I have been very spiritual all of my life. I was born and raised Catholic, but at a very early age, I believed that there is only one God. He reveals Himself in different forms, in nature, through our reasoning, and through Divine incarnations so that everyone in the world would have access to Him.

My grandmother taught me how to read by age four, so I started reading all the different religious texts and arrived at that conclusion early on in my life. Having been born on an island in the middle of the Caribbean, I have been very influenced by Western philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Kant, Nietzsche, and many more. You could say I satisfied my thirst for knowledge. I also took an interest in Eastern philosophies as, being an avid seeker of truth, I fell in love with Khalil Gibran, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Buddha.

Through my mother, I developed a passion for astrology, gemstones, numerology, tarot, and yoga. I played with my decks, and my mom bought me crystals and all the Western astrology books which I studied and practiced at home. I learned to meditate before graduating high school and then left to study abroad, where I continued meditating on my own.

After I graduated and came home, life got pretty serious very fast. My father died of lung cancer, and some of his brothers and sisters embarked on a legal battle against me. My mother had bariatric surgery, which drastically changed her life. It was then that I took an interest in the Bhagavad Gita. Because I love reading books in their original language, I decided on Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita As It Is, which was my first encounter with Krishna and Sanskrit. I was fascinated with how similar Arjuna’s story was to what I was living at that time, and it changed my life.

I had my spiritual awakening during the most challenging time of my life. My mother had fallen into a coma with an extremely rare disease, and while I was doing my best to care for her, I felt inside me the calling to serve the Lord. It was a very beautiful moment, like Virgin Mary’s Magnificat. Of course, I accepted.

I started getting intuitive downloads on what books to buy on Vedic Astrology. I immediately began buying books and watching youtube vedic astrologers and tarot readers.

A month after my mother passed away, I decided to take the 200-hour yoga teacher training and become a yoga teacher to help me through my grief. On January 2020, I started PJC Somnath with my mentor Kaartik Gor, Nitin Bhanap, and our Gurudev Pandit Sanjay Rath. All throughout the pandemic and the quarantine, I became a 500-hour yoga teacher and a Jyotisha!

Yoga means union with the Divine, a scientific method and philosophy of life that offers the yogi skillfulness in action with abhyasa (fervor) and vairagya (detachment). I practice and teach through my ancient living tradition of over 5000 years, Sri Vidya, from the Himalayan Insitute in Pennsylvania.

Jyotish comes from “jyoti,” which means light, and “isha,” which is God. Jyotisha means the science of the light of God. It is Vedanga, one of the limbs of the Vedas. What do we see through the eyes of God? Trikālajña, the past, the present, and the future in your birth chart, which is inside you. You create your destiny with your actions, and it is played out throughout your lifetimes.

As Jyotishas, it is our duty to help souls navigate their lives. We provide remedies to lessen the harsh consequences and guide them through better life choices that will ultimately lead them to the light of liberation and out of darkness and suffering.

We serve as guides. Ultimately, use your discernment when considering life choices.

“One of the Vedas’ limbs, The Eyes of the Vedas, is Jyotisha.

What we call astrology.” ~Mundaka Upanishad, Chapter 1.1.

“The light of the body is the eye: If therefore, thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” ~Matthew 6: 22 -23

असतो मा सद्गमय ।

तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।

मृत्योर्माऽमृतं गमय ॥

asato mā sadgamaya,

tamaso mā jyotirgamaya,

mṛtyormā’mṛtaṃ gamaya.

Lead me from the unreal to the real,

Lead me from darkness to light,

Lead me from mortality to immortality.