You are now

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"How dare you think you are just a thought?" With this question, Ma Jaya shows how us to develop awareness of our passing thoughts, how to stop them for a moment, and how to feel who we truly are. (6 minutes)

Thought and Karma

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In an informal session with her students, Ma Jaya reads and responds to a question on the relationship between thoughts and karma. (6 minutes)

A moment of freedom

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A moment of freedom is a moment without thought or ego. Ma points out the many ways our thoughts can bind us, and invites us to taste freedom in meditation. (9 minutes)

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars; and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you.
– Thomas Traherne,
Traherne: Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics)

One positive seed-thought
Has saved me,
My entire life:
My Lord Supreme
Will always love me
No matter what I do
Or what I say
Or even what I become.

Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 9 by Sri Chinmoy

God Is...: Selected Writings of Sri Chinmoy

So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants: it is the same in mind.

- Dr. Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind