Guest guest Posted March 20, 2001 Report Share Posted March 20, 2001 Dear Mazie, Thank you for writing about your experiences. When I was a child I had similar experiences in school, where I was extremely bored. I used to stare at the nun in the front of the room (!), or at one point on her head, until I experienced a sense of moving into a vast wide space far above the classroom. It was very silent there as well, the sense of being connected to the physical space around me went away as the sense of this other silent wideness increased. Later, in adulthood, a serious illness kept me, like you, on my back in pain for long periods of time. My response was similar to yours in that I turned inward looking for ways to make "meaning" out of the experience as well as to transcend it. I increased meditation practices and it was during this time that a major kundalini awakening began. It sounds like illness led you into some wonderful places. Do you now have a more formal practice of meditation? Do you have similar experiences now? Jill ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ () Yoga Meditation and Not Knowing that is wha Author: "sraddha54" <sraddha54 at OFFICE 03/20/2001 12:23 PM Dear Harsha and Friends, When I was a child of nine I was forced to spend hours, days, months, and years on my back due to undergoing rhuematiod arthritis. I spent my days alone as my parents both had to work and all my siblings had to go to school. Unwittingly, I began inner contemplation of myself, pranayama, and getting away from the senses in order to rise above the tremendous pain. Gradually I began noticing that the sense of time was lost to me, and I could remove myself from the bodily pain. I had times when I felt contracted to a pinpoint of smallness indescribable and also expansion so vast it also is indescribable. I started having beautiful visions of holy figures, and the cosmos alive with vastness of lights and movement. I had also visions of falling to the earth in bliss/ecstacy at the beauty and love. At times I thought I could 'hear' the sound of all creation. I tell these things only as an example of what I think was a child being able to practice meditation without ever having heard of it and without any direction from any person (well, not one that I knew!) I also think that the wondrous side-effects of this in the form of expanding consciousness and accompanying visions help me also to believe that I had tapped into That. What do you think of this? Could this indeed be why at such an early age and by the circumstances in my life these things occurred? In Love and Friendship, Mazie ------------------------ Sponsor ---------------------~-~> Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! http://us.click./n4HqaC/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/b8NVlB/TM --> /join All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at www., and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. This menu will also let you change your subscription between digest and normal mode. Your use of is subject to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2001 Report Share Posted March 20, 2001 , "Eggers, Jill" <eggersj@g...> wrote: > Dear Mazie, Do you now > have a more formal practice of meditation? Do you have similar > experiences now? > > Jill Dear Jill, Yes, I do practice a more formal meditation. I do Kriya Yoga as taught by my Guru, Paramahansa Yogananda. I first began this more formal practice in 1980. And Yes, by Grace, I still do have experiences as mentioned previously, yet now, even though these beautific visions and such are wonderful beyond compare, I strive to not seek or cling to phenomena. They are distractions that side-line me from my true goal. Thank you for sharing your similar experiences Jill. It is always nice to hear the stories of others that have gone through what I have. In Love and Friendship, Mazie > > > ______________________________ Reply Separator > _________________________________ > () Yoga Meditation and Not Knowing that is wha > Author: "sraddha54@h..." <sraddha54@h...> at OFFICE > 03/20/2001 12:23 PM > > > Dear Harsha and Friends, > > When I was a child of nine I was forced to spend hours, days, months, > and years on my back due to undergoing rhuematiod arthritis. I spent > my days alone as my parents both had to work and all my siblings had > to go to school. Unwittingly, I began inner contemplation of myself, > pranayama, and getting away from the senses in order to rise above > the tremendous pain. Gradually I began noticing that the sense of > time was lost to me, and I could remove myself from the bodily pain. > I had times when I felt contracted to a pinpoint of smallness > indescribable and also expansion so vast it also is indescribable. I > started having beautiful visions of holy figures, and the cosmos > alive with vastness of lights and movement. I had also visions of > falling to the earth in bliss/ecstacy at the beauty and love. At > times I thought I could 'hear' the sound of all creation. I tell > these things only as an example of what I think was a child being > able to practice meditation without ever having heard of it and > without any direction from any person (well, not one that I knew!) I > also think that the wondrous side-effects of this in the form of > expanding consciousness and accompanying visions help me also to > believe that I had tapped into That. What do you think of this? Could > this indeed be why at such an early age and by the circumstances in > my life these things occurred? > > In Love and Friendship, > Mazie > > > > ------------------------ Sponsor --------------------- ~-~> > Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep > in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered > high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! > http://us.click./n4HqaC/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/b8NVlB/TM > -- > > > /join > > All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, > perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside > back > into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the > ocean, > all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness > does > not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart > Is. > Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee > relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within > into > It Self. Welcome all to a. > > To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at > www., and select the User Center link from the > menu bar > on the left. This menu will also let you change your > subscription > between digest and normal mode. > > > > > Your use of is subject to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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