Interview with Mrs.Wendy - Part I

[Guest guest]

Dear Jyotish-Vidya members,

 

I've had the privilege of conducting a small interview with our own Mrs.Wendy.

Here I present it for your reading pleasure with her due permission.

 

Regards,

Jai

 

Q : How and when did you develop an interest with Jyotish ?

 

Mrs Wendy :It was sometime during April 1988, a few moths after I'd returned to

Australia from Africa, that I was first drawn to study Western astrology.

Shortly after this I met Pundit Navaratnam who gave me my first ever

jyotish reading. He was impressed with my horoscope and offered to be my

mentor.

 

After only a couple of lessons with Punditji I heard about the new

" Maharishi Jyotish Course " and quickly enrolled in the first block.

This was held in-residence at a Jesuit monastery in the Adelaide hills.

Whilst on this course I had an amazing experience where I was introduced

to the grahas on a deeply personal level. They, Budha and Kuja in

particular, kept me company in my small room throughout the night and I

got to know their natures very well. The grahas themselves have been my

primary guides, leading me always to the right teaching at the right

time...whenever some knowledge was required it was effortlessly obtained

by the grace of the grahas.

 

Q : Does your family appreciate the value Jyotish has for mankind or

they are not interested in this science and think its all mambo-jambo

?

 

Mrs Wendy :My husband has always been a great support in everything I do. In

fact he

was told some years before we met (by an old teacup reader in Africa)

that he would marry me and move to Australia, and that I would be a

well-known astrologer. So this has been no real surprise to him. The rest

of my family, although supportive generally, are not particularly

interested in astrology.

 

Q : Can you tell us more about your Guruji and your experience of

learning Jyotish from him ?

 

Mrs Wendy :My Guru, of course, is Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I was initiated in 1975

and

he was the center point of my life for the next 20+ years. I went to

Switzerland in 75/76 to train as a teacher, but the separation from

my young children was too hard to bear and I returned home before the

course even began. As for learning Jyotish from him this was explained

earlier. BTW the Maharishi Jyotish Course is no longer available to the

general public...this has been the case for some years, I believe.

 

Q : Since Jyotish is considered a part of Vedanga and prescribes

Japa,pooja of Vedic Gods and demi-gods do you think Jyotish will able

to reach out to more people outside India as outside India is predominantly

Christian/Islamic ?

 

Mrs Wendy : True knowledge as we find in the Vedas is, like the Sun, available

to

all, Hindu and non-Hindu alike. God does not discriminate! Sectarianism

is born of ignorance of the nature of our true self hidden beneath the

facade of individuality.