--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > I experience the presence of Guru Dev almost daily. > > I'd really like to hear the details of that if you care to share it. > If not openly, then an email would work.:-)
I don't make a big issue about it. I'm even a little reluctant to talk about it. But if others can benefit the same way I have by my telling about it, then ok. Apart from normally practicing my meditation [TM] I experience the spiritual presence of Guru Dev in my meditation room where I have a picture of Guru Dev. It's the one that was commonly given to TM teachers to use for the Puja. Occasionally, if and when I have a pressing spiritual question I can usually just think about it and an answer will come - whether I'm in the meditation room or not. Sometimes I both 'see' and 'hear' Guru Dev telepathically. Most times I just 'hear' an answer. The answers are almost always very simple and short. Seems Guru Dev doesn't wish to have these experiences become an attachment. The physical picture itself often shows Guru Dev with different expressions. I almost always feel his presence when I look at that picture. I also once received some kind of blessing or something that really affected me. I could vaguely 'see' but plainly 'hear' Guru Dev saying some stuff in what I perceived to be Sanskrit. I don't know Sanskrit well and only remember one of the words. It was 'samhita'. After I heard those words I felt like I was in a very deep conscious state, much like one feels sometimes while performing the Puja during an initiation. I don't know the significance of that experience, but ever since I've felt much closer to Guru Dev and my experiences perceiving him directly - although very brief - are much clearer. I've even asked Guru Dev about that experience and the only answer I got was waves of love from him. That was enough of an answer for me. I've always been bahkti oriented. As one cannot easily be devoted to the undifferentiated Absolute, Guru Dev has become that object of devotion. I really have no adequate words for what I've experienced as a result of my meditation and how I feel about Guru Dev. I can only recommend with all my being that people look to God and meditate!
