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Imagine inheriting $10 million in debt when you are 18 years old. What would you do?

In February 2012,, I traveled to a city called Trivandrum in the southern state of Kerala (India).  There, I met a soul friend in Rajmohan Pillai – the son of a cashew baron.  But he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth – I was amazed to learn that he had inherited $10 million in debt at the ripe young age of 18!

Rajmohan graciously agreed to talk about his spiritual journey for an episode of Evolution of Passion. Check out the interview for more than the words – witness the calm matter-of-fact energy with which one can calmly accept and slowly tackle a seemingly impossible task!

This interview is not a lesson in finance or debt consolidation, it is a chance to observe the spiritual attitude that is needed to get through a long-term obstacle or commitment.   Rajmohan’s persistence is admirable in its longevity and his equanimity is inspiring in its authenticity.  Instead of complaining or feeling sorry for himself, he focused on the commitment and made the best of his situation.  And the ultimate feat -  he came out of this long journey more financially stable and fulfilled than many who never started off with such a debt!  (Continue reading below the video to see some interesting facts about his life)

12 facts about Rajmohan:
1. When he took over the company at age 18, he also inherited 175 legal cases, 50 of which were critical (meaning that any one could topple the company).
2. His father told him not to take on the debt yet his mother wanted to preserve the family honor. Rajmohan chose to protect the family name and took on the debt.
3. He was fully committed to the repayment of debt even though he didn’t know how it would happen.
4. Despite initial skepticism, he built people’s trust in his vision and in the growth of the company (creditors, buyers, sllers, employees, etc)
5. Growing the company’s success was his key strategy to repay the debt.
6. At age 44, he completed the payment of the debt and interest.
7. He is now running a 2.5 billon dollar company which employs approx 25,000 employees.
8. He has capped his own salary at 7 times the lowest salary in the company.
9. He considers himself simply a trustee of the wealth for all the employees.
10. One in every 3 cashews eaten world-wide comes from his family’s cashew business.
11.  He has written 3 books – including one about his brother’s tragic rise and fall.
12.  He usually gets up around 3:30am to start his day with a puja (Hindu ceremony) and some tennis (one of his greatest passions).

Spiritual advice from Rajmohan’s life experience:
1.  Do your work without expectation of results.
2. Play your part in the world as best as you can – be fully committed to your life path (to your dharma).
3. Understand that everyone has similar levels of trial and tribulation regardless of their chosen work or life.

This lullaby was taught to me by my friend Vasudevan in Koottala, Kerala in India.   It is in the Malayalam dialect, the main language of Kerala.

If you have a lullaby to share, I invite you to connect with me and take part in this project, please visit this page for more info…

It is my hope that the Sacred Kiss Meditation can be translated into many languages so that it can be shared with more people in the world…

This first translation (into Malayalam) was generously done by my friend Vasudevan!
(For more info about this project, click here)

Since childhood, I’ve loved languages. I fantasized about being fluent in at least 7 or 8 and the notion of being able to converse in every language was the ultimate dream. So far, I have learned to speak English, French and Cantonese (along with studies in German, Spanish and Indonesian) but I see that I won’t have time to study all existing languages.

Thus in 2008, I had the idea of learning a lullaby, nursery song or a simple ballad in each language that I would come across in this lifetime. It would be a way for me to express my love for all tribes and the unique consciousness each one offers. That year, I recorded my masseuse in Thailand singing a Thai lullaby and my language tutor in Bali singing an Indonesian nursery rhyme.

With this humble long-term project, I have 3 main intentions:

1)  To taste a bit of the diverse lingual beauty that exists in the world, enjoying the different sounds rolling off the tongue.

2) To glimpse into the heart of far-off peoples and lands through the songs of childhood or songs of love that are present in every culture.

3) To create a teaching archive of these songs so that more people can learn to sing them as gestures of Peace and Friendship.

If you wish to share a lullaby or a sweet song that you know accurately in another language, please email me the following items: 

1)  A video file (with clear audio) of the song as sung by YOU (not others)
a)  Frame the shot in medium closeup (Head + shoulders + part of chest).
b)  This is a folk project so you don’t need to worry about “being” a performer.  Just sing lovingly for a child to fall asleep…
c)  Choose a song that is less than 3 minutes (shorten it by a few stanzas if needed).
d)  Upload your video onto a video hosting site like youtube.com or vimeo.com and send me the link.

2)  The full text of the song in English or French phonetic sounds
a) Give your best description or interpretation of the sounds using English or French spellings.  e.g.  Kizhi in Malayalam is spoken like “Kirree” in English phonetics.
b) Identify the name of the actual language.

3)  If possible, also send the full text of the song in its original language.
a) Send as a PDF file if the characters cannot be displayed correctly otherwise

Fun Extras (not required):
1)  A short statement about the history or origin of this song.
2) Some links to the song on youtube (done by others) as additional reference.

Note:  My email address for this project is:  Evolution@littlewoo.org

As I thought about the popular notion of having a “soul family”, a larger hypothesis about the human condition started to form playfully in my mind.  Maybe it’s old news to sages across the ages or maybe it’s clever gibberish from my active imagination.  Either way, it is a ‘quick and dirty’ compendium of my perspective of energy dynamics. Some of this perspective was formed by my studies of the Laws of Manifestation while the rest was shaped by intuition and contemplation.

In this hypothesis, I envision our energetic realm being organized in what we would call “soul families, soul communities and soul nations” – somewhat like our physical realm except they are not grouped by blood, geography or country. Instead, they are aligned by vibrational essence.  In other words, diverse soul frequencies are grouped together through resonance or what I will call the “Resonance Factor”.  For example, a specific generation (born in the same era) is here to examine a set of high level themes and teachings together.  Thus an entire generation of humans is likely from the same “etheric nation” – having many commonalities despite obvious differences on an individual level.  At the same time, the Resonance Factor further organizes our energies into “soul communities” which may manifest as geographical communities, races or cultures.  This kind of vibrational sorting would continue down to the microcosmic level of “soul families” – the specific people we will actually engage with during our lifetime. Read more

The Amnesia of Time-Space

For some people, the idea of having a past life is absolute nonsense and for others, it is a meaningful fact.   For me, it is a yet another divine paradox because while I do feel the passage of linear time, it also feels like all reality is happening in the Now.  Parallel universes can often be glimpsed when we inhabit particular states of consciousness.  Yet if it’s all happening Now and not Later or Before, then what is actually happening when we recall a Past Life?  Is it a nugget we’ve somehow sifted from the sands of eternity yet it does not belong to us?  Or is it truly a journey that our soul has taken eons ago and when the veil is thin, we can remember the good old days?

Theories abound about why most people have an earthly “amnesia” – where they cannot recall other “lifetimes” nor their multidimensional beingness.  But why do we forget who we are, much less who we might have been?   Explanations range from the existence of Maya (the veil of illusion) to quantum theories about the nature of reality.  Not studied in esoteric theory nor in quantum physics, I cannot debate on those terms.  However, I can share my intuitive perspective of why we lose many of our memories and levels of consciousness: Read more

“The Man in the Mirror”

Beyond the realm of theory, there is the realm of feeling and memory.  Whether we understand it or not, some of us have intuited some “alternate biographies” or “past lives”.  It fascinates me to hear other people’s past life memories because there is meaning in the recollection.  Even if our interpretation is inaccurate and it is not actually a past life, feeling a visceral connection to a particular story can reveal a truth about our current existence.  Of all the possible stories that exist in the collective consciousness, certain ones have grabbed us by the collar and demanded our attention.

In my case, I had past life memories surface through a variety of experiences.  My earliest one was a strange recurring nightmare in my childhood.  I was a man and I was being hunted by the military because I had been falsely accused of treason and murder.  In terror, I was running for my life and every time, I ended up hiding in the bedroom of a small house.  The armed soldiers would surround the house and the dream would end when they broke down the door to shoot me on sight. Read more

“Love You Long Time”

Another phenomenon that goes along with recalling past lives is the recognition of past life friends and family.  There are people we meet who strike us as oddly familiar and it’s not because they are just ‘similar’ to someone we know, it’s a very peculiar feeling of having known them intimately in another time, another place.  It’s different than simply having great chemistry or kinship.  In fact, it can even be someone that you don’t get along with.  In either case, you sense that you have interacted with this person in another form, another guise.  The fact that they have incarnated into a different body doesn’t fool you for long – you know their vibrational essence.

It’s a surreal moment because there is no evidence of your former ties – yet you cannot shake this feeling which is almost always reciprocated.  Neither of you may even believe in past lives but when this sensation happens, you start to think twice.  Interestingly enough, this recognition doesn’t guarantee that you will automatically be part of each other’s current lives.  Even though you may have spent a lifetime together before, this time it may only be a fleeting encounter.  If your destinies do weave together again, you will both hopefully cherish the incredible gift of this ‘second chance’. Read more