Presence passed directly — in satsang, a glance, a touch, or sheer proximity
Direct contact with a teacher — sitting in their presence, receiving a glance, a touch, or transmission in satsang — appears in one in four accounts. The mechanism isn't well understood, but accounts consistently describe it as a direct transmission of presence rather than conceptual understanding.
The teacher named most often is Papaji (H.W.L. Poonja), followed by Gangaji, Adyashanti, and Ramana Maharshi. What seems to happen isn't teaching in the ordinary sense — it's more like one flame lighting another.
And I've had a lot of great teachers, including Ramana, but there's no one for me who compares to the crystal clarity of Nisargadatta, to his transmission through "I Am That," which is remarkable.
How does inquiry work?" And finally, a little bit more on his question, "How can one have confidence they are doing the inquiry in the way that the lineage of Ramana, Papaji, etc., teaches?" He has to confront with the Master, with satsang, a life.
Ramana told also Papaji, "Is there God, your devotion, here now when it was not?" Right.
And it seems like Papaji was a great devotee, I mean, you'd hear these stories of his love for Krishna and prostrating in front of Ramana Maharshi's picture and there was nothing flat or dry about it.
Experience types that appear most often in accounts with this trigger.
Other triggers that co-occur most frequently in the same accounts.