Presence passed directly, in satsang, a glance, a touch, or sheer proximity
Direct contact with a teacher, whether 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.
Andra: Yeah, and I would invite those people that would question that to imagine themselves sitting with their teachers in satsang and not being looked at for two years.
It's a touchy subject because a lot of people, they want to think awakening is "it." Rick: It's endemic in the whole satsang movement.
I walked into satsang and I knew in this moment Papaji is me, everything is me, everything is just here. Everything is just me — there is no separation.
A lot of people talk about transmission in spiritual circles, that you should sit with a teacher and there will be some sort of subtle transference or transmission of energy or consciousness or something that will enable you to wake up.