A meeting of 130 youngsters with Samadarshini, in splendid form and smiling as usual, has just ended in an unusual place for this type of event: a room of the Gardaland hotel, Garda lake, Italy.

The language was simple and colloquial. No complex or abstract concepts were expressed; just simple comments on daily life, casually spoken like in a conversation between friends, but which actually contained very deep teachings.

Samadarshini started by telling a few stories from India – “I am Indian and my favourite stories come from India” – she slowly led the audience in a crescendo of attention and participation involving everyone with continuous questions and requests; she then reached the heart of her speech: as human beings we can only feel fulfilled if we love and accept each other as we are.

Samadarshini then guided everyone through a simple exercise to put this theory into practice; an exercise to apply this new perspective to everyday life, to go back to focusing on ourselves in order to see and accept "our truth" at a given moment, a truth which constantly changes.

She underlined that it is not a “meditation” otherwise everyone immediately thinks of something serious, difficult and demanding, but a simple exercise that can be done in just a few minutes every time we are faced with an unwanted emotion, we judge it as wrong and we then arduously try without success to change or remove it.
Briefly the steps are the following:

1-    Recognise that “every emotion is natural”.
2-    Breathe in deeply from the mouth and out from the nose.
3-    Repeat three times “I am allowed to feel everything”.
4-    Ask yourself “What exactly am I feeling in this moment?” listen to your body and thoughts.
5-    Acknowledge that “this is the truth in this moment”.
6-    Repeat three times “The truth only concerns me, never the others”.
7-    Place your hands on your heart; thank the Presence that has allowed you to see the truth helping you to accept yourself.

At the end of the meeting a small video was shown in which musicians in different countries improvised in the streets, with their instruments, a piece of music based only on a common outline: a wonderful example of how the Oneness experience can be lived through music uniting countries which are distant from each other, from Africa to Europe, from Asia to America.  The notes of that music added the final touch to a light, joyful and fresh meeting.

Samadarshini and Radhika publicly expressed their appreciation for the organisation and work carried out by Rochana and Daniel who, with the collaboration of the youth group (Adele, Lara, Rudy, Ottavia, Carlotta, Luca, Giuseppe and Sathya) and everyone else who helped, made this meeting possible. “I must confess that in my life I have never met a person only once". These words echoed in the room like a pleasant, hinted promise of possible future occasions to meet again.  We all hope so!