…