Time and again we should lift our eyes away from the mundane. The nature of the mundane, it just occupies you, swallows you completely. Small things can occupy your mind and your time. Simple things, daily things like cooking, of course here you don’t have to worry about it (laughs), but cooking and shopping, washing your clothes and ironing them, all these trivial, small things eat up most of your time and sometimes they drown you. Daily routine can drown us, keep us so occupied, so busy we have very little time to look to something that is beyond, beyond the material existence. So the intelligent, wise people, while doing all this will time and again, shift their attention towards the subtle.
Take your attention away from the mundane. This can happen during sunrise and sunset. When the sun is rising, you just gaze at the rising sun. At that moment you know there is a shift because there is a shift in the universe from night to day. So in the shift, the mind also easily shifts from the mundane to something ethereal, something beyond.
The world of the Gods is just inches away from us, not very far, just a few inches. So you just lift your eyes from the mundane and look at the sunrise. The sun has been rising for so many millennia, still its charm has never died. Its newness has never diminished even an inch. So that’s why, at the moment of sunrise, the mind lifts away from the mundane.
Similarly during sunset. Sunrise creates alertness, awareness, wakefulness. Sunset is more a time for relaxing. When the sun is setting it just takes you to a dream world, more romantic. The romance with sun never ends! During sunset birds are singing; just watch and the mantras will start coming up within us. Prayer happens spontaneously. Instead of talking this and that and all sort of mundane things watch the sunset. Connecting to the nature uplifts you. That’s why it is called “sandhya”. Dawn and dusk are the best times to relieve ourselves from the mundane to get a foothold in the ethereal, in the subtle, in the most beautiful time of the creation. Similarly with moonrise. Full moon rising, looking at the moon, your breath becomes musical. Looking at the moon, the vibes in you, the prana, becomes musical. And life becomes harmonious. That’s why all the spiritual practices are connected with sun and moon. Full moon meditation is very well known. Buddha got enlightened on the full moon and Guru Purnima happens on full moon.. So the moon is also connected. Everything is connected but the moon is very much connected with the spiritual practices. Mediation on full moon night, new moon night, also are auspicious. These meditations draw you, compel you more.