Shrikrishna Kashyap: a Master: On the Liberating Power of Dignity

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-4134-1 (sc)

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iUniverse rev. date: 02/24/2018

All words in the body of this manuscript are those of Shrikrishna Kashyap (Dr. Shyam) compiled from notes of selected talks over the span of thirty-three years,

except where indicated.

Originally recorded, compiled, and edited by Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri).

Several video or audio recordings by Richard Young, Sandra Canzone, and Keegan Brown.

Text and some lovely photo editing by Lynn Walters, PhD.

Additional editing by Antoinette Villamil, Gabrielle Graham, and Andrea Mantell Seidel, PhD.

All mantras are ancient and public record.

Beautiful cover designs and photo edits by Lynn Walters, PhD.

Front cover photos by Patricia Brown, PhD.

Collages, transcriptions, editing, and most photos by Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri).

Some photos edited by the lovely artistry of Richard Young, where noted.

Other noted photos by David Canzone and Lynn Walters or parts of Wisdom Wave collection.

All photos property of Wisdom Wave.

ALL text, including poems, other than where noted, are the words of Shrikrishna Kashyap,

whose entire teachings in all forms are the property of Wisdom Wave.

Permissions obtained from individuals listed in figures and memorial quotes.

Other books and CDs by Wisdom Wave, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico are as follows.

Wisdom Wave Books:

Little Book of the Self: Jewels in the Crown of Self Realization, S. Kashyap & Gayatri

The Shoreless Ocean, S. Kashyap

The Supplicate Order: An Invocation of the Sacred, Gayatri

A Wave Named Blue (children’s book), Gayatri

Wisdom Wave CDs:

Satyam Shivam Sundaram, S. Kashyap and Friends

Shyam Sings: Solos by S. Kashyap

Ave: A Folk Opera of the Two Marys, a Musical, Gayatri

Mundo Tercero (Third World), a Musical, Gayatri

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Contents

Loving Memorials from Friends

Preface

Introduction

List of Figures

Chapter I Messages

Messages to Friends:

The Choice Is Life

Faith: The Real Choice

On Faith

Forces of Attraction and Repulsion

Messages on Himself

Precepts

Spirituality

Chapter II Origins in India

Chapter III Origins of Wisdom Wave

Letters Written at the Inception of Wisdom Wave - 1990

Communication, Consultation, Cooperation, Compliance

Spirituality, Faith, and Religion

The Be-er and the Doer

Chapter IV Vast Origins of Creation

Shiva Shakti is the Totality

Mother’s Day and Creation

Mother’s Day

When You were Born

Father’s Day

Primal Approach

Chapter V Fostering the Human Constitution

Stages in Life

Birth Bestows Life. Death Repairs Life.

The Teaching of the ATIONS

Chapter VI Sthitaprajna - To be Established in the Self, The Foundation of All Conduct

To be Established in Your Self is to Establish in Self-awareness

Chapter VII The Basic Trinity of Conduct

Ayurveda and the Basic Trinity of Conduct

First in the Trinity: Right Food – Ahara

Food has a Great Influence Upon the Mind; It is the Essence of the Human Being

Second in the Trinity: Right Recreation - Vihara

Some of Shyam’s Favorite Stories

Third in the Trinity: Right Behavior- Achara

Right Worship as Part of Right Behavior - Achara

Practice of Mantras

On Meditation

Spiritual Practice

Devotion (A Cascade of Quotes)

Shyam’s Favorite Devotional Prayers of Self-honesty and Supplication

Right Relationship as Part of Right Behavior - Achara

What Is Desire?

On Love (A Cascade of Quotes)

Holiness of the Libido

Only Love Can Free

Compassion

Chapter VIII Healing

Question: Can Suffering Be Habitual? (A Cascade of Quotes)

On Nature (A Cascade of Quotes)

On Healing (A Cascade of Quotes)

On Healing: Darkness and Light

Chapter IX Liberation from the Narrow Ego Toward Self-realization

Cleansing the Negative Mind (A Cascade of Quotes)

Facing and Refining the Ego (A Cascade of Quotes)

On Equating Oneself with a Fragmentary Identity

On Sanity (A Cascade of Quotes)

Toward Realization (A Cascade of Quotes)

Chapter X Summun Bonum: The Highest Good

To Speak and To Listen

Blessing on the Millennium

I Love You All

A Summation - Editor’s Note

The Core

Obituary

Glossary (primarily with Dr. Shyam’s definitions)

List of Figures

Individuals are identified from upper left to lower left clockwise in photos

(Within photos from right to left except first photo or where noted)

Permissions obtained

Figure 1: Dr. Shyam (Shrikrishna Kashyap)

Figure 2: Ananda Magee-Shyam; Shyam-Natasha Mansfield, PhD-Shyam-Robert MacDonald; Shyam-Andrea Seidel PhD-Zuleikha

Figure 3: Shyam-Swami Chidananda; Swami Chidananda-others-Shyam; Shyam

Figure 4: Sandra Leng Kashyap-Shyam; Friend-Shyam; Jak Pilozof-Shyam; Sandra Leng Kashyap-Shyam

Figure 5: All Shyam

Figure 6: All Shyam

Figure 7: All Shyam

Figure 8: Patricia Brown PhD (Gayatri)-Shyam; Shyam; Shyam-Sandra Leng Kashyap; Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM; Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)-Father John (Robert Adair); Shyam

Figure 9: Shyam, Father John (Robert Adair); Shyam; Shyam: Wisdom Wave logo (pb);

Figure 10: Shyam-Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri); boy Shyam dressed as Gopala Krishna (arranged by his parents); Lynn Walters, PhD-Shyam-Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM; Shyam leaving India; Shyam (photo by Natasha Mansfield, PhD); Shyam-Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)

Figure 11: Shyam-Elizabeth Langston, MA; Shyam-Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)–photo by Natasha Mansfield, PhD; Elizabeth Langston, MA-Ed Reaves (Attorney)-Shyam; Shyam; Shyam

Figure 12: All Shyam

Figure 13: Shyam

Figure 14: Swami Chidananda-Shyam: Shyam, Shyam

Figure 15: All Shyam

Figure 16: Catherine Valentine-Shyam-Swami Chidananda (Divine Life Society)-Swami Vimalananda (Divine Life Society)-Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)-Loren Jones; Shyam-Kashi Rai, MD-Komal Chenevert (baby); Ursula Smith-Dorothea Smith; Shyam; Gabrielle Graham

Figure 17: Shyam-Susan MacDonald; Jak Pilozof: Pete Ruda-Elizabeth Ruda-Shyam- Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)-Robert MacDonald; Shyam-Diane Adair; Shyam-Bob Adair Jr; Sandra Pope, PhD-Shyam

Figure 18: All Shyam

Figure 19: Shyam-student; Brenda Griffiths, MD-Shyam

Figure 20: Shyam and cow; Shyam; Shyam-Annette Bugnon- Sandra Leng Kashyap; Shyam

Figure 21: Lynn Walters, PhD-Shyam; Zuleikha-Shyam; Zuleikha-Shyam; Lily Hofstra-Merina Seidel

Figure 22: Shyam; Shyam-Elliott McDowell; Andrea Mantell Seidel, PhD; Shyam-Robert MacDonald

Figure 23: Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM-Shyam-Lynn Walters, PhD; Shyam; Shyam-Andrea Seidel, PhD; Mural of Koshare by Patricia Brown PhD

Figure 24: David Canzone, DOM-Shyam; Shyam; Shyam-Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri); Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)-Shyam-Lynn Walters, PhD; NOTE counterclockwise within photo: Cecily Welter MA-Shyam-Natasha Mansfield, PhD-Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM- Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)-Lynn Walters, PhD

Figure 25: Shyam-Keegan Brown; Shyam; Lily Hofstra-Shyam-Merina Seidel

Figure 26: David Canzone, DOM-Shyam; Lynn Walters, PhD-Shyam; Peer Hofstra-Shyam; Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM-Shyam-Lynn Walters, PhD; Jak Pilozof-Shyam

Figure 27: David Canzone, DOM-Shyam-Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM-Jackie Canzone; Lynn Walters, PhD-Shyam; Steve Fawcett-Daryn Curtis; Richard Young-Shyam; Bernadine Greer- Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)-Elizabeth Langston, MA; Shyam-Swami Chidananda-others

Figure 28: Shyam-Father Chris Contreras; Antoinette Villamil, MFA-Shyam-Igor Kuznetsov, PhD; Peter Hofstra- Lynn Walters, PhD-Shyam

Figure 29: Susan MacDonald, MA-Shyam; straw angel; Sandra Pope, PhD-Kashi Rai, MD-Komal Chenevert; Jennifer Fulton Anderson-Dallas Anderson-Shyam; Dorothea Smith

Figure 30: Shyam-Peer Hofstra-Peter Hofstra; Shyam (Elliott McDowell photo); Shyam-Kelly Graham-Gabrielle Graham; Lynn Walters, PhD-Shyam; Amiya Brown Pennebaker-Shyam-Zuleikha

Figure 31: Komal Chenevert Brown-Keegan Brown-Shyam; Shyam-Brenda Griffiths, MD- Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM; Kelly Graham-Shyam-Gabrielle Graham; Brazil friends-ShyamShyam’s Favorite Devotional Prayers of Self-honesty and Supplication

Figure 32: Shyam- Brenda Griffiths, MD; Shyam-Igor Kuznetsov PhD; Shyam; Peter Macaulay-Shyam-Brenda Griffiths, MD; Lindsey Wells-Shyam-others

Figure 33: Shyam; Shyam; Komal Chenevert Brown, MA-Keegan Brown-Matt Chenevert-; Shyam

Figure 34: Shyam-Jasmine League-Divya Jhoti (Ana Mares Guia)-Paddy Panayotis League; Shyam-Jasmine League; Oklahoma cows

Figure 35: Ishta (wolf hybrid)-Shyam; Ginger-Bernadine Greer- Shyam; Shyam-Canzone cat; Shyam-Akida puppy; Shyam hugging cow

Figure 36: Shyam and chapel retreat group; Patricia Brown PhD (Gayatri)-Shyam; Shyam

Figure 37: Gabrielle Graham-Lynn Walters, PhD-Shyam-Patricia Brown PhD (Gayatri)-Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM; puppy with Shyam; Shyam-Patricia Brown PhD (Gayatri)- KarimaTatum- Lynn Walters, PhD-Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM; Shyam; Shyam-Ginger

Figure 38: Lizabeth Langston, MA-Shyam (2 photos); Shyam-David Canzone, DOM; Shyam; NOTE Clockwise inside photo: Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)-Lynn Walters, PhD-Shyam-Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM-Andrea Seidel, PhD-Shyam center

Figure 39: Shyam-David Canzone, DOM; Shyam-Sandra Phelps Canzone, DOM; Shyam-Peer Hofstra; Shyam after consecration of Vishnu Murti

Figure 40: Swami Chidananda-Catherine Valentine-Shyam; Shyam-Swami Chidananda; Shyam

Figure 41: Shyam-Zuleikha; Father John (Bob Adair Sr.-Shyam; Shyam; Shyam-Larry Dossey, MD

Figure 42: Murray Mantell, PhD-Shyam; Shyam

Figure 43: All Shyam

Figure 44: Shyam

Figure 45: Others-Shyam-Swami Chidananda; Shyam

Figure 46: Komal Chenevert-Kashi Rai, MD-Shyam-Gurbachan Rai, PhD; Keegan Brown-Shyam-Komal Brown; Shyam in India with his cows

Figure 47: Celeste Miller (front)-Patricia Brown, PhD (Gayatri)-Shyam-Bernadine Greer; Shyam; Ginger the first-Shyam’s feet

Figure 48: All Shyam

Figure 49: All Shyam

Figure 50: Shyam

Shyam is Shyam. God is God.

The twains always meet.

This is the era of emancipation from all the shortcomings.

SHRIKRISHNA KASHYAP (DR. SHYAM)

Figure 1

It is incorrect to say, I made a choice. That is a corruption of happiness. Love is not a choice. Love is not superficial. To go above ignorance is not making a choice. Perfect happiness is the absence of happiness. It is flowing life.

Loving Memorials from Friends

(In order received)

Since 1973, dear master Shyam has been guiding my life from Rishikesh, Bombay, and Lonavla, Brazil and at distance, from Santa Fe, forty-two years on the physical plane and now from wherever he dwells. Wisdom, humility, compassion, patience, love, nobility, and brotherhood were the best spirituality enhancing lessons given by him. I wish to be worthy of my Divine master’s precious teachings.

Premdas - Jak Pilozof; Nucleo de Yoga Center, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Bodies die, but genuine wisdom doesn’t. Dr. Shyam made the world a better place, and his wisdom continues to do so.

Larry Dossey, MD; Author: ONE MIND: How Our Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters; and many more

The one thing I recall he said to us and also to the group had to do with reading books and not living what we learned. Don recalled his time as an adjunct at OSU in 2002-2003; he would stop by and visit with Shyam on his way back home from class. On one of these occasions Don remarked on how many books he had read over the years and yet not really gleaned as much as he felt he should have. Paraphrasing at this point, Shyam replied, Perhaps you should put the books down and live your life. This is just one of the many pearls Shyam gifted us with over the many years we were privileged to know him… the words of a truly wise and spiritual man. Peace and blessings,

Don and De Crow; Stillwater, Oklahoma

Shyam entered my life

When I thought it would not mend,

He was my brother, my father,

My teacher, my friend.

Tasha Mansfield, PhD; Psychologist, Miami, Florida

Dr. Shyam will always remain close to our hearts. Just about ten years ago, he conducted our marriage and we had the good fortune of sitting in some of his discourses shortly thereafter. His wisdom and compassion is unparalleled. He is a beacon of light that will never diminish.

Erika and Niranjan Seshadri, MD; Sarasota, Florida

Is it not he who is a True Friend the one who shares the path to freedom selflessly with another a Real Friend? So for me, I say Shyam is a True Friend in all ways to all those paths he had crossed, including mine.

Richard Young; Albuquerque, New Mexico

Dear Friends of Shyam of many years standing, Shyam and I discussed the problems of the world, and I was so pleased to be his friend. The world needs to remember the many ways that Shyam helped others, and I hope that someone in the future will follow in his footsteps.

Murray I. Mantell, PhD, Professor Emeritus; Department of Civil Engineering, University of Miami, Miami, Florida

I only had the pleasure of staying with Dr. Shyam one night years ago, but his joyful, simple presence still resonates today as a model of being.

Susanne Cook-Greuter, PhD; www.verticaldevelopment.com

Shyam moved through my memories in a perfectly natural and respectful way. He understood without me having to say anything. He explained without me asking. He brought joy to my heart. He made Ursula laugh. We love him.

Dorothea Smith

He was like a grandfather who could always read my mind.

Ursula Smith

There’s nothing holy about holistic medicine if you don’t get a traditional education! And with those words, Shyam refused to let me into teachings at his house until I had registered at the College of Santa Fe. I owe all of my graduate education to his encouragement. He taught us, fussed at us, supported us, and loved us unconditionally. We are all so blessed to have known him.

Sandra Pope, MPH, PhD

The Light and Love of God lived within his heart. That Light and that Love poured forth to all he met. We are blessed to have known him and have been in his presence.

Susan and Elliott McDowell: www.elliottmcdowell.com

I first knew Dr. Shyam as a healing practitioner both for myself and my daughter. But he gave us much more than his work on our bodies; he also touched our hearts and soul. I have been privileged to hear him teach and to sing with his devotees. I am grateful in the many ways he has touched my life.

Kathleen Magee; Santa Fe, New Mexico

He was a patient weaver of truth in the fire of illumination. He had a total intensity and love for us, in his wanting us to grow and evolve. He said, We have a spiritual immune system, but we don’t know how to use it. There are so many deep and wonderful things Shyam woke up or sparked inside like his statements: Where there is gratitude, there is no room for depression, is so powerful. He said, Choose life in whatever you do. You cannot escape yourself.

Sandra Canzone, DOM; Santa Fe, New Mexico; www.drscanzone.com

It is hard to put into a few sentences a short tribute to my beloved mentor, friend, Ayurvedic physician, and spiritual teacher. The love that I feel for Dr. Shyam transcends any kind of worldly love and my gratitude to him feels boundless. For over 25 years, Shyam provided me with wise counsel, ministered to my body and psyche, and filled my soul with wisdom and faith. His love and guidance will forever be with me in my heart.

Andrea Mantell Seidel, PhD; Professor Emeritus, Dance; Associate Professor, Religious Studies; Florida International University; www.spiritdanceart.org

Shyam’s radiant being lit up our lives. Through his boundless generosity, wit, and wisdom, Shyam pushed each of us