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
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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).