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Prison Project

The following is an unedited letter from an inmate.

I went to my cell and chanting Guru Om became an obsession. Then it happened. I don't know if I was conscious or asleep, but I heard a beautiful sound. I opened my eyes and in front of me was the most beautiful pair of feet I had ever seen. I looked up slowly and realized Gurumayi was in fact here with me. My head went to the ground. I embraced her feet. My heart was burning and I began to cry with happiness. There was so much love.

As the darshan continued, one of my senses questioned the reality of my experience. Then Gurumayi left me as fast as she had come. Three days later I assumed the corpse pose and began to contemplate Gurumayi. Once again I heard the sound I heard in my previous experience. Again I was in front of my Guru. This time a river flowed between us. I wanted to get to the side where Gurumayi was, but for some reason I was not allowed in the water. I caught a rope and managed to swing across the water, but Gurumayi jumped to the other side. I was still hanging by the rope, but I had no strength to go back to the other side.

I started to climb to the roof of the building that was there, but when I looked up Gurumayi was there too. I asked, "Gurumayi, how is it that you have gotten up there and I'm still down here trying?" She replied, "I am here and you are down there because you just don't want to let go." Immediately she extended her hands and I was standing by her side. She opened her hands and her human form was no more. She became a tornado of blue light. With the force of a hurricane she pulled me with her. I got afraid and pulled away from the light. Once again I heard her say, "Let go, let go." I did and I became just part of the same light she had become.