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I've had so many people I've learned from that I'm hesitant to write about any of them for fear of leaving someone out. So I've decided to write about those beings who have had a primary influence on me. I'm going to write about them in the order they appeared in my life, or perhaps I should say, in the order I became aware of their being in my life. |
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My first conscious
meeting with Babaji was in 1980. I was in bed, asleep, when I
suddenly awoke, feeling as though there was someone in the room
with me--my first thought was that someone had broken into the
house and had come into my bedroom,
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| Babaji |
but neither of my two dogs was making any fuss. My reaction was to
lie very still, not moving, until I could figure what was
happening. So I lay... |
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I became consciously aware of Nityananda through Muktananda's
book The Play of Consciousness. Some time after I read the
book
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| Nityananda |
I moved to the cabin above Nelson, B.C. While meditating one day I
became aware of a figure coming into my field of view (my eyes were
closed). As it came closer I realized it was Nityananda. He kept
coming closer and finally merged himself with me, doing a kind of
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Karunamayi is someone who has helped me immensely, healing those
parts of myself that I couldn't reach on my own, and giving
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| Karunamayi |
me a grounding that only an incarnation of the divine Mother can
give. She has an ashram in India, and visits the U.S. and Europe
once each year during the spring and summer.
It took me awhile to figure out the depth of my relationship
with Karunamayi, whom I'll call Amma from now on...
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| Shivabalayogi |
In the spring of 1994 I woke up one
morning with the name "Shivabalayogi" on my lips. It wasn't a name
that I recognized so I went on the internet to see what I could
find. What I found, among other things, is this picture of
Shivabalayogi. When I saw it I burst out laughing, "I know you, I
know you!" We'd...
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