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In times when one of you is going through a health crisis, an emotional crisis or a financial crisis - connection becomes your balm that will soothe your hearts. 

Namaste.

Did you know that self harm is the leading cause of death for people aged between 15 and 44? Also statistics show that approximately three times more number of men than women die from self harm every year.

Why? Because in your own families you live like strangers. Our hearts don’t really reach out to each other. Friendships have become immensely superficial.  A deep unsettling loneliness is killing us. Many of us are spending the entire day on listening to music, watching videos, playing video games and are  isolating yourselves from the rest of life and other people. you do not connect with anyone, you do not connect with nature, you do not connect with a cause, and some of u don’t even connect with yourself.  Why do we feel unfulfilled in our relationship with people? 

I would say that we need to fundamentally transform who we are and learn to  connect with the world around us. 

In times when one of you is going through a health crisis, an emotional crisis or a financial crisis - connection becomes that  balm that will soothe your hearts. It so become your strength to tower over challenges. It will become your channel to connect to the divine and open grace in to your life . 

Connection does not merely mean an interaction with one another, we have interacted all our life and our words eventually have left us feeling empty. 

Do you think connection is about partying together, golfing, or smoking together and at the end of the day you feel depleted of all energy? Definitely not. 

It is also more than watching a movie together, vacationing together, chatting or video gaming together, or networking together.

SO WHAT IS CONNECTION?

To Connect is to feel the other. 

To connect is to celebrate the joy of another, to be with the other in their joy - not to behave as if your joy were separate from another. 

To connect is to be sensitive to another's unhappiness or inner-conflict. It is to make a conscious effort to help them become free of their inner disturbance. 

To connect is to be present. To be present to  listen and to feel the other, instead of incessantly speaking or being lost in thought.

To be present is not to take the other for granted - but to truly appreciate the other's presence in your life. 

Does this make connection sound feminine? No. Connection is neither a masculine or a feminine experience - it is the essence of being human.

Is there love in all this? It seems to be a battle for egoic supremacy.

Question - I feel my partner prioritises her desires more than our family. This is leading to a big rift in our relationships. I am not able to accept it. Can you please guide us? 

Every idea or opinion you have about your partner is only your view; and a view that keeps changing; it is not the absolute truth.

 If you realised this, there can be room for love to take birth between you. 

 To form a view or opinion on your partner, based on your life experiences is natural. But when you hold on to your perceptions with rigidity, without being open to any other perception,  you become intolerant.

 You become judgemental.  You become insensitive to your partner. You don’t care for their feelings .

 All you want to do is reinforce your view that “you were right” in the opinion you had about the other.  And you want them to accept it.  And you want the world to accept that you were right!

 Is there love in all this? It seems to be a battle for egoic supremacy.

 To believe that your ideas and your opinions are the only truth, is like being a Koopastha Mandooka.

 You are like a frog that was born and raised in a well.

Such a frog assumes that there is no larger expanse of water other than the well in which it lives.

 If any other creature said otherwise, that creature was a liar or was an enemy.  

To this frog the sea is a lie; the lake is a myth; the river is an untruth.  

 Are not your rigid ideas and opinions of your partner a result of  absence of love?

 Don’t assume that your view of the other is the ultimate View.

Understand that, if only you are willing to let go of your rigid view, can there be room for love between you.

 Such an understanding will spur you to go beyond your rigid views and prompt both of you to evolve into a greater relationship that is filed with love.

 Let us now move into a reflection 

Please invite your partner to join you in this reflection too.

 • Sit  together in a comfortable posture and close your eyes.

Inhale deeply through your nose and exhale slowly through your mouth in total awareness, 7 times.

 • Reflect on any one conflicting situation you both run into repeatedly.  

 • Observe the ideas and opinions you hold about that situation.

• Every time you get stuck in your views, your responses to your partner are egoistic, stubborn and unwise.

 • These compulsive reactions rob love from your relationship; don’t they?

 • Now take a deep breath into your heart.  Is there something beautiful about this person that your heart can see, once this prejudice is gone. What would that be?

 • This might be a beautiful time for both of you to hold each other’s hands. Ask the universe to help you connect from the heart beyond these differences.

 Namaste. Have a beautiful day in a beautiful state

Question : what is the basis of meditation? It sometimes feels spooky; sometimes more like a fad that people want to display.
Should I begin the practice at all and where?

Sri Preethaji:

Meditation is not a fad or a fashion.  It is an ancient science that was cultivated in the India for thousands of years.  While the West cultivated prayer for centuries; in the India millions of people dedicated their entire lives to the study and the pursuit of meditation and consciousness.
Take the terracotta seals found in the Indus valley civilisation.  These seals are nearly 7,000 years old or even older. They show case yogis in proper Meditation postures.
While people may pursue meditation for numerous reasons, to us it is a path to move away from stressful states of mind to beautiful states of being.
The meditations that Krishnaji and I teach are easy and powerful, they are also scientific and spiritual, yogic and universal.
While there may be many basis for meditation, our meditations are built on what we call “The Transformation Triad” of Breath-Mind-Consciousness.
Let me give you a simple understanding of the Transformation triad.
Our Meditations built on the Transformation triad take you beyond helplessness to calm, clarity and connection- To health, vitality and vigour.
Most meditations out there use only one or two of these three elements. We use an approach that integrates all three.
Each of the 3 can act as a tool to shift the other two elements.
Let us say, you are experiencing angry thoughts and are not able to free yourself using the mind itself. Working your way through breath could be a path. This is breath impacting the mind. So you may start with breath-based practices.

Let us say, you are gripped by anxiety, your breath would be erratic and short. And the more your breath is out of harmony, your anxiety would go out of charts. As you move into a meditative observation of your anxiety, you would notice your breath become easy, slow and even. Your entire body moves away from stress into deep relaxation. This is the mind impacting your breath and your body. If you are open to it, you may begin with observation-based practices.

By the same token, when your consciousness transforms and you experience a beautiful state of connection beyond your limited self, the arising of anger, fear or sadness itself is minimised. This is consciousness impacting the mind.

Here is something I would want you to remember.

•Relax your body through meditation - it heals.

•Observe your mind in meditation– it calms.

•Awaken to an experience of connection beyond the self in consciousness - you become liberated.

If you are still looking for a reason to meditate let me tell you this - Meditation impacts us physically, chemically, neurologically and emotionally.

And Why don't you begin with the soul sync practice - a meditation that beautifully integrates  the Transformation triad and helps you break free of negative emotions. It would be a great starting point. All it takes is 10 minutes to do it. Try practising soul sync meditation for 21 days in a row on our Breathing room Meditation app and you will see the tremendous impact.

There are a 100 delightful meditation practices on our Breathing room Meditation app.

I suggest you take a walk through our app.

Ultimately To experience a wonderful Meditation is like taking a plunge into  the warm waters of the sea, instead of analysing how it would be if you got into water by sitting on the beach. There is no way of knowing a thing until you get in to it.

(Preethaji leads people into Soul sync meditation)

It is like a constant game of - you be in my life, but, maintain a distance. You be with me, but don’t get too close. 

WHY CAN’T YOU TRUST SOMEONE’S LOVE?

Why is it so hard for two people who know each other very well to live together peacefully? 
Common sense says it must be easy. Common sense also says, we simply need to be helpful and civil to each other. That is all. 

But is it that simple? If it were so, why do parents and children incessantly argue? Why do couples misunderstand each other so easily? Why can’t we tolerate the elderly?

Let us understand. 

Every human being is a wounded person. We are wounded and hurt by our parents, by school and  by society. We each may have many bitter experiences in the past. 

When you loved someone in the past, be it a friend you trusted, a boy friend or a girl friend, a sibling or a parent, and were disappointed by that person, you become wounded. 

Even if you have practically moved on, the wound internally lingers in your consciousness. 

You become like the Tenali Rama’s cat that refuses to drink anything white, because it’s tongue was burnt earlier while drinking milk. 

To trust and to feel safe feels very difficult. Therefore you become extremely cautious and untrusting. 

You will still want people in your life, not because you love them, but because you fear being lonely. It is like a constant game of - you be in my life, but, maintain a distance. You be with me, but don’t get too close. 

We are afraid of being wounded and wounding others with our anger. 

We are scared of our own loneliness and that we will be disappointed with our partners. We as human beings have been on the run from each other , we have been running from our own selves too. 

You are terrified you may ruin your own life with disappointments and loneliness. 

This time of seclusion and compulsive living alone or with your families can actually help you come face to face with all this. Some wounds are unexplainable. 

They  even flow from previous lives. And you may for no reason develop a deep dislike towards some one. 

You will have to become free of such a dislike too. Otherwise this samskara will continue to flow into your next life and will continue to haunt you. 

How do we begin our journey towards healing ourselves and healing others? The only way is compassion- to be able to feel yourself and to be able to feel the other. 

You will have compassion for each other only when you realise that just the way that you are wounded, the other too is wounded in life. No ne is an exception to these wounds. 

If this seed of initial compassion, can take root within you,  you will engage in loving conversation. You will listen to the other with an intention of feeling their pain, not to prove your goodness, not to prove your rightness to them. 

If you simply opened your heart and listened to what is hurting someone, that very loving listening can heal them. 

When your partner or child moves into an anger outburst in the middle of your conversation, most of the times, they are not asking for answers or for solutions. 

What they are actually looking for is an experience of connection and compassion.  They want you to listen, they want you to feel them. 

Something magical happens when you listen with compassion for another. You heal and they heal too. 

Try it and see.

Let me assure you you will come out of this  crisis soon going in to fear is not a solution for any  problem 

Pranams Sri Krishnaji & Sri Preethaii i am  Rajeev from Sri Lanka,

My question is many lost their jobs and have no hope about how its going to be. Also no idea how to  recover from this breakdown which is leading in increase of stress and suffering also as youth we need to have a word of hope to perceive things positively. And Prepare ourselves for the next move when the situation gets into control. How to see this situation as an opportunity to rise back

Let us now get on to the spiritual plane to answer your questions. 

If as a young person you want to use the currents of this crisis to rise higher in life, you must hold on to one central insight. You must realise that "a problem is different from suffering". And that problems need not keep you in suffering.Let us go into it. Problems are external challenges and hardships. What you are speaking about is an economic problem.

 When this economic problem hit you, it is likely you went into panic or anxiety. This is natural. 

This anxiety, panic or sadness is internal. It is a mind state. This unpleasant and painful inner experience is what we call suffering. 

If you can dissolve the suffering state of anxiety and come to a state of inner stillness, you will find intelligent solutions to your problems. 

It is only from this state of stillness you will be able to connect to the universal intelligence or the divine. When you are connected to the universal intelligence, Intuition will flow through you on what your future direction should be. 

As a mystic I can also assure you that if you dissolve your anxiety, move into a beautiful state of connection and truly yearn to make a difference to others through your career, the universe will come together to support you. 

So as the first step, go ahead and do the serene mind practice. 

Dissolve your suffering and you can cut through your problem.

It is true these are tough times. 

Many have lost their jobs, 

many people’s savings have dwindled, 

many companies have fallen in their value and this is a global scenario. It is not just in India, Sri Lanka, China or United States, Australia or Europe. This is happening everywhere.

But let me assure you, we will come out of this crisis soon. 

Going into fear is not a solution for any problem. 

This crisis can be an extraordinary opportunity for world leaders and economists to come up with economic systems and structures that are built on real Wealth. 

This crisis is a proof to all of us - how fragile, how hollow and gaseous our financial structures are and how easily they can be destroyed. One virus infestation for less than two months and nations have become so much poorer. It is unfortunate. 

I am not an economist.  But as a philosopher I have the faith that the world's leaders will become wiser and come up with more sustainable economic solutions.

Why are so many young people moving into depression?
Depression begins in the mind, before it becomes a problem in the brain. And the good news is that you can heal your brain by healing your mind. At the core of depression is a battle with oneself. If we do not make peace with ourselves, we will inadvertently criticise everything about ourselves: our appearance, our status, our home and family, our life itself. When we are not at peace; we are at war. We are divided against our own selves.
At the root of our inner conflict is the habit of incessant commentary, a commentary which divides every experience of our lives into “should be” or “should not be.” It is this habit that drives us to comparison. It is this habit that drives us to inner war.When you look at your body, you do not see it as it is; you comment on every inch of it as it should be or should not be. When you are with your family, you are not present to it as it is; you comment on every member as should be this way or should not be this way. When you enter your home, you do not relish it; you comment on it as should have been bigger or smaller or should not have been bigger or smaller. When you get to work, you are not filled with a sense of purpose. You are not filled with a sense of creativity; you judge every day as I should have been elsewhere or I should have not been here. You walk around with a nagging inner critic, a critic inside your own head. You become your own enemy.To end this war within yourself means to become an observer of your inner state. When you emerge into being an observer, all commentaries become redundant and fall away from you like dried leaves. They get carried away in the river of awareness. A deep sense of calm, a deep sense of joy radiates from your being. In this magnificent state of consciousness, every failure is assimilated, without the need to blame oneself or another. Every defeat is accepted without the need to justify oneself or condemn another. Other people’s words and statements do not become your way of looking at yourself or your way of looking at your body. You are comfortable with your angry self, with your jealous self, and your lonely self. There is no part of you that you perceive as wrong. You are at ease with the entirety of yourself. You are healed; you are whole.
Sri Amma Bhagavan's Message
Dear Devotees how are you all ?
Remember I and Amma are always there for you and would protect you in all ways.In order to protect you and the rest of humanity through you, I am posting the following message.This message in India is for every devotee who has attended Parinama Yagnyas and Maha Deekshas and Internationally it is for everyone who has been initiated as a Blessing giver, Deeksha giver. Golden Age Consciousnesses Meditator, Supreme Light of Supreme Love Meditate and Happens Meditator.I want to speak to you about Deeksha today.The Global Deeksha event on the 13th of April is a very special event.
During the Deeksha Amma and I would be flowing very powerfully through Krishnaji and Preethaji to all of you, and through you to the World.This is a new form of Deeksha that I and Amma would be giving you through Krishnaji and Preethaji. This Deeksha could be transmitted to you only by those who are completely in Sync with us and who are concerned about the Crisis being faced by humanity and only by those who could hold the intent strongly for a sufficiently long time. This is what Krishnaji and Preethaji  would be doing.It cannot be given through touch.This Deeksha power must be held in great sacredness. It would create great healing on the planet and would push human consciousness to higher levels along with greater Oneness between humans and all living creatures of the Earth and the Earth itself.It is our wish that every Deeksha giver be part of this sacred act of healing the Earth. Blessings to all 

This simple practice you will cut through negativity and wire are your brain to positivity 

Breaking addiction to negative emotions

Most people I meet are addicted, they are  habituated to some negative emotions or the other. Some know they are habituated and some don't know. 

Three common states people make in to a habit are anger related states like irritation, frustration or road - rage.

Some give in to fear related states such as tension, stress, anxiety or even panic. 

Some others give in to sadness related states such as loneliness, dullness, insecurity  or depression. 

But these emotions too are habits - like eating sweets, like talking too much, or gossiping or like consuming too much alcohol. These emotions too are habits. 

And you have to break them. Because every addiction - makes you unintelligent and they hurt you and hurt others around you. 

Every sensible human being must set themselves free of addictions to negative emotions. 

If during this period of seclusion, you give in to negative emotions - by the time you emerge out of this period of seclusion, it would have become a habit in you.

Remember, FREEDOM IS A CHOICE AND ONLY THE WISE MAKE IT.

To come out of negative emotions, you need to have some Scientific understanding of the human brain. The human brain has a tremendous attraction for the negative. It is like velcro for anything that is negative, Funnily it's also like Teflon.  It's like non stick for positive.   Brain is trained to remember something that is unpleasant for millions of years to ensure survival.  But our mental health today is getting affected today because of this very habit. We are not in fear today because  a dinosaur is chasing us.  

Our negative emotions Are because we are caught in many movies about the past and the future  in our heads.  and the part of the brain that actually triggers and feeds on negativity that what is the amygdala. The more you engage in negative mental movies, amygdala becomes extremely neurologically active. It actually swells inside.  We have to shift that activity from the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex to the front of the brain which is where the logical thinking happens, balance and practicality is possible. To be in the present moment is possible and to decluch ourselves from these movies is possible.

It is only by being in the present you can solve any problem. 

This shift from Amydala to the prefrontal cortex can only happen if you push your brain Into observation. 

Can you simply observe and name whichever emotion is arising within you?  Aha this is anger.  This is anxiety. Or this is sadness.  

You don’t need to try change these emotions or try come out of them. Simply observe them. Like you are seeing old friends enter your home. 

Aha! There you are- anxiety, Welcome back. That is all. 

And then- shift your awareness to your eyebrow centre and see a tiny flame there.  

Can you do this simple practice for your mental health? 

This simple practice and you will cut through negativity and wire your brain to positivity.