A dedication

This prelude to “Beyond mindfulness” is dedicated to the seven major influences that impacted on Patrick’s life: It is being offered with gratitude and humility.

The foundation

To his first Teacher, Jesus the Christ, that brought the Truth of Advaita* to the west by dislodging the notion of an aloof, separate (and sometimes wrathful) ‘Creator God’ from the psyche of His people … replacing it instead with that of an all-loving, all-embracing ‘Father’ who was intimately one with, and of the same essence as all that ‘had come into manifestation (through ‘Him’). A sacrificial life of unfathomable compassion, knowing how both He and His message would be received by the very ones he had come to free.

To his venerated Teacher who put in the “hard yards*”, Appa, a heart of unconditional Love; a ‘Father’, Guide, Teacher and friend who tirelessly and often thanklessly gave to all regardless of the enormous cost to both the physical and mental health of his ‘person’. John 15:13.

To his Teachers’ Satguru, Sri Ramana Maharshi (the Sage of Arunachala, South India) … one of the most recent Enlightened Beings whose mind had been erased, not merely suspended (as in Satori*)

And

To Nicol Campbell, Founder of the School of Truth who had a substantial influence on the writer from his teens with his simple message of the Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence of the Supreme Being and the numerous miracles associated with their prayer group.

To Mira Pagal, consort of Poonja (later referred to as Ganga-Mira and Papaji resp.). She was the arguably the greatest devotee of Papaji, the ‘founder/father’ of neo-Advaita. (Papaji was a devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi).

To Swami Dayananda Saraswati*, a renunciate of the Hindu order of sannyasa*, a world-renowned traditional Teacher of Advaita Vedanta, and founder of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam and AIM for Seva in India.

And to the greatest Mystery

To the Unseen Hands of the One-without-a-second. Variously referred to as God, Self, Destiny, Brahman, Grace etc, but coming to the point;

to the un-nameable One of a thousand names.