“To pray, work and eat together constitutes the foundation of happiness in community life.”

Param Pujya Ma

It is in our daily prayers
that we can collectively discover
the essence of the Lord’s injunctions
and the sheer beauty and joy
of imbibing them in practice.
One is also awakened to those subjective influences
that hold one back from
the attainment of perennial joy
which in fact is the birth right of every being.

As we share our meals in loving togetherness

our hearts lift in gratitude to the Lord

and to our Spiritual Mother

for providing this benediction to each one of us

so that we may then expend our energies in service.

To serve together is a blessing in every way…

for, even as we perform the allotted duties

we are conscious always

that all credits are shared even as are the duties

and thus remain free from the shackles of egoity

A day at Arpana Ashram