Eat, Pray, Love - Pushya's Wisdom on How to Find Happiness
Eat, Pray, Love is a film adaptation of a classic early 21st century memoir. The message of both the book and the novel is very strong in Pushya themes, written by a Pushya Sun author and portrayed by a Pushya Lagna actress.
To understand the brilliant simplicity of Pushya, it is valuable to note that both the Cancer sign and Pushya as a Nakshatra are the exaltation point for Jupiter, being the abode for his deity, Brihaspati. Ironically enough, Pushya is also the birth Nakshatra for Venus, despite the planets being enemies.
The reason for this irony is the fact that everything in this Universe comes from God. The Universe, The Cosmos, The Greatest Spiritual Force may have abstract, high-minded origins, but if God created everything, God also created our physical bodies and the possibility of comfort and healing through life on Earth. Thus, the Guru in Pushya through Brihaspati possesses the wisdom of both the Devas (Jupiter) and the Asuras (Venus).
Eat, Pray, Love is indeed a spiritual manual on how to find happiness as a human being in a transcendental way in a hectic, modern society that teaches people to be self abnegating and overachieving, chasing instant gratification and the drug of quick sex and compulsive romance. There is a contrast that can be observed in Pushya that while the height of Venus requires the peak of control and refinement in Pisces, the joie de vivre of Jupiter is found in simplicity.
True happiness doesn't require us to make six figures or own a 3000 square foot mansion. Pushya points at the fact that happiness is found on the inside, in the stability of mind.
Eat is a metaphor, although it also goes in line with Pushya's association with nourishment. The point of "Eat" is really about being able to ground and appreciate your physical body and the process of caring for it while shedding inhibitions and complexes that society tries to put on us. As physical beings in a human incarnation, we are part of nature and connect to it through the materials we consume in various forms. Since modern times are rife with distractions, we consume various energies with no real presence or awareness. Having a microwaved dinner while watching TV and scrolling your phone at the same time is not nourishment. Simple actions of socializing and sharing a meal with people are fundamentally healing and a key to eliminating anxiety and achieving daily ritual physical happiness.
While Pray refers, of course, to traditional prayer and touches on visiting spiritual places in India and quieting your mind in a religious setting, its message is really discipline. Our modern world is rife with distractions, scrolling social media with no purpose every 5 seconds, always having something playing in the background. Quiet rhythm and discipline are necessary to cut out excess noise and purify our energetic bodies, and stop them from rushing. Pray also exemplifies Pushya's Saturn rulership, showing that service and trimming off any excess are a polarity of really enjoying abundance, because if we have too much nothing is really worth anything.
Being able to stop operating on all cylinders all the time allows for certain necessities, like better sleep or connecting with nature through surrender and the grounded pace of simple physical tasks like cleaning.
Despite its romantic setting, Love has a much more far-reaching message that we should find a spark, passion, devotion, and excitement in everything we do and everyone we spend time with.
While the first two parts focused on achieving balance, the last part shows that we shouldn't hold onto our imagined rules too rigidly, and spontaneity in the face of something truly precious to your heart is also wisdom. Love really puts emphasis on flexibility being an indispensable part of human happiness since you need to preserve your ability to receive God's gifts freely and spontaneously, even if they come in a form you didn't expect.
While all of these steps may sound simple and obvious on the surface, thinking of how many people in our modern world don't know how to live by them. How many people seek therapists, lose themselves in excessive medicating, or various other addictions. Pushya's simple remedies for happiness have been largely lost and aren't praised in Western society anymore. Yet, films like Eat, Pray, Love are still being made, so clearly, there is hope for us after all.
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