Barbara, USA
I had been seeking answers to so many questions of life since my childhood. Seeing that I was not getting anywhere and weary from the great effort, at age twenty-three I pretty much gave up and decided that if I cannot live a life of fulfillment, at least I can numb the pain.
It was in this self-destructive “party” mode that I met a good friend named Ransom. He was also a great seeker. He had a clear twinkle in his blue eyes and he pretty much got me up, dusted me off and set me back on the road. Ransom’s mother had died when he was 12 years old and he had a vision of Christ around that time. He could clearly see Christ in his bedroom and felt such a great comfort from this experience that he began actively seeking spiritual union with God. Just hearing about this made my heart sing – I knew that there was a God although I was professing to be an atheist for years out of spite for not finding a way to Him. This story confirmed to me that the possibility still existed for me to have communion with the Divine.
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Anisoara, Romania
I had practiced a kind of meditation before and I knew how difficult it was to get any peace, but there in that hall full of people I got a deep state of meditation so easily. At the moment when I got my Self Realization, all the questions I had melted in me and also all my doubts finished.
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Bernard, UK
Bernard first met Shri Mataji in May 1980 at the age of 27, although the story of his seeking started in childhood. Thinking of the eternity of time and space completely freaked him out. Life before life was as bewildering as the question of life after death. Also asking himself what it was that actually cognised the asking of the question, produced a very strange sensation.
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Matt, USA
It was in 1986, and I was touring the country with a feminist bluegrass band (I’d do anything to be a professional musician). I started seeking because of a friend at the time who was a martial arts enthusiast and he exposed me to some philosophical, “seeking” books by people like Alan Watts and Joseph Campbell, (authors of books about things like “Eastern thinking” or meditation techniques). What this did for me was show that a lot of people are trying to break free of the
mundane, day to day existence, even writing books about it - and I knew that I was one of these people.
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Herbert, Vienna
I got my Self Realization in Vienna, Austria in 1982 and it was a really dark period of my life, so dark actually that I was considering to commit suicide because there was no reason to continue really, there was no light at the end of any tunnel that I was in.
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