LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

An enlightened mystic and
a contemporary master,
“Anandmurti Gurumaa”
is a living inspiration for
seekers of truth and love.
Gurumaa is an
epitome of wisdom,
guiding milliions towards
the realisation of true self.
Dialogue with Gurumaa
dispels the darkness and
gives a new ray of hope
to live a conscious life.

What is life? (Ravi Ahuja)
Life is so short but yet life is so beautiful. Life is a moment and moments are flickering. Life is a moment and moments are transient, changeable. Life is a beauty but it withers away. Life is a smile but it fades out. Life is a blossom but it dries out.
Again I repeat the question, what is life? Life is a cascade but yet it dwindles out. Life is a stream flowing endlessly but yet it dries away one day.
So these flickering moments, changing times, moving moments, an existence has to be explored which doesn’t change, does not wither, does not dry up, there is not a moment where there is ‘the end’ to that existence.
Life in its true purity has to be enjoyed, has to be tasted, has to be celebrated, but it isn’t possible until and unless a person is awakened enough to admire the beauty. The aesthetic value, if it is missing, then you might be living in the heaven, but you still be living in the hell.

The quality to appreciate the thing: Sun is rising in the horizon. Sun is spreading out its vibrant colors; and yet right before that rising sun a person can be engrossed, calculating his accounts, taking point of all the debts and the credits, taking point of how much money he made. There the priceless, the precious sun is rising and here this sleepy head is all bothered about the figures. Here you miss the life.

There is a beautiful saying of a woman mystic of Rajasthan; a small, at one time princely state of India, the queen mystic - Meera. Meera says: who will enjoy the essence of life? And she answers herself, “One who has drunk the cup of divinity will enjoy the life”. One whose cup is not full of divinity will never, never enjoy life.

What is the best time to do meditation?(Sudha Malhotra)
Meditation isn’t a feast to be done at one particular time of day or night, that you closed your eyes, sat in a padmasan, did some pranayam or did some Tibetan or Buddhist or Hindu or Yogic way of meditation.
And then popped up your eyes for twenty three hours doing all stupid things of worldly people. Worrying about each and everything; right from the politics to weather. to fashion, to cars, to houses, to women, to men, to affairs, all dwindling things.
The flavour of the meditation has to spread out in all day. Many people have asked me that they have problems in their knees. They have arthritis; they cannot sit for long in one posture. What to do?
Don’t Worry! You can stretch your legs. Definitely yes! You can sit with the help of a pillow as back support. You can sit on the chair and meditate. But the only prerequisite is that for the first twenty five to thirty minutes, if possible, be immovable. Don’t let the body move.

What happens is when you do this you change, you change and when you move enough your body, in those body movements the awareness flame will also move. Your concentration will keep on flowing from one part of the body to the other.
Although meditation is not just concentration, but definitely awareness has, this whole of awareness has part of concentration also. There is a beautiful aasan in yoga - Rajyoga which is called shavasan.
Do the meditation for twenty minutes, twenty five minutes and if your arthritis is giving you problem or your knees are giving you a problem then, no problem! Lie down in a shavasan!