“You want to be happy? That is very easy.
Simply feel a glowing smile on your face.
Feel the glow of your smiling face.
See. You are happy.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Every life
Is beautiful
When it smiles.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Who is God? God is our own highest reality. If you can give a most soulful smile that will immediately illumine you and the whole world, that smile is nothing other than God.”
– Sri Chinmoy
Meditation is the most effective and lasting means to raise, illumine and transform our consciousness. But a good and deep meditation is not always guaranteed, and is sometimes seemingly elusive or unattainable.
Even without meditating, here is an extremely effective way to bring our heart to the fore and transform our consciousness.
Whatever your mood, take a moment to look in the mirror and smile. Your smile will either be spontaneous or forced. If it is spontaneous, you will see how beautiful, how luminous you are and you will appreciate and adore yourself for it; you will be energised, inspired and uplifted. If your smile is forced, you will see how ridiculous you look, you will laugh at yourself and immediately your smile becomes genuine. Your negative thoughts and feelings have been expelled, and meditation will now come more easily and readily.
The face you see in the mirror is the face you will show the world when you go outside. Surely you want the world to have the best impression of you, even if you are not trying to offer anything of particular value to the world.
Our smile is the emblem and ambassador of our better self. If you want the world to see your better self, then do only one thing – smile, smile and then again, smile.