Mohanji's account of enlightenment

[ajay00]

Mohanji is a modern spiritual master, and the following is a description of his awakening process...

https://mohanji.org/mohanji-life-journey/

My exploration of my subtler aspects intensified and became a priority by the year 2000. Every day between 3AM to 8 AM. I used to withdraw myself into the shell (a room) that I had created like a cave in my house, with just a lamp and nothing else in that space.

The flame of that lamp used to be my path, destination for concentration.

[iamthat]

Thanks, ajay00. A further quote from that page:

... he connected deeply within himself to feel the peace of silence within the noise – the silence between two breaths, the silence between two heartbeats, the silence between two thoughts. ...

“When the noise ends, there is silence. The noises are temporary, silence is permanent. Our focus determines what we perceive. Usually, we focus only on the noise and miss the silence. When we focus on the silence, we don’t hear the noise. It starts separating and the silence gradually expands. Eventually, we only see silence, realise that silence is the core and live that all the time. ... But we are not used to silence since it is unnatural for us. We are used to the world of noises which pulls us back all the time.”

It took him ten years to stabilize and establish himself in that world of silence and eventually become one with it.

Mohanji is an interesting teacher. Although he turned to the spiritual life comparatively late in his life, he is cited by various yogis as being a very rare incarnation.

I think I first came across him in Autobiography of an Avadhoota by Nadananda. And Home for a Refugee: An Autobiography by Devi Mohan is an interesting read - she became his wife. She describes how he spent the early hours each morning communing with various Masters.

He used to do online workshops but in order to attend by Zoom you had to have worked your way through a series of previous online courses. He now seems to travel more, but not to my part of the world.

Worth following up for those interested.

Peace