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Having read the experience of transcendentalists and mystics of East and West, Laurie’s intuition was flawlessly convinced that Spirit was experienceable. For her case, however, she despaired — concluding that God’s unavailability must reflect her unworthiness; detainment from India must reflect her unreadiness. Such darkness oppressed the days of this usually vibrant soul.
At the first hint of The Light, she did not recognize it. Her San Francisco roommate excitedly burst in upon one of Laurie’s quiet evenings to exclaim that a swami from India was coming to speak in the city! (It was no secret to friends that Laurie dreamed of traveling to India to study.) Yet Laurie rebuffed the enthusiasm, protesting: The swami could not be a genuine holy man. No being of enlightenment would come to this materialistic United States.
Dismayed but undaunted by this reception, the roommate determined to attend the free public lectures herself. Impressed by his humility and genuineness, Laurie’s roommate afterward sought out the swami backstage and told him about Laurie and her spiritual search. The swami’s spiritual radar quickly discerned Laurie as an evolved disciple from a previous life; he charged the roommate to convince Laurie to the next lecture.
Condescending to “try one” lecture, Laurie went — and was won over. She confessed, “I always wanted to go to India, but in his presence I knew that the best of India had come to me.” Even before she studied the swami’s meditation classes, she felt herself awakening from his mere presence. Walking back from the final public lecture, she felt sure that she was in some way changing, becoming a new person.
Arriving home she retired to her room and to gaze in the mirror to see this New Person. There she saw, to her amazement, not her own face but the face of the swami whose talk she had just attended. Immediately there followed light, bliss, love, vitality, The Vision. Laurie’s description of her experience of Nirbikalpa Samadhi (Sanskrit for Cosmic Consciousness) is best read in her own words. She relates the spiritualization of all her life experiences; how she became not airy or unfit for the world but rather a divinely improved performer at all tasks, whether heavenly or mundane. On the streetcar, children spontaneously approached her, crawled onto her lap, and asked her to visit them. Joy and love radiated from her every pore. The experience went on for weeks, then gradually faded away.
The divine bliss, peace, and love returned, however, whenever she practiced the swami’s Self-Realization Fellowship methods of meditation. For 95¢ this little booklet offers you Laurie’s experience and an eye-opening introduction to stories of others who have seen the Face of God. For me it is a continual reminder to mine the depth of those meditation techniques until I myself know the diamonds of His presence.
A few copies of the booklet may still be available at the Center for Life Enrichment (in Greensboro, NC). Online orders may be place with the S.R.F. Publishers, who have a host of uplifting materials worth your investigating.
You may want to journey upward on the leads you to the same tools that Laurie praised so highly and pursue your own meditation practice.
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