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Long Before Words

Written by Mitch Ditkoff

Friday, 27 May 2011 06:32

Being of the Jewish persuasion, I'm not exactly the kind of person given to confession, but allow me the ecumenical luxury of confessing at least one thing in this first paragraph of what may well turn out to be the Mahabharata of blog postings:

Writing about Maharaji and the gift that he offers is not easy.

It's not easy for a few reasons.

First off, what I want to say existed long before words — long before nouns and verbs and the leaky vessels we construct to float our shaky boats of babble.

Secondly, words are approximations of the real thing at best. Like menus, they indicate something's cooking in the kitchen, but they are not the food itself.

And thirdly, the dog ate my homework.

I don't know how it works. There are decades of my life I can barely remember, but seconds with Maharaji that remain a vast eternity, indelibly impressed on my heart like some kind of rock 'n roll Rosetta stone.

I never laugh so hard or cry so long as when I'm in his company. I never feel so good.

The first time I heard about Maharaji, I was both ecstatic and afraid — ecstatic at the thought I might finally experience what I'd been born for — afraid that somehow, grand impostor that I was, I would be the only person on the face of the Earth not to get it.

Forget it. I got it.

Yes, that moment happened — the moment of ooooooh — the moment of aaaaaah — the moment of finally coming into my own after years of imagining my own was someplace far away — in a forest, cave or future lifetime.

What has he taught me? How to wake up — and stay awake. How to appreciate. How to feel.

What Maharaji offers is not so much a teaching as it is transportation to the place we've either been seeking our entire life or have given up on long ago — the place of no judgment, the place of no doubt, the place of no worry, no fear, no problem.

Here! The place of remembering. And what we remember here is love — plain and simple.

For love is the name of the game, no matter how we play it.

Illustration by Sara Shaffer.

49 Comments

Lenore Bryck makes this comment

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Monday, 18 July 2011

Writing about it may not be easy but it sure feels good to try and glad we do so we can kvel together. I appreciated and admire your noble attempt here.
Steve Kowarsky makes this comment

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Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Beautiful, Mitch. Beautiful!
Jan makes this comment

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Saturday, 18 June 2011

So true... " don't know how it works. There are decades of my life I can barely remember, but seconds with Maharaji that remain a vast eternity, indelibly impressed on my heart like some kind of rock 'n roll Rosetta stone." Thanks for the reminder
Tom Gannon makes this comment

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Friday, 03 June 2011

Thanks Mitch, This made my day more beautiful
Carolina Cacicedo makes this comment

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Wednesday, 01 June 2011

There is nothing that one can write about an "essence"; that's why it's hard to write about! Thank you for attempting to Mitch! There is nothing to write about an "instant"; it flies faster than a pen or pencil! But it is all that! put into a feeling...that I was looking for, which Prem Rawat excels in making it easy for me to understand. Who else? What else? For me? It has to click! And once it does, wow! What a discovery! What I was looking for all my life, right inside of me? Wow! For me, well, it is Prem Rawat who helped me discover the obvious...what can I say? It wasn't anyone else! I have to thank Prem Rawat for this! I guess my thirst works in mysterious ways...only real water can calm thirst...for me, there is a realm of No Fear...no fear because if you are really born to understand this, you will! What did I write? Lol.
S R DHAIN makes this comment

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Wednesday, 01 June 2011

Beautiful. Having not yet recieved knowledge - im towards the end of the keys process - i can relate and more importantly FEEL what Mitch is saying. Having spent so long trying different things - reiki and other meditative practices- my heart FEELS this is , for want of a better phrase, "the real thing". Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings.
Joyce makes this comment

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Wednesday, 01 June 2011

Thanks Mitch. You did express words that told what I feel and am smiling just now. Maharaji THANKS FOR THE GIFT!!!! YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE THAT MAKES IT HAPPEN.
Ginny McCrum makes this comment

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Tuesday, 31 May 2011

As you so often do, Ditty, you found your words in your open "heart," which never forgets joy, and your state of awareness, which can time travel within a breath. Wonderfully put my friend. Kudos to Sara for the creative artwork, too! :) Gin
David Barbour makes this comment

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Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Keep on confessin', brother!
Frédérique Toubeau makes this comment

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Tuesday, 31 May 2011

No, not easy at all, but you did it wonderfully!! Thanks a lot!! Fred