Journey to Enlightenment Part 01

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space

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December 1998: Blueprint for the New Year
Dear Lighthouse Members, Friends and Families,
Many Blessings of “Bliss” to all as we welcome in the New Year of 1999.
I've been meditating for over 24 years now, and each year since I began to meditate, there are two things I have done pretty faithfully. First of all, each year I reviewed the past year for what I felt I accomplished. Secondly, I decided what I wanted to accomplish during the upcoming New Year. Sometimes, including now, I have "carryovers” from past years. I have a habit of categorizing my highest priorities each year of what I want to accomplish. Sometimes it takes more than one year, so I have progressive “carryovers”.
The categories I have chosen don't vary, though what's in each one may vary from year to year. The categories I use to look back on and forward with are:
1. Spiritual 2. Mental/Emotional 3. Physical Body 4. Personal Environment 5. Work
These are my basic categories. Some years I might add miscellaneous categories such as finances, travel, or anything else that might come to my conscious mind at the time I am "creating" my New Year's blueprint.
The more I grow to know myself the more clear I become about this. “When you know who you really are, you then know what you want and where you want to go in life.” And conversely, if you don't know first "who" you really are, how can you ever know what you want and where you are really going? One can waste so much time, mental time, on external things, and still not be happy, because of not knowing who one really is.
For the new year my SPIRITUAL category has a lot of “carryovers,"needless to say. These include: being with Gurudev as much as possible; non-attachment; and freedom from all desires. When I list my spiritual accomplishments for the past year, I include things like learning new mantras, going to workshops or pilgrimages, and so forth. Some students have included astral travel, developing telepathy, getting Reiki training, etc.
The MENTAL category includes books I have read, problems I've solved and understanding I've gained. The EMOTIONAL category has carryovers for me, such as maintaining equilibrium and being in a state of Bliss. In years past I would focus on forgiveness, compassion, releasing anger and resentments, and facing many challenges and some lessons.
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