Journey to Enlightenment Part 01

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space

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Summer 1992: New Vibrations
New members in the Lighthouse? No, just new vibrations! Part of the vibration change that is being felt is the change that is experienced from receiving our new spiritual names given to us by Gurudev Chitrabhanu.
To me, this was one of the most profound experiences in my lifetime. I feel that through my spiritual practices I have had several "quickening of spirit” movements of energy, so to speak, but this was like all of those experiences literally at the same time - like including all solid forms of matter, including me, melted into a state of nothingness that somehow felt whole or complete. Before everything "melted" I felt a deep sound moving up from my solar plexus that I could not control. As I heard the sound, it was coming up out of me for several seconds; I was truly witnessing something that I (ego) had no control over. Then again, I had no control over the profuse tears that kept pouring out of me as I received my new spiritual name, Chetana, which means many things (as I found out through the course of the trip. Some of the meanings are: pure consciousness, wisdom, and fertile ground). The tears I found out were tears of joy!
The ceremony also had another very significant meaning to me. As I received my new spiritual name, I also became Gurudev Chitrabhanu's “first” chosen apostle. The apostle's name carries part of the teacher's name, such as CHIT-rabhanu and CHET-ana.
Since that time I feel even more directed with the purpose of my life, and what keeps surfacing in my mind is that “one flame can light many candles".
The other new vibrations of the Lighthouse Center are:
Aruna Lalita Niana Bharati Vondana Samata Asmita Prachi
Olga Bachmann Lucile Doke Nancy Dinius Brenda Heiber Terry Fischer Charlene Florida Anna Schmitt-Heatlie Pat Thiel
Namaste,
Chetana
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