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Can one find true peace in daily activities such as cooking, cleaning and gardening? Someone told her that one can find true peace only through meditation or working in an Ashram department. However, my mother and I feel happy🙂 and peaceful, when we are doing our daily chores

Of course one can find inner peace anywhere and doing any kind of work. One of my earliest experiences was a concrete, solid descent of peace in a town in Punjab while walking back to the Officer’s Mess to watch a movie! What matters is the inner aspiration, the attitude, the inner state. The Divine is everywhere and in everything and anything can become an ocassion for His revelation. In fact working in the Ashram is not easy as it throws up many hidden difficulties and quite a few end up losing their peace. What is true however is that the atmosphere in and around the Ashram is charged with Divine Vibrations and moving in it is like bathing in an ocean of Peace and Light and Joy. But most are like closed containers and no drop of water enters even if it moves inside the sea. The secret is to open to the Mother whatever you do and wherever you are.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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