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Studying Gurumayi’s Message for 2014

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I Immersed Myself in the Sounds of the Chant

Recently I participated in a week-long Siddha Yoga Sadhana Retreat. During the retreat, I contemplated Gurumayi’s Message. This year I have been learning about sound, and how all sounds are born from the original unstruck sound, AUM.

The satsang hall where the retreat was held was in the middle of a busy city. During the meditation sessions, I found myself embracing the sounds coming into the hall from the street outside, considering them to be forms of AUM. Instead of distracting me as they used to, the sounds led me deep into my heart, where I felt still and vast.

During the final meditation, I was drawn inward to a very quiet place. After some time, I began to witness a buzzing or humming vibration resonating from the very core of myself. As I focused on this experience, I realized something amazing: with every exhalation, this vibration arose from my heart, and I became one with the universe, and with every inhalation, it receded back into my heart, and everything became one with me.

I knew I was experiencing Gurumayi’s Message: The soundless sound arises and subsides in the space of flawless quietude. As I came out of meditation, a feeling of pure joy washed over me and I thought, “I get it! I understand Gurumayi’s Message!”

A Siddha Yogi from Utah, USA

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    I feel joy now in my body and in my breath after having read this share. I feel all of the sounds around me as part of the same joyous energy. We— everything—truly are one.

    Thank you, Gurumayi. And thank you to the Siddha Yogi from Utah for your share.

    Ohio, USA

    Thank you so much to the Siddha Yogi from Utah who submitted this generous experience share. I found it really helpful to read about the inner merging with the outer on the exhalation, and the outer merging with the inner on the inhalation. I loved this idea so much that I thought I would give it a go. So, with my laptop still in front of me, I practiced holding this awareness for a few breaths. In the place where the inhalation and the exhalation came to rest, I experienced a pure, quiet, and undeniable sense of being. What a lovely gift!

    Guildford, United Kingdom

    Thank you, Gurumayi, for your sankalpa that we experience the soundless sound. During the last few weeks, as I prepare to go to sleep, I have been listening to an inner sound which, over time, has expanded to a roaring, throbbing vibration that has opened my heart and sometimes catapulted me from my body beyond stars and galaxies into the vastness of space.

    Thank you, Gurumayi, for supporting and blessing us this year with your Message.

    Arizona, USA

    While reading this share, I became aware of all sound as vibrations of AUM. Breathing in, I felt one with creation; breathing out, I felt the bliss of the Self. It was as if I were present in the room with the writer, experiencing the power of a Siddha Yoga Sadhana Retreat.

    When I read the words, "I get it!" I could feel the joy of a Siddha Yogi understanding Gurumayi’s profound Message for 2014.

    Thank you, Siddha Yogi, for your beautiful share!

    New York, USA

    This experience share is very timely for me, as I have been affected by sounds in my urban environment. I will apply the lessons from this wonderful share in my meditation practice and daily activities. Thank you for this support.

    New York, USA