Gyani Baile & Dolly Baile

stayed with us till next day lunch time. PR came down from Boston for
house hunting trip related to his job change. Hence we did not have a
chance to record the meditation message this morning. She did wake up
at 4 AM in the morning and meditated. She started the meditation the
normal way. Everything was fine except there was no message from
Baba. In meditation she thought about the dream she had last night. She
felt an unusual sensation in the back. She asked Baba about the meaning
of her dream last night but Baba did not talk. Since she was not getting
any messages, after a while she was ready to end the meditation and get
up when Baba said "Stay, today you will go in Trance" She went back to
meditating again, concentrating on the chakras and waiting for
something to happen. Actually she did not know what did Baba mean by
Trance or what happens when one goes into Trance. She meditated a
while, nothing happened, she thought she will stop when Baba stopped
her again. He said "Stay." "On Shivaratri what time will you be going to
the temple?" Earlier she had looked up temple's Shivaratri program
timetable, and based on that, she had decided to be there for the first
Abhisekam that evening which began at 6:15 PM and giving a leeway of
one hour she wanted to reach there by 5:15 PM. So she replied to Baba
"5:15 PM". Baba said "Okay, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:15, 11:15. How
many hours is that?" She said "6 hours". "How many hours you think
you have been here today?" She realized and said "May be not more than
an hour." "Just think how many hours is that. That is a long time. If you
are not used to it, you will not be able to sit that long. I am not expecting
you to continually meditate either. In spite of all the breaks with the
Bhajans, it is still a long night. I do not want you to fall asleep and I want
you to meditate as much as possible. Come back for meditations from 3
to 5, I want you to do it at a stretch of 2 hrs. Meditate for longer
stretches. But on the day of Shivaratri I want you not to meditate in the
morning and go to mandir fresh as a flower." After that she stayed and
continued with the meditation. In between she opened her eyes a couple
of times and looked at the mandir, looked at all the pictures of the deities.
It was difficult to keep her mind quiet for that long a period. She felt
relieved when finally Baba said "It is OK you can go now." She looked
up the time and realized she had been meditating for about 1 hour 40
minutes. It was about 6:30 A.M. at that time. Since everybody was still
asleep, she came back to bed and slept. In the meditation three things had
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