Experiencing pranahuti

We hear from Heartfulness practitioners around the world about the experience of Transmission and transformation.

NEGIN KHORASANI,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The first time I received Pranahuti in Heartfulness, during my first meditation session with a trainer, it felt like love in liquid form pouring into my heart, melting away the frost within—a warm embrace, a silent reassurance that I was completely understood, accepted, and unconditionally loved.

For someone who had always felt out of place, different in choices and ways of being, that moment dissolved my sense of isolation. It was as if my heart had found its true home. As my practice deepened, so did my connection—to people, to animals, to the world around me. Walking down the street, I no longer saw strangers but felt an unspoken bond with every soul.

Over time, love became my natural state, effortless and boundless, dissolving all barriers of separation and making even the most distant places feel like home.

NATALIA N. LAZO, 
Langley, BC Canada

I began my search for a spiritual path in 2016, exploring different meditation practices. While I found many valuable techniques, I always struggled to truly meditate. That changed when I attended my first meditation with a Heartfulness trainer—where, for the first time, I experienced a deep, indescribable, meditative state. And it happened during the very first sitting.

I’ve carried many impressions and burdens, both mundane and profound. While every human faces struggles, my journey had left me with deep-seated challenges. Through Heartfulness, I have felt how Transmission has helped release these impressions effortlessly. (Not that it has been easy, but for the first time in 31 years, I’ve seen real inner progress.)

There have even been times when I came into a sitting with a quiet wish or thought in my heart, and the experience responded to it in such a clear, loving way. I remember in one of my first gatherings, a video of Daaji spoke directly to what my heart was seeking—a gentle yet powerful reminder.

These experiences have made it clear to me that Transmission is not only real but also deeply personal, reaching exactly where it is needed.

I know it might sound unbelievable, but it’s been so real, so direct, that there’s no doubt in me about the gift and impact of Transmission and the transformation it brings.

The Silent Power

ALMA TARELLI,
Coquitlam, BC Canada 

“The heart is the field of action for the Divine.” 
—Lalaji

I’ve been on my spiritual journey for eight years, exploring yoga in depth, practicing various meditations and other spiritual tools.

So, when I came to my first Heartfulness session with a trainer, you can imagine how big my spiritual ego was. I didn’t do the crow or wild thing pose, but sat in lotus position as if I was doing something superb in front of her. Spiritual Ego is a real thing. I made it very obvious that I was quite advanced. I told her about my years of meditating and the different kriyas I practiced.

She simply smiled gently, and firmly at the same time invited me to relax and began the session. What followed was something words can’t fully describe.

She said, “Feel the divine light already present in your heart.”

Now that is totally different from all the visualizations and all the fancy colors I have been practicing in my visualization exercises for years.

“Feel the divine light already present in your heart.” How?

I witnessed my mind trying hard to make up scenarios for a while. No fun at all, but after several minutes I had a sense of deep, deep calmness. Then silence. Complete silence. I could hear the tik-tok of her clock in the wall. It was very loud. Then stillness. And then, “That’s all.”

The Transmission carried me inward, into a depth I had never touched before. I could not open my eyes and it was the first time that the heart had full control of my body. I left bewildered. I also had many questions. Instead of answering the questions she handed me the purple book of the Master, Spiritual Anatomy.

The first night I cried a little. I don’t know if my heart started clearing or I cried for all these years I was “trying” to meditate. Trying to meditate was an escapism from myself, my traumas.

Heartfulness Meditation is something else entirely. It isn’t about doing something to escape, it is not doing or looking for more. Simply be and “feel the divine light already present in your heart.”

The practices are simple: relax, receive the Transmission, and clean. But the effect is profound. The Transmission creates a stillness that’s deeply nourishing, and the cleaning process clears away emotional burdens I didn’t even know I was carrying. This journey has become a natural rhythm in my life—one that I wholeheartedly embrace. Heartfulness is sincerely the way if you are seeking peace, joy, and true connection—deep, deep inside.

My lotus is not open fully yet, but my heart knows the way…

“When we begin to live from the heart, life becomes meditation.”
—Daaji
 

Joyful Awakening

ELIZABETH DENLEY
Glenlyon, Victoria, Australia

The first time I experienced meditation with Transmission turned my world upside down. It felt like butterflies were flying in my heart, as love flooded everything. The Soul’s feeling awakened, and I could not get enough of meditation. Pratyahara happened so effortlessly that I dived in liked a sponge absorbing experience, turning into the heart. Nothing was ever the same again. Consciousness had begun its expansion and awareness of sensitivity. Consciouness had stretched like elastic and heaviness had dropped off in an instant, like magic. A continuity from a previous lifetime. A continuity with others.

Transmission and Transformation

S. S. RAMAKRISHNAN
Kanha Shanti Vanam, India 

I still recall my first experience of Pranahuti or yogic Transmission, during my second introductory meditation session in Kanpur, India. I had expected to feel vibrations in the heart, as I did during the first meditation session.

Instead, something entirely unexpected happened. I suddenly felt as if I were floating in empty space, unable to tell whether my feet were up or my head was up. In fact, I didn’t even remember if I had a head or feet. I experienced myself as pure mind, without a body.

After the meditation session, an old puzzle resurfaced: “Am I just a body with a brain, a machine with chemical plants inside, and a computer on top? Will this machine stop one day, and I’ll simply be no more? Or am I something more, something that continues beyond the death of this body?”

There was no clear answer or proof, just faint, hazy images pointing in a new direction. Another memorable experience of yogic Transmission happened in Shahjahanpur, in Pujya Babuji Maharaj's home. During a sitting there, I felt as though I had expanded to fill the entire hall.

When I reflect on transformation in my nature or character, many specific experiences and changes come to mind. These changes have helped me immensely in my family life, my career, my interactions with my students, and my relationships across three generations of family.

But if I had to mention one defining change, it would be the development of a positive outlook on life. This shift became especially noticeable in the past ten years. I’m now at the ripe age of 80. This wasn’t always the case. When I first started on the spiritual path, I wasn’t optimistic, not even about my own spiritual future. I didn’t feel sure of my success, nor of anyone else’s, in reaching the ultimate goal. That was simply the mindset I began with.

Over the years, I’ve been exposed to many spiritual methods, paths, teachers, and guides, both in India and in America. But after receiving Pranahuti through the Heartfulness tradition, over the last fifty years, something has shifted profoundly. Now, I am deeply optimistic about my spiritual journey. And more than that, I carry complete optimism about the success of all those walking this path.

I feel we are all steadily moving toward the ultimate goal of human life. This joy, this quiet confidence, springs largely from my association with my three spiritual guides. It is their Maitri, their loving friendship, that has made such a transformation possible.