Spiritual teacher and channel Maetreyii Ma joins me to discuss the transformative experiences that challenge and reshape our reality, urging us to embrace our spiritual destiny with courage and openness. Maetreyii Ma shares her personal story of spiritual awakening, revealing the fears, doubts, and ultimate acceptance that paved her path to becoming a guiding light for others. Here are three inspiring takeaways for you:

🔹 Embrace Inner Transformation: Discover how facing profound loss and personal struggle can propel us toward spiritual growth. Maetreyii Ma’s journey illustrates the power of accepting the unknown and allowing inner guidance to illuminate our path.

🔹 The Role of Emotional Struggles: Understand that emotions like anxiety and depression can serve as wake-up calls, directing us back to our soul’s true path. By aligning with our divine purpose, we transform these challenges into opportunities for healing and growth.

🔹 Discovering Divine Connection: Learn about the importance of intertwining your inner and outer life, creating a harmonious balance that leads to a fulfilling existence. Maetreyii Ma emphasizes the need for meaning and purpose, guiding us to find solace in our connection to the divine.

Join us in this captivating episode with Maetreyii Ma as she unveils the profound wisdom gained through her personal and spiritual transformation. Let her story inspire you to embrace life’s challenges as catalysts for spiritual enlightenment and profound personal growth.

Discover more about connecting with your spiritual purpose and navigating your path to fulfillment by tuning into this thoughtful conversation with Maetreyii Ma. Don’t miss her transformative insights that promise to enrich your mystical journey of life.

Transcript:

Linda Lang:
Hi. This is Linda Lang from www.ThoughtChange.com. We are Exploring the Mystical Side of Life once again this week. Today, I have a question I posed to spiritual teacher, Maetreyii Ma that I would like to share with you. It’s about challenges on the spiritual path. So please stay tuned.

Announcer: Welcome to Exploring the Mystical Side of Life with your host, Linda Lang.

Linda Lang: Can you share one of your struggles through your own transformation process?

Maitreyi Ma:
Yes. I can. When my guru, when my physical guru died, I went to India to his cremation process called the  Mahaprayana. And when that happened, I had been having profound mystical experiences in my meditation. I’ve been meditating a lot. And I had been getting guidance just before that that there was something going to happen, that that there was some sort of transformation going to happen for me. And then I went to India, and I went to the cremation. And my inner guide, my inner Baba, who I’d relied on for years, but it been very personal.

And it just been you know, basically, I didn’t tell anybody. I would be very open about psychological things and all my psychological problems, but I never talked about my spiritual experiences and my spiritual relationship. It just didn’t didn’t come up. Right? And so then I went to India, and when I was meditating, I went into a deep state, meditating there where they would have the body of my guru laid out. And I got the inner guidance that there was a transformation of consciousness that was in seed form, and it would grow and bear fruit. And that my inner Baba used the word gurushakti, that there was a gurushakti being passed to me. And I went, “What is that? I don’t know what the word means.”

You know? But I felt like, what is that? And then, and then what happened, I came back from… I went through big struggle about rejecting that idea. Like, No. No. No. No. No. I’m really a very ordinary western woman. I have two kids and a husband and, you know, I live an ordinary life, and and then these weird things don’t happen to people like me.

And, I kind of rejected the idea. And I went home, and I had a lot of grief about my guru’s passing because I felt that that body anchored that presence, that divine presence in the world for me. It was a lot of grief for me to have that living. Even though the Baba was still with me in the spiritual form, I still felt, that divine doorway there. But I felt huge amounts of not only grief, but doubt. Doubt and fear. And I just went into, no, this can’t be real. There’s something in seed form that’s gonna grow and bear fruit.

What is he talking about? You know? This is I’ve finally gotten delusional. You know? And I think I’d had that fear of going crazy my whole life. That, you know, who listens to inner voices? Right? But, of course, in this day and age, we know more that divine voices are there. But when that first started for me, that was culturally… I didn’t know anything about that. It was scared me. And so when I, when when this came and I was to do something, it challenged my whole reality frame where I just kept my whole spiritual thing under wraps. Right? So, so now I was to… something was going to happen, and I thought, oh, this, this… I finally went off the deep end. And so I just rejected it.

I was a psychologist working at a developmental center. I went to a peer of mine, another psychologist, and I told what had happened. And she said, “Oh, yeah. I think that’s real.” And I go, what? You know? So everyone I told about it thought it was real, but I didn’t. I thought, no. This, this is… what, what is this? This can’t be happening. So I rejected it, and then I started getting panic attacks.

I had these terrible panic attacks, and that continued for about two or three months that I had these panic attacks because of the internal conflict I was in. And I was trying to deny something, and it wasn’t working. To, I would say, to be in alignment with my culture, my belief system about myself. This didn’t fit into my belief. I didn’t feel at all worthy to teach or to do anything like that. But then, finally, due to panic attacks from this inner conflict that wasn’t going away, I kind of broke down, and I accepted that there was some sort of destiny, and this was real. And whether I felt unworthy or not, something was happening. And I didn’t really know what it was because nothing had manifested.

But then within a few years’ time, I began feeling the flow of that had been a guidance for me and teaching me all these years and comforting me and showing me divine existence was flowing through for other people. And I experienced this guidance coming, not from my rational mind, not from my intellect, but just kind of being dropped into my mind. And then I would learn to say it and for it to flow through. Over… it took some years to learn this, but I learned to allow it to flow through, to just fall back into it, to melt into that divine presence and to let that flow through. And I began teaching. And what had happened is I really had to face my fears of being out there. And so now I’ve written a book about my journey… really out there. You know? But that was my big fear is that I couldn’t face my doubt, my fear of exposure, my fear of criticism, my fear of not being worthy. All that doubt that was there; my doubt of what I was receiving.

And then I was asked to, you know, get in up in front of groups of people and start talking when I had no idea what would be said. I just melt into my Baba and that flow of Baba. I love that flow that I call Baba to flow through. I don’t call it channeling, though, because to me, channeling is a connection with another entity. Well, maybe it’s a kind of channeling, but it’s a channeling of divine presence, I feel, because to me, Baba is is not an entity. He’s a doorway. He’s an embodiment of divine being for for… in the way it’s come to me.

Linda Lang:
So you talked about how your panic attacks were an expression of that inner conflict. So, what do you think about depression, anxiety, and the emotional pain that so many people are going through? Is that a wake up call from their soul?

Maitreyi Ma:
Yes. I think that, you know, divine grace comes in many forms, and sometimes it comes in a form that lets us know we’re not, we’re not on the right path. And in our culture, there are two things that really, I think, contribute to mass depression and anxiety. Our lives are very unstable with our rooted, grounded village thing that we are used to for forty thousand years of human development is very, disturbed. Our family systems are disturbed. So, naturally, we’re more fearful. You know? For many of us, anxiety comes up, and sorrow and depression come. Now they can be biological in our body, but they can also… you know, there’s a biology part of it, but there’s also the call of our soul.

Everyone needs meaning. We need meaning. We need purpose. We need dharma. We need our, our direction towards the one. And when we’re off from that, we lose our way. And we don’t have a sense of greatness in our life, a sense of purpose, a sense of going forward. We become discouraged. We become depressed. We can get afraid when everything seems so unstable.

And it is that Infinite relationship we have… that is the real shelter in the storm. And a lot of times, the storms are just out there. They’re inside of us in all these painful emotions. And aligning ourselves in terms of how we are in our lives, finding our deep purpose, finding our connection to the divine. These are things that that actually, according to research, extend life, extend happiness, bring us out of a lot of the sorrow and the difficulty. I think there is a biological level to some things also that becomes biological, and we do have to work with our biology as well. But there is really the deep need of meaning and purpose in everyone’s life. And I think in modern life, sometimes that’s just hard to find.

And, also, like I did, a lot of people, their inner life and their outer life are not the same. So, who you are within isn’t dynamically reflected in your outer life. That leads to depression. But the ultimate healing is connected to your dharma, your connection to the Great and to your personal dharma, your expression of your inner person out in the world with purpose and meaning.

Linda Lang:
I hope this video helps you on your path whenever you come across a challenge to know that you are also divinely supported. If you’d like to catch the whole conversation with Maetreyii Ma, I’ll put the link in the show notes. You can visit her at www.yogama.info. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for all of your support, your likes, your comments, your shares. They all help support the channel. Remember to subscribe and stay tuned for more wonderful conversations. Come visit me at www.TThoughtChange.com. Pick up your copy of Learning to Listen, and we will see you again next time.