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Everything Is A Sign Of His Grace |
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| Swami helped me a lot in handling pain and I am getting better at handling both the physical and mental pain with more ease now than before. However, something happened in my recent trip to Parthi and I had a hard time handling it. I was feeling crushed. I would sit in Darshan line and pray to Swami to help me with equanimity but nothing was happening. After a few weeks, somehow He showed me the way. He led me to Sai Towers, where to my surprise, I found the workbook Cutting The Ties That Bind by Phyllis Krystal. I had been looking for that book for a long time for curiosity to see what the exercises are like but with no luck. I was overjoyed to find it and bought the book. When I was going through the book, I found a particular exercise, which I needed at that time very badly: ‘Using the black and white birds to accept pairs of opposites.’ I started to practice this exercise, more so, when I was in Darshan lines, and as my prayer for equanimity was so strong and sincere, I guess, Swami heard me and blessed me. |  |
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I started to have fantastic results of not only going above this haunting thought and attaining equanimity, but also started experiencing the connection with higher consciousness and oneness with God; I was freed. I was released. Today the whole thing feels like a dream. The experience cannot be described, as there are not enough words in the dictionary to describe a feeling, but can only be experienced. Since then, if anything bothers me, I go back to this exercise, which releases me from the situation faster and brings me back to peace and bliss. If one comes to the conclusion and believes that every situation is nothing but a thought, and that too is a part of the grand play of God, nothing matters; at the end, the body stills and the life force leaves taking nothing with it; none of the worldly things. I believe that this philosophy works and yields results with increasing practice. Thus, I come to the conclusion: ‘Everything is a sign of His Grace.’ I thank our Sai sister Phyllis Krystal for her great work and making these exercises available through her books and seminars, which I like to attend one day. .- Radha |
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