simple thoughts - All is God.

"With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe."
Bhagavad Gita Ch. 10:42

We see God in all life, but most of us simply do not yet recognize the depths of the beauty and miracles within and beyond. Please God help us to see You deeper. Love, Lalita

"You are the cure hidden in the pain. Concealed in anger and betrayal is your compassion and loyalty. You are not only in heaven, I see your footprints everywhere on earth." Rumi


Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal Soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain. - Sivananda

simple thoughts - Serve the world, go Inside, Realize...& Serve the world more.

The best utilization of favorable situations is to serve the world, and the best utilization of unfavorable situations is to go inside and realize our own Self...and then serve the world.

There are infinite beautiful examples. One of my favorites is Bo Lozoff:
www.humankindness.org.

Love, Lalita

simple thoughts - Challenges help us grow towards God

When life is very good for us, then it is so easy for us to cling to the world, and to the ways of living and being that are most popular in the world, rather than choosing a deep spiritual path for ourselves - of surrender, devotion, and moving deep into our interior heart, where we can be empty and let God flow through fully. Even though this deeper path would bring us such great joy, we are more familiar with the surface materiality and attachments of the popular lifestyles of the world so we cling to those familiar ways and objects and means so tightly.

However, difficult situations offer us a great gift that we may not notice at first glance, because we may be focused on pain. Why can they be beneficial? In an unfavorable situation there isn't a possibility of falling into worldly traps, but then the emphasis is upon opening more toward God in your life, because you will be seeking a deeper or better way of being that will bring you more joy, more aliveness, less suffering.

Two practices will help us on our spiritual path: letting go of our deep attachments to worldly ways and things, and walking towards God.

When times are very good, we cling to the world; so it can sometimes require a great effort in those times to open your heart to a deeper reality of God (though also blissful circumstances can indeed help to open your heart to God, as well); but in very difficult situations, much less effort is required to move away from the world. So in trying times, half the work is already done. This is a gift of facing difficulty; it helps to encourage us to open us to God in a much deeper way.

Unfavorable circumstances help us to open our hearts and lives to God, more than almost any other type of situation.

If you are in a difficult circumstance, rather than judge it or reject it - which will give you more suffering - please know that it truly is an opportunity to open your heart and life more deeply to God.

Love, Lalita

"The wise man builds his house on the solid rock of Truth, and not on the shifting sands of instability. He measures causes by effects and estimates Reality by that which is real and enduring. The foolish man, living only in sense perception, has no measure for Reality and builds his home on false and erroneous concepts; the vicissitudes of fortune upset his frail building, the edifice falls about him in ruins. Truth alone endures."

- Dr. Ernest Holmes

a quote from the Bhagavad Gita

With his mind completely harmonized by yoga,
The yogi sees the inner Self abiding in all beings.
He sees the same Truth everywhere,
He sees the same God everywhere.

~ The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality)

a quote from the Bhagavad Gita

Let a person uplift himself by his own Self;
Let him not lower himself.
The Self alone is one's friend,
And the Self alone is one's enemy.

~ The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality)

simple thoughts - remember God.

When you behold someone whose heart is full of
remembrance of God, your own heart fills up
with light.

This is why Mother Teresa touches us so deeply,
and why sacred texts such as the Bible and the
Bhagavad Gita and the Buddhist writings touch our
hearts so deeply -

they are filled with realization of God.

When you can see God in all life, you serve all life
that is before you.

When you can not yet see God in all life, you practice
serving all life that is before you.

Once you see God in all life, you serve and it is no
longer a choice; it is the natural divine choice,
because your heart is so filled with peace and beauty.

Your servant in love,
Lalita