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Ananda Karunesh

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Ananda Karunesh (a.k.a. Sanjay Nawalkha, Ph.D.) experienced a Zen awakening at the age of 19 which opened the door to an expanded spiritual awareness. He has engaged in meditative and spiritual practices for the past 35 years. He is currently working on additional books in the Ascended Goddesses Series with Goddess Parvati, Goddess Kuan Yin, and Goddess Tara. He works as a Professor and Chairman of the Finance Department at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also an author of financial modeling books in the area of fixed income markets.

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Ananda, you say that you have written your book, A Thousand Seeds of Joy, with the consent of Goddesses. Do you really talk to them? How is this possible?

Ananda Karunesh Thanks for this important question, Satendra! All spiritual truths are said without "external" proofs. The only proofs that are available are from ins…moreThanks for this important question, Satendra! All spiritual truths are said without "external" proofs. The only proofs that are available are from inside or from within. This is why spirituality is different from science. However, the inner proofs are available! All meditators know this! If a meditator follows certain techniques and is able to quiet one's mind or experiences moments of bliss, only the meditator knows that from within. There is no scientific instrument to measure the intensity of bliss a meditator is feeling. When I receive messages from Goddesses, there are internal ways for me to confirm that. There is a deep sense or feeling of knowing that is absent when the knowing is from only my "mind." I can "feel" the knowing throughout my body. Our minds can lie, but our bodies do not lie. Chapter 5 of the book covers this topic about proofs in the context of the great mathematician Ramanujan who received 3,900 equations and identities without any proofs. Proofs help us in the finite world of survival. Demanding external proofs can be an impediment in the infinite world of spirituality. I am making the claim just like any spiritual master has made a claim. It is my own knowing of which I have internal proofs. I cannot convey what I experience to you externally. You can read the book and make up your mind for yourself. (less)

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Is your book feministic as well? I felt it concerns with the women issues a little more than the usual affair of spirituality. Please answer.

Ananda Karunesh The book is very much about the empowered feminine - empowered with soul feelings such as love, joy, compassion, freedom, peace, gratitude, forgivenes…moreThe book is very much about the empowered feminine - empowered with soul feelings such as love, joy, compassion, freedom, peace, gratitude, forgiveness, wisdom, strength and others. It’s feminist in the sense of loving the feminine and also honoring the masculine in both women and men. It’s not feminist in the sense of loving the feminine in women and dishonoring the masculine in men. True strength comes from inside which is more powerful than outer strength. The book reveals the stories of Sita, Radha, Draupadi, and Yasodhara from Lakshmi ji’s own voice. Similarly stories of Gayatri, Yeshe, and other incarnations of Saraswati ji in her own voice. What is revealed is very uplifting and different from some of the patriarchal stories in the scriptures which were written mostly by their male authors. (less)

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A Thousand Seeds of Joy: Teachings of Lakshmi and Saraswati (Ascended Goddesses Series Book 1)

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Ananda Karunesh's Blog: A THOUSAND SEEDS OF JOY: TEACHINGS OF LAKSHMI AND SARAS

What is Emptiness?

Ananda: So, is emptiness like dying?

Saraswati ji: You may say that; and also that it is beyond both living and dying. The enlightened ones have given different names to this state—some consistent with words associated with living: presence, awareness, awakeness, aliveness, embodiment, fullness, luminosity, truth, purity, and enlightenment; and other consistent with words associated with dying: voi Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 03, 2018 04:11 • Tags: devi, divine-feminine, emptiness, goddess, lakshmi, matriarchy, saraswati

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“A "matriarchal world" does not mean matrilineal or that one queen shall rule the world. It simply means "a world in which a Mother's Heart leads all social institutions, corporations, and governments." All humans-men, women, or transgender-can embody a mother's heart if they so choose. We are destined for extinction as a human race unless a mother's heart assumes leadership of the world.”
― Ananda Karunesh, A Thousand Seeds of Joy: Teachings of Lakshmi and Saraswati

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