Conclusion

My spiritual journey has been amazing for me and an honour to share it with you.

The metamorphosis from being a rational being to a spiritual being was made easy through the love of the Guru. He has effortlessly blossomed in me the qualities of love, compassion, contentment, blissful awareness and peace at 43 – qualities I thought I would possess and effect at 90.

Jyo meditating after yoga

Today I feel like a bride, act like a warrior and be like a saint.

The futuristic vision – Is this will or is it my destiny? The futuristic vision is my destiny. It remains a vision dissolved within me and in the universe around me. If it is congenial to the universe it will surface when it is time; whether it comes about or not is destiny. Destiny is a result of my past actions in addition to other possible external forces – past actions of this life time and/or past lifetimes. How I take the after effects of my actions is free will. Actions are a result of my thoughts. Thoughts simply arise. Which thought I will contemplate in the present moment is free will. When one’s nervous system is clear, the thoughts that arise are intuitive thoughts – thoughts from higher intelligence. These intuitive thoughts are potent seeds of destiny. I clear my nervous system through meditation and Sudarshan Kriya Yoga - S.K.Y.

In addition to clearing my nervous system, the S.K.Y. makes me blissfully aware of this moment; effortlessly leads me to the ‘love’ I am; it liberates me on many levels to act courageously with energy, enthusiasm and compassion to build what is necessary with and through this ‘love’.

In conclusion of this book Build it With Love, there is no message as such from me. However the vision for this book is that you and many others like you, now, know that such a special breathing technique as the Sudarshan Kriya Yoga exists and understand its possible benefits. Many of you may seek to learn and practice S.K.Y. regularly. If you happen to seek it, let it transform you to your potential in this lifetime. I remain blissfully yours in love and awareness.

Love is the key to everything good in life. Let love be the motive force behind everything you do.

Happy Mother’s day to all mothers!

Love you!

Jyo

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Reflection

We each strive to be of use with 100% of our potential. Everyone on this planet loves everyone else. Observing the world, I know, this does not seem so, because people cannot ‘show’ their love.

Photo: Mountain Reflection
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Reflecting upon my experiences I have discovered the reasons as follows:

People cannot show love to one another because of any or many of the following reasons:

1. Karmic effects of past life times;
2. Misguided understanding of religious texts;
3. Lack of awareness of what life is;
4. Misinterpretation of religion, politics, and what they are about;
5. Indulgence in their five senses in adultery, addiction and corruption;
6. Lack of empathy toward others.

When we transcend our karmic effects of past life times through Sudarshan kriya yoga; learn to show love; we become self-actualized – we act from our 100% potential with time.

Love you!

Jyo

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Hindu Wedding, Arundhati Darshan

Where I come from, invitation to an auspicious event, particularly a wedding, reads:

“We… cordially invite you… to grace the auspicious occasion of … with family and friends”

On the 4th Feb 1990, about 1000 guests are expected to bless us on our wedding day. My friend Shalu makes me up. There is not much to do for me – except eat, smile and greet. For the past three weeks it has been like this – Everyone else looks after everything that is needed. I look after my looks, heart and mind. Just the same, looking after how I look is easier than looking after my heart and mind. The moments are fleeting. I cannot hold them.

It showers lightly on the day.

Looking back now, every important day of my life it has showered amply.

The wedding is magical. There are cleansing ceremonies the previous night. On the day I go through Mouna Vrat – Offerings in silence. Before the knot is tied, we take the seven steps. And after the tying of the knot, we do something intriguing – the Arundhati Darshan.

Vasistha and Arundhati performing a Yajna, with Kamadhenu, in their Ashram.
Note: Sage Vasistha is one of seven seers. Arundhati is worshipped with them as one of them
Courtesy: Wikipedia

Arundhati and Sage Vasishta (author of parts of the Rig Veda, 3700 BC) are considered an ideal couple – chaste, devoted and loyal to each other. They are identified with the star quartet Alcor and Mizar in Ursa Major. In the Hindu marriage ritual, Arundhati Darshan, the bride and groom together view these stars so that they be inspired to imitate the ideal couple.

Please do not ask difficult questions like – Can we see the stars in the morning? How come they are stars? How can the following be proven? I just know the tradition, passed on since the Vedic period, is practiced to this day.

In the Hindu tradition, we go with devotion around what is sacred, to make it ours. In temples, we go around the sanctum-sanctorum and ourselves three times to attain – removal of sins, fulfill desires, freedom from births, and deliverance through knowledge. Yes. The first time we do it, we make the sanctity within ours…

The Arundhati-Vasisht star systems are a special quartet discovered as binary star systems in 1617. Each are two star systems going around themselves going around each other. This can be understood as – in a marriage you make yourself sacred (place yourself in the center) go around yourself (be self-aware – independent and inner dependent) and then make your spouse sacred (place them in the center) go around them (be supportive – interdependent) – to achieve an ideal marriage.

A Sanskrit verse about a marriage alliance for a girl, translates like this:

The girl in question looks for handsomeness in the groom;

The girl’s mother looks for the groom’s financial standing;

The father of the girl is concerned about his education;

The relatives of the girl are keen about his family societal standing;

The other guests are interested in the feast.

I believe in the horoscope check, to match bride and groom. And I admire how young girls in the modern societies make decision about who to wed, by themselves. My wonder is about – how do they know that the person they choose is right for them in every way?

My wedding alliance with Mukur was the outcome of both our families’ consent and approval and a horoscope match. I am glad we started our journey with their blessings and sanction and grateful about how much I grew as a person in this partnership. Moving forward I would not take on such a partnership consciously.

Love you!

Jyo

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Completion

Guruji, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar and Rishiji, Rishi Vidyadhar have told me in energy that Art of Living will be publishing book Build it With Love.

Photo of Guruji, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar

Photo of Rishiji, Rishi Vidyadhar, my mentor in energy

As such, I am applying finishing touches to the manuscript.

The book Build it With Love as some of you already know is an account of using one’s intuition, faith and Love, with inspiration and courage, through difficult times in life, toward realizing all about life.

I am delighted to say, those who have read the latest manuscript for book Build it With Love say “The content is empowering to women and full of adventure, competition, and conflict; confidence building to men.”

All proceeds from the sale of the book will go toward the building of the Art of Living ashram in Australia.

Love you!

Jyo

P.S.

That the book Build it With Love will be published is an expectation. In case that it is not I will rest it the way it will be.

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Why humans have to struggle in life?

Questions: Why humans have to struggle with their life more and more? Why do I have to accept the condition whatever with my family member? Why do I have to bear more and more?

Answers in short:

1. Humans do not have to struggle in life…
2. because you cannot change them…
3. because you have not learnt everything you need to learn from your challenge…

Humans do not have to struggle in life. We simply need to strengthen the intelligence and skill to know what we must do with what we have in front of us and the faith that we will get the resources when we need them. That skill is intuition.

We need to accept our family members for whatever their condition is, because we cannot change them. If their condition is due to lack of knowledge, and we have the strength, know what to say; we can make them aware with love and continue to love them.

Those times we do not have the strength or know what to say is because we have not learnt what we need to from our situation and what it means to us. Those times we must observe and contemplate on how their condition has helped us and be grateful for our gain in growth and resilience.

There are two kinds of love we are born with and stay alive with in this world.

We each are born out of love. If it were not for the love of the mother we would not be protected for nine months and come out safely into the world. For this reason alone we must know that we are loved. This is the first love, love of the flesh. This love binds us to the family unit in some form or another for the rest of our life.

There is a second form of love, the love without which we could not continue to exist after we are born. We continue to exist on this earth because of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the sun we energize from, and the love of the earth that bears us every day without spinning us into the space – This is the love of the universe – deep, eternal and the same to everyone.

The love of the flesh binds us to everything we do on a day-to-day basis, as in possessiveness. We get engrossed with living life trying to understand this love that we forget all about the love of the universe, which brings us expansion. The discomfort we meet with, in circumstances any time is to remind us to turn to this deep and eternal love of the universe – becoming aware of it little by little we let go the struggles in human life which are due to possessiveness. The purpose of human life is to become aware of this love of the universe and live it moment to moment.

The Guru is a principle of love and wisdom of the universe, which makes it easier for us to shift our attention from our daily struggles in life.

Photo of Guruji, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar

Guruji, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar is an embodiment of this principle of love and wisdom of the universe, who has envisioned the Sudarshan Kriya Yoga as a window to the divinity within us that connects us to the universe. We need to learn and practice the Sudarshan Kriya Yoga regularly and apply the knowledge from him to our daily challenges and contemplate on what the knowledge we receive, with respect to our challenges, means to us. Doing this we find ourselves strong and resourceful to handle our challenges effortlessly. We each then swim in the ocean of contentment and love from him.

Love you!

Jyo

P.S. Question asked privately in face book messages.

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Contradictions in Life

Question on Contradictions in Life:

When people make mistakes, I make them aware and continue to love them. How to take it if they are disrespectful to me after this?

In life situations there are many contradictions. These contradictions surface when mistakes happen.

Mistakes happen. When mistakes happen let us treat them as our mistake together and resolve it to bring peace. When people make mistakes, we make them aware of their mistakes if they seem not to be aware of them and continue to love them – this sets them free to be themselves.

Those times the people we set free are disrespectful to us, let us look over it. Let us know they do not have the capacity to know the magnanimity of the love behind setting them free to be. If it is their privilege they may realize this with time…

Love you!

Jyo

Question asked privately…

If you have questions/thoughts to pose, please feel free…

P.S.: I have been advised by my mentor in energy, Rishi Vidyadhar of Art of Living, to remove the sections of the book posted here excepting a couple. More than 40% of the sections of the Book Build it With Love were posted here to date since August 2012, daily at first, then weekly.

Closing… What I have gained…

Closing…

I have decided to stop blogging sections of book Build it With Love for some time…

I have realized all about life and the world, but if it is three things I must mention it is these:

1. I will be with equanimity in all circumstances for good…
2. I will do everything I need to do with love for good…
3. At any moment, what I must do will be known to me… those moments it is not, I will seek it with everything I have known about me and the world…

If there are any questions you would like to pose feel free…

Love you!

Jyo