It
was in SachaDham, India that I had the first private meeting with ShantiMayi.
In that conversation, she expressed a broad spectrum of possibilities that life
seemed to have “in stock” for me. Her words spoken in these precious moments are
still echoing in waves of ever deepening disclosure. I remember her saying: “You
are going to initiate people into Gayatri Mantra.” Freshly entering the realm of
the Sacha lineage, I did not understand what she was speaking about, and
replied: “What is the Gayatri Mantra?” “We will make an intensive.” she said,
“And you will be deeply introduced.”
In one way, I intuited instantly that I had stumbled upon a sacredness and
profundity beyond comprehension. Yet due through sticky conditioning, I went
through an unbelievable restlessness that evening in my room, turning and
twisting all night long in my bed: “What did she say? Would I be able to live up
to whatever she was speaking about? Did she expect something from me and would
not love me anymore if I was disappointing her?” The funny thing was that I felt
very uncomfortable at the same time, being entangled in such a doubtful
mind-fight, while ShantiMayi must be right. How could I doubt my Guru’s Wisdom?
Shame!
All is God
During the Gayatri intensive, I got an awesome inclination of the vast work of
the Sankulp of the Sacha Lineage: May all beings Wake Up! May all sentient
beings turn towards God. I felt tiny and glorious at the same time. By now
the Gayatri Mantra was resonating in the cells of my body as if my body were
completely transparent. I cannot even limit this transparency to the physical
phenomenon…. all that was observed had lost its density, thoughts included.
Every experience had lost its “location”. I felt free and could not wait to go
home and bring the mantra to all that would wish to learn it.
Ever since we are chanting the Gayatri Mantra a fixed time in the week in
Holland and Paris, and it has never happened that no one showed up. People are
asking for initiation and intensives are carried out. Many are touched and
recognize in an instant this old old chant of Hearts. It invokes the right
remembrance: All is God, we are One! In other words; it invokes freedom of the
notion of separation. Where would you draw the line?
The sky is the limit
The Gayatri Mantra is such a powerful gift that opens up to the realm of
imagination and to live in loving freedom from the Silence of the Heart for all
to shine.
Being with ShantiMayi has et al brought about a great awareness of the
boundlessness of possibilities in the appearance of life’s experiences. She
would say: “The sky is the limit!”, and shows a living example of playfulness
and vivid imagination that indeed One cannot be hindered by anything… I realized
that this is Pure Love, because the sky does not hold any opinion and includes
all.
“My” life is lived in one simple prayer ever since she introduced me to the sentiment and power of the Gayatri Mantra: to live in service for the awakening of all sentient beings.
This is living in Sacha.
Yes, she knew it: the key that opens the doors………. to the wide open sky.
Jivanjili
Leela (story) published in the book: Shri Hans Raj Maharajji AndThe Dawn of a New Consciousness