Success! Getting Your Timing Right.

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Dear All,

In today's New York Times newspaper, there is this article about the Nobel Prize in Medicine being awarded for research into how the biological clock works. Here's how it's related to your success in meditation and other things you may be trying to achieve.

It could be all about the timing[1]

The biological clock /circadian rhythm is most noticeable to us when we haven't had enough sleep and feel lousy the next day. What you may also have noticed is that you're more likely to come up with inspirational ideas first thing in the morning than you are after lunch, say.

The reason why this is, according to an ancient Indian understanding of time, is that a day or 24 hours can be split into chunks of 48 minutes called 'Muhurtas'. Whether or not it's a good time to do something is determined by the nature of the particular muhurta , which can be 'inauspicious' , 'auspicious' or 'very auspicious'.

Over the course of a 24 hour day, there are only two 'very auspicious' muhurtas and both of them are related to yoga. The first occurs between 02:00 - 02:48 at night and is called 'Jiva/Amrta' (life/immortal) . The second one occurs in the early hours of the morning between 04:24 - 05:12* and is called Brahma muhurta.

It's this second one that has been highly recommended for meditation because a new day is being freshly born and you have the power to shape what happens by catching the day at it's root. The meditation is effortless.

If you're undergoing any challenging period personally or in any other way, make a point of getting up early in the morning before anybody else is awake and meditating. The problems will solve themselves.

Regular meditation develops in you what the Chinese call, 'Wu wei' - 'going with the flow' or 'effortless action' on which some of Chinese martial arts is based and which also underpins the philosophy of the ' I Ching' ( 'The Book of Changes').

Then the success you want to achieve in anything comes, not by planning, but by unconsciously being in the right place or doing the right thing at the right time.

In this 8 minute clip, Shri Mataji describes how this happens in you as a result of your kundalini's connection to the all-pervading energy of existence, the 'Paramchaitanya'. (Click Here).

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

* The brahma muhurta actually begins at 96 mins or roughly one and a half hours before sun-rise. UK current sunrise is about 7am so brahma muhurta timing in UK at the moment is 05:30 - 06:18. It may be easier for you to get up at this time to meditate than getting up at 04:30.

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"There is a tide in the affairs of (wo)men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."

Shakespeare - Julius Caesar act 4, scene 3.