Why I didn’t become an archaeologist.
In 1990 and 1991, I briefly studied archaeology and history at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. For some strange reasons, however, it did not make me feel internally fulfilled at all, even though I attended all the lectures. After the Velvet Revolution, there were no archaeology and anthropology textbooks available for my self-education. I was not able to write down notes during the archaeology lectures quickly at all, because I do not know how to write in shorthand. For these reasons, I interrupted my exhausting university studies after half a year, as my amateur speleological and archaeological explorations of the crypts in the underground of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Křtiny, which were extremely successful, culminated. Therefore, after a long and deep reflection, I really preferred to do field research in the underground of the church in Křtiny rather than just sitting at a school desk in a room illuminated by the dim light of fluorescent lamps while listening to the rapidly droning voice of Professor Podborský and his colleagues. Eventually, I gave myself completely to my research into the historical underground in Křtiny, and I neglected my studies at Masaryk University for these reasons until I left completely… I kept dreaming that instead of going to school, I would live as a hermit in the Moravian Karst, which I finally managed to realize when I built a small cabin with a group of my friends at Skalka in the southern part of the Moravian Karst, where I spent two long years in solitude in full harmony, free even from secular employment, in 1993–1995. Later on, however, I sincerely regretted that I had somehow not completed my archaeology studies, but it was not really possible in my karmic situation. But even in this freedom to leave university, I now see the mysterious action of God’s special grace, which today only “I” myself can understand correctly. Really, where would I end up if instead of following God’s Call, I devoted myself to tedious and mostly atheistic materialistic archaeology??? As I now know, absolutely everything is essentially mystical and God-managed in some way, but you have to listen to the narrative of your inner consciousness, for example, using mountain meditation, and keep pursuing this inner guidance no matter what happens to you, as I do to this day. All my life, I have been drawn to the mountains, forests, caves and hermitages. I believe that if I had successfully completed my archaeology studies at Masaryk University then, I probably would not have donned my orange gown of a Hindu swami and never fulfilled the most secret wish of my spiritual Heart. I would still be just an average, and probably even above average, secular professional archaeologist, holed up in some archaeological or museum depository, instead of following God’s Call, devoting myself to my spiritual sadhana and belonging only to God and the Spiritual Journey, as I have fortunately been doing all my life.
© Swami Gyaneshwarpuri
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SWAMI GYANESHWARPURI POUSTEVNÍK
