[Jaya Jagannath] Lesson 1

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Jaya Jagannath

Dear Zeljka,

you show the signs of being a great thinker. One day you will make all of us

very proud.

The answer to that God is all question is very deep and pregnant with

meaning. Your vision shall always stand by you in this path. Keep it up.

Best Wishes

Sanjay Rath

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zeljka z <aol_hr

varahamihira <varahamihira >

Cc: Sat Siri Kalsa <satsiri

Sunday, February 25, 2001 1:23 AM

[Jaya Jagannath] Lesson 1

 

 

> 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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