Akashic Records, Bloodlines, Family Karma & Evolution

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I remember watching an episode of the Why Files, where time was explained as follows...

Time is like a river, though we are going down the river in a linear motion- the river ahead and the river behind still exist. While our typical 3D experience means we must flow steadily down the river, uncertain of what is ahead and unable to go back, it doesn't mean the river isn't already there- isn't alive.

I remember Steve recently mentioning his fascination with cyclical progress...

I had a thought today about the particular families we're born into. You may not agree. This is just speculation for the spiritual portal. I think we are born into particular bloodlines with an opportunity to heal something greater than ourselves.

I believe God is One and ALL. I also believe there is a genetic history and spiritual history to two families that come together and create offspring. I think maybe we chose a particular family dynamic prior to incarnation... That there would be something for us to learn, and simultaneously, something for us to heal. Our siblings and parents, our grandparents- we may not be at all the same... But that each unique personality is here to learn something most suited to their individual temperament-

Sometimes I see multiple faces as belonging to one higher entity. It's a common concept in fantasy films. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull- multiple ET beings form One at the end of the movie. The Dark Crystal- the Skesis and the Mystics are two polar opposites but are united together in the end in their true One form. And I think on the other side of the veil, we have a higher self that encompasses our family.

Really we are One family. Blood related or not. But I am speaking now of just one particular perspective- more of a microcosm. Yes, we have a spiritual family and it is not bound by family genetics. But I do think there is a shared Being with our immediate blood family. A karma that would mean an opportunity to evolve a greater Being that is fragmented down here, bound to the 3D time/space experience.


I think there are a few of us who are made aware of possibilities like this, and it helps us practice compassion and tolerance in the trying times family often bring.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

This also works with spiritual/biological families…for instance;  Daya Mata was president of SRF and her mother and sister were also some first American devotees.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Earlier Incarnations

Yogananda told Daya Mata (who shared the story with Swami Kriyananda) that when he was incarnated as William the Conqueror, she was one of his daughters, Agatha. Daya Mata said: “William sent me to Spain to be the wife of the heir to the king of that country. But I had a deep desire to dedicate my life to God, and prayed to be spared the destiny my father wanted for me. When the ship arrived in port, I was found kneeling by my bed in an attitude of prayer, dead.” As a consequence, she said, “in this life, I have had trouble with my knees.”�

“Agatha of Normandy (c.1064-1080): “The same source notes that Agatha was promised in marriage to Alfonso VI, king of Galicia and Leon, but she passed away while on her way to meet her prospective husband, and was buried in the Cathedral of Bayeux. The cause of her death is not clear, but some writers claim she may have resisted the match and died of a broken heart.” She was only 16.

A more recent incarnation must have been in India, as a renunciant. SRF writes: “At the age of eight, when she first learned about India in school, she felt a mysterious inner awakening. That day, when school was over, she ran home and exclaimed jubilantly to her mother, “When I grow up I will never marry; I will go to India.'” Later on she read the Bhagavad Gita which moved her deeply. It certainly stirred up her soul-memories.

https://yoganandaharmony.com/daya-mata

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Her mother Rachel Leah Terry (Jun 15, 1887-Aug. 16, 1972) herself became an SRF nun, called Shyama Mata.

Daya Mata’s father, Clarence Aaron Wright (Aug. 21, 1886-Dec. 07, 1967) was a bookkeeper (Daya Mata had administrative skills in her genes!). He was drafted for WWI, when Daya Mata was just a little girl. He lived in Salt Lake City at least until 1930. Later in life his residence was in Los Angeles, at 91343 North Hills, 25 miles from Mt. Washington. He died there, aged 81, and was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park at Glendale, close to Daya Mata and the rest of the family. It seems that at some point he came to live close to them. It could also be that SRF (or his wife, Shyama Mata) took care of “father Wright”, as virtually his entire family had left him to follow Yogananda.

Daya Mata’s older brother Clarence Richard Wright (Dec. 09, 1911- Jan 09, 2002) became famous among Yogananda’s devotees for being described in the Autobiography of a Yogi as Yogananda’s secretary, whose travel diary was in part included in the celebrated book. He joined Yogananda in late 1932 and left in Jan. 1941 (See his story).

Her younger sister Virginia Lucy Wright (Oct. 07, 1915 – Feb. 05, 2005), later called Ananda Mata, or “Mataji”, also became a well-known and prominent nun of the SRF order. She joined Mt. Washington in 1933, two years after Daya Mata. Possibly she waited until she had reached adulthood, because Yogananda might have accepted only adult disciples, for legal reasons. In California, majority was 18 at that time. At any rate, Roy Eugene Davis tells how he, aged 18, met the Master: “His first question to me was, “How old are you?’ And the second was, “Do your parents know you are here?'” (Mrinalini Mata came as a minor, but was with her mother.) That too would indicate that Daya Mata was born in 1913, making her 18 in 1931. However, we stick with her own words: “I was a young girl of 17…”�

Whatever the case, they had a latecomer little brother, Samuel Dale Wright (Apr. 30, 1924-Jan. 13, 1987). He was ten years younger than Daya Mata and came to live at Mt. Washington too, aged eleven, when