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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Brahmacharini Shripriya Chaitanya

Good morning. As our days become shorter and colder, we look forward to festivities that bring light and warmth. Radio 3 marks the changing clocks with a special season called 鈥楥apturing Twilight鈥� that will be aired tonight, from 1am onwards.

As the clocks go back tomorrow night and we bid farewell to lighter evenings and darker mornings, we鈥檙e granted the - somewhat paradoxical - gift of more time.

According to the ancient Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, time is cyclical. Creation exists in cycles between periods of dissolution, when everything rests in an unmanifest state. In each cycle of creation events take place in largely the same way, with some minor differences. It is not only creation that exists in this way but also each of us, as individuals.

And life sometimes does feel cyclical, whether on a daily basis or on a larger scale of months, or years. We often find ourselves doing the same things we were doing yesterday, six months ago, or ten years ago. We find ourselves repeating the same thoughts.

Moments we live through seem to continue endlessly, and yet years seem to pass in the blink of an eye. What do we do with time, this fundamental dimension, that we measure objectively but experience in a distinctly subjective way? My teacher often says, 鈥渨e don鈥檛 waste time; we waste ourselves鈥�. Time has no gains or losses; it is we who give value to time.

May God鈥檚 grace enable us to live in the present moment with awareness, acceptance, and love.

Hari Om.