THE BLISS OF DIVINE UNION

When I was 19 years old, I experienced a shift of consciousness so profound, it had permanently altered my entire perception of life and my understanding of reality as a whole.

It happened in the midst of a deep existential crisis. I was living on my own and felt very lost, alone and deeply misunderstood. My living situation was very poor and my heart was heavy with fears about what will be. I worked various odd jobs hardly making ends meet and had no hope for a better future.

One night, to my utter dismay, I had found that my salary for the entire month was stolen from my purse. I hit a new level of low and a few days later had exhausted my capacity of asking my friends and family for money or food. I was hungry and overwhelmed by a deep sense of hopelessness. The feeling of intense fear and desperation had completely consumed me and I had reached my absolute bottom. As I curled up on the ground, I had an overwhelming sense that I had reached my end. It felt like an end of the self. An end of a busy and worried mind. There was nothing more left in me. I had no choice but to surrender to the profound sorrow and heaviness in my heart. I released the invisible grip and began to let go. At once, a state of profound surrender had taken over. It spread through me like a wildfire. Fierce and unyielding, it burned off all remnants of pain and despair. In the end, only stillness remained. A deep state of silence had overcome me and I suddenly felt a profound sense of peace. This deep peace had turned into an overwhelming and all consuming unconditional love and began to permeate my entire being.

The depth of my sorrow was replaced by the bliss of existence. It was a miracle... Never before have I experienced such unconditional love, flowing from my heart to every molecule of my being and radiating outward. The profound ecstasy of being was almost hard to contain. I was beaming with such indescribable and otherworldly joy and happiness that for those seemingly infinite moments, the world became my heaven on Earth. It was an experience of timeless presence. A deep state of Oneness that had defied all logical explanation. It felt as if a Divine light and love had engulfed me and washed away any personal sense of identity. In that seemingly infinite moment, beyond space and time, I became one with the Universe and its infinitely blissful state of being. This immense love and liberated joy is our very essence and the most primordial state of existence. It is the very frequency of life and its infinitely creative energy. It is this vibration of pure love that creates such incomprehensible beauty, wonder and heavenly bliss that permeates everything and at the same time is the very basis of who we are. And yet, it cannot be achieved from the state of perpetual resistance that most of us unconsciously abide in.

It is only when we are able to fully let go and enter a state of deep surrender and unconditional acceptance of all that is, exactly how it is, that we can awaken to our true, timeless and infinitely loving state of existence and experience a real miracle on Earth.