Change your Vision, Change your World.

 Change your Vision, Change Your World.

 

 Tom me, India offers spirituality, a deep spirituality that I find resonates incredibly deeply in my heart. It’s not just relevant for this country, but I found it relevant to where I live and all the countries I’ve visited. The spirituality that offers not just to know and believe, but to experience the reality of myself as a spiritual being, and a deep union with the Divine, with God. When I come to this country, no matter what is happening externally, these feelings resonate, because it’s so deep in the culture of this land.

 

          As we’ve been hearing so much about the state of the world, I think there is crisis in the soul of humanity, and when that crisis bubbles to the surface, we put labels on it-we call it stress, anxiety, depression, unhappiness and so many different things. We see this epidemic growing and growing, and each one of us is concerned what ca we do. I feel India can give a gift to our world, offering these deep truths, and today this is happening. Wherever you go in the world now-it may be New York, South America, Asia, Russia you’ll see sisters in white sarees, carrying the traditional values of spirituality at the state of the world.

          I remember I would often go on protest against injustice. At that time Australia was involved in the Vietnam War. Once, at the age of 17, I went on a march against the war. One thing led to another, and I was arrested for a night. That night really changed me as a person. As the night grew long, we sat around, two hundred peace leaders in Australia, and as I heard the conversation I began to realize that we were an incredibly peace less, negative group of people. It dawned on me deeply, that the world will not change at all if you try to fight the peace less ness.

          Can I convert the ideas, the beliefs, and the theories, into a deep, rich, spiritual feeling inside? I feel meditation is converting the knowing into experiencing, because that’s when it becomes a power in my life. I began to take up meditation, and it was an absolute epiphany for me. It felt different, by just putting two truths into my intellect- the truth that I am an eternal soul, and that I have the eternal relationship with God. As these truths penetrated deep in my beings, it changed my whole vision of how I saw myself, how I saw others and how I saw the world. If my relationship with myself is not healthy, it pollutes every part of my life, my relationships with you, my work performance, even my physical health Meditation is like going into the laboratory of my mind and experiencing the depth of who I am and the union with the Divine.

          My passion in life has always been to go beyond differences, and when you see the permanent soul, it’s like we really are one family. But when you see a body there will be differences on many levels that divide us today. If we adopt the vision of the soul, it’s actually taking that energy out in the world and the perfume of the mind will create a different feelings.

          We are at an extraordinary time. On one hand we see a world that seems to be declining so rapidly, and on the other hand people understand that when I change, the world will change. We move in cycles, and are at the end of an era where the culture of body consciousness is reaching an extreme and the seeds of a new awareness are being born. I really hope that each one of us lends our little finger to spiritual response to a very challenging world and being our worn practice, because it will contribute to a much better world for all of us.