Message from Swami Ritavan


2025 IS-WAS-IS TODAY


2026, you wanted it, and now you have it. That personality you chose yesterday, and in each day of 2025, is your mask and role on this life-stage today. And today, you can change that habit and play the role as you are meant to be. You cannot continue to do something for long if you are not meant to do it. Your choice of emotions shapes your thinking, which in turn shapes your behavior. Yet, deeper than these character habits, stillness and silence can reveal your true nature. Your positive emotions, pleasant thoughts, kind and selfless actions all have arisen from that pure source of being. 


This day Is Your Choice, thereby your destiny. Choose wisely, for as meditators, you have all the skills and tools to sculpt your personality, using it as your architect for joyful living.

Practice-Practice-Practice.


May the masks and roles you play throughout 2026 reflect your true nature: ever-wise, ever-pure, ever-free.


May grace bestowed illumine your conscience as a guide to show the way; each step becomes ours to walk or even run, for life is fleeting, and time has no ownership.


May your soul reflect a character that forms new habits of kindness and compassion, impelling your actions with greater love.


May your emotions be sculpted with gentleness in your judgements and patience in your decisions.

 

May you practice resilience through acceptance and forgiveness. 


Thus, ever-pure, make your ever-wise decision to truly value life, remembering 'namah' and the Lord's name in each breath. As 2025 ends with a conscious breath, the next breath begins and continues with each of those 12 million breaths of 2026. Mindfulness means: no pause and no break, thus, you are ever-free from bondage and dance with joy on this stage of time.  


With Blessings of Lineage of Saints, Sages, and Masters,

Servant of the servant of the Master,

Swami Ritavan Bharati

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