Awakening & The Elements Necessary for Awakening
Foreword by J.L. Simon, Ed.D. February 2022
Awakening and the Elements Necessary for Awakening was created directly from a personal video that Neelam produced for her students about Awakening and what elements in their lives and practices would help them Awaken. It is her Spoken Word and gives the reader a window into her teaching and communication style. Her deep understanding of the Awakening process and how to help us realize our True Nature is what is shared freely in these pages. As we edited this book together, she read and reread the pages aloud, making sure that the words and content point the reader’s awareness directly to Stillness, Presence and Truth – and not to a purely mental engagement or understanding.
Because Awakening and the Elements Necessary for Awakening was created from arising conversation that naturally moves in and out of different messages (versus perfectly written sentences created from an outline), we have used slightly unconventional formatting in hopes of creating space for the reader to take in the intensely rich content contained within each page. We have also chosen to capitalize important words like: Presence, Truth, Freedom, Peace, Rest, Discrimination, Past, and others. Neelam intends that these capitalized words point directly to Truths or aspects of our True Nature that are unending, unchangeable, always available, a true constant.
Finally, because Awakening and the Elements Necessary for Awakening is written from a place of Truth about the Truth of who we are, the deepest part of you may recognize this. And so, you might consider paying attention to how this book affects you and your experience.? How certain passages or messages may wash over you! How certain messages may bring you a moment of deeper peace, or stillness, or a sense of well-being or spaciousness inside!
May we all recognize our True Nature! May we all recognize the enlightenment within and wake up to the exquisite beauty, Love, and connectedness already Here!
Jennifer L. Simon, Ed.D.
New York, February 2022
About Neelam
Neelam experienced her Awakening in 1995 in the presence of her teacher Papaji, Sri H.W.L. Poonja. After receiving Papaji's permission and blessing, she began teaching and continues to this day, over twenty-five years later.
