O God! My gratitude to You for showing me another new day!
You have given me another chance to sing your praise.
O God! Today this temple [body] opened at 6 o'clock [the time you wake up].
help to increase the feeling of devotion in people.
Thank You for fulfilling my prayer.
When you sit to have food, close your eyes for two minutes and bring in front of your eyes all those who were responsible for the food to reach you, and thank them.
Thank the farmer who cultivated the crops.
Thank nature, which provided water and sunlight.
Thank the person who sold the grains.
who brought the grains to your house.
Thank the person who prepared the food.
and experience the joy of gratification.
O God! You made my day right and proper.
I could remain happy throughout the day.
Now let my night be excellent too.
For all the grace you have showered on us, Thank You!
You are using your body; you are not the body.
You can try the following experiment right now as soon as you have finished reading this article. What you need to understand before the experiment is: You are using your body; you are not the body. You use a car, but you never say, "I am this car." You always say, "This is my car." With whatever word you use 'my', you cannot be that (my house, my eyes, etc.). To understand this in depth, try the experiment given below.
Look at one of your hands and ask yourself, "Am I this hand?" Answer this question with your feeling and not with your intellect. Give yourself a minute to feel it. Again, look at your hand and ask yourself, "Am I this hand?" What relation do you feel with your hand?… Am I this hand?… Look at it carefully.
A person's hands and legs may get amputated due to an accident, but still he says, "I am there." He never says, "I am incomplete… earlier I was complete… now I am incomplete." Because when the body is cut, you (the real you) don't get cut. When you start experiencing this truth, then the root belief that 'I am this body' will break..
Seeker: Can we know our inner secrets with meditation?
Sirshree: Yes, meditation can help us know such things about ourselves which other people are unable to know about themselves. Meditation enhances our awareness, due to which our awareness increases for everything. We find ourselves more at peace and more stable.
Meditation brings a change in our thoughts. The chaos which exists in thoughts reduces to a great extent. A simplicity seeps in. Thinking power intensifies. Many things about the mind become clear to us, which otherwise we would have never known. But the bigger secret is 'Who am I?', and meditation helps in finding the answer to this question.