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Jyotish Life-Purpose Consultations
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Swami Sadashiva Tirtha
Author: Ayurveda Encyclopedia & Bhagavad Gita For Modern Times, D.Sc. Ayurvedic Research, Founder: Swami Narayan Tirtha Math
 
By Swami Sadashiva Tirtha
Published on 06/4/2005
 

"I wish there was a 'book of life' to tell me how to live."

How many times have you heard this statement from parents, friends, co-workers, and from yourself?

Well, there is a book of life...uncovering the laws of nature to follow for health, harmony, peace and success.


Jyotish Life-Purpose Consultations

The Vedas, from which Vedic astrology (Jyotish), Ayurveda, Vastu Shastra (laws of house building), etc. offer blueprints or a roadmap to how to live in harmony with these laws.

The Life-Purpose reading specifically focuses on what is your God-given talents and how to use them in this life.

What is the value of knowing your life purpose?
to have a rewarding life it must be meaningful. Many people have found that wealth and fame do not satisfy your inner sense of happiness, contentment, and peace of mind.

The secret is very simple and self-evident...
to be happy, you must do things that make you happy (constructively). Things that make you happy is the best way to help others. Using your God-given gifts is something that simultaneously helps others without you even trying.

Coincidentally, what you love to do is what comes second nature to you - your innate abilities. This is also called your God-given talents.

Before you were born, God gave you an aspect of Him and said, 'use this gift in the world and it will bring you closer to me. Others will also see the divinity in your work and come closer to me.'

According to the Vedas, this is the purpose of life. There is nothing greater... make the world a little more Divine and thus help yourself and others come closer to God.

This life-purpose reading gives you insight into
1. What are your God-given talents
2. Timing of when to do things
3. Obstacles that prevent your succeeding
4. Remedies to remove these obstacles.
5. Practical step-by-step assignments to develop your life-purpose.
6. Are you better suited to work for yourself or others?
7. Are you better suited to work in the fields of science, arts, or a combination of both.
8. Learn when your major life cycle changes will occur.

As you develop your life-purpose in the real world, you have the opportunity to for continuing guidance - exploring the terrain as you work toward your goals.

Followup readings can additionally explore type and timing of career, education, relationship questions and how they all fit into your life-purpose.

Additionally the readings can uncover your best spiritual path- are you more devotional, intellectual, service or work oriented?

Summary
In short, life-reading offers you a road map, compass, tools, vehicles and road-side assistance to help you succeed in your most meaningful life-goals.

What to Request in a Reading:
1. What is Jyotish and how it is different from western astrology.
2. Y
our personality: helps understand how your personality relates to your life purpose and career 
3. Your most suited career tendencies: confirms or steers you in your natural directions
4. Your life-purpose tendencies:  
helps you use your innate-abilities
5. Strong and weak planets & therapies: help the weak planets
6. Life cycles - when the planets are most powerfully influencing your life. This information helps plan your life and notifies you when to follow therapies for weak planets.

Style of Readings: We suggest jyotishis who involve you in the reading - not setting your absolute fate, but respecting and involving your intuition. We also would avoid those who use fear as a form of motiviation, and chose those who inspire or at least those who offer free or inexpensive therapies to remove obstacles.

Look for readings that nurture your growth of self-sufficiency by confirming your God-given talents and intuitions, and providing tools to realize one's highest/spiritual life-visions.

Readings should validate something about your highest self - that you already know about yourself somewhere inside.

Costs:
Costs vary; review several quotes and choose from the reasonable range.