The importance of collectivity and of the ability to have natural, balanced and clean relationships is so great that they are the main tasks of one of our chakras.

How many times we can be fully in the present for an extended period of time, without our attention drifting to something else in the environment or to planning some future tasks ?

What exactly is satisfaction ?…What is it made of ? When are we really satisfied ? Should we run after it ? Should we wait for it ?

Carbon is the essence of life as we know it in a material sense, just as innocence - the main power of the first chakra - is the base of all higher, spiritual life.

After fulfilling the goals of a dedicated citizen and householder, Shri Mataji started the great work of giving en-masse Self Realization.

We either are fascinated with the past or with the future, even if we attempt to keep reasonable balance in seeing both the good and bad parts of the past as well as the dual potential for either wonderful things or large scale disasters in the future.

And knowledge was not at all synonymous with information. How many leafs are on a tree is information. What time of year the leafs fall is knowledge.

In the words of Jeremy da Silva, the expert in question, “empathy and compassion compensated for the physical disadvantages of bipedalism”.

The second is the very fact that difficult moral moments usually arise when we have to make what seems like competing, mutually exclusive choices, all within acceptable moral norms.

Mother Earth embodies so well that innocence as she generously entertains everyone and tries to give us joy, sustenance and her great purifying powers.