Life is celebration. You must grab and use every opportunity, everyday, to celebrate and be grateful. How can celebration happen? Celebration cannot happen by just putting flowers and balloons; it has to happen from within. What are the qualifications and conditions needed for celebration to happen? Have you thought about it?

It's a Catch 22; if you celebrate, you are happy; if you are happy, you celebrate. Yes, if you are fearful, you cannot celebrate. Being in love is a sense of belongingness! Of course, food is part of celebration. If you are hungry, you can't celebrate! Listen, do you really see people who exchange food and drinks as happy? Or in a celebration? Look at their faces!

Then we need a sense of purity. When you feel clean, you can celebrate. When you feel dirty, can you celebrate? If you are working on the drainage system, and someone comes and tells you, 'Come, let's celebrate', you will say, 'No, I am dirty. Let me take a shower, then I will come and celebrate.' Don't you say that? So Celebration is when you feel clean, outside and inside. People who think they are the worst sinners cannot celebrate as the guilt eats them up. So a sense of purity outside and inside is necessary.

I want you to remember one thing, you are a diamond; maybe, in a garbage-can! So, when you feel you are impure, know that you are a diamond. A diamond can never become impure, it can only be in the garbage can. If a diamond is in the garbage can, will you throw it? No, you will just pick it up and wash it. All these practices that you do, is just washing the diamond, that's all! How long does it take for you to wash the diamond? Do you need to scrub it hard? No, just a little bit of water; maybe a pinch of soap. In the way, 'SoHum, SoHum', that's it, then the diamond is pure again. When you know this, Nitya Shudhoham, i.e., I am ever pure, celebration will never stop in your life.

Intrinsically we all are pure by nature; but the moment you feel this, that you are pure, your heart is pure, you don't wish anything bad for anybody, & then you are pure love. Then there is alertness, wakefulness inside you.

You are ever pure, and silence is the scent of purity. "Silence, and this understanding that I am ever pure", makes life a celebration. The celebration that comes out of silence is very authentic because it is coming from the depth. Thus Celebration comes from our depths.