We first met that Saturday, October morning at the airport and then drove to his apartment. We did not talk much; we both were trying to get a sense of each other, who the other person was, how far we could go and what we could do in our interaction. It was a solemn time and neither of us wanted to break it with idle chatter without a purpose.

When we came to the house, after a short discussion, we started meditating.
I just couldn’t believe what was happening, it was an incredible experience. I had read books about enlightenment and I knew that such experiences could take twenty to thirty years of work in some remote place, in seclusion in a monastery or a cave.

Yet, here I had just arrived in San Francisco and during those first few meditations, I experienced my entire energy systems completely open up. We meditated on one energy center after another, one Chakra after another. As we moved from one to the next,they completely opened.

The first meditation on the lower Dan Tien warmed me up thoroughly.

During the second meditation, while we were focusing on the Heart Chakra, also known as the Message Center, a beam of white light about 40 cm. wide suddenly came from Heaven directly to this center and opened it up. This light shot into my heart and my body. Then, from my heart, a similar beam of white light went up to the Heaven!

I was totally shocked. What was going on? I had never seen this when I was at home meditating. There, I got very excited when I was able to see a bit of colored energy, as I had seen the light. But this was like a waterfall. This was not a little light; this was like Niagara Falls. So much light! I couldn't believe it. The beam of light was so powerful that it literally scorched the skin in the middle of my chest.

When I told Master Sha what had happened, he just shook his head and said, “Oh, Heaven likes you very much!” So that was the start.