Mahat’s Journey

Foundation Part 4 - F E A R ! ! !

Sylvain Brunet (Mahat) — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:36:26 GMT

During the early hours of March 25th, 2022, I lived through and experienced an event that changed my life profoundly. I received Love, knowledge, and guidance. There I was… I AM.

What follows is the continuation of my sharing of the knowledge, consciousness, Love, and guidance gifted to me that night. I am truly grateful for this opportunity to share. My hope is that you can enjoy and gain some, if not all, of what I received that night in March 2022… so that your life, too, can be transformed and your consciousness expanded.

If you haven’t read the previous posts from the Foundation Series, I invite you to do so for clarity and continuity. Of course, you don’t have to… but I believe it will make this reading and your journey easier and clearer.

In essence, the double is a replica of GOD-SOURCE, of ITSELF. IT IS an exact copy… But there’s a small catch. It was at this point that I experienced a great fear, an indescribable fear. A fear so profound that it shook me to the core of my being. I could not make sense of this fear. It was so overwhelming... I was so overwhelmed by that fear that I thought I would die and disappear... into OBLIVION. At first, I didn’t know where this fear was coming from...

... And then I got it! And the fear had no more hold on me anymore.

Now let me use the metaphor of a mirror to help you understand how I got it.

Please refer to the drawing above for the following explanation. And yes, drawing isn’t one of my God-given talents. Ha! Ha!

Now, imagine you (A) are standing in front of a mirror in your bathroom. You are looking at your double (B) in the mirror. This double (B) is a replica of you, an exact copy of you. What you see in the mirror IS you. Exactly you.

Now, extend this to all of you. By that I mean your double (B), in the mirror, if it’s really your exact copy, must also think, feel, and be conscious like you (A). In other words, (B) IS everything you are and does everything you do, but inside the mirror.

Now imagine that you cut yourself on one forearm and start bleeding. You can see the cut bleeding on your forearm, and if you look in the mirror, you (A) can see the cut on your double’s (B) forearm, and your double’s forearm is bleeding too. As an extension of that, it would be fair to assume that your double (B) would also feel the same pain you (A) do from that cut.

We could also assume that if you (A) think of something, your double (B) is also thinking the same thing. Going along, we know you (A) are conscious of your double’s existence inside of the mirror, and so it is fair to assume that it too, your double (B), is conscious of your existence (A) on your side, the outside of the mirror. Because to (B), you (A) are its double. Being that you (A) are conscious, that you exist, it goes too that your double (B) is also conscious that it exists. You (A) are looking at it and it (B) is looking right back at you from inside the mirror.

Now, let’s try something else. Picture yourself (A) starting to move sideways, away from being in front of the mirror. Your double (B), in the mirror, is also moving to the side with you. If you keep going, you will eventually be in front of the wall and not in front of the mirror anymore. When that happens, you (A) are still there, alive, and well facing the wall. But what about your double (B) in the mirror? Where is it? Is it in the wall to the side of the mirror? Or has it disappeared altogether, ceased to exist, when you moved away from the mirror?

Some people will say that your double (B) disappeared, while others will say that it’s still there but in the wall. In reality, your double (B) can’t be in the wall beside the mirror, because your double (B) can only exist from within the boundaries of the mirror. It cannot exist outside the boundaries of the mirror. It is the mirror that allows your double (B) to be there in the first place. You can’t see a reflection of yourself on the wall, or in the wall, if there is no mirror. It is the mirror that allows the reflection, your double (B) to exist. No mirror, no reflection, no double (B).

What is the difference between you (A) and your double (B) in the mirror? The difference is that you (A) ultimately control the existence of your double (B). How so? Well, if you (A) move, it, your double (B), moves too. If you (A) decide to move beyond the boundaries of the mirror, it, your double (B) disappears. It dies. It ceases to exist. At least until you (A) decide to come back in front of the mirror. When you (A) decide to move back in front of the mirror... Tada! Your double (B) reappears! The double (B) cannot move on its own. It cannot decide to just leave from inside the mirror while you (A) still stand in front of the mirror. Your double (B) is totally dependent on you, is totally connected to you (A).

Because it has no independence, your double (B) depends totally on you (A) for its very existence. Thus, your double (B) doesn’t control its very existence. Because of this, it intrinsically experiences a profound sense of insecurity. And from that insecurity, a fear is born.

We said earlier that your double (B) is conscious of itself, of its existence, because it is like you (A), and you have consciousness of your existence. Your double (B), not having control over its existence, experiences a very deep insecurity. That insecurity is so strong that it is in effect, a fear.

Thus, your double (B) lives in fear. But in fear of what? In fear of not having any control over its destiny, in fear of disappearing, in fear of dying, in fear of not existing anymore... in fear of disappearing... into OBLIVION. This fear is real.

In the post Foundation Part 3 - Big Bang Boom Bada Boom, I said that GOD-SOURCE, created a perfect image, a perfect double of ITSELF, through the Big Bang. Well, that image, that perfect double, is you, me, and everyone else living. GOD-SOURCE is (A), we are (B), just an image, a double of GOD-SOURCE. We exist; we live inside CREATION, just like the double (B) exists, lives, inside the mirror. CREATION is the mirror.

All of us living experience that fear of not having any control over our destiny, that fear of dying, that fear of not existing anymore... that fear of disappearing into OBLIVION... This experience of fear we all experience, we all carry. This is the original fear. The FEAR!!! And that’s the fear I experienced that night in March 2022; and to me, it was quite unnerving, to say the least.

... From this, I asked myself the following question: If GOD-SOURCE created me, I’m I real? Is the CREATION, of which I am a part of, real or just an image, an illusion within GOD-SOURCE?...

I now invite you to continue sharing with me this journey in the next post:

Foundation Part 5 - Illusion

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Foundation Part 3 - Big Bang Boom Bada Boom

Sylvain Brunet (Mahat) — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:19:53 GMT

During the early hours of March 25th, 2022, I lived through and experienced an event that changed my life profoundly. I received Love, knowledge, and guidance. There I was… I AM.

If you haven’t read the previous posts from the Foundation series, I invite you to do so for clarity and continuity. Of course, you don’t have to… but I believe it will make this reading and your journey easier and clearer.

... Now, out of that realization of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, out of that expanded consciousness of wanting to experience and not just BE, something swelled. And in that swelling was the intent. Not a thought — simply an intent. This intent, in turn swelled too, and then there was a thought. This thought was of creating a double of everything I AM, of GOD-SOURCE, to create for myself, ITSELF, a reference point. A reference point to experience everything completely.

And there it was, the first thought, the primordial thought, the thought that contains everything about CREATION before CREATION happened. A state of pre-creation, if you will.

This first thought, this primordial thought, was of creating a double of everything I AM, of GOD-SOURCE. Why was this primordial thought about creating a double of everything? Because creating a double of myself, a double of ITSELF, GOD-SOURCE, brings the ability to compare. The double brings GOD-SOURCE the ability to experience everything.

A note here, thoughts are also happening outside of time. A thought is instantaneous. It is on par with a state. In effect, a thought is a form of mini-state, and it exists, like a state, outside of time. There will be a dedicated post to explain that.

Back to our subject. The existence of the double allows the creation of a reference point. The presence of this reference point will enable comparisons. Without this reference point, there can be no comparisons. Without the ability to compare, there can be no experience, only a state — the STATE of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS.

With this possibility to compare, brought about by the creation of the double, I, GOD-SOURCE, will be able to experience everything completely. Thus, from the domain of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, the realm of experience materialized.

But for CREATION to happen, to create the perfect double of everything, of me, of GOD-SOURCE, there needs to be motion, movement. Thus, from that primordial thought, the double is created out of Everything and out of Nothing... A big explosion... a big bang, boom, bada boom. Through the Big Bang, I experienced the birth of all CREATION after being in the STATE of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS. The ultimate fireworks display, if you want my opinion.

As I am experiencing the Big Bang, I, being everything and infinite in my BEINGNESS-ONENESS, in GOD-SOURCE’s pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS... A realization came that this creation of the double could not happen outside of me, of GOD-SOURCE, of ITSELF. Why? Because you cannot go beyond infinity. That is the very nature of infinity. Consequently, the double can only exist within me, within GOD-SOURCE, within ITSELF. Nothing is or can be created outside of GOD-SOURCE, of ITSELF. Nothing can be created or exists beyond infinity. Everything is just ONE from within. We, you, me, all of us, are part of GOD-SOURCE; we are all GOD-SOURCE. We are all ONE.

So, from within that absolute and pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, that absolute Everything, that absolute Nothingness, that complete Stillness and that pure LOVE... I, GOD-SOURCE, created a double of me, of GOD-SOURCE, to experience everything completely — the ultimate experience. I, GOD-SOURCE, now had a reference point. And with that motion, that movement, time also appears. In effect, time was there as soon as motion or movement appeared because there can be no motion or movement without time. The instant the Big Bang started to unfold; time was there.

Time at first was very slow, extremely slow compared to our time here on Earth. And then, as the Big Bang expanded, time started to accelerate. A second there was like eons for us. Or, put another way, dying people, or people having an NDE, say that their whole life flashes in front of their eyes in a few seconds. Our lives happen so fast that they are only a speck on the spectrum of the whole of time and how time is perceived in other dimensions.

Time is built into the system even though it is not explicitly stated. Even Einstein’s famous equation, E=mc², does not show time explicitly. But it is there, built in. Einstein talks of spacetime because space could not materialize or exist without time. The whole of the double wouldn’t be.

There will be a post about Einstein’s formula and Time.

Back to that image, that copy of GOD-SOURCE. Being a replica of ITSELF, of GOD-SOURCE, this copy must be like GOD-SOURCE, identical in all points. If we assume that GOD-SOURCE has intelligence and consciousness, then this replica, this copy of GOD-SOURCE, must have intelligence and consciousness too. Being a replica of ITSELF in every detail, including intelligence, consciousness, LOVE, and everything else you can imagine, and all the rest that you can’t imagine yet… That copy of GOD-SOURCE must be a replica of ITSELF in all aspects. It must be! It has to be!

I now invite you to continue sharing with me this journey in the next post:

Foundation Part 4 - F E A R ! ! !

Foundation Part 2 - State vs Experience

Sylvain Brunet (Mahat) — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 23:42:40 GMT

If you haven’t read the previous post: Foundation Part 1 - BEINGNESS-ONENESS, I invite you to do so for clarity and continuity. Of course, you don’t have to… but I believe it will make this reading and your journey easier.

... And then, poof! Out of nowhere came the realization that if I, GOD-SOURCE, am to experience anything, anything at all, however small or big, there needs to be something else. Another state or something to give perspective to the state of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS I’m in... To allow a comparison to enable me to experience...

... That state of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS... And not just Being in it.

Let me expand on that. In that state of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, of pure energy, of pure LOVE that I was in that night of March 2022, there was no experience. There were no thoughts, no movement, nor time, just pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS.

I want to emphasize the word “STATE” because there was no experience, just the state I was in, the state of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, here and now... No time, no thoughts, just pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS. And I say no experience because, in that state of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, there was absolutely Everything and Nothing at the same time... And there was zero movement... Complete Stillness. GOD-SOURCE.

From my consciousness of that night, there is a difference between a state and an experience. There is a state of being, of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, and an actual experience surrounding that state. When I was in the “STATE” of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, there was no experience. I was just Being. It may sound like a contradiction, but to me, there is no contradiction because these two things, the “STATE” and the “experience", are very different. They are two very different things. Two sides of the same coin.

Now, here’s the funny thing. When I was in that state of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, I could not experience it while I was in it. Why? Simply because while in it, I had no reference point, nothing to compare it to. I was just IN IT. This state of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS is also pure Stillness. No movement. And yet, it is Everything and Nothing all at once. This is very difficult to put into words because words are so limiting.

And from this Everything, that pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, I was conscious that to experience something, I needed two things:

First, I needed a reference point, something to compare it to. This reference point could be in the past or the future, but not in the present. If we don’t have a reference point, we cannot experience something. We can be IN IT but not experience it.
Second, I needed motion, movement. I needed time. The motion, the movement comes from looking at the state and then looking at the reference point. There must be motion, movement of some kind, for the process of comparing, of experiencing to happen. How else can we shift from one state to the other? Motion and movement cannot be or occur outside of time.

So, a state is fixed, static, with no movement and no time. To have an experience, we need time because an experience is a process that happens over time. It flows through time. If there is movement, we can compare things, we can experience. That’s where the reference point comes in. The reference point allows us to compare one state to another state. So, in our lives, we jump from state to state to state... It’s the jumping from state to state that happens over time and allows us to experience.

The state is always in the present, in the now, outside of time. The experience happens through time, from the past to the future. We, therefore, experience the world by continuously jumping from one state to another state, then to another state, and then to another state, and so on. The following state can be the same or almost the same as the previous one. Or the next state can be vastly different than the one before. What remains constant is that a state is always static because it happens out of time itself. The experience comes from the movement, the flow of states through time.

The best example I can give you to visualize this is how a video works. A video is a collection of still frames or pictures that are moving or changing at a certain speed, and this quick change of frames creates the illusion of movement. And this happens through time: no time, no movement, no experience.

Now suppose frames that succeed one another are identical. In that case, when they flow, we have the impression that nothing is moving or changing. If each frame differs slightly from the last one, we experience change or movement when they flow.

But each frame or picture is static (the state), while the movement, the number of frames per second projected on the screen and that eventually pass in front of your eyes, forms the illusion of movement on the screen. To flow through time… to be able to make sense of this illusion, we need a reference point from the past or the future — something to remember or to look forward to. We need to remember the last frame or anticipate the next frame.

To better visualise this notion of still frames flowing through time to create movement, please watch videos that will come out under the following search on YouTube : flipbook animations

If we can’t associate or link the last frame to the current frame, the current frame will just be a frame. It will be a static frame, a STATE. But suppose we can associate it with the previous one. In that case, there can be continuity, there can be a flow, and there lies the experience. Based on that night’s events back in 2022 and the state of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS I was in, that's my comprehension of it.

So, in essence, we are in a state, then we skip into another state, and so on, and the skipping from state to state allows us to experience life as we know it. This skipping makes sense because we compare it to what we have already experienced or to some sort of anticipation of what we would like our life to look like in the future. This... is the flow of life that we experience.

Now, out of that realization of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, out of that expanded consciousness of wanting to experience and not just BE, something swelled. And in that swelling was the intent. Not a thought — simply an intent. This intent, in turn swelled too, and then there was a thought. This thought was of creating a double of everything I AM, of GOD-SOURCE, to create for myself, ITSELF, a reference point. A reference point to experience everything completely...

I now invite you to continue sharing with me this journey in the next post:

Foundation Part 3 - Big Bang Boom Bada Boom

Foundation Part 1 - BEINGNESS-ONENESS

Sylvain Brunet (Mahat) — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 23:09:00 GMT

What follows is my account of that night. It’s also the beginning of me sharing the knowledge, the consciousness, the Love, the understanding, and the guidance that was gifted to me that night. I will need many more posts like this one to relate it all. I am truly grateful for this opportunity to share. My hope is that you can enjoy and gain some, if not all, of what I received that night in March 2022… so that your life, too, can be transformed and your consciousness expanded.

My eyes opened, and I looked at the time… it was 03:25 am, the hour of Shiva between 3 and 4 am, an auspicious spiritual time. I was surprised at the coincidence 3rd month, the 25th day of the year and 03:25 am, but I didn’t make much of it at the time because I was just emerging from the most life-changing event of my life.

That night, I went to bed around 01:00 am, early on March 25th, after putting my wife to bed downstairs in our living room. I’d been caring for her essentially 24/7 since June 2020 because of her liver cancer. Although an operation removed the tumour on December 23rd, 2020, and she remained cancer free until her passing, she had to contend with other wounds and physical issues consequent to 3 different falls, the first one four days after her cancer operation while still in the hospital.

These falls resulted in multiple fractures of the right leg, hip, pelvis, and left arm. She underwent several operations to repair and stabilize the fractures. So, she had to relearn to walk from scratch several times over the course of two and a half years. All of this drained her a lot physically, emotionally, and psychologically.

She also had to deal with all the COVID-19 restrictions and the side effects of a medication prescribed to help her sleep which left her with Parkinson-like shaking in her hands, neck, and face. As a result, she couldn’t eat, use her phone or computer alone or even go to the toilet on her own. While she was relearning to walk, I was helping her with all the exercises because the physiotherapists weren’t really available because of the COVID-19 restrictions. She was almost entirely dependent on me in her life.

My wife eventually passed in January 2023. It would be more appropriate to say that she left because she simply stopped breathing, with a smile on her face while holding my hand, 41 minutes after our younger adoptive daughter told her it was ok to leave because she, our daughter, was old enough to go on with her life now. It was very peaceful. She died of natural causes at 78.

Suffice to say, I was very tired back in March 2022 - ten months before my wife died. Instead of doing my visualization/meditation that night, like usual when going to bed, I remember falling asleep almost before my head hit the pillow. I have no recollection of dreaming that night. Yet, at one point, I became very aware — acutely aware — that I was awake without being awake in my physical body. And it was not like an out-of-body experience (OBE) because I couldn’t see my body. I’ve had many spiritual experiences before, like meditating on the blue pearl, experiencing the breath of God, and studying with my Spiritual Masters and Guides, but nothing like this. EVER!

I found myself being drawn to an intense white/golden light, not through a tunnel, like in a near-death experience (NDE). This light was in front of me, like a wall, then gradually, it moved all around me. It was like being at the center of a huge ball or sphere. The sphere then started to shrink until I became engulfed by it and, penetrated by it. Then I became the white/golden light. I was IT. This light was very peaceful and loving — the essence of peace and love.

I was in a state I can only describe as pure beingness and bliss. And with that pure beingness and bliss, there was also pure stillness and emptiness. There was absolutely nothing — and yet I felt like everything was there too — the whole of Creation.

I have a hard time putting it into words, but that’s the best I can do to describe it. Everything in nothing, and from nothing, everything. Absolutely no movement whatsoever. Complete stillness, complete beingness, complete oneness. I was one with GOD, with SOURCE. The only word I can use to describe the feeling in that state is LOVE. Pure LOVE. GOD-SOURCE is pure LOVE. GOD-SOURCE IS LOVE. This white/golden light IS the colour of GOD-SOURCE, the colour of LOVE.

I don’t know how long I stayed in that state because there was no sense of time. I could have stayed there forever... and maybe I did. It was perfect. Time didn’t seem to exists for all intent and purposes. In that total BEINGNESS came the realization that I was just BEING, just ONE. It wasn’t an experience per se because I simply was. BEINGNESS-ONENESS. Total, pure, absolute BEINGNESS-ONENESS.

So, in that state of BEINGNESS-ONENESS, of pure energy, I am everything and nothing all at once. I AM; I am GOD; I am SOURCE; I am GOD-SOURCE. But, as weird as it may sound, I could not, in that state, experience anything. I was just BEING. I was imbued with all of it.

This BEINGNESS-ONENESS contained all the past, present, and future(s)... It contained all the inventions, vibrations, sounds, music, people, animals, matter, stars, galaxies, universes, multiverses, dimensions, energy, events, thoughts, ideas, knowledge, consciousness, and all possibilities. It’s like everything was already created. Everything perfect.

It contained everything I knew… It contained everything I knew I didn’t know… And it contained everything I didn’t knew I didn’t know. In other words, it contained everything, and I mean everything Absolutely everything!

Yet, even having access to all of this, I couldn’t experience anything. I was pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS. I was in the STATE of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS, but I was not experiencing that state of pure BEINGNESS-ONENESS. A paradox to me, if there ever was one.

I now invite you to continue this journey with me in the next post:

Foundation Part 2 - State vs Experience

My Bio

Sylvain Brunet (Mahat) — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 19:17:21 GMT

Hi! My name is Sylvain Brunet (Mahat).

My spiritual journey started when I was 5, but I had to wait until 16 for it to go into hyperdrive after seeing the first Star Wars in 1977.

OUR FARM

For 23 years, my wife and I ran a large organic farm. We fed around 800 families weekly through a year-round Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. During those years, I spent a lot of time in the fields, and I was able to meditate a lot, and some days more than 16 hours. Spending that much time outside, connected to nature, allowed me to gain some insights into our relationship with the world we live in and how we interact with it, for better or worse.

But my love affair with meditation didn’t start on the farm. We must go back to when I was 5 years old. One early morning, at the family cottage, I was watching a tv show, and the lady explained how to meditate by looking at the flame of a candle. I was mesmerized! As soon as she finished the demonstration, I stood up, went to the kitchen, got a candle and matches, went back to my bedroom, and started meditating.

I was an average student throughout my studies because my interests were in other things. I was and still am curious beyond words. I ingest information about anything and everything. Then, I make connections where there seems to be none. I am a generalist.

At fourteen, I followed my first yoga class. Viewing Star Wars in 1977 at sixteen changed my life profoundly. My spiritual channels opened, and my life hasn’t been the same since. I started to study many other forms of yoga besides hatha (postures). I became a certified hatha yoga and meditation teacher in my early twenties. I thought for 25 years until work on the farm became too demanding. Throughout my journey, the main focus of my yoga studies has always centred around Jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge. Or should I say of self-knowledge? To this day, it is my leading practice, and it has had a profound impact on my life.

I went to College and University, studying sciences, accounting, business and computers. I worked in computer sales at Xerox in the mid-’80s and in various executive positions in the computer industry until the early 90s. I got married and had a daughter. During that period, I also studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). All this is happening in parallel with my spiritual yoga journey.

In July 91, I was initiated into the oral tradition of yoga. I received the name Swami Mahatananda Sarasvati, Mahat for short, hence the name of these newsletters. Starting in 1988, and for the next 16 years, I travelled to India, the US and Europe to deepen my studies with yoga masters. Most notably, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Swami Brahmadanda Sarasvati (my spiritual Father), Mahavatar Babaji (my spiritual Grand Father) and Nura (my spiritual Mother). I’ve experienced incredible things in the field of consciousness. That is what I will share with you in these newsletters.

Then, I met my second wife in 1992. For the next four years, I taught yoga and meditation in a private co-ed boarding school where she was the headmistress. Also, in 92, we moved into the farmhouse we would eventually buy, with the rest of the farm to start feeding families. From 96 to 2019, we farmed and provided thousands of families more than 500 varieties of 72 species of fruits and veggies. That was a good school for logistics and a deep appreciation for nature and people.

Working on the farm also allowed me to reconnect with nature in a very deep way and provided ample time to meditate some more. Some days up to 16 hours.

On our last trip to India 2004

In 2005, we adopted the daughter of one of my wife’s nephews to get her out of a traumatic and abusive setting. My wife, who was 61 at the time, joked that our new daughter was her retirement project. She turned out to be much, much more than that in our lives. Such joy and blessings.

From July 2020 until January 2023, I took care of my wife full time. She passed in early January 2023 from natural causes after surviving liver cancer and many other complications. It’s been challenging with the pandemic and all, yet it came with a great benefit. Every new day we woke up together, our love for one another was greater than the previous day. We shared the road for 31 years. Such a gift.

My hope, with this site and the posts, is that you will have as much fun and gain as much as I did through my journey.

Namaste, Mahat