A breakthrough from the Landmark Forum in Bangalore:
generating a life of happiness and satisfaction.

Karunakaran Natarajan lives in Bangalore, a city in the southern part of India. He is a great software developer by profession and works wonders with computers. Karuna is single and lives with his mother and younger sister. He has one elder brother and four elder sisters in the family who are married and live with their families. His favorite movies include western romantic, science fiction, historical movies and also eastern (Indian) romantic movies.

Karuna loves his community of Landmark Forum graduates. It is a great environment for him to express himself and gives him tremendous support. We thank him for including this website as his extended community, for his generosity in sharing himself and for the inspiring person who he truly is. He in return asks for our support to stand by and with him as he grapples intensely to take on life much bigger than his past.

I did the Landmark Forum in March 1999. There was this friend and colleague of mine who shared the Landmark Forum with me. I was actually looking for some course like this. Before I did the Landmark Forum, I knew that I was pretty good at my work and I could do any technical work in my subject. But I wasn't good at relationship. Sometimes people said some small things about me, or made fun of me, and I immediately got upset. That used to disturb me a lot. It reduced my productivity at work and my own happiness.

When I was doing the Landmark Forum, there was one person who was having discussion with the Landmark Forum leader, that he was very successful but still not satisfied. The Forum leader was saying “….that the context where you operate from is important and if you are unsatisfied, you will continue to be unsatisfied." I was sitting in my chair and thought of this. I was thinking that someday will come and then I will become a great successful guy and I would be happy.

On that chair that day, for the first time, I started to look back at my life. I have done pretty well in my school, college and subsequently at my work. And I was never satisfied. I had always been relating to myself as someone who is not good enough. For the first time, I was present to the cost. I never had time for my family and friends, since I was spending most of my time in improving and changing myself. I spent most of the time at work in becoming a successful person and yet, I wasn't satisfied with my work either. What was available to me was the possibility of being satisfied and of happiness!

Today when I look back and see, the biggest breakthrough I get in my life out of participating in various courses with Landmark Education is my happiness and satisfaction. I never thought that it was possible in my life. I could have never imagined this life that I am living now at any point of time before I did the Landmark Forum. I used to be a person with lots of worries, a serious and sincere person who spent most of the time being unhappy and upset about things in life. Today I am doing so many things and having great relationship with family, friends. I am satisfied with my job, assisting with Landmark Education and I have time for so many things.

Another important breakthrough I got is my relationship with my mother which is indeed very profound. Before the Landmark Forum, the relationship was just there: it wasn’t bad and it wasn't great. I did not talk to her and ask her as how she was doing in life, how her health was. Whenever she used to say anything about my brother, I did not listen to her. After I did the Landmark Forum, I got present to how much she really loves and adores me. Now I truly love her for who she is being for me and my life.

I have done the Advanced Course, Introduction Leaders Program (Introduction Leaders Program), Communication: Access to Power, Communication: Power and Performance, and I am now in Self Expression and Leadership Program. I started the Wisdom Course but haven't completed it as I lost my job in USA and had to come back to India. I will complete and review it. I have taken two Landmark Education graduate seminars, “Breakdown” and “Integrity”. Landmark seminar keeps the transformation alive for me.

When I did the Advanced Communication Course, I got a powerful breakthrough. I got to see that I say to myself that I am small and helpless victim. When I was three or four years old, I was abused by a guy and then I made up that I am small and helpless victim. I got to see that I say this in almost every area of my life.

I find myself for the first time enabled to really share with my friends that this is the way I was relating to myself. I used to pretend that I was intelligent, nice and knowledgeable. When I got present to “the sentence”; there has been this new world of opportunities that shows up for me in my relationship with my family, friends and at work place. Even after I have done the Introduction Leaders Program I did not share with people and I always used to keep quiet. But after the Communication: Power and Performance (CPP) course, a new level of freedom to share has opened up for me.

I am committed to be in relationship with a partner and I look at creating a wonderful life of being compassionate to the whole world. I see myself leading the Wisdom course in the planet inside of this commitment, though I am really scared when I am sharing this.

Who I am is the possibility of being love, compassion and happiness.

February 22, 2002

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A breakthrough from the Landmark Forum in Bangalore: generating a life of happiness and satisfaction.

A breakthrough from the Landmark Forum in Bangalore:
generating a life of happiness and satisfaction.