I have been coming here for many years.
So it is like, for me, it is my spiritual Hogwarts.
It is a very homely feeling for me because my family has been into this practice from my grandfather’s time.
As a child, I used to visit ashram and when bhandaras (spiritual congregations) were there,
we used to go out and play, ice cream milta tha (ice cream was available), and the cake was there.
So, bahut homely feeling aata hai (it feels very homely).
As we grew up, I really started to enjoy the environment and all.
The ways you react to certain things and certain ways you look at, people or whatever, so that has changed.
I have become more patient in things. I have gotten more control over my emotions,
I have learnt how to channel them. So that is one huge improvement that I have seen.
I think, a lot of people fail to recognize what meditation can do to you, or how it can help you,
because they find it as something, you become a sadhu (mendicant).
They do not realise that actually it is a part of your lifestyle. It can be something as simple as,
how regularly you have to shower every day, you eat every day.
So, meditation can be inculcated in your lifestyle and it just changes everything.
So you have to try to experience it.
I started doing meditation when I was still studying in school.
So, it has gradually helped me to become more calm, before taking any decisions.
In hectic situations also and I am usually calmer than most people.
The first thing when I arrived at the airport and was welcomed by volunteers, it is so heart-warming.
So, I have all these brothers and sisters here, to know you are going to meet them
and even if you do not particularly know them in advance,
just know that they meditate as well and it feels like a sense of community.
It is really nice.
I like to share that we may not expect this, but it really changes the way we live every day.
It is a very small thing, because doing your practice, meditating, you can meditate ten minutes in the morning,
it is not much, but it really changes the way you live your everyday life. And it is very peaceful, so yeah.
From here in Kanha Shanti Vanam, I’d like to give a message to all the women
We women think only about the others
Let me do their work first,
first, I’ll attend to my children
let me do the household work first
However, if we were spare ten to fifteen minutes for our own sake and resolve,
“These few minutes are just for me. I need to meditate!”
If we built this routine in our life, for our own sake first
then you can see and believe how truly life-changing this practice is.
Just set aside ten minutes and see for yourselves
what amazing changes happen in your life through this practice
Take care of yourself too
do this for yourself
as you evolve, your entire family will also evolve, progress, and flourish