Vasudha Jhunjhunwala

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It is compassion of God that a miracle manifested in our lives – Gurudev, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji himself came to Mithila, my parent’s home in Jaipur recently . Such grace.. such fortune is rare.. and I feel indebted for this gift of God🙏

I have been associated with the Art of Living organisation for more than 25 years now. Siddharth and myself have had the rare privilege of travelling with Gurudev many times around the World. Gurudev’s presence has been a strong anchoring for our lives. In the ups and downs, during the most difficult challenges, Gurudev’s wisdom helped us move past every obstacle making us a little bit stronger than before through these challenges ..

For more than twenty years I have been praying in my heart for Gurudev to visit our House in Jaipur and bless my parents and family. Gurudev had visited our Mumbai & Bhubaneshwar home but had still not visited my parents home until this date.

And finally the day arrived after years and years of prayers.. it was as if Mithila (name of parent’s house) received Ram, and as if Sita’s (threshold/चौखट ) longing finally got over..

A shower of blessings filled the heart of every family member. And I know for sure that even our ancestors up there would have rejoiced these precious moments of Gurudev coming home.

Thank you Gurudev for fulfilling even this wish – पूरे कुटुंब का कल्याण हो.. सब आध्यात्मिक मार्ग पर अग्रसर हो… मन में प्रेम और शांति बनी रहे|🙏

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For Conscious healing listen to this chant Ho’oponopono-
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How does this work?
To one’s self One says Ho’oponopono which means –
I am sorry… Please Forgive me… I Thank you
…I Love you

Remember the time that you felt cheated by someone ie betrayed, hurt, or an incident which triggered in your life that created trauma or some negative feelings. And do the Ho’oponopono. Because the experience of trauma stored in the cell memory mirror similar situations in life in future (cause and effect) . Doing Ho’oponopono consciously to oneself relieves one of those traumatic memories and heals oneself. So that these memories do not mirror in our life again. And present moment which is field of infinite possibilities govern our life, instead of our past. Would that not be freeing ..??

For Example you had injured your head in a hand ball game few years back which triggered some pain and fear in you. And after a few years a similar situation happened when you injured your head with a ball again. Remembering that pain and fear you went through earlier (the 1st time) to your own self you say “ you hurt yourself in a hand ball game. And that got you trauma and fear, – I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you” until that fear and pain drops and leaves you. That’s it! Once this drops in you, the incident will not mirror itself because you are healed of that fear/trauma completely. And yes! This will also allow you to play another game without any fear of past injury.
Yes this works! Do try

This is one way of Self Healing, I will share more techniques in next few articles. Until then “Ho’oponopono”

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Scripture say the soul comes in human form to offload baggage of old karma and to move towards liberation. Liberation as I understand is union with oneself. Union with One’s “self” which is bliss, happiness, pure love.

But somehow we humans forget this very reason for a human birth, जीवन के भोग में भूल जाते हैं क्यू आए थे. And seeking more pleasures earn more baggage of new karmas.. Instead of freeing oneself, one gets more entangled in karma cycle, cause and effect.. what a great irony, isn’t it.. Running behind the short lived pleasures, like being in a merry go around. As one looses lifetimes in these repeated cycle of birth and death, again and again and again, in the forgetfulness of the purpose of life. .

Only if the purpose why we took birth could be remembered. From reactions to Responses only with conscious actions can one offload the baggage of Karma. And move towards freedom/self/light.
Most of us Humans are on auto mode like Animals, living only for survival. And so our reactions are born out of Fear, Fight, Flight tendencies in most situations. Because of these animalistic tendencies we completely forget the body will drop in no time and we shall loose another opportunity to offload. Instead One could whole heartedly engage in offloading one’s karma, paying back – Seva, Sadhana, Satsang, Swadhaya (as Gurudev has directed), and become lighter and lighter every moment with aware actions. Actions directed from awareness from response and not reaction.. living the purpose with each action directed towards freedom/libration .

Whatever situation we are facing no matter how dark it seems is a reflection of our own deeds of the past, it’s our own karma. Nature is extremely fair. When this is whole heartedly accepted there is no regret, no feeling of being victim, just a relief- that more debt got paid with another moment of struggle, and the purpose was lived..

यह जीवन भोग के लिए नहीं हैं, योग के लिए हे, yoga- union with oneself . A gentle reminder.

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Happy Mother’s Day

I would see my mother do these small little things to our home and admired those gestures silently in childhood. I never knew I was picking up those qualities silently.. for me to have a neat and tidy and a personalised home is very important.

I never knew that it will become a profession for me one day to help people out there in curating their dream home. Yes! It’s very satisfying when a patron comes back and gives a positive feedback about the support Varamlife could provide them in making of their dream home.

A Home is a very personal space for everyone. And to be a part of making that space even more special is the profession I am in.. A Big thanks to my Mother for making me realise how a home is so important with her beautiful actions of love. These gestures of love brought such sacredness to the space we called our home.

A small Home curation tip – A mother is a permanent expert for home interiors always take her inputs when you personalise.

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It’s truly heartwarming when experiences like these are shared by participants after my meditation workshops- “Every day we thank you and Gurudev for blessing us with the divine practice of Sahaj Samadhi🙏🏻. Life looks more simpler and it has helped me in controlling my temperament with my teenage kid😄. Now I look at the situation from different perspective and try not to punish myself for other people’s words, thoughts and opinions…… Quite an enlightening process I feel.”
As shared by Shweta Rastogi ji, Internationally recognised painter from Canada.

Inviting you to join my next online Meditation program. Do take time to discover the fourth state of Consciousness.
For course schedules & more , you may reach out to Ms Rashi Modi – 9769894322

In-Service

Q) What is true love?

Ans) “Love is” – When we give without expecting to get back anything in return. Like watering a dry plant.. May be insignificant to the mind, because we will not be getting back anything from it, not even a thank you. But the human mind is conditioned to only give to get back something in return. Even if it is just a wish to get back love in return, it is still transactional in nature.

Q) Why are Relationships so complex and why is it so difficult to maintain them?

Ans) Objects surrender to humans and so it’s easy to love them. They do not question, rebel, threaten, judge.. and so it’s easy to love things over people. Objects are real and we have strong connections with them, isn’t it! That’s how so many objects have filled the world today. So much consumerism, so many shoping malls have sprung up in the World.. our shopping trips are not always need based. it is just easy to love objects because they are surrendered to its owner. so we accumulate them to have more and more..

Being in love with objects is like chewing a bone which has no taste in itself. The Dog bites it and finds its very juicy. But if in one’s life-journey one did not evolve to experience that the juice is not in the bone but the gum which was bleeding, one will only be like on a merry go round trip. Returning to the same spot again and again, accumulating more and more and more . . From chasing one desire to another but not being able to experience fulfilment. (Please refer to Gurudev’s commentary on Ashtavakra Gita for more)

The goal according to me is to love oneself.. to be in absolute love with oneself. And this is only possible when we connect with our inner spirit. Meditation is a tool to connect within. The nature of our spirit is pure Love. And when we are in our true nature we give without wanting anything in return. Like we see Gurudev, he is spreading love in the world without asking anything In return from others. And that is pure love . And they say – Love moves the World.

Q) Can one heal with love?

Ans) Yes! When we meditate we communicate to our own body cells & organs – heart/lungs/kidney/liver etc, that we love them and that we care for them. And that heals our body.

Attention is love. Just like when we give attention to a child he/she feels happy. When we meditate we are giving our body cells attention. which are working 24/7 for serving us. That attention is love. Think about it – we attend to only those we love.

Health is the nature of body. When we neglect and do not communicate with it diseases happen. Like a spoiled child who never got attention and he/she became rebellious.

Gurudev says that this body is like a temple which houses our Spirit/God in it. Let us pay respect to this beautiful temple by attending to is, meditating everyday without fail.

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A royal moment as the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, and Second Lady Usha Vance graced the rug-making showcase by K.P – Varamlife.

Honoured and humbled to receive their badges of appreciation, celebrating the timeless artistry and exceptional craftsmanship of India.

The Craftsmen of India are unparalleled and their commitment towards their art is truly inspiring. Wish to do more to support these skilled artisans over the years to come. This event further deepened this resolve.

Q) How can I be authentic in my role as an anchor while talking about people who were good in art but messy and muddled otherwise?

ANS) Vasudha Didi – There are four things:-

1. Role and You – You are not your role. You perform your role and come out of it. The role of an anchor is not you. And so you may not agree with the personality of your client and may not want to follow him/her for life lessons but still play the role of an anchor for their show.
2. As you grow on spiritual path, you will realise and maturity will happen to you to see life in its totality. Different personalities also have a place in the whole and have are playing their roles. Beyond good and bad, shoulds and should nots..Everyone is conditioned according to their life lessons and they perform based on those conditioning of their mind that we call samsakara. Even that personality was an outcome of those samskara. None of us are perfect and all of us have flaws.
3. Reminding oneself of this will bring compassion and you will be able to appreciate the positive qualities of that person. If you really care to be authentic – Do a little more detailed study and see what good things your prospective client has. Not necessarily award winning but those things which seem significant to you. And talk about those things that inspire you about them.. but this will require more effort.
4. If you still disagree with the character, then you have choice to deny anchoring for that person politely even if it has commercial gains. Ultimate choice is yours.

Q) Should I increase my resources or reduce my business because the demand is increasing and we are falling short on time?

ANS) Anchoring is also a business in which you are providing service. If you want any business to grow, you will have to make investments on required resources from time to time. Otherwise you will burn out and all other roles and responsibilities will get impacted. Also, when you come back to the business in that burnt haalat, you will not be able to do justice to business also. Business is all about taking calculated risks. Without the capacity to take risks a business cannot grow. This is an answer from the role of a business woman that I play.
And As a sadhak -The spiritual path empowers us and gives us confidence. That spirit in us is undefeated. The more one identifies with that spirit inside the more risk one can take because fear vanishes naturally with that identification of one with one’s immortal spirit.

So there is really no escape from taking risks. Allow yourself to fail. And be ready to take another risk even after a failure. Life is a beautiful exploration of one’s capacity. Which may remain unexplored if one chooses not to take risks. Every exploration is filled with risks but that’s the fun of it, Isn’t it!

Self reflection

Love is not equal to the amount of attention one draws from others. Love is equal to the attention one has for One’s self.

Demanding love from other destroys love,
Being in love with oneself draws back love of the entire universe.

Irony is we do not grow beyond being a kid who is seeking attention of other always.. thinking attention = love

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