An Experience That Changed My Life -- Lt.Gen.VK Kapoor India

An Experience That Changed My LifeMy experiences in Sahaja Yoga commenced on the night of 16 Apr 1995when I first saw Sri Mataji in Calcutta(Kolkata) at a wedding. As Ilooked at her dynamic, attractive and awesome presence I felt thatthe care of the disease I was suffering from lay in her hands. Atthat time I was a Brigadier in the Indian Army, posted at ArmyHeadquarters in Delhi. A few months earlier, in fact in Dec 1994, Ihad returned from an assignment in New York with the PermanentMission of India (PMI). While there a strange phenomenon hadoccurred. One day while working in my temporary office in the PMI, Istarted feeling uneasy, breathless and nausea. I could also feel myrapid heart beat and my pulse seemed to be much faster than usual. Irequested the PMI staff to arrange a doctor to examine my condition.I was taken to a clinic where the doctor put me through all types ofexaminations including ECG and after about an hour I was advised thatthere was nothing wrong with me and that the discomfort was dueto "ectopics" of the heart, the cause of which could be attributed topsychosomatic reasons and that the condition would probably stabilizein due course on its own. Unfortunately my condition deteriorated onreturning to India and after consulting many Heart Specialists I wastold that there was no cure for this disease and medication wouldmost likely produce side effects like abnormally low blood pressurewhich would cause even more discomfort. A "Halters Test" (a record ofECG taken over a 24 hours duration) showed my heart beating 150 to250 times per minute over a 24 hours period and the doctors feltquite concerned on seeing my condition. This condition continued fornearly four months before I met Sri Mataji in Calcutta. Prior to thatI had resigned myself to an invalids life as I used to feel listless,despondent and physically weak. I was planning to quit my Armyservice due to my physical condition.I vividly remember the scene when we (my wife and I) walked up to SriMataji's location in the wedding hall, where we were introduced byShri Rajesh Shah, a well known and very devoted Sahaj Yogi fromBombay. Sri Mataji made my wife sit next to her and as I stood infront of her with my folded hands, she asked me to explain what waswrong with me. The love and compassion in her voice made me feel likea child and I found it difficult to control my emotions. Gradually Iexplained the entire background to my ailment. She smiled and askedto put my right hand on my heart and left hand towards her, take adeep breath, close my eyes and repeat certain words. I was asked todo this three times. At the end Sri Mataji smiled once and said thatI was already looking better. She asked me to join the meditationcentre in Delhi and learn to meditate and that there was nothing toworry about. As I bent forward to do Pranam, Sri Mataji gentlythumped me on my back with her right fist thus awakening myKundalini, the residual spiritual energy which is in a dormant statewithin all of us. I could not feel anything at that moment, as I wasnot sensitive enough though I understood the significance in duecourse.That night I slept peacefully after nearly four months and on wakingup in the morning I felt refreshed and joyful. We did not realize itthen but the course of our life had changed. We had been put on thepath of Peace, Joy, Satisfaction and Nourishment.We were taught the method of meditation at Delhi and I startedattending the collectivity at the SAHAJA Temple in C-17 InstitutionalArea, in New Delhi. About one and a half months later, one day in themonth of Jun 95, when I was meditating at home in the morning atabout 4.30 AM, I suddenly experienced a burst of energy in the formof a cool breeze all over my hands, over the body and on top of myhead. It was an intense experience of peace and joy. I understoodthat I had experienced the state of self-realization. Thereafter Ihave experienced it many times, though not with the same intensity.Later in the month of July 95, I was called for my periodic medicalboard (after every 5 years) and after all the tests and examinationswere done, I was declared medically fit and was promoted to the rankof Major General in Oct 95.Since the past six years it has been a Saga of unique spiritualexperiences in SAHAJA YOGA. In the SAHAJA way of life one isconstantly blessed by the power and the will of the Lord through theGrace of our Guru Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi who is Sakshat Sri AdiShakti, the Primordial Mother.I was promoted once again in Oct 2000 to the rank of a LieutenantGeneral, the highest rank that you can achieve in the Army- and allof this due to the Love and Compassion of our Guru, Sri MatajiNirmala Devi.I am presently in an instructional assignment at Mhow (MP) whichgives me ample opportunity to teach SAHAJA YOGA meditation to manyofficers who come to our institution for training. Seeing theenthusiasm of our officers and men we have established a newmeditation centre in the Army area.(Lt. Gen. VK Kapoor)Commandant, College of Combat, Mhow (MP)