Vedic Meditation – Technique of Being

The Vedic Meditation that was taught to me by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1984/198 is the highest knowledge of meditation in the world. The Vedic Meditation-Technique of Being is a very simple, natural, effortless mental technique that is practiced twenty minutes twice a day and is taught a few hours aday over a five-day period. It does not involve contemplation, concentration or visualization yet it is very effective and powerful.  This technique is a very simple, natural, effortless process that allows your mind and body to have more balance. This experience will give you greater quality of life, so you can enjoy your life more – allowing you to be more successful naturally. The Technique of Being allows you to experience and know silence/ inner peace. This silence, which is at the core of your being, is responsible for organizing your thoughts and the balancing of your physical body and health.  We know what it’s like when we’re feeling more balanced – we feel good. How would you like to have silence/ peace in your life even though you are very active and busy?

The Vedic Meditation/Technique of Being allows silence in your life effortlessly and quickly in a short amount of time. Silence is something that is experienced, its not thought about. It’s something that is either there or it’s not. You either have it in your life or you don’t. When it’s there, you have more quality of life no matter how active you are. Wouldn’t you want to have more peace in your heart and mind, all the time naturally? The Technique of being does that naturally and effortlessly twenty minutes, twice a day. That’s all it takes. You will reduce stress; have more awareness, greater ability to focus and more success. You will live longer and have better health. Also have more energy, evolve more profoundly, and change your life so you can become more of who you are and who you want to be.

The Technique of being works and has been proven to enhance one’s life, the environment and to fulfill the highest quality of life on earth. You’re invited so please come to the ashram and schedule to learn this amazing Vedic Meditation and come experience Shaktipat!

The Experience of Shaktipat

Shaktipat is understood to be the highest form of spiritual initiation, an initiation that bestows immediate and spontaneous entry into spiritual life.

The concept of Shaktipat has been documented in textual sources since about the sixth century onward. The earliest references to Shaktipat indicate that its authentic experience was always considered to be difficult to obtain and secure. For the student, the occasion of Shaktipat sets in motion an unprecedented journey of spiritual discovery. Though often received in absence of formal, external rituals of initiation, Shaktipat is initiatory in character. It provokes a profound awakening. For countless ages, great sages have used Shaktipat as a secret means of initiation. Enlivening one’s own glory and luster of divine enlightenment, giving an instantaneous direct experience of Brahman, the Eternal Spirit, is the secret meaning of Shaktipat.

With the initiation called Shaktipat, the teacher enlivens silence, which is the source of the self and creation. Putting this divine act into words makes it sound so simple and easy, but what actually happens within, hidden from the senses, is something marvelous. It can only be deciphered by the deepest part of you, yet your whole Being is rejuvenated by it’s light. Shaktipat is the supreme act of the guru’s grace. It is the lighting bolt that reveals the greatest treasure within. It is the ultimate gesture of compassion, the breath of the absolute. When Shakti is awakened by the guru’s grace, the knot of the heart is released. Karmas are washed away and the Being is revealed within. This Being is the embodiment of wisdom, light and truth. It is your destiny that brings you to the teacher to receive Shaktipat, but then you must cultivate the experience through regular meditation. There are four ways to grant Shaktipat: by means of the teachers look, touch, word, will or breath. It is recommended that an individual receive Shaktipat at least four times and learn – The Technique of Being.

After receiving Shaktipat various types of internal activities occur. Sensations may be experienced, stirrings may occur in the head, heart and solar plexus. One may enter a deep state of meditation with no effort and not move for forty minutes or longer. Some see bright colors and profound visions. Other experience their heart open, while others experience their consciousness expanding. Everyone experiences the inward pulling sensation and the waves of undeniable silence taking them deeper and deeper inside. Most feel a deep peace in the heart and some experience a huge void of silence.

One account of Shaktipat reception went like this:
“I felt breath on my forehead and immediately there was a tingling sensation in my third eye area and I saw a very bright white light there. The sensation began to move thru my whole head. I felt my whole body relax and the sensation in my head moved down to my heart. I saw my heart open into a beautiful lotus flower with many petals unfolding. I was Being sucked further and further into silence. There were continual waves of silence that came from this flower of my heart and they continued to radiate outwards. I continued to go deeper and deeper into this silence. I had many great insights into my life. At one point I had no thoughts at all. This light and peaceful feeling lasted for days afterwards”.

It is true that from the level of the individual’s subjective experience there are great variations in the intensity of Shaktipat. Some people have very intense experiences with overwhelming sensations and visions. For others, the experience is milder and while still strong, not so intense. For yet others, there may be very little immediate experience. It is important to understand no matter what your experience, the tradition holds that in all cases what has been accomplished is the same, great peace, the beginning of the destruction of cosmic amnesia. The differences in subjective experiences are based on karma.

Shaktipat gives what is known as the “illuminating knowledge”. As this knowledge unfolds more and more 1t leads to” liberation ‘, the complete and total recovery from limitation, from delusion, from ignorance, from the bondage of karma. One day the light of freedom reaches such a level that a human Being exclaims, I am unbounded, free, and the totality of the universe. For many who have received Shaktipat it has inspired profound change in their lives, work, family life, experience of themselves and their perspective on life and its purposes. They also become inspired spirituality.

One student shared their experience:
“I started practicing the Technique of Being and receiving Shaktipat a year and a half ago and since that time I have changed so much. I feel as though I am on the leading edge of evolution. I am happy and have great peace of mind. I have greater awareness, and I have the ability to focus for long periods of time easily. I’m becoming very successful, and I’m much more graceful and attentive. I feel so fulfilled inside, the need to drink and take hallucinogenic drugs are a thing of the past. The feeling of Being settled and content are the most wonderful blessings that could have ever happened to me, I wish everyone could experience these benefits”.

Shaktipat is liberating and consoling. It is this love awakened that will ultimately reveal the secrets of existence. When the hard shell of limitation that encases the human heart is cracked open, there results an outpouring of intoxicating love, unimaginable in nature. In some ultimate sense, Shaktipat is a new birth. Live your full potential. Get the full value of life.

Be bold. Live your birthright. Be Happy.