~~~~~A GUIDEBOOK~~~~~ PEARLS OF WISDOM FOR A HOME SWEET HOME
ART OF MEANINGFUL HARMONIOUS INTEGRAL LIVING WITH HOLISTIC INNER LIFE UNDERSTANDING
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Pearls of Wisdom are a practical guide on how to avoid clashes and conflicts in our day-to-day life. We encounter such situations in our homes, work place, and society at large. Home is where our focus should be the most since it is here we have the maximum interaction with people who are close to us both by proximity and relationship. We spend years with them but are unable to understand them! It is also the center of our activities and demands special attention and mindset skill to deal with multiple situations with different personalities. The emphasis on family and how to live and relate to our closest members is discussed in depth in the beginning of the book itself. In the Vision of the Holistic Scientist, Dada Bhagwan’s own words: ‘Where there is claim there is blame” and the home is the perfect example. Often we say and do things that we believe are in the best interest of our family based on our own interpretation of right and wrong. However, we fail to recognize that our internal feelings play a major part in these decisions and our opinions and perceptions of the external world are bound to be different from other family members. When we err, it is a sure invitation for conflict and clashes. No one likes others to point out their shortcomings. The intellect and ego refuses to accept it and this again could very well lead to conflicts. In these moments, our ability to reason and act according to what is in our best interest is diminished. Conflicts are unwanted wars. It is an internal process but manifests externally in the form of responses to external stimuli. The internal conflict within us keeps our power hidden to overcome conflicts. Rather than using the internal power to overcome conflicts, we ignorantly use it to create them. No where can it be truer than in marriage. For example, it is not uncommon to forgive or easily overlook our spouse’s gravest mistake when love, serenity, peace and positiveness prevails inside us whereas when we are disturbed internally we are prone to find faults with the most trivial event. Conflicts have more to do with our internal state rather than the external factors. Therefore, they have to be tackled in its core and not by attempting to change the external circumstances. Our entire thinking process has to be changed. Science tells us that we cannot use the same thinking that created the problems to solve them. The problem has to be tackled in its core. Today, with so much of distractions, error has become so much a part of our thinking. What is needed is for someone to point it out and present the facts in a proper form and this book is intended for this purpose. This book is not a collection of do’s and don’ts but of the wonderful essence of its holistic approach. Its unique contribution is that it goes to the root of the problem and empowers us with the inner scientific understanding of ‘Cause-Effect’ relationship to deal with the real life situations. With change in belief and right understanding it will tell us that hurting is easier than healing and it is not in our self interest to hurt others. Therefore beware of conflicts! Our firm resolve, not to hurt anyone by thought, word or deed itself is a giant step, a great scientific ‘cause’ in the right direction of love, peace, positive and amicable living – natural consequential ‘effects’. We have only to resolve internally and remain unshakably determined in it. Nature will do the rest. This is the effortless holistic path where transformation happens from the inside-outward.
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The holistic, inner-life understanding provided in Pearls of Wisdom for a Home Sweet Home gives us—through each conversation with the holistic guide—a whole new inner understanding for a balanced, harmonious relationship with ourselves, our family, our friends, our community, and our world at-large.
The timeless wisdom of each pearl is practical, easily understandable, immediately applicable, and most of all allows us to find inner peace with regards to most of life’s puzzles.
About the Author
Dada Krupa Karuna graduated from Pepperdine University with a bachelor’s degree in business management in 1997. She went on to build a career as an insurance and financial professional. Her husband and she are also business owners together since 1999. She has been married since 1986, and she has raised three amazing young men with her husband, who are now in their twenties in Los Angeles, California.
She always had an interest for volunteering her time for causes that were dear to her heart, and translating and writing was definitely one of those among them. She has taught Meet the Masters art programs, Junior Achievement courses, and has also played an active role in PTA and parent councils. She has been translating and contributing her writing for over twenty-eight years for Jai Sachchidanand Sangh and its affiliated organizations and publications.
From a very young age, family has always been of utmost importance to her, and as she transitioned from daughter, to sister, and to wife and mother roles in her life, she realized the tremendous intrinsic value to the quality of our human existence that our closest relations play. She has been fortunate to be raised by incredibly loving and supportive family, extended family, and friends. Her husband and three sons have been pivotal in allowing her to truly maximize this gift of human life by discovering the world within with their incredible support, love, and commitment to the family.
Although, like most on this earth her life has not been without the trials, tribulations, turmoil, and adversity that most people face at some of their lives—whether it be personal, professional, financial, social, mental, physical, emotional, or a combination thereof. Fortunately, the very privilege of translating and writing has been the conduit to enable her to rise above the same turmoil and adversity and allow her to find serenity, healing, and empowerment from within.
She has also been fortunate to meet amazing holistic guides such as Shri Dada Bhagwan and Shri Kanudadaji, who have been there to offer their timeless knowledge, wisdom, compassion, and grace. She was commissioned to render this book originally from Gujarati into English by her Present Holistic Guide, Shri Kanudadaji. His request and blessings came as a delightful gift to her with his incredible grace to go with it!
This guidebook has truly come together as a tapestry of grace and union of the hearts of many amazing contributors from around the globe!