As I grow older, and my time progresses toward the end of my life, I grow more keenly aware of how precious time is. I’m grateful for Gurumayi’s Message for 2025, which has encouraged me to focus on using my time wisely. I now often ask myself whether what I am doing or thinking is how I want to be using my precious time.
I am quite disciplined about how I spend my day, whether it is dedicated to performing Siddha Yoga practices—like meditation, reciting
Shri Guru Gita, contemplation, journaling, or offering
seva—or to carrying out the other activities of my daily life.
Yet I have discovered that fostering an awareness of devotion is just as important as being disciplined. If I perform each of the activities in my day as worship of God, then I am not wasting my time. I am making my time worthwhile.
I have created several ways to remind myself to have this devotional awareness, such as setting my timer to go off every hour.
California, United States
When contemplating this teaching, I reflected on the meaning of the word
advance as being “the action of moving forward.” In terms of my spiritual path, I see this teaching as an encouragement to continue to move forward in my
sadhana and to build upon each lesson that I learn.
Ohio, United States
One of the dictionary definitions for
advance is “to move forward in a purposeful way.” The word
purposeful particularly caught my attention and gave me a deeper insight into the nature of time. I see time as moving forward—not in some aimless manner, but in a purposeful, intentional way. This is one of the ways I recognize time to be on my side, bringing me closer to God, closer to the Self.
Coburg, Australia
Teaching 3, “The advance of time,” gives me the feeling that time is moving like a train. If I get on the train, if I make the teachings my own, I will progress and advance in my
sadhana.
California, United States
I just noticed that each day, one more heart on the border of the teaching has been turned to red. This evoked in me the feeling that with “The advance of time,” there is an alchemical transmutation of love in my heart.
I have never thought about time this way before. It is such a blessing to have noticed this today. I am contemplating this and letting it sink into my heart deeply and transform it.
Pennsylvania, United States