Semarang – Located at Mrs. Erina’s house, BPD Resident Singa Utara street no.6, Semarang AKIC (Anand Krishna Information Center) held book discussion of “Life Workbook – step in enlightenment, problem in journey, and how to solve it” by Anand Krishna. On this week, Semarang AKIC discussed the 2nd chapter from the book titled “Keep Your Sociality” moderator by Erwin Thomas.
The meeting started at 07.00 pm by Self Empowerment with Love (SeLo) exercise from the book. After doing the exercise, discussion of the 2nd chapter presented by Prayit Dharmono, talk about how the sociality can influence the awareness of someone, and for step in enlightenment we need the support group that have 4 requirement to be fulfilled, which are : 1). Support our self development; 2). Doesn’t make us to be a selfish person; 3). Show our mistakes; 4). Help us so we can improve our self.
Prayit was also presenting that, when we’re doing something good to environment, we often feel that we’ve done something good, and because of we felt that, it makes our ego shown up, whereas those something good are actually the debt that must to be paid. Five kinds of debt, or usually called Rina, divided in this book, which are : 1). Deva Rina, a debt to God. God refers to glory, awareness, enlightenment, because the word “god” it self, came from “divya”, means “the glory one,the light one, and comes from the light”; 2). Pitra Rina, debt to ancestor, or it’s more correct to family; 3). Rishi Rina, debt to the wise, or the wisdom it self; 4). Nara Rina, debt to humankind; 5). Butha Rina, debt to environment.
The meeting was also attended by Adrian Kristanto, an AKIC member from Solo. Adrian added, as Guruji Anand Krishna said that, how we eat can also influence our awareness, when we eat together in one plate with someone whose awareness is different to ours, so it makes our awareness can be influenced. Eating or sleeping with pets isn’t a good thing too. Finally, the Study Circle closed by sitting silently. And after that, we’re informed for next meeting, discuss the next chapter. And so we shared from Semarang AKIC. Thank You for blessing and guidance from Guruji Anand Krishna. With love…
Reported by : Danar Wijayanto and Translated by : Novi Pravitasari
