The Great Initiation - Awaken Your God Power This will be the title of a program that I
will be doing globally. It’s kind of ironical because this is the time I decided I am not
going to teach, and I am going to retire, but at the time when I made this decision,
I thought that I was going to stick on to it. But then, it so happened that I was almost
forced to do this program and commit to it. And commit to it globally, so that I am now
under the obligation of the power within me, which is forcing me to do this. And why am
I doing this? Because I am convinced, besides the Inner Calling, that this is the best of
what I have experienced in my own life, and this is what everybody should experience.
All of my life I have been involved in researching and teaching meditation, prayer, etc. But
to confess my own feelings about it, is that I am far from satisfied with the techniques.
Not that they are bad. They are good, but then they need some greater force, something
beyond and that is Initiation. Initiation is an experience. It is a transmission
that takes place, that puts you in a different state of consciousness. As soon as you receive
this Initiation, your mind consciousness, your thought consciousness, disappears, your
“I” consciousness disappears. There are several states of consciousness beyond this
usual one like waking, sleeping, and dreaming,like the 4th and 5th and 6th and 7th. And people
talk about as many as 16 -17 types of consciousness, but these are all theoretical, but you have
to experience. Once you experience this Initiation, then
you will know, “My God, how come I have spent so much of my time energy, and resources,
in doing so many things, but haven’t had the good fortune to experience this Initiation”.
The Initiation gives you an experience, an experience of the non-ordinary, an experience
of losing the body while you still are here very much around, and losing your “I”
consciousness, and that’s what an Initiation is. And what it, what it gives you is the
experience of the incredible power within you. After the Initiation and this condition
that you, has been ignited, stays with you. And then makes you to go again and again and
again to feel that experience. This doesn’t happen with meditation. This
doesn’t happen with prayer. And prayer and meditation are forced on your consciousness.
And then, most of the time you are fighting with your thoughts in meditation. In prayer
again, you just get frustrated because, “I’ve been praying so long, but nothing happens,
and then, what’s the use of praying?” So many thoughts crisscross and then, you
are not peaceful. So what happens in Initiation? In Initiation
you don’t do anything like you do in meditation and prayer. Something else comes and does
something to you. And what something else is, maybe God, maybe your Higher Self, maybe
the universe or maybe the neurons firing; whatever name you give it doesn’t matter.
But then you are totally transformed and you are in a different state of consciousness.
And it is important for everyone to experience that.
In the Indian Tradition, it is called Transmission or Shaktipat. Shaktipat is the transmission
of power from the teacher to the student. It is quite miraculous in the sense that even
before the teacher comes to the stage, you have a feeling of something that you cannot
put your finger on. You just feel it. And once the teacher comes, and gives you this
teaching, then you are in a state of mind that you have never experienced. And that
is Real Initiation. And I will give you an experience of that,
and it can happen in a few seconds; it’s not even a minute.