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This issue is about joy. Daaji reflects on joy and the spiritual journey. Ichak Adizes places happiness in the present moment rather than in future expectations.Elizabeth Denley asks how we can live with joy in a world that suffers. Victor Kannan considers whether joy can last when outer beauty changes. Inga Marie Ramcke shares ways of helping children learn with joy through stories, puppets, and nature.As always, we welcome your reflections and submissions at contributions@heartfulnessmagazine.com.

May 2026 Edition

<h4>DAAJI traces the path to unconditional joy through contentment—and suggests it may be closer than we imagine.</h4>There is a question that lies beneath every human endeavor, beneath the striving, acquiring, and yearning. It isn’t asked directly very often, but it affects almost everything we do. Why is it so hard to keep joy going when we have so much? Why does it come without warning, stay for a short time, and then leave without warning, as if it belongs to another country and we are only visitors there?The Taittiriya Upanishad says that ananda [bliss] is at the very core of human existence, deeper than the body, breath, mind, and even intellect: we are joyful by nature. In one reading, the whole <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/the-inner-journey-from-seeker-to-finder-a-new-years-invitation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spiritual journey</a> is removing everything that obscures that original brightness. And the amazing thing is that this gentle letting go brings happiness in and of itself. We don’t have to wait until we complete our journey to feel free.∗Joy, in its truest sense, cannot be forced or manufactured. It is like a flame that moves through us, not something we can artificially create. No practiced smile or rehearsed effort can replicate its authenticity. True joy flows freely, carrying a natural grace that defies imitation. This is why it cannot be summoned by mere intention, and why it cannot be sustained by willpower alone. Enduring, unshakeable joy arises from a balanced and harmonious mind. As the mind settles into harmony, the intensity of passions, cravings, and emotional swings begins to fade. Gradually, even the distinctions between sorrow and pleasure lose their grip, giving way to a steady state of peace and calm in all situations.Hazrat Inayat Khan, writing with the precision of one who had looked deeply into the heart of human experience, observed that true happiness is not gained but discovered—that what keeps it from our lives is the closing of the heart. When the heart is not living, he suggested, happiness cannot live there either. This is a profound reversal of the assumption most people carry through life, that joy depends on what we receive, what we achieve, what is done for us. But the evidence of genuine seekers across all traditions points in another direction: joy is already present where the heart remains open. The work is not addition but subtraction, not construction but clearing.Babuji confirmed this from a different angle when he wrote that the various pleasures of the world do not provide lasting satisfaction but change into miseries. Yet beneath this diagnosis lies an insight of striking tenderness: the very fact that we are unsatisfied by worldly pleasures is proof that we once enjoyed something unparalleled, and the taste of it still haunts us. Our restlessness, rightly understood, is not a defect; it is a memory. The soul knows what it came from, and it will not be permanently consoled by anything less.Modern neuroscience, arriving at this conclusion through a different corridor, confirms that sustained well-being is not a function of external circumstances. Research on the hedonic set point, beginning with Brickman and Campbell’s work on the hedonic treadmill and developed further by Sonja Lyubomirsky and others, shows that after major life events, whether gains or losses, people tend to return to a relatively stable baseline of well-being. External circumstances account for only a fraction of lasting happiness. The dominant factor is internal: the habitual orientation of the mind. A mind that has learned to rest in its own depth, to stop grasping and resisting, finds that the baseline itself rises. This is not a coincidence. It is the same truth the Yoga Sutras articulated centuries earlier: santosha [contentment] brings supreme joy.∗&nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">Enduring, unshakeable joy arises from a balanced and harmonious mind. As the mind settles into harmony, the intensity of passions, cravings, and emotional swings begins to fade. Gradually, even the distinctions between sorrow and pleasure lose their grip, giving way to a steady state of peace and calm in all situations.</h4><hr>&nbsp;Yoga Sutra II.42 says that santosha is the basis for real joy. This is the ease of a tree whose roots go deep enough that no storm disturbs its canopy, and the ability to find fullness in the present instead of in a future that keeps getting further away. An open heart that never rests will eventually become anxious. When it doesn’t feel full, even small gifts can be hard to give. That is why compassion needs to be balanced with contentment. We should live like children who give freely without thinking about it, just for the joy of giving.When santosha grows, it spreads like seeds planted in the heart that one day grow into a huge forest. From this inner wealth comes a quiet joy that spreads to the world around it. This teaches us that when we don’t have any needs, other people feel comfortable around us. There is no stress, no noise, just acceptance. The HeartMath Institute’s research on heart coherence has shown that when people feel real gratitude and happiness, it changes the heart’s electromagnetic field in a way that can be felt by people nearby. The radiance of a saintly presence, described in ancient traditions, may well have a biophysical signature we are only beginning to detect. When we are content, it spreads and changes the quality of the space we live in.&nbsp;∗For hundreds of years, people have puzzled over a line from the Isha Upanishad: “Tena tyaktena bhunjitha” [enjoy by giving up]. It seems strange: how can someone enjoy something that they have given up? The misunderstanding comes from how people think about renunciation. Tyaga means letting go of the feeling of ownership over things, which is very different from giving them up. A subtle detachment comes over us when we stop holding on to things we like or defining ourselves by them. It brings a deeper and more lasting peace.Consider someone who holds a flower tightly in their hand, versus someone who holds it lightly in their palm. The first is afraid of losing it. The second loves it. The open palm is the real tyaga. The enjoyment is more intense because the clinging has gone away. Studies on what psychologists call savoring, or the ability to fully enjoy positive experiences without clinging to them, support this idea: not being attached to outcomes actually makes positive emotional states last longer and feel better. When you hold joy lightly, it grows. The Upanishads and the scientists arrive at the same door from opposite sides.∗&nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">When santosha grows, it spreads like seeds planted in the heart that one day grow into a huge forest. From this inner wealth comes a quiet joy that spreads to the world around it.&nbsp;</h4><hr>&nbsp;In a November 2003 message from Whispers from the Brighter World, Babuji spoke of the link between joy and <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/creativity-and-spirituality" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spiritual practice</a> in a way that few other teachings do.1 He said, “Let joy flower inside you, and offer it like a bouquet to Divinity.” Joy is the delicate connection between the spiritual heart and the physical heart. It brings peace and happiness to the person. Joy is a strong force that should be grown. A heart that wants to love cannot ignore it. It is a key part of the sadhana [practice]. It doesn’t help to show a sad face or love someone when you’re sad.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/joy_without_conditions2_112d80d928.webp" alt="joy-without-conditions2.webp"></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/joy_without_conditions3_98af5e51a5.webp" alt="joy-without-conditions3.webp"></figure>&nbsp;This lesson goes against what most people think. We often think of joy as the reward for spiritual growth, like the fruit that comes after years of hard work. Babuji puts it first as a condition and as a way to do things. Joy is one of the things that gets us there. When you do things with joy and a sincere heart, you make progress in practice. A mind that is really engaged is a lighter mind, and a lighter mind goes further. We should do everything with a smile on our faces. Even if you feel limited or weighed down, you can reach great heights through regular, heartfelt, and joyful practice. Babuji communicated again in March 2006: “Let this hymn of joy rise in you—that which you cultivate with delight, making you forget the trials and tribulations of the world. Meeting this inner call also entails evoking subtle forces capable of strengthening the being, in its most elaborate structures.”∗Babuji once said that the only person who is truly happy is the one who is happy under all circumstances. He told each abhyasi to work on the very spiritual skill of cheerful acceptance, which is both a sign of growth and a means of growth. In defeat, you feel helpless: “I can’t change this, so I give in with heaviness.” Cheerful acceptance, on the other hand, means that you are open to whatever comes your way and welcome it as it is. When that kind of happiness is really present, everything starts to change. Fear often grows when you fight it, but it can be understood and worked through when you accept it. What we resist remains standing in our way. What we welcome becomes our guide.This is the deeper meaning of saranagati [surrender]. It makes you feel like a Beloved is holding you and taking care of you. Someone who has this kind of trust goes through life with a sense of lightness and gratitude. In a whisper message, Babuji expressed that surrender means being completely available and accepting. It is the cost of everything coming together and making sense in a useful way. Research on the brain’s resting state corroborates this at the physiological level: a mind in an accepting, non-reactive state produces diminished activation in areas linked to rumination and anxiety. The body calms down, the heart rate variability increases, and the organism reaches what is effectively its best operating state. The scientists and the mystics both talk about the same homecoming, but in different ways.&nbsp;∗When you share happiness, it grows. Joy brings more joy. Joy brings grace. The devotional traditions describe the highest form of devotion as one in which the devotee feels the happiness of others as their own—para sukha sukhi—and is sad when others are sad—para duhkha duhkhi. It is natural to want to celebrate with someone when they are happy. But jealousy often comes up instead. That jealousy makes the mind uneasy, breaking inner peace and creating vibrations that do not settle. The critic believes they are better than everyone else, and the idea that “no one is better than me” takes hold. How can there ever be peace in a heart like that? The best way to show thanks for everything we have is to share our own happiness and feel the happiness of others.&nbsp;&nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">Babuji once said that the only person who is truly happy is the one who is happy under all circumstances. He told each abhyasi to work on the very spiritual skill of cheerful acceptance, which is both a sign of growth and a means of growth.&nbsp;</h4><hr>&nbsp;Why are we so good at showing our sadness, pain, and anger but so bad at showing our happiness and love? In times of trouble, almost everyone talks to God. We ask and beg. But what happens to our memory of the Beloved when we are happy and full? You can also give joy to others. We can share that feeling with God, just like we share our sadness with a cry from within. Mirror neurons, which fire both when we act and when we observe others acting, indicate that when we truly celebrate someone else’s happiness, we are participating, and the heart that celebrates adds to its own reserves.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/joy_without_conditions4_c821734171.webp" alt="joy-without-conditions4.webp"></figure>&nbsp;Sharing happiness does not divide it; it multiplies happiness. The Bhagavad Gita describes the one who delights in the welfare of all beings—sarvabhuta hite ratah—as attaining dissolution in God.∗And here we return to the flame. At the opening of this reflection, joy was described as a flame that moves through us, not something manufactured but something that passes. Silently, the question was planted: if joy is our natural state, why does it feel so elusive? The answer has been unfolding across every movement of this inquiry. Joy does not feel like home because we have furnished the interior of our lives with so much that obscures it, with demands, comparisons, resistances, and the quiet but constant insistence that things must be other than they are. The flame was never extinguished. We simply stopped sitting near it. &nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">When you share happiness, it grows. Joy brings more joy. Joy brings grace.&nbsp;</h4><hr>&nbsp;Our spiritual journey is a gift, the very first gift we receive from the Divine, tied to our very existence, and to life itself. To be alive is an opportunity to grow. What is the best way to honor this immense gift? If we live it fully and joyfully, simply appreciating the fact that we are here, we are already on the right track.When santosha deepens into saranagati, when contentment opens into surrender, joy ceases to be a passing mood and instead becomes our ground. It no longer arrives and departs but underlies even grief, difficulty, and the ordinary Tuesday afternoon with its unremarkable demands. The seeds sown in the heart have by then grown into something that provides shelter. And from that shelter, joy flows outward without effort, touching others, inviting them toward their own original luminosity, doing so not by instruction or persuasion but simply by being what it is.If we offer love without conditions, our joy too can become unconditional. When the heart rejoices in wonder and gratitude, this state of joy itself becomes a bridge to Divinity. Let joy flower inside you, as Babuji said, and offer it like a bouquet. Not because you have been asked to, nor even because it is prescribed, but because when the heart is genuinely full, offering becomes as natural as breathing. And when joy is offered upward with love, it completes its circuit and returns, deeper than before, steadier than before, less like a visitor and more like home.∗<hr>1 Whispers from the Brighter World, messages received through intercommunication from elevated souls.&nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">AI-generated images</h4><hr>&nbsp;

Joy Without Conditions

<h4>ELIZABETH DENLEY explores how joy supports our mental well-being in a troubled world, reshaping our response to pain and suffering.</h4>It seems to me that joy is the pure awareness and celebration of our human existence and purpose. Joy brings with it an abundant heart that is light, moderate, balanced, and present in the moment. It is not loud, excitable, and attention-seeking; rather, it is a subtle current suffusing everything from within, flowing into everyday life from the depth of the heart. It is an expression of life force.&nbsp;My own personal experience of joy became more profound once I embarked on a conscious inner journey almost forty years ago. It was like rivulets joining to become a river, streaming toward a vast ocean with a natural, mighty flow.The first book I read after embarking on that journey was Truth Eternal, written by Lalaji, a spiritual master born in nineteenth-century India. His words sang in my heart, creating new possibilities, despite the suffering and heartache of this world.Lalaji exalted the soul and described it as “the instrument of joy. Nay! It is joy itself, and cannot exist without bliss and happiness.” He continued, “Happiness is not anywhere outside. It is in our fixing the attention, in the steadiness of disposition, and in the concentration of our mind. Those who know this secret need not search for happiness outside.” Lalaji saw <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/discovering-state-and-condition-the-two-axes-of-spiritual-evolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spiritual happiness</a> as “nothing but steadiness, settling, and peace.”Did he mean that being joyful results in a life without challenge and pain? Not at all. They are necessary aspects of being in this world. Joy does not mean we always experience pleasure and are always happy; it is the undercurrent of soul in everything we do.&nbsp;Many mystics, philosophers, and writers around the world have understood this. Here are just a few quotes—there are many more:“We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”&nbsp; —Maya Angelou“Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.”&nbsp; —Eckhart Tolle“True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.”&nbsp; —Paul Pearsall“When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.”&nbsp; —Marianne Williamson“We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”&nbsp; —Joseph Campbell“Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.”&nbsp; —Robert Louis Stevenson“Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.”&nbsp; —Morgan Freeman“Joy is the infallible sign of God’s presence.”&nbsp; —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”&nbsp; —Rumi“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”&nbsp; —Gautama Buddha“Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.”&nbsp; —Francis of Assisi“The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.” —Martin Buber&nbsp;“The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything.” —Julian of Norwich“From joy I came, For joy I live, and in Thy sacred joy I shall melt again.” —Paramahamsa YoganandaOsho told us that joy is a state of transcendence, where we are neither happy nor unhappy, but utterly <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/TAP-into-peacefulness" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">peaceful</a>, quiet, and in absolute equilibrium; that joy arises within and is the spontaneous flow of our own energy.He also said that “life is very simple; it is a joyful dance. And the whole earth can be full of joy and dance… life is not a jail, it is not a punishment. It is a reward, and it is given only to those who have earned it, who deserve it. Now it is your right to enjoy; it will be a sin if you don’t enjoy… leave it a little happier, a little more beautiful, a little more fragrant.”Swami Vivekananda reminded us that in every moment we are actually experiencing the joy of the soul. He said that wherever there is any joy, even the joy of a thief in stealing, it is that absolute bliss manifesting; it is just that it has become misunderstood and covered up. And the inner journey is the way to uncover it.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/secret_of_life2_673718c8c4.webp" alt="secret-of-life2.webp"></figure>&nbsp;In the Heartfulness tradition, Babuji once told Chariji a great open secret, which he shared with us: “The secret of life is to keep moving.” In joy, we do not stay stuck. Like water, we flow, and we find ways around obstacles. When joy is uppermost in our lives, we are not crippled by the fear of suffering and struggle. And it happens very naturally when the soul is nurtured.&nbsp;This feels like a fulfilling way to live—to be joyful, bring joy to others, and ease their suffering in whatever ways we can. There will always be ups and downs in life, and overwhelming challenges that test our being. But we have the means to accept them all by living in a state of joy, of upasana, as Lalaji calls it. This is the beautiful possibility we have been given—to radiate joy and love to everyone and everything in this precious world. Lalaji often used to pray for the soul of the world, and that itself evokes such joy!One evening, almost twenty years ago, in Chennai, India, a small group of us went to Elliot’s Beach with Chariji. Back then, it was a pristine beach with clear, unpolluted water and soft, yellow sand. The water was warm, and the waves were small, so we rolled our pants up to our knees and jumped waves together as the sun went down. After that, we played catch on the sand with a tennis ball. It was a glorious evening, filled with simple conversation and many silences. As we left the beach, Chariji said, “We need to play more often.”Such joyful memories are wonderful, and yet, the Heartfulness tradition also encourages us to go beyond joy. As Daaji explains, “The next stage is bliss, immersion in the joy of the soul. What more could there possibly be after this? But bliss still involves the experience of “I.” So, the journey continues until there is no longer an “I.” Bliss too disappears. In ‘no-thing-ness’ the heart becomes infinitely empty and receptive.”

The Secret of Life: Keep Moving

<h4>VICTOR KANNAN on beauty, joy, spiritual growth, and the search for what endures.</h4>What is a thing of beauty? We experience beauty as something that gives joy. But beauty commonly fades. If that is so, can the joy it brings endure forever? And if our joy can endure, must there be a kind of beauty that does not fade? And would enduring joy remain unchanged, or deepen as our understanding deepens?We often take beauty to mean form, color, or expression. But these change, diminish, and disappear. That kind of beauty cannot sustain joy.I have heard it said that simple is beautiful, small is beautiful. There is something true in this—but not in the way we usually take it. Beauty is not decoration. It is not something added. There is something innate about beauty—original, natural, uncontrived, authentic. It is without pretension. It is true to itself, and for that reason, it is grounded in reality. What we recognize as beautiful has a certain quality: it does not depend on conditions to sustain it. It does not exhaust itself. It is this kind of beauty that gives rise to a joy that does not fade.In <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/make-a-difference-volunteer-and-serve" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spirituality</a>, we seek reality. All our seeking—whether in love, relationship, work, or meaning—is for that reality. Even if we seem to seek in the wrong places, we are only seeking that. We do not knowingly seek in the wrong places; we do so unconsciously. As we grow in our seeking, we become pattern-bound, and those patterns are supported by unawareness.As our seeking evolves, we begin to experience joy—an inner condition that is subtler, steadier, and more satisfying. As awareness deepens, this inner condition begins to guide our seeking, becoming a key indicator that we are moving in the right direction and guiding our spiritual practice.Daaji talks about AEIOU—acquiring a spiritual condition, expanding it, imbibing it, becoming one with it, and uniting with it completely. It is a matter of receiving a condition and deepening it until we become that condition. In time, another condition arrives and settles upon it, and the process continues.Through such practice, we are transformed. Yet this transformation is not the creation of something new; we discover that what we have become is what we originally were. The condition we experience now is what we had when we were first created—innocent, pure, radiant. A thing of beauty.<h4 style="text-align:justify;">Joy in Wisdom</h4>As Daaji explains in his book, The Power of Paradox, the innocence of a child is not sustainable as we grow into adulthood. We must develop wisdom. Wisdom in the adult is the equivalent of innocence in the child. Both arise from purity. Purity and wisdom are inseparable.We say that we are growing older and wiser. But aging does not guarantee wisdom. Wisdom brings the right perspective in life, and that perspective sustains the inner condition of joy. A joyful heart shows even in an aging face—settled through time, integrated with the evolution of life itself.What does this inner condition of joy consist of? We have many terms to describe it—happiness, pleasure, fun, feeling good. These are often used interchangeably, but they do not refer to the same thing. They describe how we feel at a given moment.Joy is often spoken of in this way. We say that when shared, it multiplies."Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow" is a well-known Swedish proverb that emphasizes the importance of community, companionship, and empathy in life's highs and lows. It means sharing positive news magnifies happiness, while sharing pain or grief with others lightens the emotional burden.<h4 style="text-align:justify;">Joy in Service</h4>I read a Chinese saying when I was a very young boy: “If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.” This stayed with me. When you help someone in need, their heart fills with gratitude, and that feeling reflects back to you. You feel happy.&nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">Wisdom in the adult is the equivalent of innocence in the child. Both arise from purity. Purity and wisdom are inseparable. &nbsp;</h4><hr>&nbsp;Joy in service is the fulfillment that comes from giving time, energy, and love to others without expecting anything in return. It shifts our attention away from ourselves and gives meaning even to small acts. In this sense, service becomes a condition for the emergence and continuity of joy.“We cannot give what we do not have” is a truism. Not all of us have money, time, or energy to give. But love is not limited in this way. We can always give love, because it does not require anything else as a precondition. As Mother Teresa reminds us, it is not the scale of what we do, but the love with which we do it that matters.As I was leaving for the US in 1983, my Master Chariji advised me to serve unobtrusively. &nbsp;To serve in this way is to be attentive without drawing notice—anticipating what is needed, responding quietly, and creating ease for others without interrupting or placing oneself at the center. When love is present, it expresses itself naturally in this way—without effort, without display.<h4 style="text-align:justify;">Joy in Greeting</h4>When joy exudes from the heart in a natural manner, one cannot help but greet others <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/the-art-of-aging" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">joyfully</a>. Joyful greetings go beyond simple pleasantries—they express warmth, care, and genuine interest.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thing_of_beauty2_d06a76c308.webp" alt="thing of-beauty2.webp"></figure>&nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">Joyful greetings go beyond simple pleasantries—they express warmth, care, and genuine interest.</h4><hr>&nbsp;We see this most easily in the way we greet children, especially when they are young—“Good morning, sunshine.” When this becomes natural in us, it extends to others as well.When someone greets us with that same warmth—“It is wonderful to see you”—we respond in kind. Such greetings acknowledge the other person and create a natural connection.<h4 style="text-align:justify;">Losing and Finding Joy in the Jungle of Life</h4>We know life is no bed of roses—even if they do come with thorns. Most of the time, it is because we take joy as being conditional. When joy depends on circumstances, it becomes unstable—rising and falling as those circumstances change. Recognizing and fostering unconditional love, happiness, and joy alone make them real.Babuji often placed the word “real” before qualities like love, happiness, and joy to emphasize that, when tied to material conditions, they are ephemeral. &nbsp;Pleasure is ephemeral. If pleasure becomes the basis of happiness, happiness becomes ephemeral. And if such happiness becomes the basis of joy, that joy cannot endure.The Katha Upanishad distinguishes between preyas and shreyas—the pleasant and the truly good. Pleasure appeals to the senses and gives immediate satisfaction. But when the conditions that gave rise to pleasure pass, sorrow follows. To avoid that sorrow, we seek the same pleasure again, and in doing so, become bound to the very action that produces it. Pleasure-seeking is therefore not wise. And where there is no wisdom, can there be room for joy?Whereas, if we recognize that inner joy is unconditional and can only be attained through the spiritual orientation of our being and our seeking, we attain freedom. Preyas brings about ignorance and bondage. Shreyas begets joy and freedom.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thing_of_beauty3_5ada865110.webp" alt="thing of-beauty3.webp"></figure>&nbsp;If material well-being becomes the basis on which we depend for love, happiness, joy, and even the fulfillment of our goals, then all of these remain uncertain and cannot endure. For even in the pursuit of material goals, if we seek something lasting in them, we are in fact reaching beyond the material to the real. Otherwise, the beauty and joy with which we were greeted at birth are lost in the jungle of life.The good news is that only in this jungle of existence can we find beauty, joy, and lasting reality. No amount of reading about it can convince us. It requires a change in orientation—a turning toward the divine, keeping it in view—and, above all, a direct, felt experience of that forceless force that carries life within it.Without existence, we cannot experience reality, nor can we experience bliss. Existence is given. We are in it. We are part of it. The real question is: how do we exist in such a way that this becomes a living reality?<h4 style="text-align:justify;">Joy in Spiritual Search and Finding</h4>The great saints and sages who came before us walked the earth like us. They toiled to find answers to the eternal question of why we are here and the purpose of creation. As we move through this search, cultivating joy becomes a companion. As we live our lives cultivating joy in all our expressions, we begin to attract grace. Even in the normal course of life, when we feel joy in our hearts, we act with patience. We greet people with warmth and concern. We open doors for others. We yield while driving. We understand when someone cuts us off. We do not react unnecessarily. We remain centered, connected, and in the flow of life.Babuji expressed this simply: “Joy attracts grace.” I take this to mean not only in the spiritual sense, but in all dimensions of life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">As we live our lives cultivating joy in all our expressions, we begin to attract grace. Even in the normal course of life, when we feel joy in our hearts, we act with patience.&nbsp;</h4><hr>&nbsp;How can we separate spiritual life from daily life? How can we separate night from day? How can we separate ourselves from others? We are connected in many ways—not by a single fiber, but by many.Joy is one such fiber, along with love, humility, and authenticity. When life becomes well-connected in this way, it becomes a thing of beauty. So it is joyful. This is a certainty, not merely a hope. Get involved in life in a way that reveals the real beauty within. Then joy is no longer something we seek, but something that expresses itself naturally in all that we do.&nbsp;<hr>1 Chariji refers to Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari (1927–2014), the third guide of the Heartfulness tradition.2 Babuji refers to Shri Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur (1899–1983), the second guide of the Heartfulness tradition. &nbsp;<hr>Illustrations by LAKSHMI GADDAM<hr>&nbsp;

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<h4 style="text-align:justify;">ROSALIND PEARMAIN speaks of the attitude of softness, the world of the senses—of hard and soft, force and forcelessness, warmth and cold—and how we harken to a more profound and beautiful world at the core of our being through the heart.</h4>&nbsp;We are living in a time of hardening edges, of ever harsher decisions affecting millions of our fellow human beings.On the other hand, Babuji stressed from the very origins of Heartfulness that it was fundamentally based on a forceless force—on softness.Another Heartfulness Guide. Chariji, often reminded us of the strength of a tiny plant root in breaking up rocks:“What is this miracle, you see, that the softest thing can penetrate the deepest, hardest substance known? Whereas a hard thing can only up a hard thing. Can you break water by bashing it with a crowbar?“It was a tremendous risk that the Masters took, Lalaji and Babuji. Because it’s like building a house of butter and then asking the people who come in to have torches in their hands. The whole thing would melt. But they had this almost nonsensical stupid faith, that a soft thing can never be broken.“And we have also, in our fairy tales, that when the wind blew, all the hard trees which would not bend were just blown down, and the soft things which were willing to bend, bent almost to the Earth, recovered. It is the soft which wins the battle always. Not the hard, you see; the hard is broken. It survives until it meets something harder than itself. But the soft, nothing in the universe can break it. Nothing in the universe can destroy it.”<h4 style="text-align:justify;">Our journey in forceless force</h4>It seems that as human beings our souls choose to inhabit a specific existence in time and space as it unfolds on our planet and in relation to all creation.So we find ourselves inhabiting a field of feeling unique to each. Is it woven from DNA and patternings that have been transferred into this lifetime? This field of feeling has many layers and dimensions and knots that we perceive through different sensory gateways. They could be in terms of color or light, density and heaviness, warmth and cold, sound, or as qualities of touch. With the help of a being who is attuned to subtlest dimensions, we can harken to a more profound and beautiful world that is ours at the core, and long to return to this original part of creation.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/the_power_of_softness2_6da4490505.webp" alt="the-power-of-softness2.webp"></figure>&nbsp;The core of this sensibility is in the organ of the heart which integrates energetic information from the nervous system, from the organs, from viscera, from the brain, from soul. Furthermore our heart can be seen as a kind of organ of sensibility and perception whose intelligence can refine throughout life as it links with the capacity of the mind to focus <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/lack-of-awareness" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">awareness</a> with the array of feeling at the most subtle levels.In this vein, then, our existence is a field of vibratory exchange with environment, with all sentient life forms, with human beings. This vibratory array is like a glimmering or a shimmering, sometimes soothing sometimes discordant, similar to the domain of music.It seems to me that the <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/spirituality-in-daily-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spiritual journey</a> can bring us closer and deeper to the source of all manifestation of life, as a sound of love resonating through all creation. It is potentially experienced by us in layers of a kind of infinite softness that absorbs and transforms and brings everything into a larger field of connectivity which can keep expanding and softening as it moves towards a steady flow of coherence that can integrate increasing complexities within evolving life.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/the_power_of_softness3_b5a40fe2a1.webp" alt="the-power-of-softness3.webp"></figure>&nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">It seems to me that the <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/i-am" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spiritual journey</a> can bring us closer and deeper to the source of all manifestation of life, as a sound of love resonating through all creation.</h4><hr>Heartfulness gives us a resource emanating from the most profound and subtle level of vibration; the very original stir, in which to be reminded through a silent soft intimation felt within the heart of our source. This awakens our dormant longing to be dissolved into this field, and resonate in harmony with a nameless and marvelous ultimate. It is in the service of coherence, beauty, truth, and infinite love that we feel our longings for this return to our origin. Our individual journey is shaped by our intrinsic uniqueness and the kinds of samskaras and tendencies that need to be dissolved and reconciled with this core longing.<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">Illustrations by ANANYA PATEL</h4><hr>

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The power of softness

Ravi Venkatesan and Mark Milton explore listening skills and empathy.

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The superpower of listening

<h4 style="text-align:justify;">This World Storytelling Day, March 20, we bring you a story by SARA BUBBER, based on a common folk template. May the stories within the story entertain you!</h4><h4 style="text-align:justify;">Stories have been a tool in the passage of rites from one generation to the next since time immemorial. Entertainment, knowledge, wisdom, and education was passed down in the form of stories.</h4>Once upon a time, the Earth was an open canvas. People lived a nomadic life. Traveling from one place to another for food, shelter, and clothing was a common sight. With no radio, television, and phones the only way to entertain each other was to tell stories. Stories about new roots, giant trees, and scary tigers. Travelers were given lodging in exchange for stories, work could also be done by telling stories.One such day, a group of friends were traveling. After a long day they were tired and were trying to decide who would fetch firewood and cook for the group. They tried many ways of deciding but then saw a young girl who was coming the same way. They thought they could get her to cook for them while they rested. They asked her where she was from and if she cared to listen to some stories.The young girl loved stories. She immediately agreed. The group of travelers asked if she wanted to make the story session interesting. They placed a little bet. The travelers would tell the girl a story that was absolutely impossible. If the girl said that the story was impossible, she would have to cook food. The bet also went the other way. The young girl would tell a story, and if the travelers would say that it was impossible, they would cook for her instead.The story session began.One of the travelers started: “My grandfather was a poor farmer who worked in a rich household. He was always called names for working as a slow and careless worker. He prayed to God every day. However much he tried, he couldn’t work faster and was scolded endlessly. One day, the God he prayed to appeared in front of him and when he woke he had great strength. The next day as he was scolded, the energy he had felt rushed through his veins, he grew in size, lifted the house, and took a big leap. The house shook, the cupboards fell, the beds flew out and the windows shattered. He kept flying high until his employer begged him to stop. His employer not only stopped calling him names but also gave him the place of a family member.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/tale_of_tales2_7bab8dfbf1.webp" alt="tale-of-tales2.webp"></figure>&nbsp;“How was the story? Does someone disagree?” No one disagreed.Another traveler continued: “Once there was a famine in my grandfather’s land. My grandfather was a very weak person. One day, in a fight with his brother, he had to leave home. He thought of finding fame for himself. He walked into a forest and came across a man painting. He painted a deer and, as my grandfather continued watching, to his surprise the deer came alive. He thought it was such an amazing device, that he wanted to possess it. When he got the chance, he went ahead and painted a boat with the owner of the brush in it. He added winds on the lake and blew the owner away. Now he had full possession of the paintbrush. He took the brush back and painted clouds and grains which solved the problems of his village. He became the treasurer of the village and one day, he created a son from the paintbrush. He was so exceptional that there was no girl to match him. Then he created a fully grown young girl as a match for his son. And thus, I was born from parents who were painted. The brush is gone, but it seems like my smooth hair is a gift from the paintbrush. I use the best herbs from the best orchard that my grandfather painted.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/tale_of_tales3_5c925060a1.webp" alt="tale-of-tales3.webp"></figure>&nbsp;“This is my story, do you agree?” “Yes we all do.”Now it was the little girl’s turn. She began her story. “My grandparents possessed many things. They were well respected in their community, and helped many people achieve greatness. They possessed hulk-like strength and various magical possessions. One day, in a civil strife, the servants of the house ran away with the chest of hulk strength and some of the magical possessions like a wish-granting paintbrush. My parents looked for it all their life, and today I set off in search. I have finally found all my family possessions with you. It seems you are the long lost servants of our family who have our possessions.&nbsp;“This is the end of my story. Do you agree?” “Yes we do.” The little girl continued, “That is wonderful news, now, give my possessions back.” “But… no we do not agree,” said the group. “Oh, then you must cook for me.” And the little girl, using her wit, rested as the team cooked for her.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/tale_of_tales4_c3079e9217.webp" alt="tale-of-tales4.webp"></figure><hr><h3>Interesting facts about stories</h3><h4> &nbsp;Aesop’s Fables</h4>Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece. He wanted freedom more than anything else. He noticed the supervisor of slaves and began to tell stories every day. The supervisor was impressed and one day asked Aesop what he wanted. Aesop asked for food for all his fellow slaves. His selfless gesture made the supervisor give Aesop and his community the freedom they deserved. These tales were combined into the <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/once-upon-a-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aesop’s Fables</a> that you have all loved growing up!<h4>Grimms’ Fairy Tales</h4>Grimms’ Fairy Tales is a German collection of fairy tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first published on December 20, 1812. It is considered the seminal work of Western children’s literature and is listed by <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/master-yoga-2024-unesco-paris" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UNESCO</a> in its Memory of the World Registry.<h4>Panchatantra&nbsp;</h4>Panchatantra is a collection of stories from ancient India based on politics, behavior, communication, and economics. These stories are based on the Vedas, Upanishads, the Ramayana and Mahabharata as a trove of wisdom. The princes of Amarasakti had no interest in pursuing their studies and thus a teacher, Vishnu Sharma, made a comprehensive manual for these princes to be taught in the form of stories. The Panchatantra started the story within a story form of learning, which delights young readers to this day. &nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/tale_of_tales5_3adb201b5e.webp" alt="tale-of-tales5.webp"></figure><hr><h4>Activity 1</h4>Guess these <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/how-setanta-became-cu-cullen" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">popular stories</a> from the details: 1. A young girl who loses her shoe that gives her the chance to marry a prince:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2. A boy who climbs a tall natural element that grows from magic beans and finds treasures in the clouds:&nbsp;…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3. A prince who moves to the forest with his brother and wife to live for fourteen years. The wife is kidnapped and he goes to rescue her with an army of monkeys:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4. A little creature born into a family of ducks goes into the world alone to find his true form:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5. Two unusual friends who come together near a riverbank. The friendship ends when one large friend asks his tree-dwelling friend for his heart:&nbsp;……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………<hr><h4>Activity 2</h4>Write your own story here. It can involve animals, kings, kingdoms, humans, plants, or anything else that tells a story.Create a story with a beginning, some problems that come up, and a solution to end the story.&nbsp;<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">AI generated images</h4><hr>

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The tale of tales

<h4 style="text-align:justify;">LYNNE McTAGGART is one of the central authorities on the new science of consciousness, and the award-winning author of seven books, including the internationally bestselling The Intention Experiment, The Field, The Bond, and The Power of Eight. Here, Lynne is interviewed by PURNIMA RAMAKRISHNAN about the transformative power of intention, the profound impact of group intention, and the potential for individuals to create significant change in their lives and the world.</h4>&nbsp;Q: Lynne, welcome. You are known for your pioneering work in the science of intention in <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/the-journey-of-total-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">consciousness and healing</a>. You’ve explored this science behind intention so deeply. Can you share how you personally define the power of intention?&nbsp;LM: Okay, well, first of all, it’s important to understand that our thoughts aren’t locked inside our heads. They’re trespassers, and they can go out and affect other people and things. We’ve seen that from countless studies on everything from single-celled organisms to human beings. In my own work, I’ve seen that we can affect everything from making plants grow faster, to purifying water, to lowering violence in war-torn and violent areas, and even healing people of things like post-traumatic stress disorder. And I’ve seen it in big groups and small groups. Essentially, thoughts are energy, just as everything else in the body is a collection of energy and energy fields of different varieties. And those thoughts can go out and affect things.I see an intention as a focused thought. You and I are having about 80,000 thoughts a day, and most of them are undirected, most of them are negative. And they oftentimes undermine our life because we’re focusing on negative outcomes, instead of intending for what we want.So, I always teach intention as a respectful and very specific request to the universe. And I find it gets amplified in small and large groups.Q: During your intention experiments, have you encountered any surprising results? Are there poignant moments, epiphanies, which have made you stop and think? What has defined or redefined your expectations of these intention experiments?LM: I think many of the peace intention experiments really surprised me. I wasn’t at all sure they were going to work when we started in 2007. We started with simple things, trying to affect the light emissions of a leaf. And then we moved on to seeds, trying to make them grow faster. And then we moved on to water, trying to purify water, then trying to lower violence in areas.My first experience of something mind-blowing was the seed experiments. I did my very first seed experiment in 2007 when I was speaking in front of an audience in Sydney, Australia. I worked with the University of California’s Dr. Gary Schwartz, a noted psychologist who has a special laboratory with the Laboratory for Consciousness and Human Evolution. He prepared four sets of seeds, each set with 30 seeds, and had his team photograph them and send them to me. And I showed these to the audience and allowed them to select one of the four seeds to send an intention to. So we sent an intention to seed group A for ten minutes. After we were done, I called Dr. Schwartz and told him we were done, but I did not tell him which seeds we sent the intention to. I told him as that was the cue for him to plant the seeds.Five days later they measured the seeds. After they’d measured them, I unblinded the study and told them which seeds we’d sent an intention to. And lo and behold, those seeds grew taller than any others.We did this five more times in different locations with different-sized audiences. And every single time the seeds that were sent an intention grew taller than the controls. But here’s the fascinating part—I was with my audience in Sydney, Australia, and the seeds were back in Tucson, Arizona, 8,000 miles away. Plus, we weren’t sending an intention to the seeds themselves, only to a photograph of the seeds, a symbolic representation of the seeds. So I realized from that very early time that we essentially create a psychic-internet when we make an intention in a group scattered around the globe. That I could see over and over again with the other intention experiments.<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">Essentially, thoughts are energy, just as everything else in the body is a collection of energy and energy fields of different varieties. And those thoughts can go out and affect things.</h4><hr>Another one that blew my mind was a Sri Lanka peace intention experiment we ran in 2008, when Sri Lanka was in the midst of a 25-year civil war. We did a peace intention for 10 minutes a day over eight days with 15,000 people participating from around the globe. Now, during that week, to my alarm, violence went up rather than down. And I had a professor of statistics doing the analysis. It then plummeted after that. But a more interesting thing happened. The government won a few decisive battles during that week that turned around the entire course of the war. For some time, both sides had been at a stalemate. Then, within a few months, the government was able to take back the north, which was held by the rebel forces. And a few months later, that 25-year intractable war was over.Now, did we do this? Well, it turned out that during the week of our intention pivotal battles occurred, and that was cause for an extraordinary surprise. When you do one experiment like that, it means nothing. There are too many variables in a war. But when you keep doing it and keep getting results, as we’ve done with peace intention experiments, they start becoming interesting.For instance, in 2017, we ran an experiment to lower violence in St. Louis, Missouri, officially the most violent place in America. And we chose a neighborhood called Fairground that was the most violent of all. We had very accurate police data. I once again asked Dr. Jessica Utz from the University of California to analyze data from several years beforehand to six months afterward, to look at the effect of our intention. She found that violence had been going up in all areas of St. Louis, and continued to go up everywhere except the neighborhood we intended where violence went down by 43%. And so it’s happened over and over again.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/intention_revolution2_38d89b0431.webp" alt="intention-revolution2.webp" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_intention_revolution2_38d89b0431.webp 110w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/small_intention_revolution2_38d89b0431.webp 353w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/medium_intention_revolution2_38d89b0431.webp 529w," sizes="100vw"></figure><hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">I always teach intention as a respectful and very specific request to the universe. And I find it gets amplified in small and large groups.</h4><hr>Perhaps the one that amazed me the most is an intention experiment I did that same year, at the end of 2017, with eight Arab cities and a large audience of Israeli Jews. I had special equipment so we could put cameras in eight different locations in Arab cities. Each different Arab city had an audience there. And the ninth camera was with an audience of Israeli Jews. I asked them all to make an intention to lower violence in an area of Jerusalem that was suffering from a high degree of violence.Before that, I had to broker the entire thing, as nobody was speaking to anyone else. They started talking, because I could call on the different places. They would talk to me, and then they would also communicate with the people in all the other locations. And they started sending love to each other, they started sending “Your God is my God,” talking about beautiful visions of people coming together from both sides. There was a big love fest. I found that every time I put together polarized and hated enemies, they seemed to come together after these intention experiments.Since 2008, I’ve run 41 intention experiments, and 37 have shown measurable significantly positive effects. I also surveyed the people involved, and for those who responded, about 40% have reported more peace in their own lives. They’re getting along better with estranged partners or parents or children. They’re getting along better with bosses and coworkers. They’re feeling more love for everybody, and around 50% consistently report they feel more love for everyone they meet.Essentially, they’re hugging strangers and peaceful things happen in their lives. Also, about one-third have reported an improvement in a health condition or a downright cure. So that is the biggest and most amazing effect, the mirror effect of these intentions: the people who are sending intentions are being healed as much as the targets.<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">So that is the biggest and most amazing effect,&nbsp; the mirror effect of these intentions:&nbsp; the people who are sending intentions&nbsp; are being healed as much as the targets.</h4><hr>Q: I was blown away by the seed experiment. How has the scientific community embraced this, or conversely, what are the challenges you’ve faced to try to share this with them?&nbsp;LM: I'm not interested in the scientific community because they aren’t going to accept it. Scientists are supposed to be explorers and very few of them really are. There are a lot of reasons for that. People lose their positions at universities for stepping out of the accepted paradigm. So I don’t need to convince scientists. There are enough scientists who are true explorers, who are fascinated by my work, and who have helped to measure the work.I work with people at prestigious universities to run the intention experiments—Princeton, Penn State, University of California, University of Arizona, and others in Europe. I choose people who are open-minded enough to do decent research.There are skeptic organizations who attack my work, but they attack it in the flimsiest of ways. My book, The Field, had more than 400 solid scientific references. I had interviewed exhaustively—frontier physicists, biologists, etc.—and had them check every last fact in that book to make sure I had written it correctly. The skeptics have said the book was based on nothing more than Star Wars, which is just incorrect, close-minded, and ignorant.So, I’m not interested in that. I’m interested in getting this information out to people so they can understand that we have extraordinary capabilities waiting to be unleashed, and we are very different from what we are told in mainstream orthodox science.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/intention_revolution3_b56b5be71b.webp" alt="intention-revolution3.webp" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_intention_revolution3_b56b5be71b.webp 214w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/small_intention_revolution3_b56b5be71b.webp 500w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/medium_intention_revolution3_b56b5be71b.webp 750w," sizes="100vw"></figure>&nbsp;Orthodox science is only 300-plus years old, and new studies and discoveries are being found in universities, in little pockets of academia here and there, that are completely transforming the way we think about ourselves and our world. And we’re far greater than we’ve been told!Q: Thank you for that very candid response. For someone who’s intrigued by your work, who’s curious about your work, and who wants to start applying this <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/how-to-manifest-peace" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">power of intention</a> in their own life, how can they begin?LM:&nbsp;They can join my community and my website. When they join, they receive some basic tools and information about how to do intention and how to form a group. They can also read my books. <a href="https://heartfulness.org/magazine/the-intention-revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Power of Eight</a>, the last book published on this topic, has basic descriptions of how to do intention in a group. For people who really want to learn more, I have a whole series of foundation courses.I also have a <a href="https://lynnemctaggart.com/courses/intention-masterclass/the-power-of-eight-intention-masterclass-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">year-long masterclass</a>, my kingpin course, where I work with people live and interactively for a year. Participants start working in groups after six weeks, and each group meets once a week. Under my instruction, they use intention for relationships, for health and healing, for finances and career, and for life purpose. There’s specific information and instructions, and I coach them throughout the year.So there are all kinds of things at all kinds of price points, including free, and every intention experiment is free. I feel everybody should be able to participate.Recently, Gaia released a documentary about my work with large and small groups, The Power of Eight, plus the intention experiments. They interviewed the various scientists who’ve worked with me, and numerous people who have had extraordinary healings with The Power of Eight, too. And it will culminate in an intention on February 1, 2025. I’m going to have a live audience at Gaia’s headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, and we’re also going to livestream it around the world.It's an invitation. So everyone can take part by going to <a href="https://lynnemctaggart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lynnemctaggart.com</a>, where there are instructions.Q: I am really looking forward to it.To be continued.

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