Rick What is Shannon up to now? How long did his brahmachari lifestyle last? Did the others, Billy Clayton, Rob, et al, also get this particular initiation? Ken
--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
