ANNOUNCEMENT
A DAY OF MANTRAMS FOR PEACE AND HEALING: TUESDAY, JUNE 29
Our 100th Birthday Gift for Christine Easwaran
We invite you to join us in a day dedicated to peace and healing in the world by keeping our mantram going as much of the day as possible and, if you care to do so, even as you fall asleep. This will be our best possible gift to Christine for her 100th birthday.
On June 29, let’s all participate together in the BMCM Satsang Live. We will start writing the mantram at 3:40 p.m. PT before the program begins at 4 p.m. You can find your time zone here. We will make BMCM Satsang Live the centerpiece of our mantram day, and we invite you to join us.
Feel free to write in here on the eSatsang if you would like to share reflections about your mantram day. We’ll share your impressions with Christine!
This week in our new Take Your Time book study, Easwaran presents two of his favorite lofty examples of inner strength and mastery: his grandmother and Gandhi. And for each, he highlights their complete command of time, pressures, and priorities. Of Granny, Easwaran write, “She arose daily with the morning star and worked till evening – sometimes, when necessary, well into the night, long after others had gone to bed. She did everything carefully, giving each task her full attention without pressure or hurry, enjoying her work without ever being driven by it.”
Let’s read this section, pages 27–33, and continue working together on slowing down.
Which lines particularly strike you, and how can you apply them to your life this week?
Let’s continue extending our practice of slowing down using the ideas on pages 55–56. Here’s a suggestion for this week:
Meals are a great time for giving relationships a more important place in your day. If you often eat alone, find a friend to share lunch with. Give yourselves enough time not to hurry – and avoid talking business!
For our spiritual bonus this week, here is Christine Easwaran reading the passage “In the Midst of Darkness” from Mahatma Gandhi.