Hello, everyone, I'm glad to be here with you. This course will be very practical, and experiential. We'll be learning the basics of meditation and some of the techniques as well. These techniques help us to achieve an approach to life that we like to refer to as heartfulness. In the field of spirituality, especially theories and dogmas do well Looking good to us. personal experience is the name of the game here.

There is an old saying worms, ate up thousands of books, but did not receive any Certificate of erudition. I'm sure that there is no need for me to explain the insignificance of such a sort of education. Especially when it comes to spiritual decider for existence. Knowledge is good. Knowledge is valuable, but knowledge on its own cannot transform or even change me. It is unable to move us towards perfection on its own Good beginning but it must not end.

For instance, everybody knows that patience is a watch. Everyone knows that honesty is good. Does this mean that patience and honesty are prevalent into this world? We request something beyond knowledge. we meditate because we seek change at some level. We will define that change in various ways, as well individual needs and goals.

Some people meditate for stress reduction. Others say I want to merge with God. Everyone's reasons will be different. But one of the beautiful things about meditation is that it continuously opens our eyes. to newer levels of aspiration, the reason that you start meditation is rarely the same reason that you continue to meditate later on with as your perspective changes, so, do our aspirations. Whenever aspirations are higher, greater possibilities open up to us.

At this juncture, I would like to clarify that aspiration is different than ambition. ambition is to get something is to gain status or goods. aspiration is something else entirely. In one sense, we can say that as far as one is to become something, but even that is a little too acquisitive. To aspiration is when the heart cries out longing for purity and simplicity. And there are infinite levels of purity and simplicity.

So we can regard this spiritual journey as an infinite one. Well, every level of achievement and Nobles us and opens our eyes to new possibilities. There are very few pursuits in life that can offer infinite growth. He will work out the gym every single day and drink all sorts of protein drinks, milk sex, but eventually the growth of the body will be finally controlled by your genetic predisposition. A person who is predisposed to grow five foot five will go to be five foot five, he may exercise and play his best maybe he might grow to be five foot 5.6 and a half perhaps Think can certainly not become six footer. So we have limitations at the physical level.

This largely controlled by our genetic predisposition, but there is some level of flexibility. At the mental level, we have greater flexibility. A son of a farmer has a great potential or possibility of graduating and post graduation becoming PhD, isn't it? At the mental level, we have greater flexibility. But do we have flexibility to become PhD and double PhD? So there's a difference.

Can you compare ourselves then, with great souls like Einstein? No way So, there is also some sort of mental barrier beyond which you cannot cross. Next one is spiritual potential. It is infinite. The physical level we have limited possibility of growth at the mental level. Such flexibilities open up to a greater extent and that is spiritual.

There's infinite possibility and the physical level again if you see, we nourish ourselves with so many things. At a mental level also there is greater way of enriching various ways of enriching our mental reom for which we interact, we attend such courses for spiritual fulfillment, nourishment of the soul what's up nutrition, solving require This meditation and the heartfulness makes all the difference. I meant to say because I was deeply unhappy for a few years despite having everything that anyone would ever say that you needed. I had a happy family. I had a very good husband a good work life. But there was something missing within me that some I felt I hadn't found.

I decided that the best way forward was to try to find some means to access something within myself. And I was fortunate enough to find meditation, which has been wonderful. I meditate because it makes me happy. And also it's like a direct connection to who I really am. Without any learn behaviors or patterns. I would miss it if I wouldn't have it.

Meditation on the heart taught me to feel the heart more than anything else and surrender to the reality inside. Instead of getting caught in the creation of humanity it's a blessing to be able to feel your own reality which is the heart It's a one from inside to meditate and connect to myself and know myself more better. I started off by looking at the mirror at one age at at one age and I and I said to myself, there has to be something else. And this what I see outside all other wonder to see Who am I? What is what is there in myself? So who am I and what are the in myself?

So I started, I thought that meditation is a tool which I can use. Well, I started meditation because I want to find peace in me. I knew that there is something to help me with this. And I loved the way you have to do whatever day and I like this because I like I like to be organized. And try and move away from the mind way of thinking, and try and perceive things with my heart. I meditate because it calms me down.

It brings me alive to myself. I can introspect myself, know myself better, and I feel like myself at peace. I like it when meditation happens, it's because the way I am, I am much more profound way than I am usually