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Diary: 21 day process at the Oneness University – Part 7, The initiation.

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

20 Aug 2006

I’m in a bad mood. Irritated at people. Feels like I’m at a standstill. Nothing is happening. No breakthroughs. No aha-experiences. Today feels like a typical bad/irritating day at home or at work. The thoughts are spinning at a 100km/h and what is being taught here stops at logical understanding only. No actual first hand experiences so that I can really understand and know from experience. I don’t know if my blood sugar was low in the afternoon/evening, but I felt tired, grumpy and was unable to look at e single person without thinking something negative about them and I seem unable to just look at what is happening so that it turn in to something good and nice. I can’t imagine a full-fledged deeksha giver being so… well… like the way I am right now.

Shouldn’t a real deeksha giver be able to answer questions etc based on his or her own experiences and not just from something some teacher said that you happen to remember.
On of the guides said today that “Tomorrow will be a very special day”, with a secret-looking smile on his face. We are gathering at 07:00 at the Homa tent (homa = fire ritual), so we are probably getting a special Homa. We are getting a lot of special deeksha blessings etc here and it really seems like they are doing everything they can for us.

A red bull right now wold be really nice. No such thing here.
I got so angry today. When we got here we all got told extremely clearly: “DO _NOT_(!!!) FEED THE DOGS!” , “What ever you do, do not do that!”. There are some wild dogs around here (friendly though) inside the walls of the campus area, and if you feed them, they will stop looking for food themselves and when everyone here goes back home there’s a risk that they will starve to death. So.. What did I see today? A woman walked up to a dog and gave it a piece of bread she “smuggled” out of the dining hall. My thoughts where (I’m being honest now, warning for ugly words) : “Is your brain totally fucking empty, you fucking idiot!!!”. Doesn’t people get it? “DO NOT FEED THE DOGS” – what part of that didn’t you understand?

Oh well.. Time to sleep.

Goodnight!
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21 Aug 2006 09:38 – The day of Initiation

We did the special Homa today. It was to make us in the best possible shape and mode to give deeksha. It lasted a long time and a lot of things got offered in to the fire.
Today we will be initiated to give deeksha. I have to admit that I have some butterflies in my stomach – because this is so big!. A big day in my life.
Only 3 days left here now. The last day here is the 23’rd and the 24th is departure day (I think I was off in the dates here). They pay for our taxi to where we are going. A lot of people seem to be going to the sea breeze hotel after this and I’m was pretty lucky to get a room there. On the morning after the evening that I booked, they ran out of rooms. But I don’t really believe in luck.
I’m going to get some rest now before the next assembly here. I might write some more tonight.

14:35
At 18:00 Tonight we are going to get initiated. There’s nothing else planned before that so I’m just going to rest.

There’s no static state to “reach” permanently. This is all there is. This now. I guess it’s possible that when you settle down in that experience you become “enlightened” but that’s probably not a static state either. You can’t be happy 100% of the time. But at that point there is no suffering in being for instance angry or disappointed, because you will just experience being that without having any having any special opinion about that fact. You experience it like it is without even wanting to escape from it or struggle to get away from it.

Things like “I am angry because bla bla and that is because bla bla” doesn’t exist at that point. You are just angry for a brief moment before it’s no longer there. It will loose it’s charge.
Now I’ll rest…..
Oh by the way, all “states” and experiences, like being one with the whole universe, isn’t the goal in itself. It’s a “positive side-effect” from it. That’s not what you strive for, because when that goes away you’ll land in your “dull every day life” again, your “normal state”.
It’s in the “normal state” you should see the truth and meat yourself to see that everything just is the way it is and thereby overcome suffering. Then you have faced the truth. By then, if you experience some higher state of consciousness, you are going to land again in “non suffering” instead of “dull every day life” and once you are there, there is nothing you want to change because by then you have realized that it is impossible to change anything.
Trying to change things (within) is what escaping and suffering is. I escaped to this place to get insight about this, so I still have to thank the escape-part of me, a.k.a. my spiritual personality. Paradox!

21:38

I’m now initiated and able to give deeksha. The gratefulness to the hand that brought me here is beyond words. It was a long ritual first, then we got sprinkled with drops of holy water, on our heads and it felt like that area of my head turned warm, over the top of my head.
The we got the initiation through a deeksha transfer made with silver padukas on our heads.
The padukas have the divine energy and the object have the form of sandals because it in India symbolizes the feet of the divine. These Padukas where blessed and charged with this energy by Bhagavan.
It was very powerful. I laugh-yelled from my very core and then we all burst in to completely crazy dancing, everyone was hugging and I just couldn’t stop laughing from gratitude (if that makes any sense). It feels good walking right now and I walked sloooowly all the way back and enjoyed every part of it. I can’t describe the gratefulness. This is a gift, to be here and to be initiated and thereby able to help other people. I’ve always wanted to help people and that is probably why have the job I have. I think my whole being recognized that “now it starts”, by that I mean that which I’ve always felt in my heart and I reacted in such a powerful way, folded double in gratefulness and laughter of celebration. It almost feels like a dream. This is one of the best things I’ve done with my life, if not the best. My heart is cheering! :)
Everything is going to turn out so great, I know it.

Goodnight!.

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Diary: 21 day process at the Oneness University – Part 6

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

18 Aug 2006 (22:00)

Today we finally did Ananda Mandala. It’s powerful.
Other than that we did the usual stuff. It’s so enjoyable walking slowly. It feels so good in my feet and I just want to go slow. Right now I do almost everything slowly, after the meditation with the cosmic beings.
Everything is so… calm and tranquil and right now when I’m writing this, I often stop to close my eyes. Holding the pen and writing feels so enjoyable in the hand.

I felt very tired, irritated and angry for some reason, but I didn’t try to find a way to get out of it. I remembered what shrinevas had said: “What ever you feel, be true to yourself, that’s what god wants, so even those feelings are god”.
So I accepted that this is the way it is and then it transformed to a warm, nice feeling. Like the feeling of relief you can get after you have been crying, and I could feel god in that too.
If you just experience it like it is, without thinking “but…” or “if only…”, then it is like when the rain falls on dry ground and the nature recovers thanks to the wonderful water. Totally satisfying and rejuvenating. Water… so soft and enjoyable. Thirst quenching. Cooling, or warming. Water is more valuable than all gems, all gold and silver. Water is the gold of the earth.
I’m going to sleep now. I hope I don’t get woken up by the big guy’s snoring. But I have earplugs.

Goodnight! (I tried drawing a moon here but it got really ugly haha!).
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19 Aug 2006

I booked a room at hotel sea breeze in Mali Puram with my traveling buddies from Sweden. They have pool and all that. We are going to do some shopping and give deeksha too. The Indians there walk up to the westerners, point at their heads and say “deeksha?”, after that there could be a line for hours.

Today’s teachings dealt with the self, and that the self does not exist. The self is made up by personalities. So, “I” can not “become” enlightened. It’s a personality that wants this. I don’t feel like explaining it (and don’t have the energy to either). Now when I finally solved what I’m going to do in the days after the course here, until the trip back home, it’s a kind of a release. I’m happy.
I received a text message from Björn about a new door code to the apartment I live in Sweden. It felt nice seeing his name pop up in the page saying “new message” in the phone.
I think about how it is there… back home with him and Alfons (my cat).
The “ball” I wrote about a day or two ago, was experienced again today. But this time a part of me got inside it. It is a golden “sphere”. I can’t see it with my eyes, but I just know it, I feel it.
Is this my “divine friend”?.
It was peaceful. I think I have now learnt how to call for this “friend”. It may be the beginning of a new and fantastic acquaintance.

I’m not looking to achieve some end goal, I want to start.
There is nothing to achieve since there is no one to achieve it.
Good night! (here I have drawn an AUM sign and a heart.)
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Diary: 21 day process at the Oneness University – Part 5

Monday, January 25th, 2010

15 Aug (22:00)
A day of a total of 6 ½ hours of bus travel on Indian “roads”.
We where at Amma’s birthday darshan or what ever it’s called, at Amma’s ashram in Nemam. We all stood in a line to pass through in front of her, one by one. She looked at us, lifted her hands and gave her blessing, partly with the intent to raise our spiritual consciousness, but also for the inner wishes we may have. I haven’t liked all the commotion in India before but today it was quite entertaining somehow.
By the way, I realized that when I felt like a little child the other day, I was completely separated from the experience of identifying with the body or mind. I witnessed what the body was saying and doing, but it wasn’t me!
We get to sleep a bit longer tomorrow. We’ll start at 10:00. Amma looks so beautiful. Even more beautiful in real life. That’s all for today. I’m tired.
Good night!
PS: Feel GOOD!
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16 Aug

Amma’s birthday
Started with a very special ritual in her name. It really released a lot of joy and happiness. They played music and people went bananas with joy, danced around and went all silly. I danced some to, but after a while I just wanted to move very slowly and smoothly and I entered some kind of really enjoyable flow with my body which started doing whatever it wanted to and I think I entered some kind of trance-like state, although I was awake and aware. Then we had a surprise from Amma, Deeksha with Bhagavan! It was amazing. Seeing him sitting there in a such a deep state that he looked like he was made of wax. Totally still, not moving at all. He helped us when we prayed for our ancestors who had passed on to move on to even higher planes and to unite with the light/god and to not just stay were they where. Often they affect us in a negative way and when they move on you can sometimes feel a release, physically mentally, spiritually etc. How I feel now? I don’t know. As usual, but at the same time not.
We got cake. I dream a lot, vividly and a lot of lucid dreams. Yesterday I went from a normal dream to a lucid dream. Then the lucid dream stopped and I “woke up” and when I woke up I was in the first dream before I woke up for real.
Such great love and joy today. Today the deeksha energy is amplified, like it always is on Amma or Bhagavans birthday. These are special days with high energies. This plus darshan with Bhagavan is like putting your car in the sixth gear, and then turbo on that ;-) .
People talk a lot now. Pull yourselves together. I’m quiet as much as it is possible.

They have laundry service here. Luxury.
Just have to drop of your clothes and then pick them up all clean… or.. Washed.. The next day. India smells like dung, flowers , sweat and vanilla, all at the same time. Some of the time I don’t know if it smells wonderful or horrible.
It’s filthy and poor to. But everything seems so much more real here. I dislike and love it all at the same time.
The poorest people you see here, the ones living in small huts, so often carry a big smile. All the children get overjoyed by seeing our bus and they wave, laugh and smile, even the adults!.
So much heart here. They have a lot that we don’t have at home (on the inside) and we have a lot they don’t (materially, on the outside). When east and west are united, perfect culture should arise.

I don’t want to sleep. I’m happy, full of energy and so happy to be alive somehow. I feel love in my heart.
I’m thinking about how Björn (my brother) is handling watching over Alfons (my cat), and I get a warm feeling. It feels increasingly real to me that I am not the body or the thoughts. They take care of themselves and sometimes it’s like I’m just watching, witnessing this.
Namaste and Good night! (21:48).
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17 Aug

Today the subject has been looking at thoughts.
The ever-flowing stream of thoughts and how we tune in to them, like when setting the frequency on your radio to tune in to a radio station.
The exact content of the thought is determined by what experiences we have stored in the brain. What triggers this process in the brain is the “thought sphere”.
Mahatma Gandhi was against any type of violence, but while he was in prison he all of a sudden started having thoughts about killing someone. He couldn’t understand this. It wasn’t in him to do such a thing. In some way his conclusion was that the food he got there was cooked by a chef (who was also in the same prison) who while cooking the food had thoughts about killing someone. So the thought was not his, in the same way that a fly who lands on you isn’t a part of you just because it happens to be on you.
Thoughts can not be completely stopped, but you can see them and say “aha, those are not mine”. Our Dasa said that he himself didn’t always feel that all thoughts wasn’t his, but at least he always knew it.

After that we had deeksha. After the deeksha everything felt really nice: “wow, how lovely it is to walk!”, the feeling of the foot in the sandal or against the floor. I walked reeeeally slowly.. So wonderful. I had the feeling of love and the divine presence in my chest.
Then we had a meditation with the “cosmic beings”. During that meditation I suddenly felt how something that I can only describe as a big warm ball descended in to my lap. I could feel the gentle heat from it, It felt a little bigger than one of those balls you have on the beach (I don’t know the english word for it).

… Shrinevasji (Dasa) just came to talk to me. We sat outdoors on the lawn and talked about how things was going for me etc.
I can’t really write all of that down.. It would be to much text.
It’s just 7-8 days left!
What happened to all the days?
I have prayed for everyone at home plus friends and even for my cat.
I ate chocolate today, mostly because I felt an enormous craving for it. I like Shrinevasji.
Everything feels good. Health is good, food is good.
“If you can see everything from the eyes of the presence, then everything is like that”. By that he means that then everything is beautiful and “okay”. (I picked a small rock that I’m giving to Björn when I get home!)
Thank you for another incredible day of my life, here on this divine place. I am like before but at the same time not at all.
Namaste, Good night! (21:28).

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Diary: 21 day process at the Oneness University – Part 3

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Diary: 21 day process at the Oneness University – Part 3

10 Aug 2006

It was a special Hindu holy day today. So we did a special Homa (fire ritual) to remove all blocks in the way for us, physically, mentally and spiritually. All gods and goddesses you could think of where summoned by the female Dasas who sacrificially threw things in the fire. I felt very peaceful energies. After we had deeksha with the “cosmic beings” who move in the speed of a snail at maximum. The power was pretty strong.

By the way, I woke up in the middle of the night from some tough dream and felt I had fever and I was shaking. Some of it where still there in the morning but now it seems to be all gone. My stomach wasn’t good for a few hours but it’s better now… I think.
I’m just noticing that I’m writing backwards chronologically… The day started with a special deeksha arranged by Amma & Bhagavan through the Dasa. The deeksha would balance the energies of the body. It’s supposed to take from a couple of days to a couple of weeks or so. When we took this deeksha we balanced the navel chakra with a mantra (Rang) because that chakra takes care of regulating the energies of the body.

I don’t find the Mauna to be hard at all. It’s the opposite, I love it.
No one rambling away, boasting and no one starting a meaningless conversation just to be polite. The truth is that I really want to get away from people and social gatherings partly because it’s boring but also because there’s some fear. That’s probably why I live pretty much alone. No one getting hurt. Nobody who wants to take you “out” etc. I flee by meditating etc so feel good and to not have to deal with the world that feel so strange to me, hard and demanding. The truth is a big theme here. I see that I would like it if people look up to me if I can give deeksha and that I’m a “spiritual” person. Makes me feel special and accepted. But that’s not the whole truth.
I’m here because my seeking for God brought me here. It feels Ironic some way that the Dasa said that: Admit that you really enjoy feeling special when you get home and can give deeksha.

They’re turning off the light here now… Goodnight!
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11 Aug

What a day… don’t know if I have any voice or any tears left. That’s how it can get when going through/cleaning out anger, sorrow etc. When I was completely empty (I think) on everything I suddenly felt like a small child, 1 year old. Does a 1 year old baby care about what people think about him?… No.
I was pretty tired by then after allowing all the feelings get out by giving in to the anger and hurt. The chakra point felt electrical, like the way your arm may feel if you fall asleep on it and you wake up and wait for it to “wake up”.. That tingly feeling. But not in an unpleasant way. I could not even stand up I think.
Many insights today about what people I’ve hurt and how, and also the other way around. If you want results here in this program it’s up to you to give 100%. Not run away.
The childlike innocent state is still felt in me now but the “peak” lasted a couple of hours. We’ll see how it is in the morning.
I think this is the last day of this cleaning out stuff. For now anyway.

I spoke with my dasa today, Shrinevasji and I asked if the white light I’ve seen within was the same thing as my Divine friend that I now gotten to know in my heart. He told me not to think about that but to just keep relating as to a friend. Maybe it’s not important now. Everything will present itself when the time is right.
We had the honor of meditating with the cosmic beings today.
This is really an inner process and once you started it, you better plan ongoing through everything it brings. I’m all in for it. It’s all or nothing. Without truth you might as well be dead. It feels very beautiful now.
I thank my friend why helped bringing me here. The gratefulness feels nice and soft in the chest. Good night for this time!

By the way: During meditation I saw a sitting Buddha statue that was split in half, time after time. Every time there was a brand new one, looking exactly like the last one.
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12 Aug

There are many hurt feelings and negative experiences affecting your life that you can go through yourself by the use of memory. But when it comes to the time when you where very little it becomes difficult.
They say here that when you’re in your mothers womb you can feel everything that your mother feels. Maybe something happened when you where newly born too. Some problem or some treatment that you didn’t like. As a newborn you are extremely sensitive. You don’t really “think” like we see it, until you are 4-5 years old, so before that you can get negatively affected by things that you couldn’t see as illogical. We prayed to Amma to heal us from this and the Dasa joined us in the prayer. I really think I felt Amma listening and I saw her compassion. But she just sat there. So I asked her “prove that you are going to help me then!” and in that same second the body started to move like a snake. One energy block after the other released with crying and sounds. I felt Ammas never ending unconditional love and I wept so much from seeing that. Tears of love. Each time I thanked her I just got more and more. And MORE, and more. I feel she is with me from this point on. I can always ask her for help. I did that later.
It was about a fear I have, “how am I supposed to get out of it? What am I supposed to do?”.

Suddenly I said to myself “What just happened?”. A liberating feeling came over me. I don’t have to deal with everything. I can’t analyze , deal with and reason your way to happiness. I accepted this. Suffering is not accepting. When not accepting there’s a resistance. You loose life energy. But I accepted that I was afraid and didn’t know what to do. That’s just the way it is.
It’s truth that shall set man free.

Cosmic beings again today.
They emanate such stillness. It can’t be described. They have given their lives to in this way spreading the light, the peace and it is Bhagavan who has given them that state. I understand why he is so big. But he is not my god. He is one of my best friends and a true avatar and master.
Good night.
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Diary: 21 day process at the Oneness University – Part 4

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

13 Aug

12th of august and 12 days left. (correction, it was the 13th, but somehow the whole diary is one day off. I have changed to the correct date in the headline for each part though).
I’ve gotten in to the routines, going to bed about 21:30, getting up 06:00 – 06:30. Three meals per day, same time every day. When you don’t have to think, time goes by really fast. Like those who have had the same job for 25 years, being at the same exact place for all those years and they ask themselves what happened to their lives. It’s a bit like a trance.
Anyway… I guess this day was as usual, except that we watched a DVD on a big screen. But, like I later realized: Everything is the same thing anyway. Everything is experiences. Why separate the eggs from the mixture, it’s all going to turn in to pancakes anyway.

Very comical and funny Dasa today. He really has the ability to get everyone so see truth about themselves and laugh while doing so. Kind of the Seinfeld of spirituality.
Today was the first time for 2 weeks that I drank something else than water. Some kind of a powder you mix with water to give you more energy. Taste like orange and there’s some vitamin C added to it.. And something else. I’ve been longing to drink something sweet. I hardly even think about the Mauna. I don’t even want to talk at all. I like being by my own, to myself. That’s a liberating feeling to me.
The Italians here just can’t respect the Mauna though. I’ve seen them gather around the round tables outside, as soon as it gets dark, to talk. Almost like someone trying to quit smoking, sneaking away in the dark to have a smoke. But it doesn’t really bother me.
Experienced a lot of energies today during the meditation with the “cosmic beings”. If I had been at home, I would have gone home afterwards, turned on the computer and eaten crisps or something. Can’t do that here, but that’s OK. You can buy crisps and cookies here but I havn’t really felt like it.
I purchased a couple of framed pictures, a T-shirt and that powder.
The night was not fun at all. Horrible headache. Couldn’t sleep. Felt nauseous and like I had a fever. Finally I couldn’t take it anymore and took an aspirin. After an hour I fell asleep (about 04:30).
Strangely, I’ve felt very alert the whole day.
Good food here. You live like at a good standard hotel.

I don’t feel especially grateful or any will to meditate or pray. Feels good that this feeling is 100% accepted within me.
Everything flows smoothly.
Good night!
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14 Aug (about 21:00)

Today I bought some things to those at home. Nothing special. A couple of CD’s some kind of special Indian toothpaste with something special in it, a soap, a book (evenings with Bhagavan) and a framed picture of Amma. Last but not least CRISPS!. I’ve eaten crisps in golden city ;-) .
Routines and deeksha like usual.
My inner process is right now about the mind and how it is impossible to get rid of. However it does lose some control over oneself if you can just see it. Just look at it without judging.
For example if you are afraid of something: “I am afraid!”. Not: “ I am afraid, but I’m not supposed to feel like that because bla bla bla and that is because bla bla bla” – in all eternity. That’s the game of the mind. We have tried solving our problems for millions of years by analyzing and reasoning. Has it worked?
What ever you feel: Accept it. Why? … Because it’s there. There is nothing you can do about it. That makes it lose it’s charge. Even escaping from the mind is a trick of the mind. It ALWAYS wants you to become or achieve something new. It says to us: “it’s right there, the solution is just around the next corner!” For all eternity. But the house is round!

Today during the meditation with the “cosmic beings”, almost everyone started laughing hysterically (for “no reason”). When we all had just calmed down and it was quiet again, one woman laughed a little bit and someone shushed her: “ssschhh!!” and we all broke out in even bigger laughter!

What the…. My towel was gone after the room got cleaned. Good thing I brought extra ones. I sent a text message to my family (to dad), saying that everything is OK, and another one to Therése.
The 15th (I think) is Amma’s birthday. Let’s see what happens then. Maybe a super-duper party? ;D

I’m going to get to bed here soon.. I’m not tired though. The last 2 days I’ve had incredible energy.
GOOD NIGHT!
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To be continued….

/Marcus Knudsen
http://www.xphirience.com

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Diary: 21 day process at the Oneness University – Part 2

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Diary: 21 day process at the Oneness University – Part 2

08 Aug 21:25
The days go by… what day is it? My watch says Monday but I don’t know. There has been a lot of contemplation today, with the subject “God”.
What’s God to us? What is that present force that makes things just happen “out of the blue” when you need it the most?
All the details about this journey… how everything just worked out perfectly. There’s so much… like that I and Eva went here together is no coincidence. Without her I might not have had any place to sleep the first night (had problem with my hotel room reservation.. They misunderstood my reservation, but it turned out Eva’s room had two beds. Neither one of us knew that). The time when I calmed her down in the taxi when she was freaking out because she thought we where about to get mugged. She was about to open the taxi door in the middle of the road. We have been each other’s guardian angels in a way. She just new she should go to the preparatory course in Sweden to see if there was anyone to travel with. Coincidence? No.

I miscalculated the number of days left to the flight before the trip which led to me meeting Annette Carlström at a bus stop. Of course I told her that I was going to GC and she prayed from her heart that the process would give me everything I ever searched for.
Or the fact that my brain just started planning for the trip, just like that, one morning without me ever even having the thought that I should go. All these things… coincidence? No, this is the hand of god and the answer from god. God is always trying to show us through these out of the blue “lucky coincidences” coming from nowhere he/it/her/something is there, never giving up. Year after year, life after life. Until we see!. Now I see. How much love is that?. God WANTS us to see… waiting there for us. I’m deeply grateful and a couple of tears rolled down my face upon this realization today. God is Love!

Today we had deeksha and some “ritual”, I’m not writing about that. Insights are more important. I pray for my family. Mom, Dad, Björn, Fredrik, Patrik.
I’m starting to feel the presence of “God” in my chest and a kind of relationship is building up. Thank you. I think the “diarrhea-guy” is well now. It makes me happy!. Time to sleep. Namaste. (21:50).
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09 Aug, 21:47

Today we received a special deeksha. It all got about 3-4 hours delayed because the ones who where to give the deeksha are in such a high state of cosmic consciousness that they are pretty hard to “transport”. They move very slowly and have to be led and helped. Not very functional in this word on a physical level.

I got disappointed that I didn’t feel hardly anything from this “special deeksha”, but now half a day after I can see what happened.
I got disappointed, started to accuse everyone and everything, got angry, and then angry and disappointed at myself for accusing others completely ridiculous things like “who does he think he is? Sitting there in some yoga-posture showing off”. I saw my state of mind and felt depressed that I felt this way and that I couldn’t get out of it.
So I prayed to my friend who has been with me all my life, who has been present and helping all the time.
Nothing happened, but an extremely comical thought entered my mind (won’t explain it here) and I started laughing. Time after time. Then a fly landed right on the tip of my nose and somehow I found that extremely funny too and I laughed.
Now all the “troubling” emotions where just gone with the wind and I could not get them to emerge again. Gone. I like my new friend… ;-)
And what was the very next thing that happened? A Dasa talking about that exact same subject I had just experienced. To run from your own suffering by dealing with all this inner stuff in all eternity. To blame others for our own suffering.. “Who’s fault is this?” etc. When you where 4 years old the story was that someone stole your toy, and today it’s things like people who wont leave you alone etc. Like they said in the very beginning here “You will get what you need, but probably not in the way you expected or wanted.”.
Later in the afternoon I contemplated over painful memories. Tears. Understanding. Love. We are going to dive really deep in to this the coming days. I want to. No more escaping. Namaste and Good night! (22:09).
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One more thing: During the meditations I see a lot of inner images on things like mushrooms, flowers, people etc and very often in extremely great numbers. Like a whole field filled with flowers, the same with the people and everything else, like just patterns of light etc.

Here in the Diary I have drawn an image supposed to look like hundreds or thousands of people. In the middle there is a big pillar of light and everyone is moving in to this light.

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Diary: 21 day process at the Oneness University – Part 1

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

How I got in contact with deeksha and the oneness university

I started taking deeksha here in Sweden around the year 2001. My memory is not very good with years and dates so it may not be correct, but I remember attending the very first Satsang in Sweden that was about the Oneness University (but back then this name didn’t exist yet) and it was held by a guy named Palle Nielsen (I think) and this was before they started initiating people to give deeksha. But this guy had gotten some kind of gift from Bhagavan to give healing by putting the hands on top of the head. The person could then receive either healing of the body, mind or get some kind of temporary altered state of consciousness that would be healing in itself, just having had the experience.

For example if someone was always stressed, this person might get the experience what it was like to be totally free of all stress and the memory of this experience may change this persons view on some part of life or him/herself.

Soon people started going to This man named Bhagavan and his wife Amma in India. The place was called Golden City. Annette Carlström was one of the first or the first (not sure) to be initiated in giving deeksha and I went to as many “Satsangs” with her as possible. The following years I literally received hundreds of deeksha’s (usually you got many deekshas per Satsang). It was very intense and I experienced everything from incredible bliss to horrible suffering.

One morning I woke up and my brain started planning for a trip to The Oneness University to go the 21 day program they had then. It was like it was already decided for me. It’s very hard to explain but there was almost nothing I could do about it. Before I knew it I had booked the flight and all that.

I am a young man (28 when writing this) so at that time I was 25 and had never even traveled by airplane, was pretty insecure and shy, and here I was planning a solo trip to India. It was automatic.

Anyway, I got in contact with some more people going there and I ended up going together with a woman named Eva who live in a town near mine.

Now I’ll skip ahead to the second day of the Diary (The first is just about the trip itself.. not that interesting to read really).
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05 Aug 2006, 21:20
(This is the morning after arriving to the hotel in India (Chennai), the morning that we got picked up by a bus that took us to the Oneness University)

Slept pretty good. Didn’t eat the hotel breakfast because I wanted to sleep a bit longer. I had some fruit, bread and other stuff with me instead. Quite many people here also going to the same place. The bus ride took a few hours and in that time I saw everything from the “rich” neighborhoods to the very poor people living in small shacks. Eva told me a story from when she lived at a monastery in Italy (named Fransiko-something). She and her friend both saw a statue of Jesus move.

The bus arrived to GC (golden city) and when we drove through the gates to this place I was struck by incredible gratefulness. About a year before that I had a dream in which I was standing in line to enter a gate and Bhagavan and Amma stood at each side of this gate. I couldn’t see through the gate.. I could just see light shining from it.

We got out of the bus and where welcomed by a couple of Dasa’s (monks). One of them put his hand on my shoulder, looked my deep into the eyes and said ‘welcome!’. That must have been one of the warmest welcomes I ever had.
It’s impossible to not get affected by the presence of these monks.

They showed us our room (13 beds) and we made ourselves at home and then it was time for lunch. Have to say that the Mauna (silence – non speaking rule) is poorly respected.
If you pay 50.000 SEK to attend this process, the least you can do is follow the rules right?

Walking back form the diner I where struck by this gratefulness again: “I’m walking with my feat touching the ground in Golden City! Marcus from Helsingborg in GC”.
It’s very very hot here, but they have extremely good air conditioning in the rooms etc.
I’m looking forward to tomorrow, I’m very excited. Every now and then I can feel the stillness in this place… it must be the “high energies” they are talking about that you are supposed to feel here.
Time to sleep!
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06 Aug 21:36
Gentle start of this day. We didn’t gather until 10:00 in the meditation hall. They went though some routines, simple rules etc and we did a short meditation. Lunch at 13:00 and then a new gathering at 17:00. It was raining cats and dogs and when we all got to the meditation hall the guides wasn’t there yet so we all had to wait in the pouring rain. (apparently you wait A LOT in India, come to think about it we had to wait 1½ hour for the lunch too… India! ;-) )

When we entered the meditation hall they had a welcoming ceremony for us. They made a small mark at our third eye with something looking like moist soil and they sprinkled some blessed water on us, a hug and heartfelt “Namaste!”. We sat down and presented ourselves briefly , the mic when from person to person.

Later the Dasa spoke about different things like that we where all here for our own special reasons. Nothing was a coincidence and that we had probably all been searching for many many years or even lifetimes. Now we needed a final push, help from the divine to brake through the “veil” that was between us and what we where seeking.
He said the deeksha is this push, the connection to the divine and that we will each be initiated to give deeksha to others. We did some “Aarthi” (welcoming/inviting the divine, whatever the divine was for each of us) and received a short deeksha. No hands on, just by intent.
I felt the kundalini going up and was affected quickly and also felt a glimpse of stillness and love in my chest. But that was all, it was time to eat.

Tomorrow we meat at 07:30 at the same place. I just took a shower. It felt really good in this heat. Only one temperature on the water, but it was perfect. I’m going to get some sleep now, if I can. A big snoring American sleeps in this room too… but I’m sure It’ll be fine.
Some of my thoughts go to those at home and I hope they are not worried.
I like it here! And I enjoy the Mauna. GOOD NIGHT!! :)
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07 Aug 21:20

Today we received our first “hands on” deeksha. It was done in the same way as at home and it felt good… pretty much like usual. Energies went through the body and I felt like laughing.
By the way, we got to see Ananda Giri. He spoke with (to) us. I like him. He is very honest.
Someone asked him why she never felt anything during deeksha and why some specific changes etc occurred in her that she where striving for. Ananda Giri became silent.. For a long time. Then he said “I don’t know”.

The thoughts really get amplified… and I feel that I feel bothered by people a lot. I often think to myself that people are so stupid, like “typical American” etc. But what does that matter? Nothing happens just because I think so. Even if someone would be stupid for real, they can’t help it. It’s circumstances, upbringing, traumas etc that made it that way.
Yesterday I realized how long I’m going to be here. It still doesn’t feel like things have “really started” yet. But it has. This only shows my own frustration that things must happen, but this feeling too is a part of me that I should see.

We have our first sick person… the poor guy has diarrhea. He is laying in bed, very weak. I pray for him. I didn’t “come” here. I was brought here. Someone must have heard my prayers and brought this to me (or me to this). Things happen here, maybe not in the way you would want, but in the way that teaches you the most and takes you to where/what you need. I’m starting to feel very at home. You get so taken care of.

The thunder Is lighting up the sky tonight. We gather 07:30 tomorrow in the meditation hall.
Namaste & good night!
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To be continued very soon…

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