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Eventually I made my way to my impatient companions at the carpark, riding home in the darkening countryside with the energy dancing inside. By the next midday, it faded to a whisper. Mother Meera brings this light. She describes it, in her book Answers, like this: "The whole purpose of my work is in the calling down of the Paramatman Light [a level of spiritual light not previously found on earth] and in helping people. For this I came-to open your hearts to the Light. It is to help people and make them happy, peaceful, contented, harmonious and loving. Happiness and spiritual growth are connected."

I sought more answers from Adilakshmi, who's been with Mother Meera for more than 20 years. I've read in Answers, I tell her, that "humans do receive the Light continuously but only at special moments like darshan." Yet in another place I read, "You can receive the Light anywhere and at any time. Knowing that open to it without delay."

Adilakshmi's answer was as clear as the order she maintains the four evenings each week that Mother offers darshan: "It is a matter of receptivity. People are more receptive at darshan. They are not always receptive."

Yes, I see that. It is easier to experience the Light at darshan. More rare elsewhere. I think of special moments like receiving Communion as a child (Another form of darshan-a glimpse of divinity.) At an older age, I closed that door and went knocking on others. Some opened, some didn't. After four years of Mother Meera's gentle touch and knowing eyes, I think this: It's not a matter of opening doors. It's a matter of dissolving my own walls of resistance. It's a matter of realizing that everything inside and out is the same Divine.

As resistance goes, we can receive the Light and let it change us. Mother Meera says, "People should be peaceful and harmonious. To be harmonious means to be whole; to love others and so enjoy your life; to know yourself and your difficulties and to work with them so you become free and able to help others; to respect the dignity of others.

"When you are open, the Divine can pour itself into you. When you are changed, the Divine can work through you."

Mother Meera, in silence, strikes the spirit like lightning, destroying ignorance and stimulating new growth. The experience is self-knowledge (sometimes painful), backed by power, energy and bliss. ~

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