Lesson 1

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Namaste Sat Siri and Jyotish Gurus,

 

Here are my answers to the first lesson. I will be

grateful for your replies.

 

1. Role of God in my life

I live in a country where idea of God wasn't very

popular when I was growing up. Term «God» was

something very odd and strange and somehow

frightening, and I didn't like using it at all. But

all these years when I believed I was an atheist, I

firmly believed there was an intelligent «force» or

«energy» existing in every living being, but I refused

to call it God. Only when I first began doing Reiki

and later Yoga I familiarized myself with the term and

the idea of God. When I started to change my

perspective and my way of life and thinking, I started

to feel closer to God.

Today when I am open, awake and conscious of my

actions, when I do something «good» or something

«bad», or during my Sadhana, or when I just walk

through a park, or when I look at my 18-month-old

niece's eyes, and especially when I am near my Guru, I

cannot but be deeply grateful and touched and above

all amazed with love that comes out of every cell and

every pore of every living being and out of the whole

Creation, because that Love to me is God. As my Master

often says, Love is not an emotion, love is our very

existence. With that awareness I have been constantly

reminding myself that my every action and thought and

everything that happens to me come from my very source

and that they lead me to it at the same time; that

there is nothing and no one being outside or separate

from God. I have learnt to accept people and

situations as they are because there is always a

higher good behind them, no matter how they appear to

be.

At birth every man gets his predestined role in his

life. The main lesson we have to learn is to be aware

we are only playing the role, that we aren't actually

that role. The trouble is that most of us identify

ourselves with the role – that is with our name,

gender, profession, body, feelings, emotions, and in

the process we forget who we really are and where we

come from; we forget that life is a game (lila), that

it is an expression of joy, that there is nothing we

have to do, because everything is being done by the

Divine. That way we keep coming and going from this

Earth many, many times, caught up in the karmic wheel.

Only enlightened Masters are free from that wheel;

they are fully aware of the Source and in their

endless love and compassion they come and help us

showing us the path, opening our eyes and ears for the

Truth.

To me Jyotish is a Divine Science that clearly shows

us the role we are supposed to play, tools to play it

with, its surrounding and the other players. In that

way, as the eyes of Vedas, Jyotish helps us to realize

that role and by becoming aware of it, slowly opens us

up and shows us the way back Home. There is only one

thing we can do, and that is relax in surrender.

Because we already are in God.

 

2. Closer to God in the past year

Above all, I try to be in a present moment, not

grieving the past or being worried about the future,

because God is right now. I try to identify the

actions, thoughts and emotions that keep me away from

God by becoming aware of them. I constantly remind

myself of my priorities and keep the spiritual aspect

of life at the first place. I work hard to do my

Sadhana with awareness and gratitude and I encourage

people around me to do the same and to be happy.

 

3. " God is all " or " All is God "

It sounds to me like “Which came first, egg or

chicken”. There is nothing that can be outside God and

God is in everything. Whether good or evil, both exist

in God. It is like a river that flows towards the

ocean. When it reaches the ocean, than it rises up as

the clouds and then comes down again as rain. During

that whole process, no matter which form it takes, it

is water the whole time. To me, that symbolizes God,

for no matter which form He takes, living or

non-living, it is always a Divine creation.

 

 

4. The role of a Jyotisha and Priest

The roles are very similar since they remind people

God and spirituality should come first as true values

in life but I think a Jyotisha has more responsibility

because through Jyotish as Eyes of Vedas and supreme

Vedanga he can help one to realize the role he has to

play, and by suggesting the right remedial measures he

can help one first see, then to learn his lesson and

through that eventually attain self-realization or

liberation.

 

 

5. Sanskrit Dictionary

I have started a Sanskrit Dictionary.

 

Jai Guru Dev

Zeljka

 

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Om namo bhagavathe Vasudevaya

 

Jai Jagannatha,

 

Guruji and co-members,

 

Here I am posting my answers to first lessons.

After the tight schedule of our department, today i got

some spare time to send the lessons. Today i wish to post

3 lessons. rest will be posted soon.

 

Pranams to our Guruji for allowing to continue in the group.

 

Lessons:

 

<1. Try to define the role of God in your life.

It cannot be expressed in words. However, I can only say that

He is my friend, philosopher, guide and guru .

<2. What have you done in the past one year to come closer to God?

Doing the rituals, pujas and taking part in the festivals.

I have completed the purascharana of ganapathi mantra.

But I think He is always come closer to us, As said

" when you take one step towards me, I take hundred steps

towards you "

<3. Which statement is more relevant:

a. God is all, or

b. All is God

The first one is more relevant as per advaitic view.

 

<4. How is the role of a Jyotish different from a priest?

When Jyotishi can predict the outcome in advance,

the priest can mitigate the same to some extent.

<5. Make a list of all Sanskrit terms in this Lesson under different

starting letters and prepare your personal dictionary of

Jyotish/Sanskrit terminology.

Keeping the same ...

 

 

Hare rama krishna,

With pranams,

 

yours in jyotirvidya,

 

subramania shastry