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Maaya
A tryst with self
Minal Arora
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Authors Note
Foreword
13
1. Letting Go
17
2. Across Borders
33
3. Back in Time
44
56
84
103
7. Eternal Love
122
159
9. Flowering Consciousness
187
Letting Go
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Letting Go
My dearest Rahul,
We have come a long way, having started years ago with our
souls recognising each other in the midst of the most inappropriate
circumstances and yet accepting the recognition.
The longing of our energies for each other, that hunger for finding
our other halves drew us again at a point in life where we were shown
the path to become one. We magnetically fell into embracing what was
ours and loved each other like nothing else was of significance.
You became my definition of love, every bit of it. You became my
reason to love myself for I belonged to you. You were embedded in my
heart. Each time you hugged me, I sensed your breath as mine. Each
time you held me, something secretly connected from inside me to the
heavens to thank the one up there for that divine moment. It was perfect.
We have experienced the soul of love itself, between us. Today,
I wonder if we are being tested for trusting ourselves, trusting our
love, trusting our togetherness! The bliss between us seems to be
slipping away Rahul. There is a shadow setting in. I dont see my soul
in your eyes anymore.
Lately, you have avoided taking my calls, responding to my
messages or even meeting me. Something between us has changed.
I have waited patiently to see that craving, that innocence, that
child in you that I resonated with all this while. I have prayed, asked
God, asked the universe to show me the glimpse of that love again but
it is lost in some sadness you seem to carry.
Maybe its the guilt of not being able to preserve that love anymore
is making you sad, and is tearing you apart. I feel saddened and
responsible for it. It is becoming about I and You rather than Us.
We are getting dissolved. I can see its slowly breaking you and that
misery you feel is making me miserable too.
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Eternal Love
Now it was time for some regression practice. All through
my regression course, I was waiting to be able to get ready and
equipped to take someone to their past life. We had enough
practice sessions at the workshop. Shirley said I was a natural
at regression which was certainly motivating.
I met a woman on a social networking site who was going
through a tough phase in life. She asked me if I could give her a
regression and I instantly agreed.
Soon, it was time for my first professional PLR session. She
was a young woman who was getting divorced. Her husband
was a wealthy man and they had two kids together. She suffered
from an abusive marriage, financial blocks and lack of support
in life. She had to give up her children to her husband for she
couldnt afford to give them a decent life. She missed them and
felt helpless for being unable to keep them with her, especially
her daughter.
Traditionally, I had devised a form that my clients were
supposed to fill up and return to me prior to the session for me
to understand them better. I sent her that form but she sent it
only fifteen minutes before our session so I didnt get enough
time to go through it.
She was a good looking woman of Asian origin with a polite
warm voice. We discussed her concerns and agreed to allow
her sub-conscious to take us to the most relevant past life which
could resolve the most for her.
She was an easy subject for a hypnotic trance as she quickly
entered a past life in which she was tied naked on a slab kind of
structure and there was some guy who sort of played around
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with her. She felt that they were near a train station and that
there were other girls who were being transported as sex
workers to some foreign land. She was emotionally in a lot of
pain in that scene. I sensed she was somewhere in the middle of
that life. I guided her to visit the first significant event in that
life and we unfolded the story of her life. It was a life in which
she was a girl living in an orphanage. She was into drugs, didnt
pay attention to studies, was rude and mean. She had only one
friend who was nice and sober. Her friend warned her several
times to mend her ways for she could land up in trouble but she
didnt and hence landed up in that miserable place.
I worked on releasing her body memories and releasing
the charge of the negative emotions she carried from that life
experience using the technique I was taught.
When she died in that past life, I guided her to meet her
spirit guide. We asked the guide about the lesson that she was
expected to learn in that life.
He said she was meant to take right decisions independently
and trust the guidance when it came to her but she didnt listen
and she didnt trust. Her soul had decided to experience inner
strength and independence in that life. She had failed that lesson.
Suddenly, she told me that her spirit guide wanted to take
her somewhere. She felt they were spinning.
Finally, they stopped and I saw this very intense expression
on her face.
Upon asking she told me that she had a miscarriage the
first time she conceived in this life. They had come to meet the
soul of that baby.
I saw tears roll down her eyes as that soul said to her, You
dont have to blame yourself for me. I was not meant to be born.
It was just an experience planned for you to start experiencing
human emotions which you denied to yourself before that. I was
not meant to be. I am there again, in another body and I am
happy. Let go off the guilt.
I was so amazed at the power of the experience. I could
sense her relief after the release. She had been holding back that
guilt for the baby for ten years by then. Then we went on to
resolve her past life with rest of the characters and events.
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When she met that friend of hers whom she didnt listen to
in that past life, she identified her as an older male friend of
hers in her current life.
That soul told her at that moment that it would come back
to her again but having chosen to be much older to her, so that
she would take it soul seriously.
In that life, she had another person who was close to her,
whom she identified as her daughter in her current life. The
whole experience became overwhelming for her and maybe me
too.
We were then guided into another past life which was
where she went through the life of a monk. She couldnt trust
herself completely for her guidance in that life, in spite of being
given enough divine support.
Both her past lives carried a pattern similar to her current
life. Her guide mentioned that her struggle in her current life
was also about reclaiming her inner strength, trusting herself
and being independent and uninfluenced in spirit. That is when
I realised the reason she was so lonely and deprived of all
support system in her current life.
She was also told that she would reunite with her daughter
when she learnt the lesson she had chosen to learn by being
alone.
When she was about to end her journey in that session in
the spirit world, she told me that her spirit guide had a message
for me. I was both thrilled and scared upon hearing this. She
said, He says, be patient. You are on the right path.
At that point, I didnt know what this meant but this word
patience was coming too often for me to ignore it.
She hugged me and said, Thank you. Thank you for being
my guide and friend and making this journey with me. It meant
a lot for me. I will never forget you.
That day I realised I was being blessed with this knowledge
and skill. It gave so much inner peace and satisfaction. I was
actually impacting peoples lives to the core of their beings.
I could touch their souls.
This experience also gave me another understanding at a
personal level. Its not necessary that if we are going through
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suffering, its because we are paying back for some bad karma.
Our souls choose to experience certain difficult emotions like
pain, loneliness, sadness, grief for inner strength as well. It is
difficult to look at such life experiences from the context of the
soul journey while we are still in it. When the experience is over,
we often realise the good it did to us in terms of our growth
inward.
I started doing healing sessions on weekends, as and when
I could squeeze in an appointment and with every passing day,
I realised how our past lives could impact our current lives and
that there isnt too much we can do about it, till we acknowledge
this connection.
I was given this opportunity to surrender myself to the
divine as a channel for people to be able to experience and
resolve their past. In this process, I triggered transformation in
their current lives as well as in mine. This work gave a whole
new meaning to my existence. I felt I had finally found the
purpose of my life...maybe I was meant to heal souls.
I did seven-eight sessions while I was in Singapore and
every past life experience of a client taught me about a new
aspect of my own life.
Soon, it was time to leave Singapore. My project was almost
over and Gagan had already arranged for a new assignment for
both me and Dev in Delhi. It was hard since I had grown to love
that city a lot. Singapore served to be a great milestone in my
evolution as a person. At the same time, Aryan was waiting for
me at home and I was also missing him dearly.
We said our goodbyes to our colleagues and friends and
took our flight back home.
Everyone was excited to have me back at home. Pooja came
over to receive me at the airport along with mum and Aryan. It
felt nice to be back in Delhi. I loved the city and there was
something in this city that drew me back from wherever I was
in the world, with great force and intensity. It always felt right
to be back.
I was on a different wavelength as compared to when I had
left Delhi. It had been only seven months that I was away. The
moment I landed, Rahuls thoughts started clouding my mind.
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All the stores were ending their sales and the new winter
collection was on the stands. We decided to do a trip of Gurgaon
where wed spend the whole day shopping and eating the
coming weekend. Aryan was on a day out at a friends place
and I had kept the weekend free for a refreshing break.
Tessy and I met up at Gurgaon and the first expedition was
at Ambience mall. It was the beginning of a whole day of
adventure. I wanted to buy a black skirt and Tessy wanted a
few things including tights, shoes and earrings.
I was a sucker for good costume jewellery. I could do
anything to get my hands on a good pair of earrings. I offered
to help Tessy with her jewellery shopping.
We went to almost each and every shop. This was probably
the first time that I had dedicated an entire day to shopping
ever since I had come back from Singapore. It felt so nice. I was
hardly fond of shopping those days. Usually, I only went exactly
where I needed to get something, picked it up and came back.
That day, it was different. I chose on a bit of adventure. Probably,
I wanted a break from my usual serious self and just be. We
tried clothes, shoes, scarves and everything else we could. We
even ended up getting a make-over done for each of us. It was
so much fun. It was already 2:00 p.m. Tessy announced that she
was hungry. The moment she said so, I realised I was also
hungry. We decided to go and eat salad at the Potpourri along
with soup and breads. I always found it a healthy and interesting
food option.
It was a Sunday afternoon and the restaurant was jam
packed. There was a waiting of at least 25 minutes. I found it
very hard to wait for food when I was hungry. Just as we asked
the manager about the waiting time and decided to step out,
I heard someone said, Maaya. I turned around and it was
Gagan. He seemed to be sitting there alone enjoying a drink
and some salad.
Tessy gave me a twitch at the elbow and said, Whos the
dude? and I said in a very low voice, Shut up, Tessy. Hes my
boss, and we both moved towards his table with smiles on our
faces.
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