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Deeper into Oneness:
My Experience of the
Advanced Deepening Course
By Rev. Dr. Michael
Milner
The Advanced Deepening Course was one of
the most significant events of my life.
Everything I experienced, every Oneness
Blessing (known in India as Oneness Deeksha), every homa, every meditation,
every darshan, every prayer, every
breakthrough, every insight, every
awakening was not for me alone but also
for those I represented by "proxy". (A
proxy is
a
person authorized to act for another).
Everywhere I went, the Oneness Temple,
Amma and Bhagavan’s darshans, their huts
at Anadaloka 1, meditations with the
Cosmic Beings and everywhere else, I
carried people’s photos with me and
their written petitions for divine
intervention. I presented these to the
Divine on their behalf and used their
photos to send them Oneness Blessings
(Deeksha)
throughout the day, every day, for the
entire month I was in India. This was
the Proxy Program.
It
began as something just for the people
in my own weekly Oneness Blessing group, as a way
to share the energy and blessing
with them while I was in India. But,
Bhagavan began to appear to me and tell
me that He was going to specially bless
the program with His Power and that I
should open it up to more people.
In the end,
there were 267 people from 6 continents
(and about 200 Guides)! The privilege
of carrying them in my heart with me
while I was in
India set the stage for all that
happened.
Prayer and meditation and a continuous
transmission of Deeksha enabled
me (and other Oneness Facilitators at
the Deepening who sometimes joined me)
to pass on the Grace we were receiving
to the people in the proxy group and
also to the collective consciousness of
humanity! I forgot about my own state of
consciousness and my own
spiritual growth and became absorbed in Seva (service) for the Dharma, raising
the collective consciousness of
humanity, that ALL humanity might enter
the life of Grace and Joy! This shift in focus
is one of the main objectives of the
Advanced Deepening Course.
During the Deepening I
experienced tremendous GRACE! It was the
first course ever held at the Oneness
Temple, Golden City 1, the campus where
Bhagavan now resides. The energy was so
high, it is difficult to describe!
A few examples: One night, while I knelt
touching the Srimurthi (the sacred
picture of Amma and Bhagavan) and
praying for Amma and Bhagavan to take me
more deeply into Oneness, I felt
electrified as Divine Shakti surged
through my whole body, then I simply
melted away, quietly, gently, deeply
into Oneness with the Divine Presence,
Sat Chit Ananda, Existence Consciousness
Bliss. The effect has been permanent.
Every time I touch the Srimurthi since
then I have a similar experience and my
ordinary awareness has shifted
permanently into a profoundly deeper
state of Oneness.
Another night, while I prayed for
special Grace, gently touching the
Padukas on the altar (the silver sandals
that represent the feet of the Divine),
I felt fire running up my arms and the
Padukas moved forward by themselves in
answer to my prayer. After that I
immediately laid down on the floor in
Shavasan (the yoga "corpse pose"). For a very
long time, I was unable to move "my
body” while "my mind” became a
kaleidoscopic light display of myriad
brilliant colors and feelings bursting
and unfolding like a flower blossoming
into the Universe. I took that as a
“yes” from Amma and Bhagavan.
There were profound, enlightening
teachings from the Guides, many powerful
special “Amma Bhagavan Deekshas” and
meditations with the Cosmic Beings. We
had several meetings with former senior
guide Sri Anandagiriji and received Nayana Deeksha
(Oneness Blessing by direct eye contact) from
former senior guide Sri Samadarshini. (These are two of the most
evolved beings on the planet, both Fully
Enlightened and God-Realized). One day
we had darshan with Amma in the morning,
Anandagiri in the afternoon and Bhagavan
in the evening, all in one day!
Yes indeed, we certainly did get zapped!
There were many cosmic delights during
the Deepening, but these were
not what really stood out for me. What
did stand out were a few simple
insights.
First and foremost is that the heart
of awakening is SELF ACCEPTANCE,
accepting ourselves as we really are
with all of our strengths and weaknesses
and without any attempt to cover them
up. Resistance is futile and is the
cause of great suffering. That's it. No
Big Bang. It's not about being "zapped"
into some higher mystical state. It's
about SELF ACCEPTANCE. That's what opens
the door to LOVE, to the FLOWERING OF
THE HEART, to the AWARENESS, BLISS and
JOY of the Present Moment, to ONENESS
and FREEDOM from "the illusion of
a separate self" with its "craving and
personal suffering" and
finally blossoms
into the living experience of GOD
REALIZATION. That's it, just SELF
ACCEPTANCE. How beautiful and simple can
it be? And it's all the work of DIVINE
GRACE!
At
one time I was waiting for the "separate
self" to be completely erased. Then, I
awoke one day to discover that my
"personal suffering" had quietly
disappeared, and that brought me great
continuing Joy. At first, I wasn't sure
what had happened to my "separate self".
NOW I SEE CLEARLY that it never existed
in the first place! Michael Milner
is just a wonderfully made human
bio-computer through which God, the
Divine Consciousness, the Universe, is
expressing and experiencing Itself.
There is no one else at home here, and
there never was...
I
once believed that the entire Universe
would be transformed into the Body of
Christ. I believed that Heaven and
Earth, Spirit and matter would be united
in Oneness. But NOW I SEE that it is not
the Universe, it is US who are being
transformed, being awakened to SEE that
the Universe ALREADY IS the Body of God.
The Universe IS the Divine Consciousness
expressing and experiencing Itself!
Oneness is not something that is going
to come in the future. Oneness is the
way it is NOW. It is the REALITY to
which we are just NOW awakening!
Since
returning from the Deepening to the
USA, things have changed! I was taken by
surprise, because some of us stayed in India for
2 weeks after the Deepening at Anandaloka
1 giving and receiving Deekshas with
both Indians and foreigners. Those 2
weeks were sublime! The Deekshas were
much more powerful than they had been
before the Deepening. But back in the
USA the energy of the Deeksha has been even
stronger than it was at Anandaloka 1! It
is POTENT! Amma and Bhagavan had
increased the power of Deeksha and kept it a surprise
until we got home. Thank you Amma
Bhagavan!
I have noticed that now increased power
is also flowing through the Oneness
Blessings (Oneness Deekshas) of other Oneness Facilitators who
were not at the Deepening. Evidently,
when a group goes through the Deepening
(there were about 150 of us from various
English speaking countries) it
affects all the other Oneness
Facilitators in our respective countries.
This should really come as no surprise,
since the homas (fire rituals) performed
during the Deepening which seek an
increase in the energy the Deeksha are not
performed just for those in attendance
at the Deepening but for all the Deeksha Givers in their respective
countries.
People in the USA are
now reporting strong Kundalini Shakti, Samskara Shuddhi, some
symptoms of sickness related to energy
raising and pranic purification, periods
of non-functionality, dramatic shifts in
consciousness and other strong
manifestations as a result of receiving
Deekshas that I have previously
observed only in people going
through the biological shift during the
21 Day Process!
Similar manifestations were happening to
people during the Proxy Program.
Participants have told me that the
distance Deekshas from India during the
Proxy Program also
produced miracles of healing (including
the healing of cancer), release from
addictions, etc. It seems that people in
the USA are going through deeper levels
of the biological process now that were
previously reserved only for those
attending courses at the Golden City!
WOW! It's happening!
I now
experience being constantly immersed
in an energy field as strong as the one
at the Golden City. Even though I know
that God is all that exists everywhere,
all the time, and that there is no
separation or distance in the Spirit,
still that is amazing to me. Before the
Deepening I felt a stronger energy field
at the Golden City than anywhere else.
It seems that now the Golden City is
everywhere (or at least it goes with me
wherever I am), there is no difference!
It's all One. Also, now the Oneness Benediction before
the Sri Murthy is always absolutely
ELECTRIC and I feel like I am physically
with Amma and Bhagavan looking them in
the eyes!! I like these changes. It
makes it easier to be physically so far
away from Amma and Bhagavan and all the
Guides.
There
is so much Grace flowing in my heart
that I continue spontaneously to send
Deekshas to the proxy group and
to the collective consciousness of
humanity. It is just a natural flow. We
are all One. My transformation is
everyone’s transformation. Everyone’s
liberation is my liberation. May
everyone know this Joy, and may we all
deeply EXPERIENCE and FEEL our Oneness!
Then humanity's problems will be solved!
I am
free from concern for my own state,
absorbed in the Divine Presence,
absorbed in Union, absorbed in zeal for
the Dharma. In short, I am VERY happy
and my life is filled with Divine Grace!
ALL is God. ALL is Amma Bhagavan! I live
for SEVA, that all humanity may enter
the Life of Grace and Joy and the whole World
may become Golden. That is all. Amma
Bhagavan Sharanam!
Mark T., Kila Lau & Michael
Milner Participants in the
Advanced Deepening Course
"One for All and All for One"
Click here to
read Michael's profile:
Bio of Rev. Dr. Michael Milner, Ph.D.
Spiritual History and Experiences at the
21 Day Process:
My
Oneness Process: An End to Personal
Suffering, the Dawn of Causeless Joy
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