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This morning I was relistening to recording 4 of the Gayatri Sadhana Workshop (March 2025), and found these words so motivating, I thought I'd share them here.

This is from timestamp 1:32 of the recording:

“There is no greater austerity/sadhana than the Gayatri Sadhana. What does the Gayatri Sadhana look like? I wake up in the morning, sleep early, so I eat lighter at bedtime, I avoid alcohol and coffee and tea and other stimulants so that I can sleep well, because I’m eager to wake up in the morning to greet Savita Devata, the Sun Devata, before it rises.  Then I want to be ready to greet Savita, and then as I am greeting and chanting (the Gayatri Mantra), and after that when I sit in meditation, I’m also having a rendezvous with Maa Gayatri and her blessings. And slowly my life is transforming. Because it’s transforming, I’m eating…

These several weeks of Gayathri sadhana have been transformative. As I write this, tears flow from gratitude, joy and compassion. The daily practice is a blessing that returns to me again and again from morning til noon til night, and when we gather together each Sunday, the Shakti of the group and deep listening to my Guru’s voice in the recordings intensifies the blessing as moments of union are experienced amidst consciousness dancing between gross and subtle realms, sometimes arising as deep stillness, sometimes the presence of light, or a message being received in the cave of my heart, or a vision, or a visceral heart expansion, or even sensing an aroma I can only describe as divine perfume. What is this thing I call a “blessing”? It is the moksha moments, the falling away of the illusion of maya to reveal only light, only Self, only God, bathing in…

Jai Maa Sadasya’s, 

Yesterday while driving in my car I was reflecting on the tragedy of the fires in Southern California.  I felt so much sorrow for the victims going through such intense loss and uncertainty.  My sorrow and deep empathy started to turn into me questioning the origins of the fire, the lack of management and preparedness, and my mind started to pull towards rajasic thoughts.  By the grace of Ishvara, my Atman whispered to my mind the word DEVASYA.  Hearing this word come from within, made me pause, breathe and I felt grounded in my being.  I felt a refreshed sense of emotions and a redirection of my thoughts.

I picked the word DEVASYA from the Gayatri mantra during our Navodaya, New Dawn/New Year retreat.  This word emerged at a moment where I need a perspective change!  Shunya ji mentioned in her teachings of this word to “see…