Intense White Light - Mind - Pûja - Part 1

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In a message dated 6/12/2002 12:48:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

madathilnair writes:

 

> Shall we not . . . resume talking about what lights up the brain and

> the rest of the worlds?

 

Intense White Light - Mind - Pûja - Part 1

 

There was an evening, over two decades ago, when the brain area behind the

eyes became flooded with extremely intense white light. With eyes closed, the

event continued for a half-hour. The brilliance of the light was so intense

that upon eventually opening the eyes in a reasonably well lighted area,

darkness ensued. The experience was quite beautiful and in every way was the

saving grace of the time.

 

The experience took place on a Christmas eve in some remote off-season leased

hotel in Switzerland where advanced Vedic Science training programs were

being presented to teachers of Transcendental Meditation. I had arrived late

that evening only to find that the meditator staff had no room available. A

tiny room (indeed, a large cleaning closet) with no toilet facilities was

finally found. It had a small mattress on a messy, dirty floor. I sat on the

mattress floor and heavy gushing tears flooded the eyes and face. What in the

world was I doing here? For this I had left a research engineering-physics

job, my beautiful wife, my four children, a fine home, and virtually all of

my money for their continued support while I was away. I left all of this

(for six months) to now be sitting on the trashed floor of this oversized

closet? Certainly this was an overwhelmingly disquieting experience!

 

It must be understood that hotels full of meditating TM teachers quite

literally affect the local environment in profound ways. Stresses become

dissolved, in some cases as quick as lightening flashes, and of course I was

well aware that much of this was suddenly happening to me. Nevertheless, I

still got caught up in a moment of heavy distraught. To overcome this

uneasiness, I began singing the TM puja, the Sanskrit ceremony used in TM

initiations which is intended to purify the teacher's nervous system in the

process of teaching TM. This Sanskrit ceremony is forever known by teachers

as well as their own name so it just moves along effortlessly and is quite

beautiful. More, I mentally projected myself into the Rosicrucian Cathedral

of the Souls, a visualized spatial mental creation well known from many past

Rosicrucian experiments, a sort of safe-house and familiar working chamber

were all things are possible. In the Cathedral I moved to my own previously

created laboratory and in comfort performed the TM ceremony there, over and

over again perhaps a dozen times or more, progressively finding greater joy

and relief.

 

. . . nârâyanam padma bhavam vasishtham shaktim . . . shruti smriti

purânânâm âlayam karuna âlayam . . . shankaram shankarâchâryam keshavam

bâdarâyanam sûtra bhâshya kritau vande bhagavantau punah punah . . . . . .

lokâgyâna payoda pâtana dhuram shrî shankaram sharmadam brahmânanda

sarasvatîm guruvaram dhyâyâmi jyotir mayam . . . . . .

 

Then suddenly I was absolutely astonished as brilliant, very intense white

light flooded the mind, the eyes, and the brain area behind the eyes. The

eyes were closed throughout. The light was very bright, like looking at a

100-watt light bulb at close range. A new, strange, rapture of awe and

wonder engulfed me. After some half-hour I opened the eyes and found

relative darkness and then soon passed into a long deep sleep.

-- analysis to continue

 

jai guru dev,

 

Edmond