Guiding Light of The Month

O Lord, how ardently do I call and implore Thy love! Grant that my aspiration may be intense enough to awaken the same aspiration everywhere: oh, may good- ness, justice and peace reign as supreme masters, may ignorant egoism be overcome, darkness be suddenly illu- minated by Thy pure Light; may the blind see, the deaf hear, may Thy law be proclaimed in every place and, in a constantly progressive union, in an ever more perfect harmony, may all, like one single being, stretch out their arms towards Thee to identify themselves with Thee and manifest Thee upon earth. - The Mother

Along the Way...

It was a bleak morning. The cheerful rays of the sun were absent. Clouds were gathering in different corners of the sky. As I emerged from the underground car park of the Botanical Garden’s Visitors’ Centre, I was pleasantly greeted by the sight of a good number of people doing the last exercise for the warm-up session. We concluded the morning’s warm up session with a chant dedicated to The Mother, OM Anandamayi. This single mantra brought a deep silence in the circle. We were ready to take off when many others joined us at the same point. They were also, like me, lost sheep joining the main herd a little later. The light of The Mother embraces all and thus we began our walk around the Park together, as one family.

It was a great feeling to be with greenery. Somehow, nature has her very own special way of infusing in us something of her vast energy, sucking away all sorrows and clouds that may be within, or infusing in us a new energy. It rests solely on us, on our consciousness, how we may want to use that energy that we are gifted. Children expend it in a spirit of simple abandonment and Nature replenishes them without fail as they play. Adults are known to use, generally, much of their mind and a wild vital complicates the matter further. Energy is inevitably lost in making sense of the tangle we end up in eventually, in getting out of it. However, there are, thankfully, methods in which energy can be harnessed and channelised in ways that can bring in, over and over again, a free flow of itself for sustenance, that fatigue becomes a phenomenon foreign. It has been found that a total self-giving of oneself to the highest within achieves this feat where fatigue does not throw even its vaguest shadow upon us. Which brings us back to the walk. A walk walked in an attitude of goodwill to oneself and all around, in the midst of nature, fine trees and shrubs, plants and flowers, celebrated by bees, birds and butterflies, a walk in appreciation and gratitude and perhaps, dotted with deep silence spells many magical moments for a start. Indeed, it is this sweet innocent world that one should want more and more of. Spaces within are opened to be touched and the cleansing process is very slowly and gradually effected. Imagine doing such a walk with a group of people dedicated to the same!

The gathering dark clouds and rumbling skies opened up 45 minutes into the walk. It rained furiously. Whether we got wet or not, we must all have been cleansed, such is the magic of the presence of water, its shower of blessings.

- Jayanthy

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