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That was one of the best descriptions of "the experience" I have ever read.  Certainly I have not read anything better on this forum posted by a currently practicing premie.

 I can relate to everything that you said.  I, too, have felt that indescribable joy and "rightness", my true nature, the nature of pure existence.  When I first experienced it during a meditation, it was both a surprise and not a surprise.  It was familiar, very familiar.

And it came about despite the techniques rather than because of them.  I knew that.  I discarded my baragon long before Rawat gave that advice.  The techniques are for dumkoffs who don't really want to meditate and have to force themselves.  I always knew that discipline has no place in inner peace.

I, too, have stopped pursuing bliss.  Bliss is a beautiful woman who can't stand being pursued.  Ignore her!  Then she might glance your way once in awhile.  But there IS something more.  It's more and it's less, and it's balanced, and it includes all of life.

I do think that Rawat might really believe in constant bliss.  How abnormal!  And how silly people look when they are TRYING to obtain such a state.  "Inner peace" is more reasonable, but when you attach a person's individual growth to a guru and/or to a method, you have already lost the way.