I’m asked frequently what is a Bodhisattva. Here’s why Bodhisattva, works for me. 

The Story Begins

A long time ago, before we were all together, I lived at the Potala Palace in Tibet — where I was a Lama Rinpoche. In that life, I was instructed to go into the world and teach instead of spending the majority of my time in solitude and meditation.

Fast-forward to this life, in my early twenties, I lived in Manhattan, and I was very drawn to Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism, even though I was raised Catholic. In New York City, many Lamas came to town and I would sit in meditation with them and attend their lectures. I had a deep knowing and desire to silence my mind and experience enlightenment even at a young age.

At one event, at Lincoln Center in New York City, the presiding Rinpoche, whose name I don’t remember, pointed directly at me and said, “Young lady, you’ll experience nirvana in this life.”  And thus my true journey to experience nirvana (enlightenment) began. I repeated many mantras, meditated and continued to sit with any visiting Lamas and Guru’s until I left Manhattan for Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Experience

I arrived in Los Angeles at the beginning of the New Age and Channeling. Los Angeles was popping with so much new age knowledge being imparted from off the planet deities. I attended the first Bashar channeling, Seth, Michael, Merlin, the White Brotherhood and so much more. Everyone was eager to learn how to channel, and so did I.

I signed up for a channeling class and as the teacher began to instruct us all on calming the nervous system, deep breathing and focusing, a strong and loving energy swirled through the room and caught everyone’s attention. I began to channel, it was as though I was a puppet and something else had the controls of my body and voice. Without going unconscious, I still wasn’t unable to interrupt the information coming through.

Starting with, “I am the truth, the light, and the love. I am known as Sanatkumara. I come before you not to be judged. I come before you to be loved.”  The loving feeling that permeating the room was so massively strong that no one wanted to move, but we all wondered, who is Sanatkumara? Later learning that Sanatkumara had come to me as a child.

Sanatkumara Experience

By the following week, I had called a bookstore in Westlake Village, California and scheduled a private channeling session with a woman named Diana. Once the session was scheduled, I kept repeating the name “Kumara” over and over again. I had never had a private channeling session and never heard the name Kumara before and was a bit intimated, but Diana was very nice, and her energy was calming. First, an Angel came to prepare the path and then Diana cleared her throat, and began channeling the same energy I felt in the channeling class. “My gifted one, my bright and shining eagle, you are my messenger, you are my purveyor of my radiance.  You are the truth that I Am, you are the first of 144,000 chosen to lead the way. I call you my Bodhisattva and release you onto my love.” Diana channeled this message from Sanatkumara.

From this point, Bodhisattva has stayed with me. It’s the truth and says exactly who I Am.

What does Bodhisattva Mean

It’s a person, who has taken specific monastic vows on the road to perfected knowledge. In Mahayana Buddhism, Bodhisattva is the Sanskrit term for a being who has experienced enlightenment. A Bodhisattva is anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhicitta, which is a spontaneous wish to attain Buddhahood. Or is someone who has attained enlightenment and stays behind to help all sentient beings benefit from enlightenment. In later Theravada literature, the term Bodhisattva is used frequently for someone on the path to liberation.

The great Bodhisattva Skanda (another name for Sanatkumara), also known as Wei Tuo in China, is regarded as a devoted guardian of Buddhist monasteries and protects the Buddha dharma teachings.