Gurumayi’s Message for 2015 has helped me forge a new relationship with time. While meditating, I have become aware of a particular quality of time—it isn’t linear.
In meditation, my awareness is free of the constraints of time; I am not seeking anything in the future, or anything from the past. I am subtle and vast. Each moment arises from and dissolves into perfection.
When I finish meditating, I have learned to stay for several minutes and reflect on those moments when time expanded. I consciously gather up my experience. Then I am able to return to it during the day.
a Siddha Yogi from Victoria, Australia
We study Gurumayi’s Message in family satsang. I’ve learned that God dwells in my heart and I can experience God’s presence through the Siddha Yoga practices. By doing practices like meditation, mantra japa, and namasankirtana, I can enter within.
In satsang we practice meditation by focusing on the mantra and the breath. I feel good due to my practice of meditation. My mind becomes fresh when I experience a focused state of mind.
I am grateful to Gurumayi for guiding us in meditation. I am grateful to Gurumayi for showing us the path of love and for giving us the experience of this love.
an eight-year-old Siddha Yogi from Chinchiwad, India
My meditation practice has taken on wonderful new qualities this year. I have become more attuned to the subtle movements of the inner energy. It rises in the form of a powerful and stable column that runs through my core, holding me steady as my mind is drawn into a state of perfect stillness.
I’ve seen the fruits of my meditation practice flow into my work as a teacher. I’ve become more spontaneous, generously sharing knowledge as my interest in, and love for, my students grows.
a Siddha Yogi from New York, USA
When I meditate, my heart rests and it becomes happy. When I chant, I feel that the world is pretty. It is like a star.
an eight-year-old Siddha Yogi from Mexico City, Mexico
Before, it seemed I could not find time to meditate. But when I saw the form of Gurumayi’s Message as TIME, I decided to find time this year for spiritual practice.
My meditation practice has been very fruitful. In meditation I pause; I find the inner strength to notice, and then to choose, the things that are beneficial in my life. I can see how making time for spiritual practices has led to progress in sadhana as well as growth in my personal life.
a Siddha Yogi from Delhi, India
When I recall and silently repeat Gurumayi’s Message to myself—even in the midst of my daily routine—I immediately tap into my experience of meditation.
a Siddha Yogi from Virginia, USA
After I meditate, I like to stay all alone and quiet for a while, as this helps me understand what came to me in meditation. Then I become very energetic and very happy.
There have been many benefits for me from practicing Gurumayi’s Message and meditating. The main thing that has changed is my behavior. I have become more polite and soft. Meditation has also helped me to become more bold and strong and also very lovable. These benefits keep me wanting to meditate again and again.
an eleven-year-old Siddha Yogi from Delhi, India
Gurumayi’s Message for 2015 has fully supported me to become more aware of the great space of the Heart.
When I contemplate Gurumayi’s Message and practice it, I find that I can more easily touch the inner depths of my being. In this space I feel my Guru’s love, and it is truly endless, like an ocean. More and more, I feel the purpose of my life is to go deeper into this ocean.
As I settled into Gurumayi’s Message for 2015, I’ve been amazed by how rooted I’ve become in my meditation practice. Meditation has become not something that I must do, but something I don’t want to miss!
I’ve received everything I’ve needed to succeed in deepening my practice. Each time I sit for meditation, I know that I can access that deep state. I can reach it through any of the many practices and teachings we’ve been given during the monthly meditation sessions on the Siddha Yoga path website.
My meditation practice has been charged with extra special energy. So often during meditation, I have the experience of entering a cave where Bade Baba, Baba, and Gurumayi are meditating. I place my asana before them and sit to meditate. My mind turns quiet. There is a sense of opening in the head region, my body fills with a relaxed alertness, and I fill with the warmth of devotion.
Thank you, Gurumayi, for this marvelous year of meditation! I am so grateful!
New York, USA
Practicing Gurumayi’s Message has given me an opportunity to release a sense of grasping for happiness and satisfaction outside of myself and to focus my attention on awareness itself. Turning within to experience my own consciousness—rather than just the objects of consciousness—has become the gateway to the experience of Self.
When my focus shifts and becomes steady on awareness itself, even for a moment, meditation arises spontaneously. The state of meditation becomes the recognition that the Self is my true nature.
Ohio, USA
Practicing Gurumayi’s Message for 2015 has benefited me on many levels. I have become very aware of the value of time and how I spend it. And, on another level, after meditating on the Message, I experience rising beyond the confines of time and space into infinity. I experience a very harmonious state, a state of pure being. I find myself savoring the moments as life unfolds.
Niścintatā and light-heartedness are the fruits I have experienced from Gurumayi’s Message.
Thank you, Gurumayi.
Mumbai, India
I was excited to see this post on the website this morning. Happily, as I sipped my coffee, I started reading the shares, which are full of wisdom. Suddenly my eyes closed, and my awareness turned inward, into a spontaneous meditation. Sitting at my computer, coffee cradled in my lap, I was meditating!
My breath became very slow and the muscles in my body completely relaxed. My mind started repeating, “I love you, Gurumayi. I love you, my inner Self.” It was a blissful experience of my innermost being.
Thank you, Gurumayi, for the lifeline of the Siddha Yoga path website.
Vermont, USA
Throughout 2015, I was facing a health issue. Gurumayi’s Message helped me to stay strong, steady, and to perform my spiritual practices day after day.
I experienced the Message to be a treasure and a powerful gift from the Guru.
Thank you, Gurumayi.
Milan, Italy
As I practice Gurumayi’s Message, I feel that I’m becoming more me. Meditation connects me with my true Self.
Florida, USA
As I practiced Gurumayi’s Message this year, I found myself gliding into meditation very naturally. I also began to notice how I carry the ease I experience in meditation into my daily life. I am more and more at ease as I attend to all my daily activities. I am more at peace with myself, others, and the world.
Thank you, Gurumayi, for this experience of meditation.
Melbourne, Australia
Gurumayi’s Message for 2015 has created such an enthusiasm in me for meditation. Sometimes I wake up in the night and look at the clock to see if it’s meditation time yet! If it’s at least 3:00 a.m., I sit for meditation.
Meditation has become my greatest friend and comfort, a delicious, warm blanket. Meditation is filled with priceless gems. I emerge from meditation focused and enthusiastic for life. I never thought this could happen to me.
Thank you, Gurumayi.
California, USA
Through my daily meditation practice, which is enlivened by the Guru’s grace, I experience an inner space. This experience has become so much a part of me that even when I become upset for one reason or another, I still feel this space, which shines a light on the path back to grace.
Thank you, Gurumayi, thank you!
New York, USA
As I reflect on this year, I realize that I’ve had the best companion—The Siddha Yoga Message for 2015. The Message has been right here with me, all along, as a friend, when I’ve sat for meditation—as I’ve been going in, as I’ve been coming out. It’s been with me, as my teacher, in every satsang on the Siddha Yoga path website. It’s been with me as a guide, helping me shift my relationship to dharma and to time.
Perhaps, above all, it’s been with me, as a relaxed presence, throughout each day. I am so grateful to Gurumayi for this 25-year tradition—for providing a clear teaching to focus my spiritual study for every year, and for the grace that comes with each teaching.
Hawaii, USA
I love reading these shares. It’s so helpful to see how other Siddha Yogis have practiced Gurumayi’s Message, and this feels like an invitation to reflect on my own experience as well.
This year, I too have learned the importance and the value of taking my time as I emerge from meditation, to stay quiet for a little while, and to reflect on my experience. This has made a big difference in my life; I see how much it has contributed to a sense of ease in the rest of my day.
