art and livelihood

[Guest guest]

I can relate!

I have a Master's Degree in Fine Art and all the student loans that

go with it. Currently I am working as a prep cook/dishwasher for low

wages and right now working full time because my junky car is on its

death bed. Full time employment at a job that is not fulfilling is

very disheartening. I was so poor this winter that I had to sell some

of my books to buy groceries. I believe creative work is my destined

work but so far it sure has not provided me with a livelihood. I also

had physical problems so decided to focus on improving my health

first. Now I do have more energy and that helps. But on the

prosperity issue I just read about the 'Har Har Har Har Gobinday'

Mantra in the Prosperity Paths newsletter and without realizing it

was the same thing I ordered the 'Prosperity is Green' video from

Nirvair Singh Khalsa. I find it much easier to do this mantra with

the video. So far (I've only been doing it for a few days) This has

come to me: My Mom sent me a few hundred dollars for my car fund and

I got $10 from something that I'd written that is being reprinted as

an excerpt. I know $10 isn't much but it came when I hadn't even

submitted anything and it is for my writing so that is at least an

encouraging sign. My prayer is not specifically for money but to be

living in my true destiny. With my education and experiences I do

find it hard to accept that washing dishes is my destiny. But

apparently at the moment it is. I pray that god will find a way to

use me that employs my skills and talents (beyond my excellence at

dishwashing, when I wash them... they are clean!) I do think that it

is important to be mindful about what we ARE doing even when we wish

we were doing something else. I want a new job by fall and a car

before my current one dies. So my prayers are specific in that

regard. The little successes have encouraged me. I suggest you try

the Har Har Har Gobinday Mantra. I'll keep you posted on further

success. You will know what is right for you when you get results.

 

Peggy Sue

 

>

>Sat Nam,

>

>I have been reading the different mantras for prosperity at the

>prosperity website. There are so many how do we know what is right

>for me?

>

>I am a studio artist and I need something to help me boost sales at

>my website and lead me to the right contacts to sell my work off the

>internet. Actually I need to make enough to support myself and my

>family with my work. I just don't do well at a regular 8-5 job. I

>have trouble getting them and then when I do I have trouble keeping

>them for a number of reasons which include invisible disabilities.

>

>I know that the spiritual training will eventually take care of the

>disabilities so I'm not concerned about that. On the other hand, I

>see no reason why I should waste my energies attempting to fit into a

>business world of 8-5 clerical positions that I am not suited to when

>I do have a viable profession that I enjoy. I've earned two Bachelors

>degrees in my professional area, and I have the student loans that

>need to be paid back.

>

>Any help will be appreciated.

>

>Hansmukh Kaur

[Guest guest]

Dear Peggy Sue,

 

 

I know $10 isn't much but it came when I hadn't even

> submitted anything and it is for my writing so that is at least an

encouraging sign.

 

This means that you are in the attraction mode and that is a good sign. To

switch from got after it to magnetism is a key goal here.

 

My prayer is not specifically for money but to be

> living in my true destiny.

 

How about earning a living doing your true destiny. You can do your destiny

and be poor.

 

 

I do think that it is important to be mindful about what we ARE doing even

when we wish we were doing something else.

 

This is true. Once you have learned this lesson, often you can move on.

 

SAt Nam,

 

Gururattan Kaur

[Guest guest]

Add me to the list of "I don't know why I'm doing this job, but here I am."

It's not a bad job, clean work environment, good pay, benefits...all

necessary to raise my kids and pay the bills. But besides my full time job,

I am a massage therapist and would love to do it full time. As it is, it

brings in a good second income and I look forward to each one and can give my

best because I love it and am not solely dependent on my massage business for

supporting my family. So I count my blessings and keep working and perhaps

inch by inch, I'll get there.

The thing I struggle with is my ex-husband and mantaining a right attitude.

He's out in lolla land and doesn't send any support let alone keep up a

relationship with the children. That's probably best that he isn't in their

lives, but how do I keep positive and not let the negative thoughts creap in,

that it would help, if he would do his part to at least be financially

responsible. He's become a wiccan priest and I don't know much about it, but

I do know that's where he spends most of his time.

And more about my full time job....I'm not really good at it and have had to

really focus on what I'm doing because I've gotten defects and it's a

business that has to be perfect. But in the 4 years I've worked there, I've

seen some amazing turn arounds in the way management handles people and we're

working on a teaming program. Maybe I've had an effect there or maybe it's

been the Aquarian age that is coming about that there is a higher

consciousness that we are all working at a factory job that none of us

particularly enjoy, but are there and making the best of it. I know that I

am a better person for Kundalini Yoga and am very thankful for all the help

the people involved and this website has given me.

Best,

Diane

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Peggy Sue,

 

I also can relate. I am currently employed in the Poultry Industry

as an Occupational Health Nurse---it pays well, but the environment

leaves much to be desired.

 

I also do orientation for all our employees (the ones who actually

handle the chickens) and I make sure to tell each one of them that "I

know this is not a glamorous job, but it is honest work. Take pride

in your job because in turn you are taking pride in yourself". "If

your job is digging ditches, by all means dig them straight."

 

Sometimes I find myself thinking that if working in a chicken plant

is my destiny then I am in pretty pitiful shape---then I remind

myself that the things that my senses can perceive is only illusion

and that I should seek the deeper message----what message am I

talking about? I'll tell you when I figure it out;-)

 

One quote gets me through many days---"Before honor comes humility".

Hang it there girl and let those polished dishes reflect the

wholeness in your heart.

 

Sat Nam,

Mal

 

"When I have a little money, I buy books, if there is any left over,

I buy food." Author unknown

 

Kundaliniyoga, Peggy Sue <pmcrae@r...> wrote:

> I can relate!

> I have a Master's Degree in Fine Art and all the student loans that

> go with it. Currently I am working as a prep cook/dishwasher for

low

> wages and right now working full time because my junky car is on

its

> death bed. Full time employment at a job that is not fulfilling is

> very disheartening. I was so poor this winter that I had to sell

some

> of my books to buy groceries. I believe creative work is my

destined

> work but so far it sure has not provided me with a livelihood. I

also

> had physical problems so decided to focus on improving my health

> first. Now I do have more energy and that helps. But on the

> prosperity issue I just read about the 'Har Har Har Har Gobinday'

> Mantra in the Prosperity Paths newsletter and without realizing it

> was the same thing I ordered the 'Prosperity is Green' video from

> Nirvair Singh Khalsa. I find it much easier to do this mantra with

> the video. So far (I've only been doing it for a few days) This has

> come to me: My Mom sent me a few hundred dollars for my car fund

and

> I got $10 from something that I'd written that is being reprinted

as

> an excerpt. I know $10 isn't much but it came when I hadn't even

> submitted anything and it is for my writing so that is at least an

> encouraging sign. My prayer is not specifically for money but to be

> living in my true destiny. With my education and experiences I do

> find it hard to accept that washing dishes is my destiny. But

> apparently at the moment it is. I pray that god will find a way to

> use me that employs my skills and talents (beyond my excellence at

> dishwashing, when I wash them... they are clean!) I do think that

it

> is important to be mindful about what we ARE doing even when we

wish

> we were doing something else. I want a new job by fall and a car

> before my current one dies. So my prayers are specific in that

> regard. The little successes have encouraged me. I suggest you try

> the Har Har Har Gobinday Mantra. I'll keep you posted on further

> success. You will know what is right for you when you get results.

>

> Peggy Sue

>

> >

> >Sat Nam,

> >

> >I have been reading the different mantras for prosperity at the

> >prosperity website. There are so many how do we know what is right

> >for me?

> >

> >I am a studio artist and I need something to help me boost sales at

> >my website and lead me to the right contacts to sell my work off

the

> >internet. Actually I need to make enough to support myself and my

> >family with my work. I just don't do well at a regular 8-5 job. I

> >have trouble getting them and then when I do I have trouble keeping

> >them for a number of reasons which include invisible disabilities.

> >

> >I know that the spiritual training will eventually take care of the

> >disabilities so I'm not concerned about that. On the other hand, I

> >see no reason why I should waste my energies attempting to fit

into a

> >business world of 8-5 clerical positions that I am not suited to

when

> >I do have a viable profession that I enjoy. I've earned two

Bachelors

> >degrees in my professional area, and I have the student loans that

> >need to be paid back.

> >

> >Any help will be appreciated.

> >

> >Hansmukh Kaur

[Guest guest]

Dear friends,

 

> Sometimes I find myself thinking that if working in a chicken plant

> is my destiny then I am in pretty pitiful shape---then I remind

> myself that the things that my senses can perceive is only illusion

> and that I should seek the deeper message----what message am I

> talking about? I'll tell you when I figure it out;-)

 

The message is so very simple that it takes us many many lifetimes to

actually come to the experience of it: "Sat Nam", we say in KY - "I am the

Truth". You are not what you think you are, if you think you are any less

than that - I am paraphrasing Goethe backwards here ; ). Many of the well

known saints of this world have not been what we would call successful in a

worldly sense, and did not have glowing careers. Peter was a fisherman,

Kabir a weaver, Surdas a cobbler. Jnaneshwar and his sister were at some

point so poor that people would not even lend them cooking utensils. This

was the same Jnaneshwar who composed the sublime poetical commentary on the

Bhagavad Gita when he was a boy of fifteen. Ah, what a predicament, we would

say. But what did these people think of it? Nothing much. Kabir composed his

divine poetry while weaving. The meaning and beauty of life had nothing at

all to do with the outward circumstances. The supreme beauty that Kabir saw

was something the princes and kings of the time didn't have. So who was

rich, who was poor?

 

Difficulties are not there to make your life miserable. They are there to

make you strong. If you can remember your true identity while working on a

poultry farm or washing dishes then there is little that you cannot do. And

Mal's approach is very wise: whatever you do, do it right. Do it as service,

do it wholeheartedly. As Kabir made poetry while weaving, you can follow

your heart's calling while washing dishes. You can repeat the mantra, you

can think up the lines of your next book, you can remember to focus at the

third eye. Yes it takes a bit more focus to do that than if you just had

free time and nothing to do. Learn to focus, it will help you immensely.

Being sick, being in an emergency, or dying are all very likely more

stressful than washing dishes! If you can keep your composure and your focus

in whatever your work circumstances may be, it will help you keep your focus

when you will need it the most. When most people "lose it", you have a

chance to sail through. Don't think it isn't worth all this trouble. It is,

much more than you can imagine.

 

One other thing... duality is a mind concept. High and low are just words

and ideas. There is no place for high and low in God's heart. Your work,

whatever it is, is infinitely valuable. Think of the happy customers who

will get bright shining dishes instead of dubious-looking ones. Think of

happy healthy chickens (they are God's creation too) instead of poor sickly

creatures. There can be joy, and there IS joy, in anything you can do. Don't

let preconceived ideas you learned from others (do you happen to think that

washing dishes is lower on God's value scale than being a professor or a

banker?) keep you from enjoying the present moment. Things and people don't

belong to you, and they can come and go as they please. This very moment is

the only thing that truly belongs to you. If this is so, are you going to

ruin in by worrying or complaining? Or are you going to look for its

sweetness, however hard to find it may be? Give it a try, you might be

surprised...

 

> "When I have a little money, I buy books, if there is any left over,

> I buy food." Author unknown

 

The author to my knowledge is Erasmus of Rotterdam, a medieval mystic and

philosopher.

 

Many blessings,

Satsang Kaur

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

 

Jobs and work is one way that we grow. This is related to Virgo. It is not

just bad luck or karma that we are in these jobs. I have covered aspects of

this energy and lessons in my NMB newsletter on Virgo last September. I am

sure someone will write back with the link.

 

Sat nam,

 

Gururattan Kaur