Happy Blog

This happened just before Christmas 2012. One day, in my Facebook page, I found a message from a guy who was asking for permission to visit me and talk to me. He wrote that he just read one of my articles and was deeply touched: unknown feeling arose from within. And this uplifting feeling is still alive. He referred to my earlier publication about Kriya Yoga as a life style choice, where I put the accent on Love as the most important part and driving force for success, and added few examples from my own life. I gave him my address and a few days later he arrived at my place.

We sat down at the table and he started with his life story. He said that he got initiation to Kriya Yoga 15 years ago ( he was my age – 55 ) and practiced for a while, then stopped and started again later. But he had no sensible progress or improvements in his life. And when he read my article, he instantly realized the truth about love – his heart suddenly opened and he got thrilled with joy. We talked a little more about his life and his beliefs and he shared that God is something beyond his mind, his thoughts and imaginations, something beyond real life. Then I told him about my life and how I started feeling God’s presence and his guidance and some stories from my life. Suddenly I said something, that I believe in with all my being. I stated before him “Everybody can experience God’s presence if he sincerely wants so.”. I have not finished speaking yet when all around turned into bright light, as if sun came down into the room. We remained silent for a while to enjoy God’s blessing. I did not ask my guest, after that, what he felt because every person’s perception is individual, but he confessed that he never experienced something similar in his entire life.

One more proof about God’s omnipresence and that he is constantly watching and listening to all of us. I am sure such happenings have greater impact on people’s lives than all books on this planet.

If something happens for sure in our lives, that is to “die”. This makes death one of the most important topics people need to know about, yet one of the most avoided by all. Lack of true knowledge about death leads to wrong attitude and behavior and has great impact on our spiritual development. Knowing about death and life beyond death, however, will certainly help to set priorities in our lives. As caregiver and nursing assistant I have been many times with dying people, but here is my experience with member of my family.

In the summer of 2005 our younger daughter “died” from leukemia: peacefully, without pain, without pain killers and complications. Last was result of the true spiritual techniques God Yoga and Kriya Yoga, that she practiced and which helped her to open for God and his love and be prepared to spiritually progress after dropping her body. Later, when I had already known that she reached her final destination in God, I have had multiple contacts with her: experiences filled with love. She has been coming to me to just love me and help me to dissolve any bad memories from the past. At that time, as part of my job, I was meeting many people and some were asking me about my family situation: “am I married?”; “how many children?”; and all sort of similar questions. And my answer always was: “I have two daughters – one in Florida and one in Heaven”. With no exception, people’s reaction was: “I am sorry”. And I always tried to turn their attention to the fact that my daughter is in Heaven and there is no single reason to be sorry. Contrary, it is a reason to be happy.

Many people believe in God or Jesus, talk about God, pray to God and hope one day to reach God, although we can not see Him and most do not even feel His presence. Common sense, or simple logic, is that God’s world of Love is beyond this planet and beyond physical existence. Then, how in the heaven do people expect to move toward God without dropping their bodies first and passing the door of death? And why is there sorrow for someone who has already done it? The opposite: there is but happiness. Most of the time when I type die, I put it in quotes since in reality no one actually dies. The relation between physical body and human being is similar to the relation between car and driver. Car becomes alive only when the driver gets in. And no one mourns and makes expensive funerals when the car is dead.

Most people’s reactions on death show how far from true spirituality mankind still is. Following wrong teachings and dead books creates also wrong attitude toward death. As a result we are not prepared to enjoy one of the most loving experiences, which death is, and progress further spiritually. True spiritual practice, such as Kriya Yoga, will help to dissolve our blockages and dispel wrong knowledge until our perception get raised beyond physical sphere. Once we start feeling God’s presence in our lives all beliefs disappear, replaced by distinct experiences. Then we may find out that happiness and death are in direct relationship.

Recently I have upgraded openSuSE 11.3 on Acer Aspire One netbook to the latest version 12.1. Before that, I had already performed 3 times clean install on other laptops and every time the system worked perfectly out of the box.

This time I decided to do upgrade using “zypper dup” and followed all the suggestions to prepare the system for System Upgrade

To be safe I used the option –download “in-advance” in case something goes wrong and the upgrade is interrupted. And the whole command is:

# zypper dup –download “in-advance”

After all the packages were downloaded and installed , the system was restarted and it ended up in emergency mode.

Welcome to emergency mode. Use “systemctl default” or ^D to activate default mode.
Give root password for login:

There was another line on top of the screen

failed to execute: `/etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-sysctl` `/etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-sysctl lo -o hotplug`: No such file or directory

but I was sure that the problem is somewhere else, because it performed “fsck” on all partitions and maybe did not like something in /etc/fstab.

Anyway, I searched Google and found that system manager has been changed and now the system boots with systemd instead of previously used sysvinit.

So, I typed my root password and logged in the system and could even start KDE
with “startx”

Then I installed previous system manager package sysvinit-init and uninstalled systemd-sysvinit package

Rebooted and everything went fine.

There is another way to ignore systemd: at boot press F5 and choose system v from the drop-down menu.

But since systemd is going to be the default “init” in the future, it is better to read more about it at openSuSE-Systemd. I also did so and re-installed it again. The boot problem that I had was caused by my Windows partition, which I set to “noauto” ( this means the partition is not mounted during boot ) in /etc/fstab and the system boots normally now.

Enjoy one of the most powerful Linux distributions.