Morning Meditation
We begin our meditation today on this beautiful morning; we give thanks to God for the blessings of a new day.
Beloved God, Creator of Life, Self of all, we thank You for the blessings of this day. We ask You to guide us within that we may realise Your presence within us; that we may realise that you are the Source of all power, love, peace and wisdom within our being. Grant us Your Grace. Thank You Beloved God.
Let us hold our attention in the present moment, in the here and now and bring the mind into a state of stillness and peacefulness that we may realise the power behind the mind. Let us take a moment to honour the physical body; it is a gift of life. The physical body is a community of cells each having its own intelligence and consciousness. Let us greet our body cells as we begin this day. As you feel the warmth in the body, you are feeling the presence of cells; they generate heat within your little being to keep the physical body warm.
You are the consciousness within the body, the awareness, the intelligent being that lives in the physical body; you inhabit the body. You bring into the body an energy field with seven centres of light called ‘Chakras.’ Your spiritual presence in the body is that of a consciousness being with an energy field. Let us activate that energy field. You can do that by thinking of love; you radiate an energy to every cell and every organ within you. Just by creating the thought in the mind, ‘I love you my body; I extend my love to every cell.’ As you do this, you activate the energy field, the heart centre and you send light throughout your body. Hold your body in that loving space, in that way you energise your body cells. Hold your body in the inner light of your love.
Use your lungs and breathe in deeply and breathe out completely and fill the physical body with the pranic energy of life, revitalising your physical field. As you move the prana, the mind becomes quiet. You are pure being, pure awareness. Your spiritual nature is pure being, manifesting in the body in seven centres of light and influencing every part of your body. You are a being of eternity. You have entered this body at birth and you will depart from it at the end of the life of the body. You are immortal in being. As you go deeper inside and identify with your soul’s consciousness, the feeling of your source immortality comes. Hold yourself in that state of pure being knowing that you were never born nor will you die. You are a particle of God’s being. Affirm your identity in the Divine, ‘I am a spark of the Divine Fire’, ‘I exist in God’s being’, ‘I am in the heart of the Divine.’ As you hold yourself in that space repeat your sacred words and feel their power.
Beloved God, we ask You to guide us through this day, lead us from darkness into light, guide our every thought, word and action that our lives will be a blessing to your world. We thank You for all the grace You bestowed upon us and we pray that we will always be worthy. Thank You Beloved Creator of Life. Peace, peace, peace.
Morning Talk
Your True Nature is Divine
Good morning everyone and welcome to a new day. In the meditation I asked you to think of your spiritual being and to remember your soul’s immortality. Living in a human body, we forget this. We are caught in this mortal identity. We think we are going to die and we have so many problems but it is no different to a dream. In a dream you think that everything is so real. And sometimes in the dream, you become aware that you are dreaming and to escape the suffering in the dream, you struggle and wake up. If I am in a dream and I do not like what I am dreaming, I pull myself out of it.
It is the same with this mortal life. When you get caught up in the body’s identity, you get so drawn in thinking that all this is real. It is real in one sense but not absolute reality. Absolute reality means it exists forever; nothing here exists forever. The scientists will tell you that it is all a play of atoms and energy, changing shapes and forms. The ancient ones said the same thing; they say it is all a play and it is not your essential reality.
Your essential reality is pure being, the part of you that is aware - the awareness within you, the ‘beingness’; that is your true identity. It is intelligent awareness with an energy field. You have a body of light with seven centres of energy and that is your existence in the physical body. These seven centres light up the body and they influence the body.
You have a centre of light in the heart and when you think of love, it opens up and it influences the physical field. You have a centre of energy between the eyebrows and when you focus there and it opens up, you have a powerful mind and concentration. These centres exist in you. I say this because I know them, I live with them and I have experienced their energy.
The physical body is not your true being. You came to this body at birth. You have read research on hypnosis and regression where they go back into your memory and they take you back in time through the memory. I read where they were trying to find out when the soul enters the body and in these regressions, they found when the child is coming down the birth canal that the soul enters the body. In these regressions, they remember coming down the birth canal. For me this makes a lot of sense; as the child is being born there is life in the body, so the soul needs to enter the body before the umbilical cord is severed. You enter the body at birth and you depart from the body at death.
Death is now becoming a science. If you read the research of near death experiences, people who have been pronounced clinically dead, they have amazing experiences of afterlife – seeing light, meeting beings and some have been profoundly changed because of those experiences. They don’t fear death anymore and they live differently. It is amazing. The most wonderful thing is if you explore your spirituality, you can become aware of that and you don’t have to die to experience the presence of your soul. You can experience that whilst alive. Now, you can experience these centres inside of you.
Your true nature is divine but you are so caught up in the mortal identity and that is where the fear, doubt, confusion and the limitation is. Remembering your soul’s power, you feel a sense of freedom, inner power, power of your mind, power of the emotion, and you become a super being. This is what we see in the ancient literature of this power that we have. In meditation you experience this. Even the chanting of this long mantra this morning, it is really an exercise of going deep within yourself. As you chant you find you go deeper and deeper into a space inside.
If you can touch that inner space, your day becomes different; your happiness is of a different quality and it is not dependent on food. Right now you are not thinking about physical food. You are in a different space. You work with a different attitude. You relate to the world with a different attitude when you are in that space. You don’t feel that you are sick; you don’t feel that you are old, you don’t feel so overwhelmed with problems, you don’t feel a victim of life, you feel different. You feel hope, you feel faith, you feel happy, you feel rich though you may not have money at the moment, you feel different. You feel you can achieve anything you want to and that is a spiritual feeling. And you are no longer afraid of life.
This devotion that you did this morning, this exercise in chanting and in meditation, it is really meant to transform your consciousness, to move you away from your mortal identity into the experience of your soul’s power. Let your day be filled with that; that the quality of your consciousness stay as it is. Let your love grow. As you would notice the sun is brighter today. When you look outside the day is nicer. It is not the things around you that have changed; it is that you have changed. It is amazing. When you change your whole world changes.
If you want to keep this state, an easy way is to continue to put a mantra in the mind and hold that mantra with everything you do. Hold the mantra inside and you will be amazed how this state will continue.
Don’t give your power away. We say when you let the world affect you, then you give it power over you. When someone gets you angry, it is not that you should get powerful in your anger - then you have lost your power. You give the other person the power to unsettle you so you are giving your power away. When you let the world disturb you, you are giving your power away to the world to control you. Don’t let the world do that to you, you are in charge. You maintain your peace no matter what happens outside. The truth is that God is with you. The truth is you exist in God. The truth is you are always connected to God. The truth is you receive guidance when you are open to it.
Those of you who read the Bhagawad Gita on the battlefield, Arjuna was counselled throughout the battle by Krishna. He fought valiantly and he won the battle. He was counselled throughout the battle by his guide, his friend, his mentor - Krishna.
Let God be your Guide throughout this battlefield of life. I wish all of you a wonderful day. We enter a new day full of hope, full of trust, full of love. May it continue and may we all be blessed.
