January Chitra Puja

This morning the monastery begins a new phase following a two-day retreat. It also happens to be the Chitra nakshatra, so a padapuja was performed for Gurudeva's granite Tiruvadi in Kadavul Temple. Natyam's Mayuranatha and Rajanatha performed the abhishekam. Jai Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami! Om Namah Sivaya.

True happiness can never be found in the conscious mind or its subconscious states.

Happiness is not the first sign of awakening.

It is only the first sign of a realization that there is something beyond the conscious and subconscious phases of the mind.

When you think you are ready for a spiritual awakening, you have only realized that the awakening has already taken place in the subsuperconscious mind.

It has not yet been able to manifest itself in the realms of the conscious and subconscious mind, because they are too possessed with material things and thoughts.

It is impossible for your awakening to penetrate. So you live in the realm of desire, striving and hoping that the grace of God will descend upon you.

Instead, you must only wake up and release your mind from all worldly thoughts, feelings and desires long enough to unfold what is already within your subsuperconscious state of mind, locked up and waiting to be expressed.

To do this, concentration is needed. Concentration brings light, or understanding, by holding the mind to one point.

Then all material thoughts, feelings and desires fall away for the time, and you are allowed to receive your rightful unfoldment.

This is not as hard as it seems.

It does not require you to renounce the world.

It only requires you to make an effort every day to concentrate the mind, by first quieting the physical body and then the mind, to free itself from all the thoughts of the day.

Then hold the mind on one thing that is attractive to you for as long as you can.

When it wanders, pull it back until the light of understanding begins to appear.

You will be amazed at the results in a very short time.

True happiness will then be yours, released from the subsuperconscious state of your own mind.

Om Tat Sat Om

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