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Dearest Gentle Readers,

It’s been a year since I first heard this through various talks and quotes, yet not a single time did I truly feel it.

I thought, maybe, maybe I would never be able to feel it. Maybe I didn’t have that devotion. All I knew was to follow the process. Whether I liked it or not, I had to follow the process. And all it needed was a little bit of consistency.

Time flies. I kept doing my process, and one fine day, this happened - I watched another Sadhguru video on devotion, but this time, it sank into me.

Dissolving is not about doing rituals all the time. It is about shedding, part by part, the different parts of yourself through the process.

And by shedding, I mean — what I am doesn’t even matter.

Pilgrimage is one of the best examples of this.
You walk towards a temple, and somewhere along the way, you discover something new about yourself. By the time you reach the temple, perhaps you have left behind a little piece of who you thought you were.
And, this I have realised while walking up and down in 12 hrs to Vaishno Devi and completing 108 km in 4 Days to Baba Dham ( Kanwar Yatra, deoghar)

In His book, Sadhguru says, “Good and bad depend on what you are identified with.”

And the moment we identify something as good or bad, we are simply dividing the world.

In another talk, Sadhguru says, “In this vast existence, if you like only half a dozen things, how can you want to be spiritual? Isn’t spirituality about opening yourself to everything?

The moment we divide, there is zero possibility of inclusion.

And perhaps that is why the Hindu tradition gave us Shiva as such a profound representation of existence—Ugly, Terrible, Pleasant, Good and Bad.

From alcohol in the form of Kala Bhairava in Ujjain to the sacred Gangajal; from being Bholenath to being Rudranath; from embodying both feminine and masculine energies to moving from absolute stillness to the ecstatic Nataraja—Shiva encompasses it all.”

Nothing is excluded.

And maybe that is what spirituality truly means—not choosing only what we like, but opening ourselves to the entirety of existence.

Because the moment we stop dividing the world into good and bad, pleasant and unpleasant, beautiful and ugly, inclusion begins.

Dearest Gentle Readers,

It’s been a year since I first heard this through various talks and quotes, yet not a single time did I truly feel it.

I thought, maybe, maybe I would never be able to feel it. Maybe I didn’t have that devotion. All I knew was to follow the process. Whether I liked it or not, I had to follow the process. And all it needed was a little bit of consistency.

Time flies. I kept doing my process, and one fine day, this happened - I watched another Sadhguru video on devotion, but this time, it sank into me.

Dissolving is not about doing rituals all the time. It is about shedding, part by part, the different parts of yourself through the process.

And by shedding, I mean — what I am doesn’t even matter.

Pilgrimage is one of the best examples of this.
You walk towards a temple, and somewhere along the way, you discover something new about yourself. By the time you reach the temple, perhaps you have left behind a little piece of who you thought you were.
And, this I have realised while walking up and down in 12 hrs to Vaishno Devi and completing 108 km in 4 Days to Baba Dham ( Kanwar Yatra, deoghar)

Do ket me if you can resonate with this -

Best Feeling - Completing your Kriya Hatha Yoga in morning so that you can chill in evening after a 9-7 Job 😬

Dearest Gentle Readers,

Happy Somvari to everyone. 🌿

Today is the first Somvari of Sawan, and for the past two years, I have been able to observe this fast despite my hectic office schedule.

The fact is, Somvari, Navratri and Ekadashi are not merely days of fasting. They are sacred rituals that have been passed down to us by our ancestors for generations.
But somewhere along the way, without understanding their deeper meaning, we started practising them only at the surface level. For us, they simply became “fasting days.”

And perhaps, that is why they sometimes make us suffer. Without understanding the complete process, the purpose, and the wisdom behind it, we simply start following a set of rules.

But imagine if we truly understood the science and spirituality behind these practices.

The entire experience of fasting could become something completely different — not a restriction, not a struggle, but a beautiful journey of awareness and spirituality.

Only if we took the time to understand the “why” behind the “what,” perhaps fasting could take us to a completely different level of spiritual experience.
Isn’t it? 🪷

Dearest Gentle Readers,

Yesterday, while we were watching the live Guru Purnima celebrations, my husband remarked,

“Why is Sadhguru sitting on a higher seat than everyone else?”

I paused for a moment and replied,

“Why shouldn’t He?” 😊

To me, the one who gives has always been seated above the one who receives. Not as a symbol of superiority, but as a reminder of the direction in which grace, wisdom, and knowledge flow.

Our teachers sat on a raised platform. Our gurus have always occupied the Guru’s seat, so that every seeker could receive equally, without obstruction.

And for me, Sadhguru is no different.

He is the first Guru who truly began dispelling the darkness within me. He did not merely answer my questions; he made me see the questions I was living with. Where many were eager to complete a syllabus, he has been patiently helping me dissolve confusion and discover clarity within myself.

So when I was asked why he should sit higher, my heart had only one response:

Why shouldn’t He? 🌼🙏

What should I owe You?
I owe You everything.

How should I return the favour?
You were my life’s saviour.

I was nothing but a sunken ship,
Lost in an endless, restless deep;
With no shore in sight, no guiding star,
I had forgotten who I truly are.

Then came Your silent, boundless grace,
Not to carry me, but show the way.
You did not promise an easy sea,
You simply awakened the strength in me.

You taught me not to seek the light,
But to become it from within.
Not to escape the storms of life,
But to dance through them with ease.

Today, whatever little I have become,
Carries the fragrance of Your touch.
Every breath, every step, every prayer,
Is shaped by Your boundless care.

So what should I owe You?
I owe You everything.

And how shall I ever repay?
By living your wisdom, every single day.

- PM