The following excerpt comes from "Absolute Happiness" which was lent to me last year.
Meeting with a great being
"I have been very fortunate to have experiences that have totally transformed my life from what I was conditioned to become. The most profound of these were all due to meetings with a most remarkable man. He was known as Muktananda which translates as "The Bliss Liberator". Bliss is a way of describing absolute happiness. The experiences that I had in his company were both liberating, in the most total sense of the word, as well as ecstatically blissful.
Muktananda lived in Ganeshpuri, a tiny village a couple of hours from Bombay, India, and travelled all over the world for the last few years of his life, transmitting his ancient wisdom and power to millions of people, both in India and the rest of the world. He was an Enlightened Being, a Siddha, which means a perfected master. This means that he had transcended, or gone beyond, the normal state of consciuousness that ninety percent of the poulation live in.
He was truly extraordinary, as the half million or so people he initiated outside India will confirm. In the West, we have no knowledge or tradition of people like this. These beings are like a flash of lightning that come into your life, revealing your true power that lays latent within you. Unpredictable, indefinable, uncontrollable, incomprehensible, Muktananda was filled with an awesome, loving energy. Just to be in his company altered your state. You literally felt different. You were filled with such bliss, divine ecstatsy, all consuming love, euphoric joy - such absolute happiness - that your mind stopped its constant chatter and you were drawn radically into the present and saw, usually for the first time, exactly what ife truly has to offer. It was as if you had woken from a deep sleep and your senses had become totally fulfilled, enlivened and exhilirated." ...
I will type in more when I remember ...
Absolute Happiness by Michael Domeyko Rowland
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