UNDER THE BLANKET

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Jagadish reads from Miracle of Love a book about our guru Neem Karoli Baba. The reading brings up a range of spiritual awakening issues and we finally find out what is in the basement of Joe Rogan, a famous podcaster.

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket with Erin Montgomery author of “Dirty Little Secret” as we get all emotional and discuss the human emotional life related to the spiritual awakening. Get your box of tissues before you listen. Cry baby cry, make your mother sigh as the Beatles sung.

“Now when an emotional upset starts, it may start out of a thought process, but then it starts to involve all of the body — the adrenaline and all kinds of chemical reactions. Then often, one of the ways out of it is to work with the body.  For example, running or movement. Taking a walk. Doing things which start to release the energy, the kind of chemical buildup. Because you get that kind of nervous energy when you are emotionally upset. Then there is meditation–quieting down and allowing yourself to see how lost you’ve gotten. I mean on the deeper devotional path, there is the offering of the emotion to God.  Saying, “Here, You take it.  I offer it to You.”  There is appreciating your humanity. “Yea, here I am. I’m human. I just lost it again.  Ah so!” There’s the Ah so — Right? “Okay. Once more. Boy, am I hung up.” These are all spiritual techniques. See, it’s the upleveling. It’s the ability to see it without denying it. Not saying, “I’m not really upset.” “I am upset. Far out. Here we are again.” It’s like talking with God and saying “Oh, look at how deliciously human I am.” Not to milk it.  Not to keep feeding it, but not to push it away. That’s the quickest way through. To acknowledge it, allow it, and then use body energy to keep working out the chemical stuff that’s built up and the tension in the body that’s been built up. And then get on with it and just keep letting go, letting go, letting go. Sometimes music does it. There are a lot of techniques that do it.”

- Ram Dass

Erin’s website

https://www.peoplesouterdimension.net/

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we meet James Cox, a Ram Dass devotee that is host of “Human Insights with James Cox.”

https://humaninsightswithjamescox.com/

This episode has the feeling of the Maharajji satsang family getting together, telling spirituality stories and sharing insights into our predicament. It’s a warm episode so relax and enjoy the warmth of the fire of satsang love.

“I agree with the Buddha, Satsang is beautiful. I treasure it; it is family. Satsang is a group of people pointed at truth.” – Ram Dass

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket with Jeff Crawford of the Giant Rock Podcast and me. We discuss the spiritual aspects of music and so on, especially focusing on our common interest in psychedelic rock and roll of the 60s like the Beatles and the Pet Sounds album by The Beach Boys. It’s interest to note that Maharajji, the blanket guru, on occasion broke from tradition and had the devotees sing a rock and roll song to him.

“Words are flowing out

Like endless rain into a paper cup

They slither while they pass

They slip away across the universe

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy

Are drifting through my opened mind

Possessing and caressing me

Jai Guru Deva, Om

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light

Which dance before me like a million eyes

They call me on and on across the universe

Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box

They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe

Jai Guru Deva, Om

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter, shades of life

Are ringing through my open ears

Inciting and inviting me

Limitless, undying love

Which shines around me like a million suns

It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai Guru Deva, Om

Nothing's gonna change my world”

- John Lennon

https://giantrockpodcast.com

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Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Joel and I discuss psychedelics and spiritual awakening.

“My guru, in speaking about psychedelics, said:

“These medicines will allow you to come and visit Christ, but you can only stay two hours. Then you have to leave again. This is not the true samadhi. It’s better to become Christ than to visit him – but even the visit of a saint for a moment is useful.” Then he added, “But love is the most powerful medicine.” 

For love slowly transforms you into what the psychedelics only let you glimpse.”

- Ram Dass

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we encounter Addy Baba and his story of how Maharajji tested him. Explore how the vibration of oneness as Neem Karoli Baba Maharajji interacts with devotees in different ways, all to lead us home

“It is reflected in the tiny upturn in the mouth of the Buddha, for he sees the humor in the universal predicament. All beings are lost in illusion, yet he knows that they will awaken from that illusion for they are, at heart, already enlightened. He knows that what seems so hard to them is from another perspective their own path to liberation.

Often the perspectives about yourself and the universe that you arrive at through meditation make you want to giggle or laugh. This giggle is without malice. It’s a cosmic giggle, one that I identify with my guru, Maharaj-ji. For his giggle was not of this world. It was not a social or personality giggle, but rather a cosmic chuckle, the delight in the fun of it all. His giggle was from the plane that gives us the term “lila,” the divine dance of life.”

- Ram Dass

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket and experience a transmission of unconditional love from Ethan, a man with stage 4 brain cancer in tremendous pain surrounded by angels. Of course I relate all this to our spiritual awakening to Oneness.

“For most people, when you say that suffering is Grace it seems off the wall to them. And we’ve got to deal now with our own suffering and other people’s suffering. That is certainly a distinction that is very real, because even if we understand the way in which suffering is Grace – and the way in which it can be a vehicle for our awakening, it’s quite different to look at somebody else’s suffering and say it’s Grace. And Grace is something that an individual can see about their own suffering and then use it to their advantage. It is not something that can be a rationalization for allowing another human being to suffer. And you have to listen to the level at which another person is suffering.” - Ram Dass

www.ethansangels.org

It is your destiny to listen to this podcast, you have no choice. Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as presence coach Ryan and I discuss determinism vs. free will, relating it to our spiritual awakening.

“The people we meet in each birth, we are predestined to meet. It is also predestined how long you will be with a person, so you shouldn't get attached to trying to keep together or feel sad at loss. Realize that you will one day be separated, and then you will avoid that feeling of pain.”

- Neem Karoli Baba Maharajji

It’s my birthday

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket for this special birthday episode as we encounter Jagedish. He reads stories from miracle of love about my guru Neem Karoli Baba and we discuss how they relate to spiritual awakening.

“It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.” 
-- Neem Karoli Baba

Venture under Maharajji‘a blanket as we talk to Jeff, host of Giant Rock podcast about energy and how it relates to spiritual awakening.

“‘Lest ye become as little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.’ Unless you start again, become that trusting, open surrendered being, the energy can’t come in. That’s the kingdom of heaven; the energy, cosmic consciousness, the same thing.” – Ram Dass

https://giantrockpodcast.com