If you are a spiritual aspirant karma speeds up because you are burning it out. This is what karma does. It mirrors your own action towards others. So you are able to see what your actions do to others. In this way you can gain empathy by seeing its effects on you when others  do something to you similar to what you have done to others.

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Vishu Kani is a, significant, auspicious festival marking the Malayalam New Year (Medam 1st) in Kerala, usually falling around April 14 or 15. It signifies prosperity, new beginnings, and the agricultural spring season, with rituals focused on seeing auspicious items (Kani) at dawn to ensure a blessed year.
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I think the first meditation i began was as a teenager staring into a candle light and staring in the flame then closing my eyes and attempting to see the flame continue in my inner awareness.

Since being here at Amma’s ashram in Kerala India i can definitely say that my afternoons spent with Amma in meditation are the highlights of my day. I make a special effort to be in her presence while she leads a guided meditation most afternoons when she is here. It almost always brings me into an inner chamber of being of peace and insolation from worldly distractions and restlessness.

Heavy drilling begins again today; that drives me out of the beach house here to find some peace somewhere else.

I honestly have never seen so much garbage everywhere as India. Approximately 1.4 billion people crowding out animals, forests and nature.

Everyday I help pick up motorcycle seats, cans, bottles, toilets and thousands of wrappers and boxes more people just dumped in the Arabian Sea.

Suppose we are hungry; at first we will seek a loan. If that is not available we will beg for food. If still we do not find food; it will not be long till we steal to have food.

Suppose we have a burned hand. We will run to a cold faucet to put cold water on the burned hand.

Suppose we are fish and are out of water. We wil struggle to find shelter back in the water. Because every moment away we are closer to death.

These are illustrations that Amma gives in show how strong our desire for meditation should be developed.

Energy and Serenity in Meditation

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