see with what enthusiasm gaiety we
celebrate New Year right? New Year
something new, time is always new
every day is new every moment is new
but when we are attending to it when
with all our attention with our enthusiasm
we make it a celebration isn't it?
you can make a celebration of it
every month and then every day
every day is a little too much
but if you can imagine that you maintain
so much enthusiasm love and freshness
newness then the job is done and you
become the lighthouse for the world
otherwise firecrackers keep happening in
life invisible firecrackers yes?
how you watch and witness the
firecrackers in the same way you should
see all the different emotion colors
coming up in the world you know all
different tendencies they rise up and they
all fall and they look beautiful
embrace life in its totality with all its
colors with all its flaws and with
flaw is only our own attribution to it
with all its what we may call as
shortcomings when you embrace it
totally then life is a celebration yeah
all is perfect the way they are that one
thing every moment all is perfect now
allows you to celebrate 100%
if anywhere you say this is not okay that
is not perfect then celebration cannot
happen because that calls for you for
action whatever is not okay then you
get busy in setting that right correct?
and celebration is just chill out
do nothing
but there is a stage where you see you
can do both simultaneously you can
set right what all need to be set right
and yet not lose the spirit of celebration
that is enlightenment what?
continue to be in the spirit of celebration
yet attend to all the details and set
them right wherever they need to be
yeah so the spirit is in celebration while
the matter or the external world start
getting evolved I mean it will start
getting corrected and evolve start to
evolve and that's the message for New Year
embrace the new year like the cobra
it sheds its old skin
comes out of it fresh and new
so shed the past like the skin of a cobra
like the old horns of the antelope
you know what antelope does? it's
it's too dangerous to see it with all the
horns then once a year or sometime in
this season they just shed them and
then they look again cute and innocent
no defense like that we move around
with defense all the time and sometime
we must must just shut the defense and
repose in the core of our heart knowing
the divinity is right here now and all is well
and all is being taken care of got it?
all is well and all is taken care of just
this aphorism or this intention or idea
itself help to bring the best out of you
and the best out of you is is what?
what is the best out of you? not the talents
talents are very different in different
people what is the best out of you?
unconditional love and unconditional joy
like that, it's exuberant joy
then say in 2024 say I'm going to be a
source of joy not source of complaints
what? what do you say? and it needs a
skill to to be joyful and yet to complain
till you get that skill to set right things
and complain first start to manifest the
joy that is inside of you that is what you
are yeah manifest the joy that you are
everyone I see everyone has so much
potential to bring light and love happiness
to the world everybody has the beauty
in them and it is being covered covered
with ignorance all sorts of stress and
you know hankerings and bickering
so this New Year 2024 decide I'm
going to be a source of enthusiasm
full of enthusiasm bring positivity in the
world which needs it more than ever
whatever we can do physically we will
do to help out where we cannot do
anything we can sit and put the intention
pray, pray for the peace
you'll say yes Gurudev I know but you
know what can we do? what's happening
in Gaza what can we do? what's
happening in Ukraine or Russia Gaza and
Palestine I say don't feel I mean you're
already feeling no point in reeling in
desperation you have the power to pray
yeah and so you pray and believe that
it'll be done the higher power will take
care of it and will be done your prayer
will be heard that unless we get the
confidence that our prayers will be
heard we won't be able to even pray
authentically right? the authenticity of
our praying prayer is not through words
prayer is through silence
and the feeling the subtle feeling let
there be peace let everyone be happy
what do you say? good idea? yeah so
to do that every day you have to meditate
so resolve to meditate in 2024 every day
and resolve to do the same silence
program at least twice or thrice
thrice a year would be good
at least thrice a year say I will do it
every four months every season let me
let me go within and clean up all the
cobwebs all the dust that I collect
gather from activity and from interaction
in the world of Maya the world of Illusion