People often ask me why did I focus on becoming a Rajyogi rather than focusing more on my medical profession? Well, Idid not study to become a doctor to make money. I am coming from a relatively privileged background. So the urge to make money was never there. Then why did I study medicine? I thought my life should be useful. And when I looked at the society I could see that humanity was suffering. Lot of illnesses and suffering everywhere. So I thought being a medical doctor would be a very useful way to spend my life. But early into the medical studies I realised that most of the human suffering was not physical, it was mental. And I soon realised that medicine and the medical world was in fact a bit limited. Though I was fascinated to learn the developments in medicine, I understood that modern medicine is a very limited way when you approach true well being.

That is when I came across Rajyoga and the Brahma Kumaris. And when I learned about the ‘being’ apart from the humus, a whole new world opened up in front of me, where I got answers for all the questions left unanswered by modern medicine. And I realised that this world that is invisible and beyond, this is real knowledge and this is what I wanted to know always.

When I say humus and being, human or humus is the bodily part that we have identified with, from where we interact with the society. But there is a being that operates this body that can transcend the limitations of the body and the limitations of the human personality. One of the things that I grasped deeply overtime and began experiencing is that Rona is the physical human personality. Rona was born in a certain place, Rona grew up with certain characteristics in a certain culture, I was given this name Rona for the purpose of identifying and ease of interaction, the body grows and there will come a moment in time when Rona will be finished. Then all the achievements of Rona in the physical level will be finished. All physical relationships will be finished. But the being that actually experienced all these transcends that experience. The being was there before Rona was born. Before Rona took shape in the womb. That invicible experiecer – the being, the soul – will continue even after Rona is finished. In another body, as Michael or Johnny. So that’s the human part. Een before becoming Rona hat being could be any Tom Dick or Harry.

And this realisation of me as an imperishable being has helped me immensely. One of the things in the word that I always struggled with was inequality. Men women, rich poor, Black white – all of that. Though I was born in a relatively privileged context, I was aware that there are many who are not hat privileged. I always asked ‘how’ and ‘why’. But when I came across the knowledge of the being – the invisible experience – the soul, and the humus – human part , I began to realise that the soul doesn’t have a gender. So it doesn’t have a skin colour. Soul has a whole different world which is beyond. So soul is not bound to the rich/poor contrast of this world. That maid me so free internally and I understood that there is a truth and a justice which transcends lifetimes and human dynamics. And that gave me immense peace.  Once these basic principles of the being sync into your understanding, people will not have to live a frustrated life and die a stressful death. The limited perspective about life sometimes makes us feel that we are failures. I was born a nothing and I will die a nothing. This is where a feeling of hopelessness creeps in and life become miserable. On the contrary the spiritual perspective tells you that you are an imperishable GOD like being of Light. You have everything as a being, this human experience is just a bonus. And after playing the human experience you will again be that GOD like being of light.  This is very liberating and it’s this knowledge of the soul that makes life worth living.

Dr. Rona Scweitz 
Centre Coordinator, 
Manhattan USA