December Chitra Puja

This morning the monks began their new phase with a pada puja to Gurudeva Sivaya Subramuniyaswami during the Chitra nakshatra. Natyam Dayanatha and Yogi Adinatha performed the abhishekam.

\"When you close your eyes and begin thinking about the objects you have been looking at, duplicating your surroundings in your mind by creating thought pictures of those objects, there is a deeper you who is the watcher of those thoughts.\" - Gurudeva

\"This you can practice all through the day almost anywhere you are. It takes no particular skill or practice.\"

\"It can be done at any time. You are simply becoming conscious of the natural processes of awareness, consciousness and thought which have been going on day after day all through your life up to this point.\"

\"Each time you practice being the watcher, using the method just outlined, as soon as you begin to succeed, you will immediately receive the impact of realization of the extent of involvement in the external mind that had occurred between these periods of practice.\"

\"You will find that the more you practice regularly, increasingly, more frequently, you will remember to continue the witness in the midst of daily life\"

\"while riding in conveyances, talking with people, shopping in crowded stores, even in the midst of a disagreement or at the pinnacle of a creative flow.\"

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You,\' the watcher, will preside, and in presiding will carry that inner presence so necessary for a full and fruitful life.\"'
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