Bryan K.Regina - Saskatchewan, Canada
Before I connected with Maharaji, I viewed hope as a rogue experience put inside me either by some malignant God or the stresses of evolution. I had it, but it frustrated me no end. I tended to view people, including myself, as inadequate and the whole human enterprise as a failure.
Despite this outlook, I would find myself, at the oddest times, lighting up for no reason with a childlike enthusiasm. How could I experience something so spectacularly hopeful? There was a terrible chasm running right down my middle.
I can’t say that Knowledge has healed the rift. I’m the same person I always was. But it has made it possible for me to bridge the chasm, to acknowledge what was at the source of that enthusiasm for life I had been so frustrated with. In Knowledge, evidence exists on the other side—that hope can be fulfilled.
— Bryan K.Regina
Saskatchewan, Canada
December 11, 2003 in Canada | Permalink
Lottie D.Lethbridge - Alberta, Canada
As a child, I knew a feeling of joy and contentment deep within me, but this feeling did not match the words I was hearing around me. As an adult, I tried to live by what others expected of me and grew distant from the love I had known as a child. Everything I pursued left an ache inside.
Two years ago, I expressed that longing to a friend. She told me about someone who had shown her a way to quench her thirst over and over again. My heart recognized her story, but I felt fearful that this might be a religion or that I'd have to follow someone who would watch my every move and judge me.
In time, I was shown the techniques of Knowledge. So how is it today with the fears I felt when I first heard about Maharaji? Am I being judged? Absolutely not! Have I found it to be a religion with rules? Absolutely not! Is the feeling the most natural thing that I remember as a child? Absolutely!
— Lottie D.Lethbridge
Alberta, Canada
