Returning to Goloka

like apples and oranges. But I wanted to offer something special to Guru Dev
so I would buy mangoes in bulk.
For my birthday, my Purusha friends gave me a very large picture of
Lord Vishnu (like the one on the right) and by then I had learned the 1000
names well enough to chant them. So my daily program consisted of arising
at 3 am, doing a puja to Guru Dev, chanting the 1000 names of Vishnu,
meditation, then I would join the group for a several hour morning program
of meditation. We would get out of program around 11 am, so I would chant
some more, read the Srimad Bhagavatam and then prepare my own lunch in my
room from the offerings to Guru Dev in the morning puja. For the next year I
ate only what had been blessed by Guru Dev in the morning puja.
During the afternoon I would work on the brain mapping and little
progress was made. One day in the late summer of 1990, Maharishi called me
to come to Vlodrop, Holland where he was living at the time, and do my
research there. When I arrived in Holland I immediately setup a laboratory
and started to work 18 hours a day on EEG research. I would start work
around 6 am after 20 minutes of meditation and a glance at Lord Vishnu's
large picture that I brought with me in my luggage, take a 30-minute lunch
break, meditate at my computer for 20 minutes in the afternoon and work
through until midnight when my brain literally would lose the ability to think!
I would then stumble into my little room and sleep for a few hours and start
the day all over again.
For 60 days I worked this schedule. I never missed a day, never
attended the group meditation, and never saw Maharishi. However, I felt his
attention on me every day. One day a friend said that in a meeting with
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