Shannon Dickson's report on his Brahmachari initiation: Hi Rick, Regarding my Brahmacharya initiation by MMY, it was a lovely ceremony late one night in Majorca. He had the large picture of Guru Dev above a puja set in his room at the Hotel Samoa, and when I came in the room he had me sit on the floor on a skin at his feet and he told me about the significance of the master-disciple relationship and other such things for a good while and then he had me perform the puja in front of the almost life-size painting of Guru Dev with him sitting over my shoulder and afterward gave me a new recluse mantra, we then meditated about 15 minutes with the new mantra, and then had me systematically sit facing the north, south, east and west with my eyes closed while he was chanting some different Sanskrit at each of the different compass directions that I was sitting, and while placing his hand on the top my head. He then bent down and whispered some more Sanskrit into my ear other than the mantra and the whole thing lasted around 45 minutes to an hour or so. And afterward, he told me to stop rounding and just serve him from then on. It was after that that Billy, Louis and I took over from Rob, Casey and Ned as his personal secretaries handling his daily affairs and schedule and taking care of him. Regarding my meditation, he said �if there was time to close the eyes during the day for a brief while that was alright, but that it wasn�t necessary as my devotion and service to him would be enough�. I was 19 years old, a few months shy of 20, and went from 13 to 15 hours a day of rounding to about 4 to 5 hours of sleep a night tops, and almost no meditation in no time, and we ran on the pure adrenaline of youthful enthusiasm and joy of talking care of MMY 24/7. That whole time with him, at that peak time of the movement, was a marvelous experience! Take care, Shannon
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