Remembering Divine Love

I remember."Literally true?" I asked myself. If so, this was a
I was a young child, somewhere between 8 and 12concept of God that resonated and felt real to me.
years old. I was waking up one morning, as if from aSo I found God, if you will, in a book on theoretical
dream, and I was wrapped in Love... Divine Love...physics.
Love Without Conditions. I didn't want to wake up. IThis proved to be a forerunner of my next step into
wanted to stay in that Love and never leave it. Ispirituality. Four months later I was invited by an
held on to the feeling as long as I could, but then Iacquaintance to meet a meditation master, or guru,
had to open my eyes and return to this version ofat the Siddha Yoga Ashram in South Fallsberg, New
reality.York. Gurumayi, also known as Swami
I never forgot that dream - or was it a dream at all?Chidvilasananda, was a small, Indian woman whom, I
Maybe I really was with some higher being or angelwas told, gave spiritual initiation to her followers. I
or God and was being given comfort and Love that Iwent to meet her out of curiosity and with no
needed to continue in this life. Perhaps I needed thatexpectations. After chanting in Sanskrit for 45
experience so that the next time I experiencedminutes (a chant I couldn't follow or pronounce),
Divine Love I would immediately recognize it andGurumayi gave a talk, absolutely none of which I
know it's truth.remember. Then began Darshan, an opportunity to
Of course, I can't imagine that anyone couldmeet the master for a brief moment.
experience Divine Love and not immediatelyAs I stood in line with perhaps hundreds of other
recognize it. That's because I believe we have allpeople inching our way forward to where Gurumayi
experienced it before - maybe before this lifetimewas sitting, I began feeling waves and waves of
while on the soul plane or some higher dimensionalUnconditional Love coming from Gurumayi and
level.spreading outward like rays from the sun. I
There is a true story I read somewhere about arecognized the palpable feeling of Divine Love. I
family that has a little girl and then a new baby boyremembered the dream I had had as a child, and I
arrives. Everyone is concerned that the daughter willKNEW this Love was the same energy I had known
be jealous of the baby. Then, one day, her parentsone morning long ago and never since.
discover that she has gone into the baby's room andI did receive Shaktipat that day, the transference of
is speaking softly to him. These wise parents justa spark of Divine Light from teacher the student, and
listened and didn't interfere. What they heard amazedthat experience did propel me along my spiritual path.
them. Their daughter was asking the baby, "Do youBut it was remembering Divine Love that opened me
remember was it feels like to be with God? I'mto receive these energies and made what came later
starting to forget, so please help me remember." - orpossible.
words to that effect.Interestingly enough, the ancient teachings on which
When I was a child I KNEW certain things were so,Siddha Yoga is based are the same notions I had
not only without being told, but in defiance of what I"remembered" when I read Gary Zukav's book. God
was told. At age 6, I rejected definitions of God asis everywhere. God is, in fact, everything. There is no
cruel, judgmental, angry, vindictive, jealous, andseparation from God; separation is an illusion. God
hurtful. I told my cousin, Ella, who was only 4 at theconsciousness is our true Self. "See God in each
time, that her description of God was false, and thatother." "Nothing exists that is not Shiva" (another
if that was God, I didn't believe in him. So at 6 Iname for God).
declared myself an atheist. This created huge uproarThis morning, I am reading The Divine Matrix, by
in my family, because my mother worried aboutGregg Bradden. In Chapter 6, he writes,
what her relatives would think. This did not change...The common Western translation [of the Our Father
my mind one iota.prayer] begins, "Our Father, who are in Heaven,"
Skipping ahead to 1986, on a train headed foracknowledging this separation.... The Original Aramaic
Manhattan, I was reading The Dancing Wu Litexts, however, offer a different view of our
Masters, by Gary Zukav. This book on the history ofrelationship with our Heavenly Father. A translation of
theoretical physics, written for the non-physicist,the same phrase begins, "Radiant One: You shine
proved to be the catalyst that would propel me intowithin us, outside us - even darkness shines- when
the spiritual life.we remember."
In one of the experiments, two particles that are aSo, how can we remember?
bonded pair are separated by electrical means andIt is said by every competent channel today that our
then one is passed through a magnetic field. SinceAscension process is, in large part, a process of
the particles are bonded, they are the yin and yangremembering. That we are all, in our higher aspects,
of each other, i.e., their spins are in oppositealready enlightened and already ascended. In choosing
directions (up and down or left and right). Then, ato be on the Earth in the 3rd dimensional energies,
magnetic field is used to change the spin of onewe agreed to a veil of forgetfulness. Now is the time
particle as it passes through the field. To theto remember. The Earth is a "free will" zone.
amazement of the scientists conducting theTherefore, we must ask for - set the intention for -
experiment, the second particle's spin changeswhatever we choose to experience.
SIMULTANEOUSLY with the change in spin of theWe remember Divine Love by asking to experience
first one. There is no time lapse whatsoever.Divine Love once again, by asking to remember what
Scientists asked the question, "How can two ofit feels like, and by asking to be a vehicle through
anything communicate so quickly?" (p.287) Thiswhich Divine Love can be offered to each and every
question caused my mind to stop.human on Earth. We set the intention to live from
When my mind started up again, it was filled withour Hearts, to open our Hearts to each person we
more questions. "Communication? Instantaneousmeet or pass on the street, and to send them Divine
communication? Faster than the speed of lightLove no matter what they say or how they treat us.
communication? Particles communicating? Telepathy?When we set and hold that intention, we, ourselves,
Consciousness?"will receive and experience Divine Love in all its
And then I began remembering things I had read andbeauty and power and gentleness. This is how we
heard from western religions. "Everything exists in thecreate Heaven on Earth.
mind of God." "God is everywhere."