By: Charlie Hogg
Source: The Daily Guardian https://epaper.thedailyguardian.com/2026/05/15/e-paper-today-delhi-16-may-2026/
Dated: May 16th, 2026

It is probably fair to say that everyone in the world is finding life difficult right now. The world is increasingly unpredictable, and there is not much we can do about what is happening out there. There is, though, a way to equip ourselves to be able to manage our reactions to what is happening. The answer is spirituality. We can develop spiritual tools to stabilise ourselves – as if dropping a powerful anchor to ground us as this world swirls around us. Spiritual education, unlike worldly education, is about diving deep into one thing; taking one idea and going ever deeper into that. There are fundamentally two anchors that, when we understand and experience them fully, will absolutely ground us; no matter how much or how fast the world around us is changing.

The first idea is to have a loving relationship with myself as a soul. This is the exploration of meditation – the converting of what I know into what I feel. On some level or another, all of us know that we are souls, spiritual beings in a physical body. The soul is a wonder. It has no physical size – it is just a point of light. That makes I the soul immortal, eternal.

The second anchor is to have a loving relationship with the Supreme. The subtext of life is to find the ‘love of my life’, the beloved – a relationship that is absolutely secure and full of meaning. In relationships, we invest all our hearts – but find that no relationship is permanent. Whether it is due to time, change, death, or conflict, finally one day the object of my love goes away. But spirituality tells us that the one permanent relationship is the relationship with the Divine.

This is the journey — to taste and feel the reality that I am a soul, beyond all the labels of my body; the gender, the role, the position, my nationality. We know this, but time is now telling us that we have to taste it and feel it. I start to experience that I sit so lightly in the centre of the forehead in the front of the brain, and the more I become detached from the temporary self, the body, and connect with the permanent self, the soul, I am able to look through the eye of the mind and I see before me the form of the Divine. I connect with God, the radiant jewel of light, and see God as a soul like me. The only soul that has not taken rebirth. I have experienced happiness and sorrow, but God is beyond that. That soul is an unlimited source of all the qualities I need to fulfil the longing for the love of the Divine. I connect the subtle thread of my intellect and begin to live-stream love, peace, and power. When we overthink and overanalyse, we disempower ourselves. The greatest gift I can give myself is to allow time to practise this simple exercise each day. I sit quietly and put down the first anchor and unpack the truth of that, and secondly connect with the Supreme and taste the quality of love I get from that Divine Being. It is the kind of love I will get nowhere else. The message we are getting from life today is to begin to practise meditation. To begin to live life as a peaceful soul and take power from the connection with the Supreme Soul. This is the biggest investment you can make for your quality of life, and in so doing we give natural support, of an invisible kind, to the people we love. The deeper we go into these eternal truths, the more we begin to fathom the internal stability, strength, and peace that lies within all of us. The deeper we go into the truth of the self and of the Divine, the more incredible jewels we find. It is a journey and it takes patience, but it is the most important journey we will ever make.

Charlie Hogg, based in Sydney, 
is the National Coordinator, Brahma Kumaris, Australia.