Temple of Tantric Arts

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Meeting an Enlightened Being

How is it to meet and spend time with an Enlightened Being?

It invites all the Sh.t to come up!

Things that were not felt through and parked over a lifetime, conscious & subconscious attachments, false identifications, and more. And this was alternating with moments of energetic & consciousness expansion and an even deeper devotion I felt in my heart. Devotion to Love, to my Soul's path and that of all the people I come in contact with.

I have to say I met Sai Maa with a great dose of SUSPICION.

When she walked in, my whole internal world almost bursted in laughter.

REALLY?!

"Is she really enlightened?

Can I even trust her?" my mind was on fire.

For the mind it was very confusing, because it wanted to see an Enlightened Being in a state of some kind of PERFECTION.

Maybe Jesus-like perfection, or similar to other enlightened teachers I met in person several years ago back in India, like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Amma.

Her holiness Sai Maa, an Indian guru born in Mauritius, who was given a title of Jagadguru, walked in the concert HALL in the city of Brussels from the back door, dressed up in expensive and branded clothes, with a lot of make up, her eyes half hidden under a fancy maroon hat.

She greeted people row by row warmly, making eye contact and sharing how happy she was to see everyone.

I could see through all of the judgements my mind was generating, without me doing much for it. It's in these moments that you realize even stronger how your mind does its thing without asking you for permission, similar to how lungs just breathe, and how intestines digest. And most of us identify with IT!

Once Sai Maa started interacting with the audience and responding to personal questions that were asked, she was very sharp and direct in her expressions, non-apologetic, raw and Kali-like. Some of her first responses to questions from the audience made my eyebrows rise high. For me as the first timer in her field, it felt NEW and "refreshing".

After seeing her work with people on the first evening, leading in 5-10 minutes through transformations that for many humans take years of therapy, I could honor a powerful Master and something internally relaxed into TRUST. On a deep deep level, I felt RESONANCE. I could see the depth of her love behind things she said and did. And at the same time, I could see a Human, a Person with her very unique characteristics, which may or may not necessarily be appealing to my Person.

And this is important.

To separate the Teacher and the Person.

It's NOT the same.

We can't measure someone's state or craft by their human personality. It's important to be able to see through the Person, through polarities.

Returning home, I could see an amplified brightness in my eyes, and feel the energetic shifts that happened in the weekend. And in the night, more STUFF came up to be looked at and integrated.

A sigh of gratitude for meeting both the Dark and the Light.

With love,

Alexa Mira