Gratitude & the Sunlit Path *****

Gratitude is the soul's response to the ever present Divine Grace. It perceives the rasa and hidden ananda in life. Delight is inherent in all existence. Pain and suffering are the rare exceptions which disturb us because we expect life to be all positive and take all that is positive for granted as a habit on the surface. Gratitude opens the deeper parts of our being and makes all positive movements expand and rise higher. It is the basis for Mother's "If you always smile at Life, Life will always smile at you." Physical sensation, vital feeling, heart's emotion, mind's thought -- gratitude is a psychic emotion.