A Powerful Meditation Experience By Ma Mangla Anand

What is Meditation? Maharishi Patanjali explain it as Dhyana (in Sanskrit) in Patalnjali Yoga Sutra, a very ancient book. But you can read about Meditation in all the ancient book about Yoga that you find out and still don’t know what is Meditation. To have a knowledge means to know, not to have memory. The real knowledge comes from the experience; it is also called direct knowledge (Patanjali, Ch.1 Sutra 7). But, again, if you are not present in your experience, if you are not aware, if you aren’t inside the experience you will not reach and realize it.

I could experience Meditation with the grace of Guru ji (Dc Omanand). I’m in Paramanand Ashram for 500hrs yoga therapy teacher training; two times a day there’s meditation class. I experienced here ChithShakti Meditation, a very strong and powerful meditation teach by Guru ji; and it is really as he always says: “Mediation is the best medication!”. He knows more than 100 techniques, so every time it is different, different way to go inside, from different starting point, etc… And last night I had one of the most powerful meditation in my life!

We started the meditation sitting in Sukhasana (easy pose) with eyes open, focus on the 3rd eye, between the eyebrows. The breath was slowly, with long inhalation, holding the breath as much as comfortable and exhalation. At the beginning I felt some burning sensation and sweet pain in my eyes but I tried not to blink, as per indication of Guru ji. Soon my right eye filled with tears in the lower lid. All my concentration was on the 3rd eye and after some time I started to de-focus the external world and all was changed.. I saw 3 Lucy (another student that was sit in front of me) in front of me that were moving: one towards me, another moving away from me and anther on the side. From the top of the figure one light purple-blue color came, but only in the upper part. All was strange, without defined edges. When Guru ji asked to close the eyes, I did it and a lot of tears came out; I didn’t realize earlier that. And then the second part started: with the eyes closed I started to feel some energy al the base of my body, departing from Mooladhar Chakra. I felt if there was the force of the entire universe, like an atomic bomb inside me, that was shaking inside me and moving in all the body followed by a yellow light. Like a crazy monkey, moving and jumping here and there. And..I wasn’t able to move. I was transfixed .. but I wanted to move, this energy shacked me so much. It was like a huge pressure inside me that was searching the way to go out, but my body and my mind were unable to do this.

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More time passes, the more this energy grew powerful. I started to feel strong contractions of the muscles of my right leg and my belly, like cramps but without pain. Very specific points were as squeezed, like if the energy stopped there for few seconds. Only one word = energy! In multi-forms. At the end, from my belly this multiple vortexes rose up and it found a way to go out. Before a short laugh came and immediately after came the tears. I was crying from my belly, and more tears came, more I felt light and calm. Slowly I was liberating from all that energy, that leaves in that place inside me only peace and calm. But my body was destroy, the feeling was like after the longest race of the life..a felling of my ego with whom I was fighting. When Guru ji, that was guide us all the time, asked to come back and open the eyes, I wasn’t ready. I lied down and it took some time before to really calm down myself, other crying was there. When it was finish, I felt exhausted! But free, light and enlighten! And very happy! Another moment (it was more than one hour!) in my true nature, my true self!

Om Shanti
Written By “Ma Mangla Anand”

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