list Intro

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

 

A brief intro. My name is mic, tho most of my friends here call me mohan.

Advaita has found its way as my heart from the summer of 91, when while

wandering India, by chance I encountered Sri Poonjaji, a disciple Bhagavan

Ramana Mahrishi. I stayed with him and the small gathering there for two

months, a time of great joy, intensity, revelation and incomprehensible

silence. I mostly recall the great stillness. The presence of this man. In

this dirty town of swirling duststorms and buildings swimming in the heat

before me. At night candles cast a golden hue upon the markets, dancing in

the buzz of bicycle song and branches of lush red lychees being sold on the

dusty streets. The silence. The torrential flow of humanity, pulsing

through the hot polluted streets, watermelon stalls, the astonishing

passion of seekers at his house, like the sweetness of sugarcane juice.

And the end of seeking itself in the embrace of the always so. Like many

there I had walked other roads in my search. I had come to India on a

Buddhist yatra, with plans to finish the journey in a Thai monastry. Yet

relaxing into this resplendent heart of being, the seeking and the struggle

fell, the seeker and the story melt away as monsoon rains drench me in joy.

And I finally see the True heart of advaita, as my own . Leaving India,

with the blessing of the mountain, I felt almost drunk on the ringing

clarity of these words from the Tripura Rahasya; " Know yourself as Pure

Consciousness, the unaffected witness of the phenomenal world."

 

Integrating this with a world that demands committment and authenticity, I

meet with surrender and an open heart. Some days I struggle, some days I

sing. The devotion I feel to shakti I know is but a reflection within

consciousness of this love. The silence. And it is in this love I am

earthed in freedom, and can play out my role in the theatre of this world

in peace.

 

warm regards,

mohan