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Namaste, everyone. Welcome. This is serious work that we are doing here. It is important—important, but also very serious. We are not learning a skill. We are not learning to become better architects, or anything like that. We are learning something that is, in a sense, native to the world. We are learning something that goes to the heart of the universe and existence. This is about immortality. This is about the ultimate source of life, in a very real way.

Most religions were originally founded upon this sentiment, and they tend to veer away and become lacking in sincerity unless an individual truly reaches into what that religion offers. So, it is very serious, what we are doing. And it is very important, too, because the way the world changes… We are a society, and one's capacity to be self-transcendent is more than wishful thinking. It requires undergoing an ontological shift in one's energetic consciousness, in the makeup of one's sentience.

When that happens, one can love their neighbor as themselves. One can act with the intelligence of love, with the wisdom of enlightenment. So, it is very important—this practice is very important.

No one but ourselves will bring the light into society. The light does not simply arrive here. It is here, but for it to become part of society, part of the collective psychology of humanity, each of us has to tend the garden of the self. We have to do it; we have to spend time in the light.

I spent hours in the light in the last 24 hours, just so you know. I am not bragging. It is not about that. I am just trying to help you understand that I am in pain when I am not in the light, because I am in a normal, mundane condition of humanity, which is dense, solid.

But there is an etheric side to us that is beyond manifestation. That brings through real, palpable love. It is palpable in the sense that it is made of an energy, but it is an energy in which all time and space are contained. It is not an energy in space; it is the energy that creates space—and can destroy space.

In Nirvana, we destroy space. It is interesting, because you might say, "But you are still sitting there in space." Not really. We open a portal into the timeless.

So this is very serious work. And obviously, because it is so serious, we should be playful about it. Otherwise, we are missing its point, right? But it is serious in the sense that it should touch the heart—profoundly.

This is not a superficial online class teaching you how to be a better marketer, or anything like that. We are doing serious work here. This is very serious. But it is playful, and we can laugh, and we can dance, and we can—

Thank you for being here, and thank you for practicing. The assignment still holds: 15 minutes a day of meditation. If you think you do not have time for that, I would question how much time you have for your own soul, for eternity, for God, for something beyond your own individual story of life—to go beyond the form.

It is 15 minutes. That is like, brushing your teeth four times, right? That is… yes. Yes. Enlightenment.

Enlightenment has truth in it, right? And it feels good for the truth to push all the nonsense out of the way, so thank you for being with me and letting me push it out of the way—including out of myself—so we can have a little wake, a little bubble of divinity, of sacredness.

So today's sermon is: Enlightened being. I want to share with you a few examples of enlightened beings, what makes them enlightened. We already had a sermon on enlightenment a few weeks back; you can review that.

But I would like to go over five or six—or maybe seven—extremists. People who were serious and did this work, and opened a doorway for humanity to heaven on earth. People who devoted their lives to this. These are profound individuals—saints, in the most real sense of the word.

But I have also picked seven people who would all probably very openly claim that they are ordinary people. These are 20th century—just so happens—seven 20th century Indian saints, in this case. This has nothing to do with India specifically, other than that India tends to be more focused on spirituality. There is a cultural pocket there that opens the doorway to universal consciousness, the universal potency.

But I could just as easily talk about Native American or Mexican saints—exactly the same type of consciousness I am talking about. There are even Americans alive today with this consciousness. But today, I want to focus on these 20th century Indian saints.

It is a nice theme, and I have seven of them for us. These individuals achieved moksha, which means they were able to go into the deepest layers of light and purify themselves. They yoked their awareness with the Supersoul of the universe.

There is an entire robust language in Sanskrit, which we have also discussed, that outlines the qualities and aspects of this process. You may take a step along the journey, but all beings are on this journey in some way or another, because it is endemic to our nature. We are consciousness.

What is consciousness? We are alive. What does it mean to be alive? What is this? And so…

Let us go through them. I wanted to pick people today who are not those individuals that seem completely unreachable. We are not going to talk about Jesus, although he is an example of it. We are not going to talk about Buddha or Lao Tzu. These people are just so high that they seem like they are of a different kind—and I am not sure that is the case. Maybe it is. Sometimes people say that is the case.

The whole idea is that as ordinary people, we can become enlightened. If we have not been enlightened before in previous incarnations, we could be enlightened in this incarnation. It is a possibility, and I think that is a really important realization to have.

Jesus has a lot of followers, right? I am not sure how many of them feel that they can be like Jesus. They do not really talk about it in those terms. But if you read his words, he is actually instructing them to be just as he is. If you read his words, you will notice that—as far as I recall, assuming I am understanding correctly.

Let us start with Krishnamurti. Jiddu Krishnamurti is one of my favorites—I have probably read more of him than anyone else. Let me just read you a couple of his quotes.

"Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed." "Meditation is emptying the mind of the known." "In the flame of attention, all conflict ends."

His main teaching was to never allow yourself to experience conflict inwardly. Never worry about anything. If your children are starving, do something about it, but why worry about it? Do not experience conflict—just act. Completely, directly.

Krishnamurti was a truly remarkable man. It is interesting how India is so connected to California. Krishnamurti spent a lot of time in Ojai, California, which is basically right down the street from where I am. And then he traveled the world.

He was anticipated to be an enlightened being, and they actually built a whole spiritual community around him when he was a child. He told them it was nonsense, took all the money, gave it away, dissolved the entire organization, and declared that truth is a pathless land. He did not want it to become a religion. Is that not profound?

He died in the 1980s, at the age of 89 or 90. He was just an absolutely wonderful man, and you can read 50 of his books—he literally has that many out there. I highly recommend them.

The great Ramana Maharshi. My teacher says he is the most beautiful person, the most beautiful, enlightened being. That means a lot coming from my teacher. For him, Ramana Maharshi is the most beautiful, enlightened being. He was just pure jnana yoga enlightenment—actually, quite bhakti as well, I would say.

Krishnamurti became enlightened later in life, but was always totally focused on spirituality. Ramana Maharshi, this wonderful man—he became enlightened when he was 16, which is really interesting. He had a very intense experience—he said he felt like he died when he was 16, just inwardly, not physically at all. And he became enlightened.

He spent years in a cave in meditation. There is this joke that I will just start meditating constantly, and someone will have to come over and feed me—because, you know, there is this urge to do that. He just sat, and they just ate his leg, because he was outdoors and completely ignoring his body. Not his whole leg, but a part of it. I do not know, maybe it grew back—a piece of his leg, not the whole thing.

He is this amazing man in India, considered one of the great sages who understands ultimate truth. Let me read you a couple of his quotes.

"Who am I?" That is his instruction. If you want to become enlightened, ask, "Who am I?" Really ask—who are you, truly? To whom is this appearance occurring?

"Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world." This is... when I look at those who are so much in service, I want to remind you to meditate—because your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

"Silence is also conversation."

Next is Rabindranath Tagore. I like Tagore a lot because he had a very clear Dharma. His Dharma was poetry. He became enlightened, and you can just see it—look at him. He is so powerful.

"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it." This is much more poetic. It is very different. "Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love." "We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility." I need to read more Rabindranath Tagore.

And he had a school, too. And so did Krishnamurti—Abba School.

Next is Paramahansa Yogananda. He is also someone who spent a lot of time in California. Amazing, right? This is California on these Indian sages. Really special.

"Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you." "The season of... this is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." "Change yourself, and you have done your part in changing the world." Very much like what Ramana Maharshi said.

Now, just to let you know, I am not entirely sure if he became fully enlightened in the same way as the others. I think he was at that other level of liberation. He was going into Nirvana, but I am not sure he had completed it. And you can actually hear in his quotes—they are a little different, right? I am not completely sure, but I do not want Yogananda to smite me—he would never do that. I am just not sure about Yogananda... I think he might have, but I have heard that he did not, and also, I can tell the way he speaks is a little different. He is speaking more from self, looking at God and connecting with God, as opposed to being nothing as God, which is a little more like Ramana Maharshi.

And I love him. He is one of my favorite people. I highly recommend him.

Next is Anandamayi Ma. She is this lovely woman. Now, it is interesting—I love her. She was deeply devoted. She was just overflowing with ecstasy and devotion. She said, "The purpose of human life is the realization of God." "Every being is searching for that infinite joy." "Only the name of God can purify the mind." Beautiful.

Next one—a controversial figure. You may have heard many negative things about him, but I assure you, this man is a divine being. I would encourage you to look deeper into the actual words that he speaks, and not what others say about him, because you know what the news does to us? It can brainwash us from our own perception. Osho.

And he is one cool person. "Be. Do not try to become." "Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence." "Courage is a love affair with the unknown." I mean, who are these people? And he became enlightened when he was 23. Quite young, very young. Apparently, he was raised around many enlightened beings, so he was able to do that.

And the last of the seven is Sri Aurobindo. "The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught." He was really, really intelligent. This man—if you try to read his book, it is incredibly difficult. "The mind has to be silent to know God." "The sign of the divine worker is equality." "All life is yoga."

There are, of course, enlightened women. Some of them are alive today. Part of the reason they are not on the wall is that they are alive. Everyone on there, I believe, is not alive. I purposely did that. Although, one is quite recent. My teacher's teacher has a talk on this. Apparently, in this state of humanity, it has been more difficult for women to achieve full enlightenment. And he actually gives a very... and he definitely does not like that, but he describes why it is the case. The full—Sahaja and Samadhi Enlightenment, but there are just fewer cases. It is simply a smaller ratio. But there are—who is that? There is another woman. Joan of Arc? Supposedly—she was enlightened, I think. You know Joan of Arc? She was a very interesting individual, and I believe she died as a teenager. It is remarkable, but she changed an entire society with her energy and her being.

I need to add more. Maybe one of these days I will share that recording with you about why. Because it would be nice if there were more enlightened women. And the balance is... it is not balanced. There is a problem—it is not balanced. But that is not to say that you cannot become enlightened as a woman. It is just that the probability is a little bit less, somewhat out of balance, that is all.

Last time we did not meditate, and I felt so sad. It really threw me off, because we were supposed to meditate. My heart was wondering, when is the meditation happening? I went to the beach and had a really intense one, but it did not feel right—it was not the same as if we had started together. So let us just dive in.

Let us bring attention to the heart center. It is paramount to feel the heart, to get the heart energy radiant. Sometimes we do not give the heart enough attention. It is truly wonderful to have the heart be full and radiant, pure and clear.

When Krishnamurti talks about being without conflict—when there is conflict, the heart recoils and becomes smaller. When there is no conflict, the heart can expand. You would come... everything... field of existence.

So today we will do an expansion meditation. Now that we have felt the heart, let us learn to open the heart and expand it.

This is actually an epistemological process, which means it pertains to knowing. We know by becoming the other. We become the other by expanding the heart field.

Practice—physically reaching out. Your sense of attention and awareness can reach beyond the body, from the heart center. You can do this from any chakra, but today we are focusing on the heart.

Imagine that your heart is enormous—perhaps just the size of the room, or, if you want to go much bigger, we can do that right away. I am doing the room right now.

Another way to describe this is having an open heart, a big heart. It truly does feel open.

You may notice the posture, or the mudra, that I am using right now. It is almost as if I am holding a heart as a giant sphere in front of me, using my hands to hold it open in that way—and, of course, my heart as well.

You may want to add an element of heat to the heart—energy, heat. So intend warmth and expansion simultaneously.

Try to maintain a posture that keeps your shushumna straight. Make sure to use the light—the astral energetic intention.

When we use the potency of the light, we are doing a deeper level of astral work. In fact, the astral is intended to be a doorway into the deeper planes of the causal light.

Let that light work to purify the astral form. Allow its luminosity and brilliance to energetically and physically transmute subtle biology.

Namaste.

When you can experience light, you are actually progressing along a path to ultimate enlightenment. There are different levels, indicative of the qualities of light you experience. So you are experiencing a partial form of enlightenment by experiencing that light, just so you know.

And it is what my teacher would call Manasamadhi.

There are five levels of samadhi in my teacher's personal system. Sometimes they make it just two, but you can divide it into as many as you like. The level of colors is one of the samadhis.

And you are experiencing self-transcendence and a return to the substratum of manifestation when you go into this light. What makes it so pleasant is that you are entering into the eternal layers of self.

You are entering into— I mean, it is truly pleasant. It is so pleasant. There is all this power and love and ecstasy available to us inside of everything, and it is made of light. So, wonderful.

I am honored to meditate with you, love you. Good job.

When you experience this light, you may experience it as pulsating waves. Sometimes the colors come and go, sometimes they are blended, sometimes they are separate. When you can experience light, you are progressing along a path to ultimate enlightenment. There are different levels, indicative of the qualities of light you experience. This is a partial form of enlightenment, just so you know.

This is what my teacher would call Manasamadhi. There are five levels of samadhi in my teacher's personal system. Sometimes they make it just two, but you can divide it into as many as you like. The level of colors is one of the samadhis.

You are experiencing self-transcendence and a return to the substratum of manifestation when you go into this light. What makes it so pleasant is that you are entering into the eternal layers of self. There is all this power and love and ecstasy available to us inside of everything, and it is made of light. So, wonderful.

Sometimes, when meditating, the sense of self is dissolved in the energy of existence—there is nobody there, and then your head falls over because there is nobody there to hold it up. That could actually be a good sign. One of the reasons we sit in half-lotus position—physical yoga, apparently, was created to help people sit in a posture, meditating without falling over for many hours.

Often when people first start meditating, and I meditate with them in person, it becomes a big ordeal about getting a cushion because their legs are too tight, and then their back hurts. You want to get past all that to the point where you can just sit like this for hours, and it is easy because your body is accustomed to it. That is a large part of what yoga is about.

But you can also sit in other ways if that feels better. There is a Japanese style, an Indian style, and even an American style. That is a joke I got from my teacher, or actually from one of his students. But yes, American style—which works; you can do American style.

The point is, keep good posture. We do not want to fall asleep, right? Sometimes, when the sense of self is dissolved, the body just relaxes and the head goes down. That is a sign of going somewhere else, of going away.

What is happening to me is that I have started a project—a professional project, again. I started about one month ago, but with three projects in parallel. I can see the thinker just taking my attention. And it is clear to me now that this was the norm in my life, just living in the thinker. And it is the same for most people, usually.

But now, because I was able to have this— I could separate my identity from it. And thanks to meditation, maintaining it every day, I was able to connect with different levels of consciousness. I can see how it can really blur your vision of life.

The thinker is like this wheel that just keeps spinning. It has this momentum, right? The momentum really builds up during the day when I am working, because my job is not with my hands—it is very mental. So, I have this momentum, and at the end of the day, it is huge.

Meditation is the only solution to this. I have to meditate more and more, just to keep the gravity and the center of myself where it truly is, and not be drifted away.

You can meditate throughout the day. Take five minutes in the middle of the day, even, to recenter and keep yourself from going too far into that momentum you are describing.

Another thing is—and it is not easy, and I deal with a similar issue, because there are too many things. But the more we create peace of mind, streamline, have a very well-organized calendar and a clear task list, the more we can let go. Try to design work in such a way that it flows, like with our pinky finger—we use our pinky finger, and we can move it, and we do not get so ensnared and enmeshed in the moment.

A really excellent calendar, truly beautiful, structured systems that you sit down and design once, and then let go of. You revise and refine them once a season, that kind of thing.

Also, just create a condition where you can stay in flow state—where your work becomes more of a spontaneous flow state rather than constantly having to be thinking.

This is one of the big challenges for an entrepreneurial mystic. That would be a nice class—entrepreneurial mystics—learning to run your life without it draining your energy.

Ultimately, this is very much Krishnamurti's philosophy: we want to be without conflict. Sometimes when we are faced with decision and choice, that is a state of conflict. That is why I was talking about spontaneity. Can we be in that? It is not easy, because you have to reform your mind, and then you take on a bigger project, and you have to adapt to that, and then another bigger project—it is this constant process.

But as an aspiration, to be someone who can run a Fortune 500 company with thousands or tens of thousands of employees, never leaving enlightenment. I love that you brought this up, because what does Sahaja mean in Sahaja Nerva Samadhi? It means the natural state. I would actually say it kind of means the normal state. So it is interesting that you said "normal," because there is this idea that normality is—

Before that, and then that societal norm—which perhaps we might call the "common state"—is not actually normal; it is, in fact, abnormal. Sahaja is a state in which one is enlightened, and no matter what one does, that state is never left. You remain in the deepest state of nirvana and meditation, yet you can be fully engaged in anything in the world.

So, perhaps research what enlightenment is. That is what makes it enlightened. Remember, I was speaking about the levels. That is Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi—the name for that state. We are learning to become like that. It does not necessarily mean we must renounce the world and retreat to a cave, avoiding all engagement with the world, but we do renounce something.

That allows us to remain in the world and act, perhaps with great intensity, while maintaining a connection with the eternality of enlightenment and the divine. This is a kind of mastery that most people do not even consider possible, so I appreciate that you are exploring this. Let it be your dharma, your karmic practice, your mindfulness practice—strive to be that person, because people will sense it in your work when you are in that state.

This is a significant part of my own life: trying to remain in that state. Sometimes, I stray so far from it that I am in pain at the end of the day. My energy feels depleted, and I realize, "I did not use my karma correctly." Then I sit for an hour, clear it, and feel relief—"Thank God." If I do not do that, I do not sleep well.

It is an interesting challenge, trying to maintain that state, and to maintain it across broader scopes. You might manage it with one company, and then you have another company or a different project, and it becomes more difficult.

Lately, I have been responding all day, every day, to inquiries from my ad on Facebook and Instagram. This is really affecting me energetically, because I am constantly responding to different minds, and it is difficult for me. So I am learning—perhaps I should approach this differently, or ask myself, am I doing it right?

What does a day look like when you use your karma correctly versus incorrectly? I keep returning to Krishnamurti. There should be no sense of resistance in any moment—no dissipation of energy. I envision a glowing, divine leader in a business, or in whatever field you are in, who never leaves that state.

They simply remain in that flow. That synchronicity that occurs in life, where you simply figure things out, get your... That is what it would look like. And everyone who comes to you, you are always positive, gentle, spontaneous—all of those qualities together. You can still accomplish everything you need to do.

But there is a mindfulness factor, because you have to make that your natural karma.

I am open to recommendations for female enlightened figures—I would like to add more to the wall of enlightenment. The Wall of Enlightenment will soon feature more remarkable women. I like Joan of Arc—she is fascinating. You should look her up. There are a few others—Mother Meera...

I have forgotten some of the others. There are a few alive today. I actually met Mother Meera; she gave me a darshan on my head. My mother met Amma and received a hug from Amma. That is wonderful.

I am also open to suggestions on how to grow this group. It is a serious group. All of you have a very special intensity about you—that is part of why you are here.

But I really would like to grow it, and I am not sure how to do that. If you have any suggestions...

It would be amazing if there were twenty-one people here tonight. Can you imagine? It would be a lot of fun, and we would get to know each other just as we do in our smaller group. Or fifty, or one hundred people. That would be wonderful. Then we could have retreats in Mexico, and do all kinds of meaningful things together. We could meditate together, and even organize a rave in the desert centered on light. I would love to do that. Can you imagine how great that would be? Going to the desert with a group of light mystics, centered in their hearts, and having a rave.

This is truly my dream. What else is my dream? Perhaps a beautiful sabbatical in a mansion in Malibu, where we could spend four days together, enjoying mindful, curated, catered dinners, a live string quartet, and entering into light together. Or traveling to Japan for a retreat around a Buddhist temple, or camping in the summer in Joshua Tree. There are so many wonderful things we could do together as a light community.

I do not know how to grow it. Perhaps I am missing something—if anyone has any insights into what I might not be doing...

You look at someone like Sadhguru. Sadhguru has accomplished this—he has millions of people, and I believe many of them are very sincere. Of course, he is fully enlightened. I am not fully enlightened. I am well along the way, but I am not fully enlightened. Hopefully, in this lifetime, I will become fully enlightened. That is an aspiration of mine—a very, very serious aspiration.

Saad Guru is, and that can help. But even then, I am not sure it helps that much. My teacher is supposed to be fully enlightened—I believe he is—and he just has a handful of students. He is quite intense for people, which is great.

So, I think that we—or rather, that I—am in a position, a state, where it definitely could be a large group. I do not think the size is the reason it is not larger. I believe it has more to do with finding the right people, in the right way.

Invite your wonderful spiritual friends. I think it should grow, perhaps, organically like that. One becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight. That is exponential growth.

Mathematically speaking—alright, it is good to see everyone! Happy May 5th, happy Cinco de Mayo! This day falls between the summer solstice and the spring equinox, which, to me, actually feels very much like a new season. We are entering a new season—perhaps spring two, or maybe summer one.

If you think of summer as having the longest day in the middle of the season, then today would be the first day of summer. But summer officially starts on the longest day and then continues to the middle day, which is somewhat like the beginning of spring, which is also still winter in terms of day length.

So, alright. Enough of that. Namaste. Enjoy your studies this week, and your fifteen-minute-a-day meditations in light.

See you next time. Namaste.

Theme of the Lesson

Enlightenment is a real, serious, and attainable shift into light and self-transcendence, cultivated through daily meditation, heart expansion, and living without inner conflict.

Key Quotes

Key Points

• This is “serious work,” touching immortality, the ultimate source of life, and the heart of existence.
• The practice is not about learning a skill; it is about undergoing a real shift in energetic consciousness and sentience.
• The light must be tended personally: each person has to “tend the garden of the self” and “spend time in the light.”
• There is an etheric side to us beyond manifestation that brings through real, palpable love.
• Nirvana was described as opening a portal into the timeless, beyond ordinary space.
• Because it is serious, it should also be playful; laughter and lightness belong with sincerity.
• The daily assignment remains: 15 minutes a day of meditation; if there is “no time,” question what is being prioritized.
• Enlightenment was presented as possible for ordinary people in this incarnation.
• Seven 20th-century Indian saints were offered as examples to read about: Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi, Rabindranath Tagore, Paramahansa Yogananda, Anandamayi Ma, Osho, Sri Aurobindo.
• Krishnamurti’s emphasis was shared as being without inward conflict: act directly without worry.
• Ramana Maharshi’s instruction was emphasized: “Who am I?” and the orientation that self-realization is service.
• The meditation focus was the heart center: feeling it, making it radiant, and expanding the heart field beyond the body.
• Heart expansion was framed as a way of knowing: “We know by becoming the other.”
• Work and mental life can build “thinker” momentum; meditation was named as the solution, including brief recentering during the day.
• Sahaja was described as the natural state of enlightenment that is not left, even while fully engaged in worldly activity.

Assignment

Stay close to the light this week by giving your soul time each day: meditate for 15 minutes, return to the heart center, and let the practice quietly reorient you toward self-transcendence as your way of serving the world.

Actionable Focus for the Week

• Arriving to practice with seriousness and playfulness together.
• Giving daily time to meditation (15 minutes) as a non-negotiable care for the soul.
• Noticing when the “thinker” momentum grows during the day, especially with mental work.
• Taking a brief mid-day recentering when the mind’s wheel feels like it is spinning.
• Bringing attention to the heart center and letting the heart feel radiant, warm, and expanded.
• Watching how conflict makes the heart recoil, and how non-conflict allows the heart to expand.
• Experimenting with “reaching out” with attention from the heart, beyond the body.
• Letting work become more streamlined and organized so it can feel more like flow and less like strain.
• Reading about one or more of the seven saints as a way to sense what “enlightened being” looks like in human life.

Optional Reflection Prompts

• Where do I feel “dense” or cut off from the light right now, and what happens when I return to the heart?
• What does my heart do when I am in conflict, and what does it do when I am not?
• What would it feel like to stay connected to the timeless while being fully engaged in my day?

"This is serious work that we are doing here. We are learning something that goes to the heart of the universe and existence. This is about immortality. This is about the ultimate source of life, in a very real way."

"One's capacity to be self-transcendent is more than wishful thinking. It requires undergoing an ontological shift in one's energetic consciousness, in the makeup of one's sentience."

"No one but ourselves will bring the light into society. The light does not simply arrive here. It is here, but for it to become part of society, part of the collective psychology of humanity, each of us has to tend the garden of the self."

"I am in pain when I am not in the light, because I am in a normal, mundane condition of humanity, which is dense, solid."

"There is an etheric side to us that is beyond manifestation. That brings through real, palpable love."

"It is not an energy in space; it is the energy that creates space—and can destroy space."

"In Nirvana, we destroy space. We open a portal into the timeless."

"This is very serious work. And obviously, because it is so serious, we should be playful about it. Otherwise, we are missing its point."

"If you think you do not have time for that, I would question how much time you have for your own soul, for eternity, for God, for something beyond your own individual story of life—to go beyond the form."

"The whole idea is that as ordinary people, we can become enlightened. If we have not been enlightened before in previous incarnations, we could be enlightened in this incarnation."

"Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world."

"Let us bring attention to the heart center. It is paramount to feel the heart, to get the heart energy radiant."

"When there is conflict, the heart recoils and becomes smaller. When there is no conflict, the heart can expand."

"This is actually an epistemological process, which means it pertains to knowing. We know by becoming the other. We become the other by expanding the heart field."

"Practice—physically reaching out. Your sense of attention and awareness can reach beyond the body, from the heart center."

"When we use the potency of the light, we are doing a deeper level of astral work. In fact, the astral is intended to be a doorway into the deeper planes of the causal light."

"Allow its luminosity and brilliance to energetically and physically transmute subtle biology."

"When you can experience light, you are actually progressing along a path to ultimate enlightenment. There are different levels, indicative of the qualities of light you experience."

"The thinker is like this wheel that just keeps spinning. It has this momentum, and at the end of the day, it is huge. And meditation is the only solution to this."

"Sahaja is a state in which one is enlightened, and no matter what one does, that state is never left. You remain in the deepest state of nirvana and meditation, yet you can be fully engaged in anything in the world."

Namaste Community,

You are warmly invited into the circle of the LoveLight Sangha. This past week, our gathering explored the theme of enlightened being—not as a distant ideal, but as a living inquiry into the nature of consciousness, the heart, and the possibility of self-transcendence in ordinary life.

Highlights from the Teaching

The evening was guided by reflections on the seriousness and joy of spiritual practice, and the lives and words of modern enlightened beings. A few teachings offered:

"We are not learning a skill. We are learning something that goes to the heart of the universe and existence. This is about immortality. This is about the ultimate source of life, in a very real way."

"No one but ourselves will bring the light into society. The light does not simply arrive here. It is here, but for it to become part of society, each of us has to tend the garden of the self."

"Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world." — Ramana Maharshi

"Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed." — Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it." — Rabindranath Tagore

Reflections from the Gathering

The spirit of the evening was sincere and contemplative. We sat together in presence, listening deeply to the words of saints and to one another’s experiences. There was a sense of care, humor, and humility as we explored the possibility of living from the heart and tending to the light within. Our shared meditation focused on expanding the heart’s field, with gentle encouragement to notice the subtle qualities of light and presence available to us all.

Ways to Engage

If you would like to revisit the evening, a full transcript or recording is available upon request.

You are warmly invited to join us at a future LoveLight Sangha gathering. Whether you are returning or considering joining for the first time, your presence is welcome.

If you wish, you might reflect on these questions in your own time:

• What does it mean, for you, to tend the garden of the self?
• How might you bring the light of your own realization into your daily life?

With gratitude for your presence on the path,
LoveLight Sangha