Transmission and Transformation

I still recall my first experience of Pranahuti or yogic Transmission, during my second introductory meditation session in Kanpur, India. I had expected to feel vibrations in the heart, as I did during the first meditation session.

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S. S. RAMAKRISHNAN, Kanha Shanti Vanam, India

Instead, something entirely unexpected happened. I suddenly felt as if I were floating in empty space, unable to tell whether my feet were up or my head was up. In fact, I didn't even remember if I had a head or feet. I experienced myself as pure mind, without a body.

After the meditation session, an old puzzle resurfaced: “Am I just a body with a brain, a machine with chemical plants inside, and a computer on top? Will this machine stop one day, and I'll simply be no more? Or am I something more, something that continues beyond the death of this body?”