My Own Journey with Kundalini
Many years ago, I found myself walking into a small upstairs room in a quiet suburb of Melbourne Australia to meet a man who, I had heard, had undergone a deep awakening into the unitive dimension of being. That man was Master Charles
Through a series of seeming coincidences (I had been interested in brainwave entrainment sound technology and Kundalini awakening) I had been led to this room, and with great anticipation I awaited his entry.
Up
until this point in my spiritual journey I had been an ardent
reader of teachers such as Jiddu Krishnamurti and Nisargadatta
Maharaj, along with various Christian mystics such as St. Teresa
of Avila and St. John of the Cross. More recently, I had been
introduced to the late Nityananda of Ganeshpuri, and Baba
Muktananda. Needless to say, I had high expectations.
When Master Charles entered the room, I observed him closely;
he seemed to sway like a drunken elephant and moved very slowly. He was wearing what appeared to be a silk monk’s garment (I
would later learn that this was a gift to him from his guru, the
late Baba Muktananda).
My mind was not at all impressed by any of this, for my image of an awakened sage was that he or she
would be beyond image consciousness, simple and ordinary.
Master Charles seemed to be full of a sense of theatre and show.
I sat disappointed, reviewing in my mind the great expense I had
now accrued in getting to this disappointing meeting. A fake, I
thought.
I was in this state of total disillusionment, and free from expectation that anything might happen, when Master Charles started to casually gaze around the room (he still hadn’t spoken).
I was
seated toward the back of the room, and when his gaze met
mine, something happened that was outside of time and space.
Suddenly a deep intuitive awareness of the essential oneness of Consciousness arose within my heart. A direct, tacit, wordless understanding that
Consciousness is not personal but universal.
Like dry leaves caught in a swift
strong wind, I could feel all prior conditioning based on separation crumble, and the tension that goes with it dissolve in a
flash of timeless understanding.
What happened next came
totally out of the blue; I felt a subtle sensation within the region
of my chest, almost as if a cork had been popped and vast
waves of Love began surging within my being. These waves just
kept on coming, arising from somewhere deep within my own
Self, and as they flowed, my whole being was saturated in Love.
Suddenly it occurred to me that this Love was flooding the whole
universe, filling and sustaining all and everything. At that recognition, my mind lost its hold, and I melted totally in the recognition that there is enough love within each of us for all of us. There
is no shortage of Love. The universe is filled with it, and it is us.
I sat immersed in Love for the remainder of the program, literally swimming in a sea of Love and energy. I felt certain that I had
come to meet this Divine Presence that animated all of Life and
not a separate person.
Though I understood and recognized that
what Master Charles and all of us really are IS this animating
Presence, and that this Presence was awake to itself through
Master Charles.
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