Maharajji often foiled our attempts at meditation. Many times when we’d be sitting there, someone would start meditating and Maharajji would send over his two “meditation spoilers.” One was his driver and the other a little boy who was the driver’s friend. He would send them over to shake people out of meditation. One time we were all sitting there and he said, “Okay, meditate,” and after about a minute he started telling jokes and making everyone stop. Another time Maharajji called us into his office and told us to start singing. We started singing but no one was really into it so after a while it died down, and then he yelled from the other room, “Keep singing.” We picked it up again and it died down again, and he yelled, “Keep singing.” And finally after about three hours the singing caught on and got really great. When it ended everyone just naturally fell into meditation, and as soon as that happened we heard from the other room, “Take dinner,” and we were all ushered into the other room. We were never able to cling to that meditation space.

(from Miracle of Love)