What the bleep is Deeksha?

If you are like me you have been to workshops, done vision quests, surrendered to teachers, gurus, spent countless hours at churches, temples or mosques desperately trying to find your way back to "the kingdom of heaven", our natural awakened state. You may have tried mantras, affirmations, yoga, tai chi, qi gong, journaling, rebirthing, drugs, plowed through book after book, spiritual material etc. All providing a temporary high, an aha or bliss ... and then what? Back where we started. Like looking at a heart beat monitor, blipping up but always coming back to the same starting point.

In March of this year I went to India. There I had the experience of an opening into our intrinsic state of enlightenment, our flowered heart, the indwelling divine within us being awakenened by a simple touch called Deeksha. This process began there and is continuing to open. And there are about 20 of us in Austin who can share this with you. Who are we and how did this happen? We are just normal people who went to India to spend 21 days with about 100 young enlightened beings called Dasas. They were enlightened by Amma and Bhagavan, a husband and wife Avatar team in southern India. Being in the presence of these young enlightened beings gave me such hope. These young dasas glowed with causeless love and joy. They were lit and lighting all they encountered. It has been said that to tell the quality of the teacher, check out their students. I knew from the moment I encountered them, that this was real, that they were truly enlightened and that you and I can actually be enlightened too. A collective awakening can happen. And now that I have returned to Austin, despite all that I hear on the news, I know that a collective awakening is underway! You don't have to go to India for this to happen. Hundreds of people have already done that and went through the process of opening so that they could bring the deeksha home to you.

Perhaps it is because of the time of humanity, perhaps it is because of the end of the Mayan Calendar, the prophecies of the Veda's, Bible or Quran, that there is a major energetic shift taking place on our planet allowing for mass enlightenment. All the ancients knew it was coming and wrote about it in their sacred texts. The Veda's speak about the time that we have recently emerged from as the Kali Yuga, or the time of darkness. The remnants are still with us, but we are emerging into the Golden Age of light. During the Kali Yuga it took a life time of devoted spiritual practice and austerities to achieve inner peace and enlightenment, and that is if you were one of the "special ones". Amma and Bhagavan say that we can all experience true peace, a love that is consistent, a causless love, truly unconditional and authentic joy, through a blessing similar to the laying on of hands that Jesus conferred. They waited many years before they brought this out into the world, testing to make sure that everyone could benefit by Deeksha and be able to access their awakened state within. Since their purpose is oneness, it would not do for any one to be left out if they desired this state. Deeksha is the means. This is why an experience of causless love and joy is available now through the phenomenon called Deeksha that Amma and Bhagavan birthed it in a little town in Southern India. Through the grace of this phenomena, over a thousand people have already experienced enlightenment, millions have received Deeksha and the process has begun within them.

According to Kiara Windrider, author of Fire From Heaven and one of the first Americans to receive enlightenment from Bhagavan, Bhagavan describes deeksha as an "electrical transmission of divine energy resulting in neurobiological changes in the brain leading to states of enlightenment." In an interview Bhagavan said this about Deeksha "When we give deeksha it is like the passing on of an electrical energy that affects the brain, the spinal cord, and what we call the ductless glands or the chakras. So most of the work is being done on the frontal lobes and the parietal lobes of the brain. There is an activation of the frontal lobes (the oneness and bliss centers of the brain) and a deactivation of the parietal lobes (the separation, fear and survival centers of the brain), plus some energies are sent into the ductless glands to reactivate these chakras...., and a link is established between God and man. Thereafter what happens is God's work."

Amma and Bhagavan say that enlightenment is a gift of grace, a benediction or blessing, and we do not have to earn it. That is so amazing to me. Before I went to India I was often doing as many as 5 hours a day of spiritual practices, trying to be more aware and raise my consciousness. When I went to India I found that every one of us can receive enlightenment and all those practices I did, all those books and hours of meditation possibly made it more difficult for me because of all the beliefs and spiritual concepts that I had acquired. Bhagavan has shared many times that the simple villagers who have no spiritual training are often experiencing full enlightenment easier than the rest of us because there is nothing that needs to be burned through to get to their essential self. Bhagavan says that God does not judge, only we judge.

Oneness is a reality that we rarely perceive, although it is essential to our nature. With out its perception we experience an underlying and often unconscious existential suffering. The suffering of loneliness. We will do anything other than experience this existential suffering. We long for oneness and the mind cannot give it to us. It takes this bioneurological shift for our perceptions to open to the point that we can experience what has always been there, just covered up by what Bhagavan calls the mud. When the frontal lobe is activated this mud can be chipped off by deeksha and your true nature is revealed.

Without Oneness there can be no true relationship. To enter into another's reality and see the world through their eyes, feel the world through their perceptions...this is true relationship. When we experience true relationship, we can not harm the seeming other because it would be the same as hurting ourselves. This is the beginning of world peace. Oneness begins with compassion for ourselves then our beloveds and friends then city, country and out into the world. This oneness was only an intellectual concept until I received deeksha. Then, the shifts started to take place in me (seemingly even in spite of me)... and the oneness began to take hold of my life. How is this possible? Because we already have it inside and we are unaware of it like a fish unaware of the ocean.. Our brain, the instrument of perception. just needs to be hooked up and Deeksha hooks us up by retraining our neurobiological perception mechanisms to a vastly expansive view. Just receive deeksha and the opening begins. As long as the parietals are our primary operating system we are unaware of the vast possibilities awaiting us. It has been said that the most brilliant people who have ever lived only used a tiny percentage of their brains. Let's open to the part of our brain that will allow us to live in peace and harmony instead of fear, protection and separation. When we are hooked up it will be natural to use our technology to feed, heal and care for our blessed earth and all her inhabitants instead of for personal gain, biological war fare, nuclear bombs etc.

Deeksha givers are like candles. In India, the deekshas we received burned away a lot of the superfluous material and left us able to light your candle. Once you are lit, the process begins for you. The dross burns, the neuro biological change begins to take place and your authentic awakened you emerges. With all my heart, I welcome you to come join us.

Meridian Grace is a Naturopath and ended her 40 years of spiritual seeking in India this March. She is delighted to share Deeksha for all. For more information check out her newly emerging website http://www.onenesscentre.net or call 280-9621.