On July 4 th, 2025, I sat down in the evening to do my meditation practice. Typically, I would settle into my heart center, feel the divine presence there, and repeat the name of “Rama”. This was my most recent configuration of ‘meditation practice’ up until now: feeling into the central channel, bringing awareness into the heart, and feeling into the place where I felt divinity spring forth from within. This would often bring about a deep feeling of peace and bliss in my being, but there was still an element of seeking involved. I was seeking union with the divine and I desired the state of bliss that I had experienced so many times in the past. I wanted that bliss and nothing else. If I did my practice and did not land in the ecstatic realms of bliss I would often become disappointed. But this all changed on the evening of July 4 th . When I sat down that night I immediately knew something was different. There was no impetus or pull to do any practice. To my surprise I found ...