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An Introduction to Bhagavad Dharma

 

"MAN CANNOT MAKE IT ON HIS OWN, IT(ENLIGHTENMENT) HAS TO BE GIVEN

TO HIM"

 

In this article, Kiara Windrider, author of "A doorwat to Eternity"

share his experiences with the teachings of Golden Age Foundation

headed by Kalki in India. Kiara Windrider was one of the teachers at

the first Experience Festival that took place August 2-8 2003.

 

The Experience Festival is a collaboration between the Golden Age

Foundation in India and the Experience Foundation in Sweden.

 

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Kalki and the Golden Age Movement

 

 

 

 

 

Sri Kalki, or Bhagwan, as many of his disciples call him, is known

as the "Mukti Avatar", a Divine Incarnation whose specialization is

to impart enlightenment. His presence and his mission reflect for me

the highest gifts Mother India has to offer humanity, and having met

him and experienced who he is, I feel that I can now rest in

complete trust that humanity is going to make it, no matter how

fragmented, meaningless and chaotic our existence has been.

 

 

 

Grace and I met with him three times over the few weeks that we were

at his ashram near Chennai. Our first meeting was a group "darshan"

(or interview) for the teachers, including myself, at

the "Experience Festival" that was being held there. During the

darshan he spoke of the dilemma most people experience if they are

serious about enlightenment. No matter how hard we may try to get

there, we still have concepts and expectations about what

enlightenment must look like. There is always an effort to get from

the state of non-enlightenment to a state of enlightenment, which

creates and furthers the very duality we are trying to dissolve.

Even when we let go of the effort and become empty we are still

conditioned by the deep subconscious programming within our minds

that keeps us separate from external reality, separate from directly

experiencing the world without the running commentary of our

thoughts.

 

 

 

I had been seeking enlightenment for many years. I had had a few

enlightenment experiences but it wasn't a permanent state. After

decades of unsuccessful effort I noticed myself becoming weary of

the search, especially since I did not want to create more duality

between where I was and where I wanted to be. I started telling

myself that maybe I was already enlightened, just didn't know it

yet. I created a wonderful enlightened persona around myself, asking

myself how I would live and act if I were enlightened, and trying to

incorporate that "as if enlightened" state into my daily walk. It

made me a better person, but it was still an act, just another layer

of spiritual ego to get attached to. I suffered less, but I wasn't

enlightened, and in the denial of that truth, suffered more. Now

here was someone saying that it did not require centuries of effort,

and that anyone could indeed get enlightened, just like Buddha or

Jesus. I was intrigued.

 

 

 

Not only is enlightenment easily attainable, but it is our natural

state, continued Kalki. We were originally created with a different

program implanted in our DNA, and every child was born with the

ability to directly experience the world as a unified field of

consciousness. We have mutated from that due to various distortions

in our collective conditioning, yet the original programming still

remains within our DNA. Just like a computer cannot change its own

programming from within a program, we cannot change our mental

programming from within our mind. It must either come through divine

grace, which is difficult for many people because of our restrictive

concepts about God, or it can be transferred by someone who knows

how.

 

 

 

Sri Kalki acknowledges himself as an avatar, BUT DOESNT REQUIRE THAT

PEOPLE BELIEVE IN HIM AS SUCH OR FOLLOW HIS TEACHINGS. In fact, he

emphasizes, all teachings are useless if you are seeking

enlightenment because they only create another concept for the mind

to hang on to. Even the non-dualistic teachings of someone like

Ramana Maharshi can become a barrier if it creates a craving for

enlightenment distanced from the present moment. TEACHINGS CAN ONLY

FOLLOW ENLIGHTENMENT, BUT NO TEACHINGS CAN PRODUCE IT. NO AMOUNT OF

EFFORT ON YOUR SIDE CAN GET U THERE.IT HAS TO BE GIVEN TO YOU AND

KALKI CAN DO IT IN A MATTER OF 7 MINUTES!!.

 

Enlightenment is a neurobiological process, Kalki insists, and he

sees his own role as being merely a "technician". He even encourages

people to design their own enlightenment! Through a certain kind

of "divine surgery", and with adequate preparation, the neurobiology

and the DNA of a seeker can be changed so as to naturally become

enlightened, and then all teachings and guidance naturally flow from

within. A divine energy is transferred into the neo-cortex of the

brain, which reorganizes the entire framework of consciousness. It

has its own intelligence, and interfaces with the deepest longings

and blueprint of each individual soul to create a new command center

that bypasses the mind.

 

 

 

There are as many kinds of enlightenment as there are people, he

affirms, yet what is common to all is the awakening of the true self

within and the permanent dissolution of conflict and suffering. The

entire framework of past conditioning disappears, as do expectations

of the future. Since suffering is caused by addictions, attachments,

cravings and aversions based on past conditioning, when this

conditioning disappears, suffering disappears as well. This is often

accompanied by states of cosmic consciousness, journeys to celestial

realms, profound perceptual changes, sharpening of the senses,

various "siddhis" (spiritual gifts), and profound ecstasy. The

physical body becomes illumined with an inner light, and the sense

of a separate continuous identity dissolves. The questioner vanishes

along with the questions. The mind becomes a hollow reed through

which all creation can flow. Thoughts can still flow through the

mind, but do not emanate from the mind.

 

 

 

I felt a thrill of recognition in my soul as I listened to his

words. Grace and I decided to do a preparatory "mukti" (liberation)

program led by one of his disciples designed to bring the

various "koshas" (bodies) into alignment. Towards the end of this

all the participants were called into his presence for a darshan.

There were about 40 of us in the room, along with several

enlightened "dasajis", or disciples. He announced that we were to be

given the "diksha" (initiation) of enlightenment, and that the

dasajis would be assisting in transmitting the divine energy. Kalki

explained that if he tried to transmit the energy directly it could

likely blow some fuses, but that he would be working through the

dasajis to perform the divine surgery in a controlled fashion. Some

of us would get enlightened right away, he informed us, while others

would take longer, depending on individual factors. All of us in the

room would become enlightened within four weeks, he promised. He

further said that it would be a functional enlightenment ("sahaj

samadhi"). When he first began to get people enlightened they would

sometimes go into ecstatic but immobile states for months, and he

has learned to give a more integrated enlightenment now, since we

are needed out in the world.

 

 

 

The normal procedure at Kalki's ashram involves a much longer period

of preparation before the enlightenment diksha could be given, so

all of us in the group were stunned and elated to hear this. This

was going to be an experimental group, he went on to say. The

majority in the group were Westerners, and Kalki said this would be

the first time that the enlightenment diksha was being given enmasse

to a group of Westerners. The time for mass enlightenment had begun,

and as these enlightened people returned to their home countries to

hold the energies in their respective lands, the transformation of

the human race would begin. Once 64,000 people had become

enlightened throughout the world, he said, the morphogenetic fields

would ignite, and everyone who had become enlightened would then

themselves be able to transmit this state with a touch, with a

glance, with a thought or a prayer. From then, it would be a very

short time before all of humanity would revert to their original

program of oneness.THEN ON WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT YOU WILL GET

ENLIGHTENED. This could all happen well before 2012, says Kalki.

 

 

 

We were asked to sit with our eyes closed as the dasajis moved among

us in a state of ecstatic cosmic union, placing their hands on our

heads, and allowing themselves to become vehicles for Kalki. It was

a different experience for everybody. In a group sharing the

following day, it turned out that although only a couple of people

had actually become enlightened in that moment, most people had

begun having enlightenment experiences, which Kalki said would

stabilize into a steady state of enlightenment in the days or weeks

to come. Grace passed through periods of intense physical pressure

and disorientation for a couple of days, and then on the third day

felt the kundalini energy moving unobstructed through every "nadi"

(subtle nerve channels) clearing out all the koshas all the way into

the "anandamayakosha", or "bliss body".

 

 

 

As she experienced her bliss body, it propelled her into the classic

enlightened state, which she has continued to maintain since. It has

been fascinating for me to watch and participate in her process, as

her entire nervous gets reprogrammed to respond directly to a

completely different command center, the Soul. It is like getting

unplugged from the "Matrix" (referring to the well-known movie of

that name), and plugging directly into the Infinite. She reports

that the moment of enlightenment was like simultaneously giving

birth and being born. She found herself literally experiencing the

world through the perceptions and senses of a newborn, while at the

same time witnessing the entire process from a place of mature

wonder. In the days following she found herself slowly "growing up",

first a two year old, then four, then eight, sometimes fluctuating

between various ages up to adulthood, eventually feeling like all of

them and none of them simultaneously, young and tender, wise and

knowing, ageless and vast. It is an ongoing journey into universal

consciousness.

 

 

 

At the time of this writing, two weeks after the diksha, my own

enlightenment process is just beginning to happen. I am noticing

currents of energy coursing through my body similar to what I had

experienced in 1985, which are beginning to open up the deeper

kundalini pathways. We had another darshan with Kalki just before we

left, and he warned me that it would lead to a total reorganization

of my consciousness. Some people are born with free will to shape

their lives any way they wish, while others have a chosen destiny

that cannot be changed. He told me that I came with a destiny to

help the world, that my enlightenment would prepare me for this, and

that he would work with me. I am adding this chapter to create a new

edition of this book after the rest had already been published

because I think Kalki's work is the culmination of everything else I

have said in this book, and I want to send this off to press while

my mind can still function in the old way. What happens afterwards,

I have no idea. Perhaps there will be another book that emerges

later, perhaps much later. I will keep readers updated through my

website.

 

 

 

Sri Kalki and his wife, Amma, have about 15 million followers in

several countries, and their "Golden Age Foundation" is possibly the

fastest growing movement in the world today. Several hundred people

have become fully enlightened in the past few years, with the

numbers growing rapidly. Miracle stories of all kinds are being

reported every day, not very different from those experienced around

Jesus. Kalki says there will be significant earth changes happening

throughout the world before the end of the decade, which can be

averted if there are enough enlightened people living in those areas

and interfacing with the land. He invites us to walk through the

Doorway to Eternity, and then back again to help bring all of Earth

and humanity through. Kalki guarantees that anyone who comes with

serious intent will become enlightened in three to four weeks. It is

a big claim, but I have seen enough to attest to it.

 

A major aspect of this work right now is the construction of

a "Shakti Sthal", or Temple of Light, built according to the

principles of "vaastu" (vedic sacred geometry). It is expected to be

completed early in 2004, and will hold up to 8000 people meditating

together at any one time to build a continuous wave of unity

consciousness in the world. Once this project begins it will greatly

accelerate and focus the work, and people will be able to get

enlightened much faster. A lot of positive change will begin to

happen in the world from then onwards, promises Kalki.

 

I feel so grateful to know that he is here on Earth. I feel he is a

genuine avatar, perhaps one of the greatest avatars of all time. In

his ability to bestow the gift of direct experience to anyone

seeking to know themselves, his advent represents a grand

unification of all religions and spiritual traditions. As the

beginning of the Golden Age draws near, his mission is to help

enlighten not just a few but the entire world.

 

"Humanity is entering the most crucial phase of its existence," says

Kalki. "The coming decade shall witness the most unprecedented and

undreamt of changes in the course of its long evolution. There is

nothing much humanity can do about it other than to understand the

changes that are overpowering it. Towards the end, humanity will

enter a new age – the Golden Age!"

 

BELIEF IS BINDING, EXPERIENCE IS LIBERATING...