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1. Shivoham

The Process

The process revealed by Swamiji in the Inner Awakening was the most mystical one yet. It was all about lines and sounds. Swamiji explained that people's bio memory and muscle memory are made of visualizations and verbalizations, and chaos in these are the cause for all suffering. Through the process, Swamiji was going to align everyone's bio- and muscle-memory to the fundamental lines and sounds of the cosmos. Using his energy he surgically remove the chaotic lines and sounds from everyone - leaving them in the state of feeling divine - the space of Shivoham. Swamiji seated the participants in the shape of special yantras(fundamental shapes that represent fundamental energies in the cosmos) and chanted powerful mantras (fundamental sounds with specific powers of the cosmos). The participants experienced a variety of yantras from simple circles to the complex Srichakra representing Devi, the sacred feminine cosmic energy of creation. Swamiji sat in the middle of it all and went into deep Samadhi - and just like that, the participants were transported into a magical, mystical world of Shivoham.

The Experience

The participants were treated to an experience they had never ever seen, or felt before. In process after process, people were transported into the mystical space where they felt empowered; where they felt ecstatic for no reason; where they felt elevated to a transcendent space long after the process was done. In short, they were in the space of Shivoham, the space of the divine, where limitations disappear, bliss is the natural state, where extraordinary things are an everyday occurrence, where anything is possible. Participants saw amazing visions while doing nothing - just sitting - while Swamiji did the process through his energy.

Temple with Large size shivalinga from bottom of the temple structure to top of it. Later broken at different periods for different reasons.

Part 2: Shivoham_English_part_2.md

The Laughter, The Closeness

One of the highlights of the Inner Awakening was spending casual time with an incarnation. Swamiji spent hours opening up to people, joking & laughing. Before every session he took the time to answer endless questions from the participants on (what seemed like) every topic under the sun - love, power, karma, morality, food, money, enlightenment, sex, just to name a few. He personally listened to each of the participants and helped them understand the experience they were having. In the end, everyone felt complete before entering each and every process. Swamiji spent casual time with participants on the field trips too. In Angor Wat and Bayon temples he took the time to explain the historical significance and the architecture to everyone. Even on these trips he would sit with everyone around him, and spend hours chatting jovially about everything and nothing. At the Kulean mountain - The River of the Thousand Lingas - Swamiji joined everyone in the falls, enjoying the water. At the site of the thousand lingas, he allowed for pada puja to be done in a stream with the participants sitting around him, in what he called the most intimate environment for pada puja ever. It was a perfect personification of what he stands for - being one with nature while adoring it, being one with the divine while offering gratitude to Him, the divine

A casual friendly sitting with disciples during the Temple visits

Simply stunning . . How to say which is - beauty in this picture ... !!!