Chapter 6: Ananda Gandha Meditation🔗

Please close your eyes, sit straight and cross-legged on the floor. Those of you who can't sit on the floor may sit on a chair.

Start visualizing the Master's laughing face in the region between your anahata and manipuraka chakras which is the path to Ananda Gandha chakra. Deeply meditate on that area. You will feel energy flowing from that area. Relax into it. Feel the body flowering. Visualize your whole body smiling, not just your face. Feel your body blossom. Feel the joyous smile from the bottom of your stomach.

Let your thoughts come back to Ananda Gandha, if your mind has wandered anywhere. Think of the Master's laughing face again. Drop the face when you start feeling the energy sensation in Ananda Gandha. Relax slowly into the flow of energy. Do not try to create, sustain or destroy any thoughts. Just relax into the energy.

You see, if you use any mantra to meditate, you will possibly reach the etheric body, the fourth layer of our energy bodies. Only if you meditate and pray on pure energy like in Ananda Gandha healing prayer meditation, you will cross the nirvanic body, the seventh layer and go inwards.

I tell you to think of me at the start of the meditation, so that you go right into the etheric body because of the visualization. Once you are in the etheric layer, you can drop the visualization of my face and proceed further inwards. My face is like a gateway to the etheric body. Only to get to the etheric body, I ask you to visualize my face.

When the deepest concentration on the supreme Brahman also disappears by itself within, there arises nirvikalpa samadhi - in which all latent impressions of feelings are eliminated. Upanishad

The Master is in the state of nithyananda – eternal bliss. In that ultimate state, He transcends the limitations of time, space, form and mind. So, from this highest state of consciousness, He can pull us up from the state of maya, the fantasy world and emotional imbalances we are caught in.

Ananda Gandha initiation is a beautiful technique designed by the Master, where you first visualize the smiling face of the Master, and fall into savikalpa samadhi; his laughing form just pulls you into Ananda Gandha. Then, you drop the form as the energy flows through you. You make a quantum leap into nirvikalpa samadhi effortlessly.

A lotus blooms just by the penetrating rays of the sun. The kumudam (an Indian water lily) flower blooms with just the rays of the moon. Similarly, the Ananda Gandha of the devotees blooms with just the presence of the Master!

Now, we will enter into Ananda Gandha meditation. (The group does the Ananda Gandha meditation.)

After the meditation, a question from the audience: Master, I had a bodyless experience while meditating just now.

Yes, that is the indicator that you really entered into Ananda Gandha. If you are able to drop into Ananda Gandha with a bodyless experience, it is enough for that whole day. That energy will not allow anything to shake you.