They will need a teacher who is fully or partially enlightened,
and who has extensive experience in guiding souls to self-realization.
They will also need a teacher who has the power to ward off hordes
of Negative Forces."
Atmananda reminded us that the powers from his past lives had been
"cycling" through him and had been propelling him into basement
samadhi and beyond. He said that he had been carefully monitoring
his progress toward self-realization. He had not only asked
the Infinite for advice, he assured us, but had been reading
detailed accounts of the enlightenment process.
No one asked to review his source material.
He went on to describe the countless inner realms he had been
slipping in and out of lately. The realms, he explained, were so
deep and powerful that the man we had come to know as Atmananda
had all but disappeared inside the clear light of the void.
I was attempting to make sense of his claims, when he said that samadhi
was incomprehensible to the human mind. Then he paused, slowly scanned
the audience, and announced that he would be helping advanced,
sincere seekers in their quest for enlightenment...on his *own*.
"He's on a power trip!" I thought. "Maybe he's been planning this
all along.
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