Arhatic Retreat 2007, New Delhi - by Jyoti Dandass

Atma Namaste!

Master Choa Kok Sui (MCKS) is indeed a sea of infinite love and kindness, and even though he was not present physically at the retreat his spirit was indeed omnipresent. As a seeker I have explored various paths leading to the Divine, but none has brought me close to experiencing divinity as the meditations at the Retreat. This true recollection that I am the soul, and final union is the only purpose for which we incarnate life after life. I have no words to express gratitude for the Guru who has laid out this path back home so explicitly and clearly. As a very small tribute to the family of Arhatic Yogis and Grand Master, I humbly share my experiences at the retreat.

I did my basic pranic healing course in December 2006, Advanced and Psychotherapy happened in quick succession. Therefore, for me MCKS was just a picture on the back cover of the various books, and even though I was impressed with the enthusiasm and dedication of the teachers at my center, I had no intention to take this any further. But the Master had other plans for me, and so I sighed up for the Arhatic Prep with absolutely no intention of going for the retreat how naïve I was!

The Preparatory program itself was an awakening. I have been a practicing Buddhist for over three years now and understood concepts of loving kindness, compassion and forgiveness and tried to put them in practice ever so often. But it is only after using the blue triangle that I am truly able to gradually rid my self of negative tendencies. Even though the karmic seeds are there the negative energy, which was providing fertile soil for these seeds to sprout and bear fruit, has been disposed off. Making it so much simpler to be non-injurious in thought, word action, emotionally and financially generous, focused.

Absolutely nothing prepared me for the ecstasy I was to experience during these five days. I have had several spiritual experiences in my life but they had been scattered and I was unable to put together the pieces and find direction; the retreat provided me a sanctuary where I encountered my soul and have emerged from it emotionally cleansed, centered, spiritually nurtured in my quest for union with Divinity.

Shaktipath

As I mentioned before unlike most of the other Arhatic Yogi's I did not share too much of a connection with MCKS. So I really did not miss his bodily presence at the retreat. And this may be the reason for what followed. When Master spoke to us on the phone I was to my utter amazement hit with waves of joy. And in the meditative silence that followed I was engulfed in sensations predominantly in my heart and crown chakra , experiences of love, bliss joy in my minds eye I say all the bodies around me melt and merge in to one mass within the master's being. And then more bliss as I saw myself at the masters feet experiencing exquisite ecstasy in my entire being. My face was drowning in tears. That is when I realized that my search for a Guru is over.

Blue Pearl Meditation

I close my eyes and touched my tongue to the upper palate and felt waves of peace, there was a purple dark Indigo ball before my eyes and for some time I focused on the golden flame but soon my consciousness expanded and was spreading in all directions. I felt I was being pulled out of my body from the top of my head and the feeling was of excruciating ecstasy I regret that I have no words to describe this feeling. It was as I was so filled up that I would burst with the bliss and then I let go and was in a deluge of powerful yet blissful golden light I had tears streaming form my eyes from sheer bliss!. I had absolutely no desire to return back to my body but Acharya Hector was adamant. So here I am.

Om Chanting

While Chanting Om, in the last leg of the three days, I had an out of body experience and felt the separateness of the body and soul/consciousness. My entire being was enveloped in extremely bright sunlight, at some point I was floating above the hall. My consciousness traveled extensively, a lot of it I cannot remember nor describe. But my body was absolutely still, almost breathless and. But when Achary Danny asked us to return to our bodies to my surprise I was not able to. My neighbour kindly shook me and asked me to end my meditation but I was unable to return to my body. I was aware of my heart palpitating yet I was not in my body. The consciousness was enjoying its freedom….My physical body and brain wanted to bless the list of projects for 2007 as all other souls in their bodies were doing. But this soul continued its sojourns and did not return, I sat in meditation out of body, through the next set of exercise and meditation …In fact the retreat ended and I still out there somewhere, now rather concerned about my catatonic state….and suddenly I felt my self going deep below as if I were shrinking like in a Sc-Fi movie….I even wondered how my body was managing to sit in Ganesh Pose without experiencing the usual discomfort….Finally, I swooped back and it is only when the pain hit my legs I realized that –I AM NOT MY BODY I am the soul, truly.

Master's photo

At the end of the retreat the hall emptied rapidly and I moved closer to the stage to take a photograph of the Masters beautiful photo up on the backdrop. Half bemused after the above experience, I looked in through my cell phone camera and was completely stunned to saw master's lips moving, as if chanting. I looked at all the others and they seemed very mundanely going about their business. I thought I was hallucinating and so made a video of the still photograph of Master and even in the video his lip continue to chant. For those of you who are interested I have posted this video (not very clear) on Youtube please click on the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t61ZvvOvWaI

Thank you PHFD for organizing the retreat so beautifully. Thank you Master Choa Kok Sui and All the Acharyas at the retreat. Thank you all for reading this.

(Jyoti Dandsass, Jan. 2007)

Man: The Inverted Tree of Life (Excerpts from The Spiritual Essence Of Man by Master Choa Kok Sui)

Man: The Inverted Tree of Life

In the Kabbalistic tradition, man is spiritually an inverted tree. What is the meaning of this? Sahasrara (Crown Chakra) is the entry point of the divine energy. It is through Crown that one is spiritually rooted upward to the higher soul and ultimately to God. This spiritual root or spiritual cord is called sutra atma in Sanskrit. It comes from two words: sutra which means "thread", and atma which means the "self" or the "soul."

In ordinary people the spiritual root is as thin as a hair strand. As a person practices and masters the virtues or develops strong inner character, the spiritual root becomes thicker. By meditating or praying regularly the spiritual root becomes bigger. Man is truly a spiritual inverted tree, with the higher soul and the divine spark (Paramatma) as the source of the spiritual root.

When a person has a strong spiritual connection with his higher soul, the person is whole or has integrity. This manifests as wholesomeness. To be more accurate and correct, it is not a matter of whether a person is connected with the higher soul or not, but the degree of connection. In Christian terminology, the drawing in of spiritual nutrient called the "descent of the holy spirit" or "spiritual energy." In Chinese, spiritual energy is called Tian Chi. Tian, in its deeper meaning means "God". Chi means "energy." Tian Chi, therefore, means "God's energy" or "divine energy". It has been mistranslated as "cosmic energy."

According to Master Choa Kok Sui, in one of his books, Meditations for Soul Realization:

From the divine spark or paramatma, an energy cord extends "downward." It is brilliant "white" light and is called the divine cord. The divine cord goes down to the higher soul. From the higher soul, it goes down to the incarnated soul ( jivatma).

The divine cord, as it passes through the higher soul going "down" to the incarnated soul, is differentiated into three silver cords: The silver cord of life, the silver cord of emotion and the silver cord of consciousness. These three silver cords are encapsulated in the divine cord….the combination of the divine cord with the three silver cords is called the spiritual cord [root] or the spiritual antenna.

Lord Krishna and The Inverted Tree of Life

Lord Krishna gave a spiritual discourse to Arjun before the Great War in chapter 15 of the Bhagavad-Gita (as translated by Barbara Miller). Lord Krishna says to Arjun:

Roots in the air, branches below,

the tree of life is unchanging…

Its form is unknown

here in the world

unknown are its end,

its beginning, its extent…

Then search to find

the realm

that one enters

Without returning:

I seek refuge

in the original spirit of man,

from which primordial

activity extended.

Lord Krishna taught Arjun that man-the soul is the Inverted Tree of Life with roots in the air. "Roots in the air", as stated earlier, is the sutra atma or the spiritual root. "Without returning I seek refuge in the original spirit of man", refers to achieving union or yoga with the divine spark or paramatma. This is one of the most profound teachings of Lord Krishna which has been a puzzle to most swamis and readers for thousands of years.

The Upanishads and The Tree of Eternity

The Tree of Life as mentioned by the Great Avatar Krishna in the Gita is called the Tree of Eternity in The Upanishads, in a translation by Eknath Easwaran:

The Tree of Eternity has its roots above

And its branches on earth below.

Its pure root Brahman (Supreme God) the immortal

From whom all the worlds draw their life, and whom

None can transcend. For this Self (I AM) is supreme!

The cosmos comes forth from Brahman and moves

In Him. With his power it reverberates,

Like thunder crashing in the sky. Those who realize Him

Pass beyond the sway of death….

If one fails to realize Brahman in this life

Before the physical sheath (body) is shed,

He must again put on a body

In the world of embodied creatures.

Excerpts from The Spiritual Essence Of Man by Master Choa Kok Sui.

MCKS is scheduled to give a Public Darshan on 23rd Jan, 2007 at the Sai Auditorium, Delhi. For more information and for invites/passes please visit http://delhipranichealing.net or http://pranichealing-delhi.com

Master Choa Kok Sui is the modern founder of Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga.

(Compiled by Ajay Pal)

Meditation on Loving-Kindness

Master Choa Kok Sui's Meditation of Twin Hearts is a higher form of the Meditation of Loving-Kindness, called metta in Buddhism. Through the daily practice of Meditation on Twin Hearts, the meditator is internally transformed and filled with peace, love and forgiveness. As the meditator internally transforms; the external environment, the people around him gradually transform. The external condition and the behavior of the people around us, to a substantial degree, is a reflection of our own internal condition. If there is peace, love and forgiveness within us; there will be peace, love and harmony around us. If there is pain, anger, hatred, constant criticism; there will be disharmony, discord, and even violence in one's surrounding.

Planetary Peace Movement was established in 1998 with the purpose of spreading meditation on Twin Hearts throughout the world. More than 125,000 people in India, especially students, have been taught and practice Meditation on Twin Hears.

The purposes why this mediation was revealed to the public are:

- To heal the planet. The loving energy generated can also be used to heal a small part of a city, a city, a state, or a county if done for a prolonged period of time by a sufficient number of people.

- To speed up spiritual development of people. The crown chakra is the centre of illumination and divine love or oneness with all. To achieve illumination or cosmic consciousness, it is necessary to sufficiently activate the crown chakra. However, before activating the crown chakra it is necessary to activate the heart chakra first. Without the ability to have compassion, mercy and love toward the people around you, how can you feel a certain degree of universal compassion and love for others, whom you do not even know?

- To increase the healing power of pranic healing practitioners. When practiced consistently for a long period of time, this meditation will activate the crown chakra of the healer to a high degree. A highly developed crown chakra is necessary to produce rapid healing or even miraculous healing in many instances.

When regularly used as a form of Service to Humanity, The Planetary Meditation for Peace, can bring Peace, Joy, Healing, and Reconciliation on many levels.

(From the teachings of Master Choa Kok Sui, the modern founder of Pranic Healing)

Master Choa Kok Sui is scheduled to give a Public Darshan at the Sai Auditorium on Jan 23rd. 2007. For more details please visit www.delhipranichealing.net

"… i am waiting for good master he can teach me very well…"

As taught by our Teacher, you get the teacher you deserve.

When you think that there are no good teachers any more to teach you, that the first batches were lucky, that everybody is money-minded, you create EXACTLY this reality.

You wait will be over when you look around with the opposite thought: "There is a good teacher near me who is just right for me."

Insomnia

Before going to sleep, lie down and relax again with the help of breathing. Then mentally cut all the energy cords with connect your chakras (specially, the solar plexus chakra) to people and events. Just cut and throw the cords out. Be aware of your abdomen, the area below your navel, continue breathing and feel that this is the central point of you being and you are a sphere of light. Feel that you are totally at peace and protected. When you concentrate on that one point, you become completely present and aware. If you are completely present and aware, you mind stops working and you become free of the mental constructions, projections and set patterns. When you are completely present, you realize that at this particular moment there is peace and bliss and security, there is nothing to worry, nothing to be stressed about, even nothing to do. It is a state of being, and then the higher consciousness that you are starts operating through you.

This is a simple yet very powerful meditation to help you to sleep.

Receptivity

To be more receptive to the healing energies, be consciously aware of your connection with the Light, Love and Power that is indwelling in you. Feel that you are the Giver of THAT, the fountain of LIFE. The moment you start giving out, you automatically create space for receiving more and more …

Dependence on outside sources creates a permanent lack, increases stress, strengthens the ego, alienates you from with the Oneness of life.