Don't let the mind win the day — start in God's presence

Yes, yes, why do I emphasize that don't start your day without meeting God's present is because if you notice, the mind tries to own the day right in the morning. See, when you wake up, it tries to own the day by telling you, this has to be done, this is not done, the flight to this one, do this work. So it tries to lay first claim to your life during that day, and most of us are first thing in the morning. So if you can withdraw from that assault, not get, not fall for that mental identification and assault, and remain in God's presence first thing in the morning, then that itself is a big part of the job done for the day. So start your day no matter what in God's light presence. And then you carry that perfume, you carry that light through the interaction of the day. So it's helpful for yourself and also helpful for the brothers and sisters that you will meet in the course of the day. So otherwise the momentum sometimes becomes too much for us to handle. We start like that and we say, okay, we will pray later or we will inquire later. You see, then by the time you spend one or two hours in that mind adult state, you find it very tough to come out. You already caught up, then if you like, okay, let me start again tomorrow properly, then tomorrow again it will start like this.