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Thursday 25 August 2011

Editorial August 2011


The August Issue of Sacred Sanctum brings to you enriching ways to Experiencing Freedom for yourself. Our Life is a Flow that is constantly changing. The perceptions that we believe and have for years continued to believe strongly are the oars of the boat. However the course of the river is never the same so is Life!!

Our basic reflex is to experience this Freedom across relationships and we all behave, respond and react towards acquiring the same. This month we bring to you aspects life situations that have people to move beyond their beliefs to get up and even question the same? To have a new look the first step is to look at the Mirror.

When we see our beliefs from a Compassionate space, we can begin to change them to move towards Freedom of who we are and expressing that in all environments that are like the River Of Life. 

In our section on Cover Story we bring to you the true meaning of Freedom. The others parts in the Sacred Sanctum Space are real journeys of how people who have been guided and inspired by Life Master Sri Raj Bhowmik have made that Leap to find that Freedom inside themselves through the same situations of Life.
The different parts in Sacred Sanctum this time gives you a real life glimpse of your own self as you travel on this journey with the experiences shared and our intention is to help you look at Life as a Whole that is similar to all across the Ecosystem of life.

Personal transformations at SPF this time describes to you a Mom's journey to reclaim her Freedom of who she is that was buried under the so called corporate easy life. This is a heart touching personal experience of how Raj has reached out in the most hardest situations that Life could offer - battling in the court, amidst threats & even the police station. It is His hand that reaches out and pulls you out if you want to come out of the situation.

Body Awareness section features a very common household disease of the mind - Bi Polar Mental Disorder that is eaten away household as money & comfort comes easily & to keep it up the measure of Success and the price we pay. It is a caregiver's personal account of how Compassion based Existence guided by Sri Raj Bhowmik has transformed the Look of a home that was in chaos for about more than a decade. Today this is a journey of awareness & quick alignment from moment to moment through Compassion keep the environment balanced.

In Soul Relationships we explore a Golden Flight with the Golden Eagle. In our lives people come in who are the Golden Eagles. The awe and wonder of that relationship can heal unseen wounds & beliefs to Claim the True Self and help the True Self be free.

Soul Parenting discusses a very sensitive part of a Mother's Life where her child was diagnosed with Dyslexia. It is a journey as parents to look at the child more closely that just being physically small. Always children teach us the greatest lessons of Life and when we have the eyes to see it, we recognize the greatest Truths through them. 

Soul Movie Review: The message  of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara has been explored in Light of Sri Raj Bhowmik's Teaching and in the Light of Personal transformations through the Teachings.

We Hope and Pray that you have an Aware Journey discovering your Self through these expressions. Happy Abundant Living with yourself and your environment in Balance!!

Cover Story True Freedom In Soul Relationships

Our Basic human instinct is to experience Freedom in all relationships that we have around us. All relationships around us are teaching us this Valuable Lesson of Being Free. However as we are conditioned in our Life about the idea of Freedom, we make meaning of it in our own conditional ways. Some of it so so subtle that it stays with us for decades till we finally see it from our Soul Space and then let it go. 

What does being free mean? Does it mean allowing oneself to do whatever one likes? Well then one can do it with any of the following vibrations - doing freely as we fear, doing freely because we feel we are not good enough, doing because we want approval from some one or doing freely as we get away or finish something. In all these states our environment plays a very important role. 

Our current environments are reflecting our Greatest Learnings today through the people in it. Our conditioning has taught us a behavioral pattern to feel safe and free in the constant presence of another human being. So in our lives, we keep searching for the replacement of that human being and the feeling that we are used to. When we find it temporarily we feel happy but then go on searching again. How can another human ensure Freedom for the Self which is an inherent quality of the Soul. That is when Life situations shake us up till we find that Freedom within ourself. It is not confidence. It is something deep and settled.  This itself takes sometime searching and discovering it inside. Then comes the learning of expressing this Freedom through our communication with people. 

Our Life situations are like the Wheel, different relationships showing different aspects of Freedom and still mirroring the same learning. We can choose to be on the external by seeing just a part of it or choose to be at the centre of the Wheel where we can see the whole of Life. 

Finding one's Freedom inside oneself is the first step of getting to the centre of the Circle. What next? Then comes the journey of being consistent in expressing that with Oneself & through other relationships - each and every relationship because in Life, every person is as important as the other and every situation is as important as the other.  Expressing this Freedom through other relationships helps the Self discover other aspects of life but the basic vibration is that of Expanse & vastness, so surely the Journey depicts it too.






The Choice is Ours. True Freedom always is experienced from a Still Soul Space. By being aware of that Essence of Our Being, we can be in all relationships with Ease and comfort thus giving back the same to our environment. When this is achieved, the Universe opens up the deeper lessons of Awareness and our Journey begins towards becoming a Banyan Tree giving shade & cool breeze to every passer by.
  
Affirm in a quiet space: The Power inside me allows me to expand myself. I was born in Freedom and I am Free, guided by the Universe in every step of my Life. I create comfort everywhere I go. My Freedom is inside me and spreads through every Work that I do. I create joyful relationships that are harmonious through this magical Freedom within.

Personal Transformations "I am waiting to be born !! My midwife is Raj"


I have a story to share. It’s not important who I am or who the people in the story are. I shall remain unnamed. Unnamed is important as it does not hurt the sensitivity of other people and allows me to be completely honest with you who choose to read this. I  owe you this honesty. I hope my search for Clarity, Truth and a new Life may help many of you understand your experiences and help some of you get clarity as well. 



Its the journey forward that’s important, the past is only important to set the context. So I will get over that fast. I have lived about 40 years on this earth, born to loving parents who gave me freedom to question, to follow my dream, and never judged my actions by benchmarks of narrow societal norms. They believed in the inherent goodness in me – I was their Princess with a golden heart (Yes I am a woman). Some basic values were ingrained – Truth, Courage, Solidarity. Solid grounds!! But the hallmark of my childhood was freedom, freedom to question, to explore, to be stupid and ignorant to do nothing sometimes….
But with this somewhere I picked up signals of their dreams and aspirations for me. A great career, a wonderful solid marriage, two kids, a house with a garden….. Basically a Happy ever after!

What happens next is – a postgraduate degree, I fall in love with this prince and marry him, a corporate career, two cute loving kids… not a house but a cool apartment.. And I am hanging on to this mirage and anything that doesn’t fit I am brushing under the carpet.

The prince turns into a frog! I try and blame myself, I try and adapt, my tastes are too Indian, I am too fat, I don’t give him enough space, he is burdened with family life and its stifling him, I should give him space, I should take on the load anything,  anything at all that will make him become what he was…
The children are growing with this father who is always full of anger and they get slapped in the name of discipline, they get slapped more when I have not conformed to something… only I can make the subtle connection. I load myself with more guilt. I see them lie out of fear. I watch them learn to manipulate, Worse, I am lying to save them from punishment… What am I teaching them!
And Work….It has to fit and adapt to my family requirements and babies, I negotiate, flexi times, working from home, remote support functions….! All said and done career is surprisingly doing well in spite of an unconventional path ----- one area that is still true to my values, which I still approached with confidence and passion. That story for another time.

 My body is giving up on me…my spirit is dead. I have everything but am not happy. Its all a SHAM. So I STOP. I give up my job…. By now you guessed I am supporting a fancy flat with EMIS, CAR EMIs and 2 kids education and the food … and I just STOP.
How irresponsible you may scream, the frog said that too! ….. But you know what, stopping was the best thing I did! I stopped for a year! That’s how long it took for me to face the truth. Help did walk into my life in the form of a friend who introduced me to yoga and meditation and I thank god for the safety net because it kept me balanced and focused with my thinking.

The realization took a year to dawn. Let me put it in bullet points as that’s how I am programmed to make a point.
·        Marriage
o       Marriage is when you have PARTNER, its about respect and sharing and understanding. It’s not about sacrifice in the name of unconditional love and keeping up appearances..I was NOT Married because I didn’t have a Partner I walked alone – This is the first truth I faced.  In fact I hadn’t been married for years! Actually I got unmarried the day I married.
What hurt was a stupid notion that to be happy, you need a life PARTNER .Nonsense!  Happiness exists within you, your respect for what you believe in, and living your personal passion. Those of you who are lucky to have partners thank god today and every day, it’s a bonus, but not essential.
·        Money
o       You don’t need Money to be happy or secure. My children taught me that. With no money Pizzas were replaced with peanuts for treats, we picnicked with bread jam butter on the terrace of the apartment. All they needed was a mother that was happy!
·        Career
o       When you start living by expectations of what success means – and join the rat race of designation milestones, you get the title but do you get fulfillment? Career is not a videogame, its your expression of applying your unique skills and each has its own path.  It’s the process of applying your skills that makes you both successful and happy
None of this is new for many of you. But the problem is what do you do next?
This realization was 7 years back…. I tried to adjust and live and compromise and control and tried to navigate my life with some small and some big changes, but every step was a bargain a negotiation until one day a thought occurred to me tomorrow if my children went through this what would I tell them to do…. certainly not what I was doing. I decided to make a clean break.
But that’s not my story. My story begins NOW I am but an embryo at the age of 40, being born to live the values I believe in. Truth, Courage, Solidarity…and more
And I am undergoing Labour Pains for a year and still not holding on….


And guess what there is a midwife….. Raj Bhowmik .

 When I first met Raj I had been separated from my children. They had just told me they don’t care to be with me, I was destroying their happiness by challenging the family…Something I hadn’t bargained to hear. I felt betrayed because I believed that I had lived in the SHAM for 7 years partly because I believed that it was best for them. And now I wanted them to get out, and know freedom from fear and learn to value what comes with that – Truth, Courage,Solidarity… don’t they understand!

I met Raj, full of doubt and questions. He said two things – First retracting will not change anything, you would have wasted more time. Second, this is not going to be easy, there is worse to come if you continue on this path.


He asked “should life always be pretty and painless?” Fight and persist your children will understand and learn what you want them to learn. They will come out stronger. Its their internship. He promised “I will not let go of your hand till we get you out of this”. For one year Raj has called at times when I was in most danger or turmoil. His call comes when I was in a Police Station, when I was locked inside my house with people threatening to not let me come out, when my car breaks down in trying to get away. When I had a bad day at court and lost my cool at the Judge…..  there are many more times.
I write to him every single day. It started out as a threat to him to ensure that he doesn’t forget my mission! Now that writing is therapy, only therapy with magic sometimes! When I am really down and just have to meet kids they visit the next day!…. Labor pains yes but some respite too!


Needless to say I am waiting to be born and for the story of a new life to begin….until then thank you to the midwife!

Transformations @ Soulbath Peace Foundation

 

 Bi Polar Mental Disorder:  Healing Through a Compassionate Environment

                                 A shattered mirror can't be fixed. It must be changed.
 If anyone is going to come and tell me that psychology and psychiatry have singularly rectified a mind disorder like Bi-Polar or MPD, I wouldn't be applauding the patient in awe. I will rather be cross checking the doctor as to whether he is just a psychologist or a psychoritualist (Life Transformationists). As a matter of fact, I am sure Psychology has reached a tip-off point where it can't do anything. Whereas in psychiatry the pill is the lord and the story ends there. So people with mind disorders think that they are an unfortunate lot with no sustainable remedies. 


Mind disorders are curable. Not in the way psychology or psychiatry approach it. The support of psychiatry will be required only till the time the patient realizes his inner chaos and initiates the process of changing that space where the madness is throwing up. The situation is unpromising if the sufferer is oblivious to pain through alcohol & a super fast Lifestyle and there is a complete blackout within. Life Transformationists feel,"even if there is a small lingering will to change within, chances of redeeming the person from the disorderly state is possible".

Healing mind disorders
belongs to the arena of an emerging breed of people who go beyond the frontiers of psychology .We can term  them life transformationalists or psychoritualists. Raj Bhowmik-The Founder of SAHHEAL is a pioneer in this field. The SAHHEAL Science unfolds the truth that man within himself carries a treasure house of healing resources like love, compassion, silence, forgiveness and Source-Purpose. When the power of these qualities are unleashed, phenomenal changes happen within us. Psychic disorders are a matter of alignment to our peace center within. Let us navigate this functional principle in detail.

There are some fundamentals to work on. The individual with the Medical Condition cannot be approached randomly. Since within them, they are experiencing pain and chaos. This clearly indicates that people with mind disorders should be approached from a calm, serene, tranquil, understanding, compassionate and forgiving space. A SAHHEAL Healing Consultant helps the care- giver who can be a spouse, mother, or a wife to align with these qualities within the environment of the Individual experiencing the Chaos. It is in this space chances of breaking ice with disorders like Bi-Polar are possible. In the SAHHEAL terminology it is called healing the micro.


When the shift from chaos to calmness and love is happening within (this will happen over a period of time), the individual becomes more and more receptive to a serene environment outside too. Gradually the SAHHEAL Healing Consultant starts working with the whole subconscious structure from where the pain is throwing up causing depression and madness.





What are mind disorders? Magnified negative patterns. Great transformationalist and mystic Sri Raj Bhowmik does not dissect negative patterns but heals them. Soothing positive and life affirmative notes are subtly fed into the sub-conscious and without the individual with the medical condition realizing ,it has an erasing effect on negative thought forms. In his path breaking book CORPORitual, Raj speaks about the time before sleep and before waking that are magical hours for this Work to magnify. Playing positive notes during these quiet hours has a healing impact on depression.
 

The pace of the patient's healing largely depends on his positive responses to positive and peaceful vibes within and their alignment to life & family environment as well as nurturing resources within. During this time it is essential to turn or attempt to turn everything the disturbed individual says into a positive affirmation than react & this is were SAHHEAL creates a supporting neutral environment in the Family for the individual to slowly heal, seek support within the family and get the strength within themselves. The Key is the Family member’s responses. Reactions are triggers. A great degree of alignment to the highest point of understanding is crucial to the care- giver .
 

Nurturing the individual with love, care, understanding and awareness does not only change and transform the negative vibrations in them, it transforms the negative vibes in the care giver and the environment at large moving from a victim to a compassionate nurturer. This makes us feel " elevated in our inner spaces". When basic fundamentals of human nature like sharing, giving through compassion, tithing, service are strengthened it has a very healing impact on the disorder.
 

The writer under the guidance of Sri Raj Bhowmik has concretely experienced transformations in their environment as care giver moving through transformations from a victim, escapist to acquiring the deeper strengths from the Source within & Mother Earth.



Soul Movie Time



Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara movie is very well articulated about life and the way we need to live it. Life is like a string of events that shape our every day living. It’s about being aware and understanding that we are in this lifetime and need to accept the learning that we go through. Like Our Founder Raj Bhowmik says in His teachings, “Live in the present moment and understand to accept everything ourselves." Live by sharing and be free from within. letting go to experiencing freedom and live life without fear. Connect within and just let one be.
This movie has helped me to understand myself and has made me understand that being free and letting go of our deepest fears and patterns, we will be receptive to what the universe has to share its magnanimous offering. I thank Raj to have given me the ability to check and connect within and be happy with what you are\have and be in the present.

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Even as a young adult – especially when I was in the premises of a spiritual home, I was vaguely aware of a thing called soul and something that tugged at the deepest and quietest space inside me. But like most others I hardly stopped to listen to it or even be aware of this deep calling.


Perhaps even in this fog of unawareness –my soul had chalked out a different life plan! I was jolted out of this state and forced to be more aware. I ended up in a stage where I desperately sought a teacher and this is where I found Raj Bhowmik’s large heart space called SAHHEAL. And with that I found many things- first and foremost  I  found me-I found that I have within me an eternal compassionate energy (referred to as the soul),and with this discovery I also found what love and freedom mean.


So in this state of greater awareness I went to watch a movie called - Zindagi  na milegi dobara     -meaning  ‘ won’t get life back again’. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and as I was walking out of the theatre a random thought occurred to me-something my cousin told me that morning-“not everyone gets a second chance in life-you are indeed lucky”. At first the two seemed to spell opposite things in my mind but slowly another random thought edged its way in-something I had learned with Raj Bhowmik’s Teaching through the Healing Garden that-‘You always have a choice’.

Three random thoughts circulating in my head- but by the time I came home I felt- hey they are not so random after all!


Maybe our soul does pass through many bodies or lives but within this unique body in this life –it is just this once-and yes indeed we are not going to get to be this unique self again. So, with right guidance let us learn to make choices from our soul space ,let us connect and be aware, and make the most out of our lives and use our ‘second chances’ to grow into more compassionate and useful human beings.


Thank you Raj-I have learned that this life is a blessing, I have learned to face the storms of life with courage and most of all I have learned how to make choices with peace and tranquility. I still have many lessons to learn but I hope to do it with greater awareness.



Through this I want to express my gratitude to Sri Raj Bhowmik for the transformations that have occurred in me and share a bit of my learning - about life and the soul!


Soul Relationships: The Flight Of the Golden Eagle

The Flight of the Golden Eagles

An Eagle appeared in my Dreams last night...
Golden & Golden , royal in its flight,

It swooped & turned & glided in glee,
It was big,  large , powerful & free...

It was strong & majestic, with wings covering the sky,
A Divine appearance of some spirit soaring up & high..

 In a flash , it dashed across the skies as if had noticed me...
Its golden wings covering the whole sky astonishingly!

Slowly, as clouds part to give way to smiling sun..
The Golden eagle gave way for the appearance of another one...

This one was more graceful, delicate & petite,
Soaring divinely with a poised & charming feat...

 With Purple & Golden strokes which colored its wings..
It was a sight to behold, a beautiful flying thing...!

They both were messengers of the Divine,
Bringing me the message of peace, freedom & Golden sunshine...

They were dancing, gliding, floating & singing..
Bringing home a sense of hope, love & belonging...

Their flight of freedom has long filled my heart with a sense of calm..
I Now know, they were sent to heal my wounds with their heavenly charm..


Soul Parenting: My Child My Teacher


I have traveled far in my journey as a mother. As my little one grew, I grew inside. She has been a teacher in many ways. My younger daughter is a child with different learning abilities. It was very upsetting and disturbing in the beginning when as parents we had to assess and label her.  As we were bewildered and stuck thinking of many options, we chanced upon new ways of dealing with the situation, new ways of looking at ourselves and the world.

Why should a different learning style be unacceptable? Our daughter has many unique abilities that we as adults lacked. She questioned our behavior- her referral word was KINDNESS - she wanted everyone around to be kind and truthful. She hated anyone being angry at someone and immediately voiced it. She is extremely intuitive and catches the emotional climate easily.

So we've learned that while, one thing she may lack-the way to learn in the structural world of instructions to students - we have found that she is a teacher in the real sense of Life itself. We all changed at home trying to "be kind to one another...because we love each other".  She aims high to be a Gemologist and a singer. I'm sure that as we are guiding her through the journey in the educational system, she has more to teach us along the way in more important aspects of Life-"Soul learning through love and acceptance"- she has opened our eyes & unlocked our hearts.