The Darshan of the Guru, the sight and sound (shabd), is a blessing that fills me with intense devotion. Sitting with the Sri Guru Granth Sahib is sublime, peaceful, calming and soothing. After my experience Monday night sitting also near to the deep experience of Guru Nanak's presence, I am resting within an embrace of love I have not felt since I was 4 or 5 years old. I thought I would be lonely for the Guru, but when I unwrapped the Sikh Holy Book yesterday, I saw light coming from its pages. The resonance of my voice and any sound in the room is like that of a cathedral or church.
That resonance has been there before in deep devotion to Ammachi and to Vaishnodevi as a Hindu. It has been there in through my years of practicing as a Ceremonial Magician in the tradition of The Golden Dawn, but never this deeply. The resonance of Kirtan and the reading of the Guru is profoundly deep. The room echoes as if it were ten times its size.
And when I sit to do Bound Lotus now, and to chant the Laya Yoga Mantra in meditation, my eyes seem naturally to draw upwards towards the the third eye, the ajna chakra.
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