Tiredness is beginning to accumulate.Standing in the lift, already hot and sticky, on the ninth floor of E block at 4.30am this morning with a group of people from all over the world, all yawning and looking groggy-eyed, I smiled to myself and thought how only Amma could bring us all together in this rather incongruous situation, all on our way to archana. It was a struggle to get out of bed but the concentration needed to focus on each name and the beauty of the meanings gradually drove out all thoughts of tiredness and replaced them with peaceful, inner radiance.
The sky overhead was just becoming light as I sipped my tea after the archana. The atmosphere was charged with deep peace and I realised that without that initial struggle and effort there would be no corresponding effect, but also that the communal effort of the ashram supports us to make that effort which is so much more difficult at home.
Thu 3 Aug 2006
Mike, UK