Mother Meera

[Guest guest]

From :http://www.soulworks.net/writings/essays/site_039.html Revisiting Mother Meera:A new book raises some questions by Cliff Bostock (NOTE: The following was written in four parts for my Paradigms column during December 1998 and January 1999. Because it was written over four weeks, it's not as "tight" as I'd like. Information has to be repeated from week to week for readers who may have missed earlier installments.) Mother Meera, who is not yet 40, lives in Thalheim. Like many thousands of others, I have traveled to Thalheim -- three times in the last five years -- to receive Mother Meera's darshan, which is the

experience of the divine's self-revelation to the devotee. Although I have often felt ridiculous in making these expensive pilgrimages, I have always undergone powerful, usually blissful experiences during darshan. While many other avatars and teachers speak and use music during darshan, Mother Meera's is conducted in total silence. Four evenings a week, a couple hundred devotees who have made reservations weeks in advance come to sit in plastic chairs or on the floor in her basement in total silence. They take turns kneeling before her in complete silence. She takes the head of the devotee in her hands for a few moments. Then, the devotee sits back and she looks into the eyes. This brief experience, so reminiscent of a mother's gazing into an infant's eyes, is life-changing for many. She claims to be clearing blocks and sharing divine light during this ritual. While the actual experience of darshan has usually been blissful for me -- sometimes

experienced as ecstatic visions, sometimes as an almost unbearably pleasurable energy in the body -- the aftermath has been quite different. As if obeying the law that what goes up must come down, I have always crashed into the most unpleasant truths about myself in the weeks afterward. In this sense, Mother Meera, is true to the definition of all good teachers. In revealing herself, she holds a mirror to the devotee -- one that reveals both the blissful and the painful. Mother Meera first became well known through the book Hidden Journey (1991), by Andrew Harvey. It is the story of his own experience as Mother Meera's devotee, filled with almost incredible stories of his

transformation by an earthly goddess.

Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how.