Deeksha - the miraculous effect of a tranquil phenomenon
A large number of learning processes are shown in the form of stories. And that’s a good thing. Stories are gripping and hold our attention. Attention is a key factor in the story of learning how to forget. Our target in just seven days is a truly honourable intention: release from suffering.
The subject matter is compact. From day to day the intensity is increased. At the start of the first day I was still thinking: “Well, I’ve already done business seminars to increase business success.” But just as soon as I had finished this thought, everything changed. The essential work started. For me that was the driving force that made me join this Level 1 course. No, it wasn’t that I was lacking in knowledge, how thoughts function, fit together, their effects … As I’m sure many people do, I felt even as a child that this Creation can do more than teach us how to do our jobs, buy cars, build houses, start families, go on holiday – so that exhausted as a result of so much outward activity and carrying the burden of this effort we finally ask ourselves: Surely that wasn’t all there was to life? What’s the point in all that?
I managed to climb the professional career ladder quite quickly. At the age of 30 I became Chief Editor of the Austrian consumer magazine “Ihr Einkauf”. I was able to fulfil my creativity. I enjoyed taking on responsibility. Enjoyed all the lovely people around me. I was inquisitive and open towards life. Brave enough to seize visions and realise them with enthusiasm. I was interested in everything that helped my life find wholeness. The appearance of two wonderful children enriched my life greatly. I felt comfortable, blessed by life. I was grateful for it.
And then came 26th December 2004. It was the day on which the Tsunami left deep wounds of pain in many people across the world. They hit our family in the holiday resort of Khao Lak in Thailand. My mother, dead. The son of some dear friends, dead. My daughter, just two and a half years old, missing. Still. Feelings of powerlessness and helplessness filled me as never before in my life. No, not feelings that I was a victim. My trust in God was too great for that. Despite everything! Yes, despite everything.
My trust in Creation remained intact. Yet question upon question was raining down. What – just what was the point of all this suffering on Earth? It isn’t material suffering. Whether you’re poor or rich – the feeling of suffering is the same. Whether you’re healthy or sick, black or white, male or female – the feeling of suffering behind it all is always the same! It’s suffering on a spiritual plane.
A suffering that takes place in the world inside. It cries out to be released.
This suffering brought me to the Deeksha process. I heard about it from a dear friend. Just by chance, in the way that information that you’re supposed to chance upon finds its way directly to you.
Usually when you’re inwardly calm and have become ready to receive it. So I’m sitting here this very Wednesday and I feel exhausted – and at the same time relieved. Maybe “liberated” is a better expression for it. Liberated from emotional stress, and exhausted from the release process achieved as a result.
Since the roots of all, shall we say “difficulties or suffering processes” in our lives lie in the relationship with our father and mother, this time is seen as the most important process. Our entire being is characterised by what we learn and experience in these years. Back then we made fundamental childhood decisions in the context of relevant experiences, and we are still governed by this conditioning today. Every single one of our cells is governed by this characterisation. You could also talk about emotional loading.
It is these that make us into countless personalities within one person. They all cry out for attention. You could picture a marketplace where there is just too much information to take in, where countless stallholders are trying to sell their products to men and women at the tops of their voices. They are all crying out for attention. But we reject the aspects of our unwanted personalities (the products), qualities such as anger, rage, annoyance, impatience, jealousy, grief, censoriousness, pain, fear …
But since all the personalities are there all the time, unwanted personalities can become wanted ones just by changing the load. The solution lies in accepting them. This allows another process to run its course. Many tissues were soaked with tears and many a body shook with pain…
And that was just the first day.
Day after day we immerse ourselves in the sea of emotion, go through things step by step and peel away obstructive characterisations from ourselves. It’s interesting to learn that financial problems in our lives usually represent conflict with our fathers. If our problems are with our career or health, their roots can be found in conflict with our mothers.
Something important though: suffering is never within a thing or person, it’s always in our perception of it. We perceive, quasi in association with a person, feelings of rage, hurt, jealousy, fear, grief, guilt… The process ahead involves experiencing these feelings, this process of suffering totally (!). Until it begins to change. To change into joy, liberation… At the same time we also experience trust that it’s possible to end suffering. We are filled with gratitude.
A deep knowledge is imparted to us, so that we can experience reality as it really is: the function of the mind, of thoughts, of the process leading from suffering to trust, from trust to joy, from joy to tranquillity, from tranquillity to bliss, from bliss to concentration. Somehow it sounds easy, almost logical – doesn’t it?
Every morning we start the day with yoga, breathing exercises and meditation. After breakfast it’s back to attentiveness, just in a different form from what we had earlier. Every day a different person – known as Dasa – leads the day with different topics.
As with anything that we want to achieve in life, the key here is:
1. To have a focus, an objective.
2. Putting in everything that is needed to achieve the focus in the outside world (actively doing things) and inner world (perception). And finally:
3. Invoking the divine presence within us and asking for its blessing.
It’s this last point that makes the seven-day Deeksha process into a unique experience process. Into a journey to the world of oneness. You see, the objective of most course participants is to recognise that the feeling of being separated is an illusion. Even if this experience of oneness cannot be experienced by many, the journey towards it has been initiated. Through daily blessings, usually performed in the evenings. Yes, it really is blessings and God’s grace that are the tools that touch us all noticeably at heart level and open for the phenomenon of the “Golden Ball”. “Deeksha” – the transfer of energy to expand consciousness. For the essence of who and what I am. For a space in which every thought becomes tranquillity.
The intensity of this experience increases from day to day. At the moment everyone is oscillating on the frequency that reflects his inner world. And to stay in constant contact with it, silence is necessary. In this way, perception becomes even finer. Do not seek external distractions. Observe thoughts when coming or going, perceive feelings, keep your own company and stay tranquil. The blessings, known as Deeksha or Oneness Blessing, support this process. It is truly at this point where the mind moves aside that it is time to experience grace.
A healing fire ritual, known as “Homa”, serves to prepare for initiation on the evening of the penultimate day. For the initiation of the person giving the blessing, the Deeksha giver. But also to join in with the spreading of this healing energy by laying hands on the head of the person to be blessed, the Deeksha receiver. There are already thousands across the globe who are using this energy independently of any religion to release them from suffering and awaken them to oneness.
Visiting the Golden City Temple, home of the Golden Ball, is another absolute climax of this week. The presence of the temple in its white splendour, a breathtaking size, standing in the midst of a green landscape made up of countless little villages, is like a force magnet. The temple was built according to the principles of the ancient Indian construction technique, Vasthu, and because of its position, where energy lines cross in the earth, it is a catalyst for expanding the planet’s consciousness.
Finally we come to the Golden Ball. It appeared to the founder Sri Bhagavan at the age of about four, it heralded his vision and manifests itself in the doctrine of oneness.
Finally at the end of the seventh day there are 125 German-speaking course participants from Austria, Germany and Switzerland who are going out into the world as Deeksha givers, to spread this tranquil phenomenon and allow it to take effect in a wonderful way.
