What is Enlightenment and Deeksha?

What is enlightenment?
Bruhn’s experience of the quantum leap
Cecil’s experience of the quantum leap
The house metaphor – to be freed from the prison of the mind
What is deeksha?
The deeksha is like a tidal wave
Being soaked in enlightenment solvents
 

What is enlightenment? 

The enlightened state cannot be described; it can only be experienced - just like you cannot describe the taste of an apple to a person who has never tasted an apple. The apple has to be tasted

When we describe enlightenment with words it is in the deep understanding that these words are mere road signs. Like the road sign saying “Copenhagen” is not Copenhagen. The road sign merely points out that there is a place called Copenhagen (the Enlightened state). Road signs are also useful when finding your way. This is why words from persons in the enlightened state can be powerful openings in your own enlightenment process. The unfortunate thing is that some people believe that the road signs ARE Copenhagen. They are stuck in intellectual insights and believe that these relative truths are Enlightenment.

Enlightenment is not to have a lot of spiritual insights. On the contrary many of these spiritual concepts can block the freedom state. Enlightenment is not clairvoyance, healing abilities or temporary experiences of light, angels and other dimensions. Enlightenment is not out-of-the-body experiences, to walk on water, telepathy or telekinesis. Enlightenment is not to have spiritual abilities – even though it can be a “side effect”.

Enlightenment is much more simple – and a thousand times more profound. Enlightenment is a fundamental shift from being “something” into just being. A shift from living in the mind to living in the heart. A shift from identifying with your personality to a permanent experience of being the Universe. A shift from being mortal to being immortal, from being limited to being infinite. A shift from being something thought-up to being alive. A shift from being a concept to being your true nature. A shift from being completely overflowed with thoughts and feelings to being pure awareness experiencing the thoughts and feelings. A shift from being in the world into being the world. Simply a shift back to your natural state.

In reality there is nothing extraordinary about it. It is your natural freedom. It is living free of the mind  - not free from the mind. It is being in full contact with Life – unconditionally. It is letting what comes come and letting what goes go. Or as the Zen monks say “chopping wood and carrying water”. It is the ability to declutch the mind and abide in the stillness.
 

Bruhn’s experience of the quantum leap

“Before I was a tree looking at the other trees in the forest. I often compared, evaluated, judged and condemned myself and the other trees. Even though I was aware of the projections it was a nightmare. As a tree I knew that there was something called the Forest but I had only in brief moments experienced to be that. Suddenly it happened. The whole Forest filled me. The sense of being an individual tree vanished and I was the Forest. At first I thought it was one of these temporary experiences. But no, it didn’t change. I continued to be the Forest. Now I am the Forest looking at the Forest. It is an amazing experience in every sparkling now. I can still see the peculiar tree called Bruhn but I am no more this limited personality. I am free and infinitely grateful. “

”On March 6th last year in India I experienced a breakthrough in my consciousness leading to a permanent state of inner freedom. Some call this state enlightenment or just our true nature. The “glue” that normally surrounded my thoughts and emotions was dissolved and the world is now experienced in a completely new perspective. It is like flying up above the clouds where the sun is always shining. The clouds (the thoughts and emotions) are still there but they have a completely different quality and extent as the sun of awareness is always shining upon them. And the sky (now my basic state) is high and blue all the time.

I had experienced that state before for shorter periods, when I was skiing, watching the sunset or meditating. Now the state is permanent. My mind, which used to be a prison of thought, has now become a tool that I can clutch or declutch just like using the clutch in a car. There is no resistance to any thoughts or emotions manifesting. They are accepted – I have no need to change them or me. My body has surrendered 90 % of its tensions and the remaining 10 % are experienced in a state of complete acceptance. I am free – and infinitely grateful”.

Read more about Bruhn’s experiences and background.

Cecil’s experience of the quantum leap

"On September 6th 2004 in Southern India following a transfer of divine energy - a deeksha - Divine Presence completely permeated my being, dissolving me into nothingness.... turning me into everything at the same time. This experience permanently changed the way I experience life...

There is an experience of infinite space within me, a complete inner freedom and a bubbling undercurrent of love, joy and humour, which is not conditioned by anything at all…. it is always there - also when I am crying. I am and I am not. There is a spacious fullness in every moment that cannot be put into words. Like Life breathing itself in and out of the heart. I love myself, I love people and snow drops and gingerbread and working and ………."

Read more about Cecil’s experiences and background
 

The House Metaphor - The Cosmic Jail break

The house (the ego based and limited personality) is filled with both fine furniture and a lot of old junk. It has shutters on the windows. The door is locked and the key is on the outside. Inside the house it is dark. You only have a small flash light (the unenlightened consciousness) to find your way through the rooms.  Perhaps you spend a lot of years cleaning and redecorating in various ways (therapy, self-development programmes, meditation, yoga, reading books on spirituality, philosophy, psychology etc.) You learn how to rearrange all the old junk in the house (anger, fear, greed, arrogance, pain, grief, resistance, pride, low self esteem etc) and to place them so that you do not trip over them so often in the dark. 

It is like a kind of Feng Shui making the energy flow better through the inner house, but basically it is only "sorrow management". The task is not an easy one as you only have a small flashlight to locate all the old junk and store it in the best possible way. Strangely enough that old junk (negative patterns) pops up in new places even though you know you put it in a box in the basement. Naturally the house becomes a nicer place the cleaner it gets - but it is still a prison. The same darkness still prevails although you can entertain yourself with reading, knitting, movies and other fun stuff.

Very rarely you have been fortunate enough for the shutters to open and you have been able to stick your head out of the window and see the picturesque and open landscape outside. (The fleeting experiences of inner freedom - the enlightened state). These enlightenment experiences when you can truly see the beauty and the light slowly turn living inside the house into a hell. Because you know in your heart that in reality the house is not your home but a prison. The beautiful landscape outside is your eternal playground and your real home. Every time the miracle happens and you are free to see the sun shine it is painfully frustrating when the shutters close again as quickly as they opened. You begin to realize that you can re-decorate your house for eternity, but that this will never set you free. The continuous re-decoration cannot open the doors or windows of the house permanently. The existential frustration and lack of meaning becomes more and more overwhelming until you begin to surrender and pray for someone or something outside the house to come and help you out.

Suddenly you hear the sound of a mobile crane driving up. The crane has a giant golden ball hanging from a silver chain. With an amazing precision the golden ball (the deeksha) lands smack in the middle of the house and like magic all the outer walls (the ego) fall away. The sunlight pours in and you suddenly see all the nice furniture and all the old junk all at once - lit by the sun. The old junk is no longer annoying you, because you are free to wander all over the world. The content of the house (your personality) is microscopic compared to the open space that now surrounds you. And in reality the old junk is as beautiful as the rest of the world in the beautiful sunlight. Your reality has become the Universal Reality. Your personal consciousness has become Cosmic Consciousness. You are now abiding in the enlightened landscape where you have always belonged.

What is deeksha?

In short, deeksha is a healing wave of energy, powerfully catalysing your process towards the enlightened state. Several thousand people have entered a state of total inner freedom through Mukti Deeksha (Mukti means enlightenment in Sanskrit). And many more are on their way.

Amma and Bhagavan in India are the power generators for this cosmic energy, which is channelled by initiated deeksha givers. Bhagavan describes the deeksha as a neuro-biological phenomenon and states that in reality he is just a “technician” or advanced “brain surgeon”. The wave of energy cannot be measured with any instruments available today, but the resulting changes in the brain can. In short the activity in the frontal part of the brain (left frontal lobe) is increasing while the activity in the back of the brain (the parietal lobes) is decreasing, resulting in a breakthrough to a permanent state of freedom.

Like any other phenomenon on this earth we experience the deekshas differently. Some people experience light end energy flowing through the body. Others experience the heart opening and shining. Some experience third eye or crown chakra openings. Others again experience nothing in particular. Bruhn for instance experienced nothing in particular other than the mind screaming and yelling in fear that nothing would happen and at the same time desperately scared of letting go (typical polarized reaction of the mind). The next day he broke through :-)

Read how participants have experienced the Deeksha retreats under Experiences

The Deeksha is like a Tidal Wave  - how we experience to give Deeksha

When I give Deeksha the energy is rolling through my body like a tidal wave in a giant sea of energy. First the sea is calm and healing. Then the water is pulled away - back into emptiness - and then the tidal wave comes with all its power. The wave is a cataclysmic destroying force - but only to the ego. The numerous blocks keeping out universal consciousness are washed away by the soft and at the same time decisive force of the energy wave. Like the nature of water the Deeksha energy is at the same time flexible and insisting.

The sea of energy and the tsunami is what fills my body and senses the most when I am giving Deeksha. But I also sense energy structures in the head and body of the receiver vibrate, transform and sometimes change place. In the experience there is no borders between my body and the body of the receiver - on the physical as well as the energetic level. I feel her sorrow as an energy structure flashing through my own body being released in the infinite light. I feel his suppressed anger like flaming energy which in the melting together with the instream is transformed into soft golden light. It is experienced so forcefully in every single now. And I can only bow to this incomprehensible love and cosmic humour, that unfolds in the wake of the Deeksha. Billions of millions of thanks!

Being soaked in enlightenment solvents

Both Cecil and Bruhn have experienced the necessity and benefits from attending longer retreats (2-21 days) with enlightened teachers. Deep transformations happen in body and mind when you tune in to a higher frequency for longer periods. The frequency of the enlightened teacher creates a resonance with your own higher self. It is like soaking the ego and the personality in solvents (enlightenment fluids). Our personal intensive enlightenment processes unfolded during 4 retreats in approximately 6 months. Based on the intense experiences and insights we’ve had from our personal processes we are offering a series retreats, which can be attended as a whole process or one by one.

All retreats are based on a direct experience of the various themes through deekshas, exercises, meditations etc. “It’s not in the idea – it’s in the experience”. Some basic ingredients in the retreats are:

• Deeksha – a healing energy transfer catalysing enlightenment.
• Story telling and dialogue about the enlightened state and the process of receiving it it.
• Guided meditations and samskara shuddi (releasing emotional traumas and blocks)

Read more about content and form of the Deeksha retreats under “Ways We Work” and about the coming courses etc under “Activities/Calendar”