1. GOD LISTENS

In the same way that loving parents listen, answer and lovingly attend to their baby. It is necessary for the baby to grow, for the child to develop into an adult and during this development we learn how to communicate. We learn all sounds, use the appropriate language and learn to speak and listen for the parent-child relationship to mature. Similarly the relationship with God deepens. It doesn't happen by chance, it requires us  to observe and learn how to communicate for the most meaningful of all dialogues to start taking place. God's attributes like bliss, unconditional love, happiness, knowledge, patience, peacefulness, geniality and wisdom are infinite and the happiest people, the geniuses, the jivanmuktas of our planet found a way to receive these. In fact these people bathe in them.

2. BEYOND TIME THERE IS NO SPACE

This can be fully comprehended only by direct experience. Conceptually one can talk about a great chunk of it, but this reality is a domain that lies beyond the realms of words and even mind. Analogically it is a bit like someone could explain the taste of papaya in your mouth - can describe the smell, the colour, the taste, the look - but unless you are also eating the same papaya and your whole being is immersed in the joys of it, you will not be on the same wavelength. And also when you eat papaya your experience and description may be different :)

3. THE PATH IS THE DESTINATION, AFTER YOU HAVE REACHED THE DESTINATION

So during teaching a yoga class a few years back I was asked by one of my students to explain the good old saying "The path is the destination". My view is that is only true after one has arrived at the destination. Then yes the journey or the path becomes one with the destination. Until that point it is reached, the path is the path and the destination is the destination.

4. WORDS ARE A SCANT TRANSLATION OF BLISSFUL VOID AND SILENT PLENITUDE

Words are the most rudimentary manifestation of thoughts and the thoughts are a limiting vehicle of infinite consciousness. The net of illusion as it is defined by the Vedic philosophy as maya, is continuously knitted by the thread of words, through the needle of minds which is pushed forward unconsciously by one's psycho emotional life.

5. WE ARE NOT BORN, WE ARE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS

Thus we exist eternal and from that we come into shape, and play a role as part of a linear time, as part of a cosmic play, as part of the symphony of Creation. In our shape we also have sound, in our sound we also have colours, in our colours we also emit and feel energy and beyond all the unseen, we are all one.

6. FREEDOM STARTS ONLY AFTER THE LIMITING PERSONALITY HAS BEEN TRANSCENDED

The lack of freedom is given by our convictions, concepts, beliefs systems, personality - likes, dislikes, preferences, upbringing, personal view-points. All of these that form our map of the world, our inner context are also limiting frameworks. In the Sanskrit language this is known as ahaṃkāra. Transcending one's mind is a natural transformational process of evolution that can take lives, purely because we are creatures of habit and also because we are endowed with free will. Very few people use the free will to transcend their mind.

7. BEAUTY IS ENHANCED BY FORGIVENESS, GENEROSITY AND GRATITUDE

To my surprise a while back I have discovered that my beauty can be enhanced by the capacity to forgive - myself and others, by spontaneous and unconditional acts of generosity and by manifesting genuine heartfelt gratitude.

8. THE CAPACITY TO BE HUMBLE SETTLES ONES CHARACTER

Humbleness is a Godly Attribute, a defining one and one that polarises the greatness of a soul. The greater the person the deeper their humbleness would grow. It is an attribute or an enduring quality that is most unused or appreciated by people nowadays, rendering it even more pretious. I believe that the power of transformation follows somewhat the humbleness, the realisation of one's place in a context. And equally the self sufficiency stifles that transformation.

9. ANY FEAR HAS ITS COURAGE

The darkness is the mere absence of light. The lack of courage can be and ought to be eliminated by adding in more and more courage, thus any fear has its courage, the counterpart. Any limitation has an opposition which is not another limitation, but the absence of any limitation, the infinite. In the words of Roosevelt " courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear' and that is what I call - it's courage, the higher purpose or calling to action that may have unveiled that fear in the first place.