Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Subject: AEGTC, Switzerland 1976
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Williams)
AEGTC, Switzerland 1976
By Jay Latham
Never had I seen him respond so powerfully. It was as if the "Hammer of
God" was slamming that table. He then exclaimed loudly, "This is real
wholeness!
Jay Latham:
"Maharishi, these experiences I've had over the past six months have been
glimpses of enlightenment for me. I had a tremendous awakening experience
before I started TM, but due to the circumstances, I feel a little shy about
telling it in the group." I then sent him a thought message that I would
relate my "experience" and not the "circumstances."
Maharishi paused for a moment to think about what I'd just said.
"It'll be all right to tell it," he said finally, in a thoughtful sort of
way.
"Maharishi, you've said that for every state of consciousness there is a
separate, corresponding state of reality. Waking state has its reality,
dream state has its reality, and deep sleep is another reality."
"Yes."
"You've taught us that transcendental consciousness is a fourth state of
consciousness?a fourth reality that is the underlying reality of all life."
"Yes."
"And you've taught that cosmic consciousness is a higher state of reality,
because one never loses consciousness of the transcendent even during
waking, dreaming and sleeping."
"Yes."
"You've also said that God consciousness and unity consciousness are even
deeper states of reality; so we have all these states of consciousness and
all these states of corresponding realities."
Maharishi said "yes" this time in a somewhat impatient way, as if to convey,
"Get to the point, where are you going with this?"
I'd been feeling an almighty power rise up inside of me as I asked Maharishi
each one of these questions, because I was consciously setting him up to
refute all that he had just said. I knew he knew the truth, but I wanted him
to come out with it in a way he had never done before. It was time for
us to stop playing around like little children at his feet, and elicit from
him the real truth. A great rage suddenly ripped through my chest, burning
the lie in my heart. I wanted Maharishi to kill it right then and there, for
all time.
"Maharishi, in the experience of wholeness I had before I started TM, what
you've just said that basically reality is different in different states of
consciousness, is a total lie! What I experienced one night five years ago,
is that there is only one reality, has always been one reality, and will
forever be one reality! EVERYTHING ELSE IS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL LIE!"
"YES! YES! YES!" Maharishi loudly proclaimed. With each "YES," his fist came
down on the table, "Bang, Bang, Bang!" Never had I seen him respond so
powerfully. It was as if the "Hammer of God" was slamming that table. He
then exclaimed loudly, "This is real wholeness! I don't want to hear
anything but experiences of real wholeness! Continue with your experience."
"What I discovered in my experience, Maharishi, was that the personality I
know as Jay Latharn is a complete, fictitious lie. There is only one Being,
God. Everything else, even the 'reality' of God consciousness, is an
illusion. It's just like Shankara said."
"Now this is the real experience of wholeness!" Maharishi proclaimed
excitedly.
"What happened is that I had an experience in which I went through all of
the states of consciousness. When I hit cosmic consciousness I closed my
eyes to meditate and witnessed creation in the flow of soma out of the bindu
point between my eyes. Everything shot out of that point, in stereo?whatever
came out on the left came out on the right. I saw the mechanics of creation.
It was the most amazing sight I ever saw. After that I started having
celestial perception with my eyes open."
I then briefly explained the major points of my experiencethe jewels I'd
seen in the ceiling and how things were constructed of light rays created
from God's mind?how I walked and moved through a cosmic plasma that erased
the force of gravity, etc. Maharishi was paying close attention to what I
was saying, and having his attention on me like this was like having God
Almighty bum the lie right out of my heart. The longer I held his attention,
the more enlightened I got. Yes, lie had closely followed rny progress for
the past six months and given me a lot of attention, but this moment was the
greatest I'd ever had with him.
I continued relating to Maharishi the progressive stages of rny awakening;
how I had felt the presence of God in everything and how everything I
perceived became the "artwork of the Creator" (Maharishi's descriptive words
for sensory experiences in the state of God consciousness). I told him of my
insights into God revealing to man the blueprints for a more comfortable
life on earth throughout the centuries, and how I went from God
consciousness into Unity Consciousness and perceived God looking back at me
in every object that came within my primary line of vision.
"Everything I looked at seemed to disappear. It was as if every object I
looked at became a mirror with the Ancient Knower staring into the depths of
my soul. Objects were transformed into the Mind of God. It was as if holes
of Reality were being cut into the celestial heavenly world I had ascended
to in God consciousness. The experience grew until I woke up. I realized Jay
Latham was a fictitious lie, had never existed, and that there was only One
Being, One Mind. Time ceased to exist, because it was a lie too.
"That is called `the Great Awakening,"' Maharishi said, excitedly. "This is
the true experience of wholeness."
"Maharishi, the experience of nonduality was so strong that my intellect
burned up. For my whole life I've always seen everything as distinctly
different from everything else. In this experience, my intellect reversed
its role and perceived everything to be the same. I could look at another
person and see only my Self looking back at myself. I looked at the wall and
saw my Self looking back into my soul. There was nothing left to learn; I'd
come to the end of knowledge and learning. The knowledge of Only One burned
like blue fire in my body. That knowledge was so final, so obliterating to
everything I'd ever known that I wanted to drop my body.
"You'd already dropped the body at that time," Maharishi interrupted. "The
body is dropped in Brahman Consciousness."
"But I couldn't function at all. The knowledge was so great, so
annihilating, that I was flat on my back."
Up to this point Maharishi was visibly excited about my experience. He knew
that I knew , or had known, the final truth about reality. And now I knew
that he was the reality because he confirmed my experience with total
conviction. I had never doubted my experience because Brahman Consciousness
is what Maharishi calls "self-validating knowledge."
It can't be taught; it can only be experienced; I'd read about it in the
book, Love and God, that Maharishi wrote, so I knew of his own realization.
But as a disciple on the path, verbal confirmation by the true Master is not
only important, it is inherent in the Vedic Tradition of India that
Maharishi comes from, because it plays such a vital role in the disciple's
life. Since I'd had only a temporary experience of reality, it was thrilling
for me to speak with Maharishi like this. Maharishi had confirmed and
verified that I had had a genuine vision of the goal."
Now I saw Maharishi in a whole new light, beyond the master-disciple roles
we normally took. He usually looked at me, lovingly, as a grandfather looks
at a grandchild. But now, after I had revealed to him that I had an
experience of seeing through the lie, he looked at me gratefully. When I
said that I as "flat on my back," he went into a soft reverie and very
tenderly confided to me something of his own personal awakening, something
nom, of us had ever heard before.
"It's only like that for the first couple of days. One is flat on the back
for that time. But then, after a few days one begins to do little things,
move around some. And then, as time passes, one does a little bit more and a
little bit more. After some weeks or months, one can function fully in
Brahman Consciousness and that is the greatest experience of all."
He was laughing when he finished saying this. We were all moved to hear
Maharishi share his personal experience with usyou could have heard a pin
drop in the room. No one was strugerling anymore - the competition for
attention was momentarily suspended. Everyone was holding their breath to
see what would happen next."
Source:
"Galaxy of Fire"
By Jay Latham
Sunstar, 2000
p. 258-263.
Available at 21st Century Books, Fairfield, IA
http://www.21stbooks.com/
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