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Love it or leave it
She began to immerse herself in the philosophy of Ananda Marga,
as a visitor to the Instituto Visão Futuro, when a new challenge
was presented: to become a vegetarian. Living in the northeast,
she grew in the midst of a strong tradition of eating
seafood at home and on the beach. It was abrupt: either
to become a vegetarian or not to be a facilitator
of tantra yoga. “I did not see myself moving in another
direction, so I spent 2 years saying: just for today,
I will not eat meat.” And there goes 15 years.
But the challenges did not stop there. In a meeting
with a Thai didi, passing through Brazil, Jayadevi
opened again to her concerns. “My master
is Jesus, so it is very strange to say that it is Baba,”
she told the nun. “She did not want to hear it, as
they say here in the Northeast. Instead, she taught
me a meditation lesson, I meditated, I got involved,
feeling a single energy, the Supreme
Consciousness, and then I launched
myself. The inner conflict
was resolved,” she tells us.
To Jayadevi, this experience
was a watershed
moment and
brought her stillness.
She could
even fly to other
spiritual and therapeutic
places,
but she had found
a solid ground,
a landing place.
“I was free to live
other experiences; after
all, the cosmic energy
is one, but the main
line is tantra and my relationship
with Baba is the way.”
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