Aloha everyone! I hope you all had wonderful holidays. Everything OK in Taiwan Leiven after the Earthquake. We had a small one here as well. I have had a couple amazing experiences recently. U2 held their last concert here in Honolulu to a packed house at Aloha Stadium. During the concert Bono from U2 started talking about the organization he started called One. Several songs were on this theme and during these songs I got an immediate visual of Bhagavan, Amma, Christ and Buddha above the stadium pouring Deeksha into those in attendance. As the visual started Deeksha started pouring through me in a massive and powerful way. It was totally joyful and electric and left me in tears of joy. It was so profound and loving. I am so grateful for Bhagavan and Amma I cannot even begin to tell you. I am not sure if any of you have tried the process that Radakrishna sent out about touching the hands and feet of any picture of Amma and Bhagavan and then asking for a Oneness blessing from them. If you have not....Do it!!!! The transmission of energy is intense and loving. We had Raniji out to Hawaii the first part of December and it was an overwhelming success. She met with indigenous people on all the islands and we had over 100 people at a one night event here on Maui. We also had well over 50 attendees to an all day workshop that she held the next day. Those are huge numbers for Maui!!! During one of the meetings with the indigenous people, Rani did a ceremony using one of Bhagavans pictures. The next day there was a huge amount of ash that simply appeared on the picture. It was a true miracle. I feel like I am going on and on ; ) I had another funny experience the other day. I was driving and had a truck completely and totally pull out in front of me the other day. It was to the point that I had to slam on my brakes and swerve out of the way to avoid smashing into them. I had zero negative charge, I simply smiled and even laughed when I was safely stopped on the shoulder of the road. It was so cool, but so strange. In the past curse words and the middle finger would have been employed in full force. I hope I am not losing my survival instincts ; ) Other than that life is going well. Believe it or not while I was in India I developed a deep connection over the Internet with a beautiful girl here on Maui. We have been inseparable ever since so that is very cool. I am learning with Bhagavan's help to experience her fully. When I am able to do that it is a beautiful experience no matter what the situation. When I am not and get caught up in it, it is not so beautiful. I hope all is well with you guys. I love reading your experiences. We have had many visiting Deeksha givers here to Maui over the past month or so. Which one of you will be first from our class ; ) Namaste to you all!!!

Came across this set of quotes from George Bush on the Doonesbury website today:
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html

"I believe strongly in the decisions I have made....Laura and I are sustained by the prayers of millions of people....The load is not heavy....This is a joyful experience."


hmmmmm...
Has someone been secretly giving him deeksha????

Prana Kriya Meditation

As Forrest requested, below is the Prana Kriya meditation that i am following. I'm not certain if it's exactly as Sujayji taught us, so if anyone has any corrections or questions, please let me know or share with the group.

If you would like to visualize the chakras and don't remember what color, how many petals the lotus of each one has, the importance of each one, etc., a good summary is on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra

The meditation is guided by Krishnaraji's singing on a track titled "Opens the Wings of Freedom" from the Chakra Dhyana album by Kosmic Music.

Mudras
There are 3 mudras, or hand positions. For all 3, the thumb and forefinger are touching, the palm faces upwards, and the other three fingers are relaxed and extend outward.

Prana Kriya 1 is with tip of forefinger touching tip of thumb and is used when meditating on the 1st and 2nd Chakras.
Prana Kriya 2 is with tip of forefinger touching the top joint line of thumb and is used when meditating on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Chakras.
Prana Kriya 3 is with tip of forefinger touching bottom joint line of thumb and is used when meditating on the 6th and 7th Chakras.

Breathing
However many counts you inhale, hold the breath for the same number counts and then exhale for twice the number of counts you inhaled. Maintain this breath ratio throughout the entire meditation until you lie down to rest.

Meditation
At the beginning, have hands in Prana Kriya 1 and focus on breathing.

After the 3 minutes of chanting at the beginning, as the name of the 1st Chakra, "Aum...Muladhara", is spoken, i focus on that chakra opening. Then, for the next 2-1/2 minutes, the sound of the 1st Chakra, "Lang", is repeated. During this time, i focus on the point of contact at each thumb and forefinger.

Next, "Aum...Kundalini Aruhailum" (or something that sounds like that) is chanted. At this time, my focus goes back to the 1st Chakra, and i experience the kundalini rising from the 1st Chakra all the way to the Crown Chakra. "Kundalini Aruhailum" continues to sound for 1 minute, and i continue to experience this energy rising.

Then, the name of the 2nd chakra is spoken, and i repeat the above steps for the 2nd Chakra and so on for each following chakra. I change mudras at Chakra 3 to Prana Kriya 2 and then at Chakra 6 to Prana Kriya 3.

At the end of the "Kundalini Aruhailum" chant for the 7th Chakra, the names of each chakra are chanted, one immediately after another, starting with the 1st Chakra. When the name of the 1st Chakra is heard, i experience that chakra opening and the kundalini slowly rising from the 1st Chakra and up to the 2nd Chakra. When the name of the 2nd Chakra is heard, i experience that chakra opening and the kundalini continuing to slowly rise up to the 3rd Chakra and so on, all the way up to the 7th Chakra.

After the 7th Chakra is spoken, "Aum...Kundalini Aruhailum" is again chanted and more chanting follows. During this time, with each inhale, i experience the kundalini pulsating from the 1st Chakra all the way up to the 7th Chakra. While i hold my breath, i experience Grace pouring down through my 7th Chakra and merging with the kundalini, and, with each exhale, i experience all of that flowing into every cell of my being.

The chanting continues for 4-1/2 minutes. When "Shanti, shanti, shanti" is then chanted, i chant as well. For the remainder of the 13 minutes of music, lie down, rest, and enjoy!

Sajan,

I hope that your mother passed in peace and that you and your family have found even more strength and love together.

It's wonderful to read about the deeksha events at your place and in Ubud, and it's exciting to know about the article in the Bali Times. I tried to do a search on the Bali Times website, but could not find the interview. I did notice that the most recent interview the website has posted is from Dec 07, so perhaps they have not yet updated. Do you have a link to the interview and can you send one when it does go online?

Hearing more about your state also made me smile...i feel this new acceptance strongly as well...

Namaste My Brothers,

Two weekends back i had a quick trip to Shanghai for the wedding of one of my best friends from my university days and am finally recovering enough from the build-up of everything in the wake of all my recent travels to post again.

This is going to end up being a rather huge post, but there’s a lot I’d like to share, so here i go…

It's great to get updates on how people are doing, and I’d like to shoot back a few quick questions for everyone who’s had a chance to share.

Rocco, how are things going at the airport? More smiling travelers, i hope?

Dan, are you continuing to give much deeksha and is your process continuing to deepen as well?

No worries about preaching, Forrest. It's beautiful what you shared about your process, and it's great to be reminded of the importance of each one of us being able to completely accept where we are and also the importance of accepting when others aren’t willing to directly receive the blessings of Grace. I think another thing for us to remember is that it is not our Grace that they are refusing, and so it is not us that that they are rejecting…They are simply not willing or not able to connect to what is True (or to what is Love or to what is Present), and, for whatever reasons, that is the place where they are meant to be at that time. When talking about deeksha, i have found great support in asking The Presence to speak through me, but i’ll write more about that below.

Bill, are you getting the opportunity to give much deeksha? How is the "coming of the new" progressing?

Sajan, even though you feel that your state has stepped down, are you still able to connect to The Presence the way we did so strongly in GC? Have the sensations you experience while giving deeksha continued to become more powerful, or have they abated somewhat as well? Are many people still coming for deeksha at your place?

For me, the most significant change from life before GC is still that connection to The Presence, both the ease of invoking it as well as the naturally rising propensity for making the invocation. Everything else has its foundation on top of that, and, without it, i imagine all else would collapse. And thus my blessing so far has been to be able to look to make that connection, to have the thought to make that connection come to me in any number of different circumstances...just walking down the street, taking a shower, eating, meditating, writing, while i do yoga...

But especially when i'm talking to people. Whenever a quick request is made to The Presence to speak through me, i find that the connection to whomever i am talking to is immediately deepened. It's not me they're connecting to - it's The Presence that has come to their subconscious awareness that they are connecting to, and I find that it not only guides my voice but also the language of my entire body as well…and i am simply experiencing the blessing of watching.

As this thought to make the connection occurs more often, it builds on itself and deepens, but there have been a few other things that have helped for me as well…

I find myself giving smarana deeksha quite often. Because my mother isn't completely open yet to the nature of the blessings i have received, she has not asked me for deeksha, so i am giving her smarana deeksha about once a week. Once a week I also give smarana deeksha to many of my friends and relatives around the world who i feel need it, and these intention deekshas have been very beautiful connections to The Presence.

With inspiration from Patrick (who first told me about doing it on his flight) and also partly following Rocco's lead, i have given intention deeksha to people en masse while on planes or taking the subway. In addition to being a beautiful way to pass time, smarana deeksha helps me to reinforce connections to everything and everyone around…and of course negates any charge that might arise from some old lady elbowing me in the gut as she jostles for position to get out the train…

I also had a quite powerful experience about 3 weeks ago that was a definite continuation of The Process for me and a deeper version of what i wrote about in the last post, as the issue involved is a very deep issue for me.

I was at home one night with my mom (we live together), who had just finished cooking a load of delicious dishes earlier that day. While i was in the kitchen heating everything up, my mom called out a few requests to me, and i felt a quick flush of frustration at another set of demands from her. To this, i asked myself, "Why are you reacting so selfishly and horribly? Does your mother not do so much for you, care so much for you, love you so much?" And i found myself falling into the old habit of turning away from that bit of darkness inside and quickly smiling again as i readied for a feast and enjoyed a relaxing night at home with my mom.

I awoke the next morning at about 4 AM, completely nauseous, and within a few minutes was vomiting out what was left of dinner from the night before. After passing out again, i woke around 9, horribly sick with fever, weakness, and an ache that raged through my entire body.

My mom joked with me that she had poisoned me, but later that afternoon, i would realize that there was some truth to her jest. When she went out to run some errands, i asked Bhagavan to show me if there was something i needed to see that had made me so sick and so suddenly so. And he helped me to see that, although my mother of course never intended to poison me, because of my own unresolved issues, i, in some way, took what my mom had gifted me as poison.

As much as part of me does love my mother very much and appreciates what she does for me, i saw how another part of me fears being held so tightly by my mother that neither of us can be truly free. Though i had seen this fear before, this time i would be shown more, and i asked Bhagavan and The Presence to let me experience it all...I saw how much i depend on her for so many things - she cooks for me, cleans for me, and takes care of everything at home - and how useless part of me feels at having to rely on someone else for all this. I saw how, at the same time, i was afraid of not having someone to take care of me. And i saw how much i hated myself for all these fears and weaknesses and for not being able to truly and fully accept the love and care that my mother gives me.

As i condemned myself in guilt and self-loathing, i found myself screaming and crying and pounding my bed as all of this enveloped me. I continued to pray to Bhagavan and to The Presence to let me completely take in and endure the darkness inside, to help me face these fears and weaknesses, to give me strength, and to allow myself to accept What Is. As I reached the depths of all this darkness, as the experience of it completely enveloped me, The Divine lovingly smiled at me for opening to the Truth and instantaneously blessed me with the experience of being able to embrace It all with clarity and joy, as He had so many times before in GC. As we have all been shown and experienced, what we perceive as darkness is simply one aspect of What Is, and our liberation comes from complete clarity about It and then completely accepting It.

I awoke the next morning still a bit low in energy, but the sickness had completely passed otherwise, and i simply gave thanks for a beautiful (if strenuous!) experience and prayed that i will remain open to seeing, accepting, and experiencing.

One last thing to share that has worked very well for me has been prana kriya. Starting from about a week ago, i have been practicing it every morning, and it has been phenomenal.

The experiences of energy during the practice have been very powerful. While breathing and focusing attention on the connection between thumbs and forefingers in each mudra, i can feel each point of contact expand into a glowing ball, sometimes shooting energy all the way through my body into the chakras; and during the stage of kundalini rising for each chakra - so, so much joy…And not only that, but prana kriya has definitely helped me to be more aware of and attuned to The Presence throughout each day.

Oddly, i didn’t take very good notes on Sujayji's prana kriya instructions, so if someone does have detailed instructions, please let me know if you wouldn’t mind sharing them. I’d also be happy to share with anyone who wants to follow the procedure as i remember it, so if anyone wants that, just let me know.

OK - this has definitely gone on for long enough. Hope at least some of it is helpful for someone and to hear back from ya’ll soon!