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The heart in stillness knows the answer.. God communicates to us in dreams, visions, meditation, and through the sun and rain,
plants, radios, paintings, myriad ways. This writer has found that when she opens books in prayer and is surrendered in advance to
the answer, it comes.


This writer can ask Baba a question, pray, and open at random one of Baba's books, a bible, a book of poetry or quotes, even a dictionary for an answer. As of May 2011, there are 72 of His books free and online in the discourse section.

http://sathyasai.org/discour/content.htm

Asking Baba if I could reproduce pictures of Him without ashram permission the answer in Sathya Sai Speaks was: ‘The thief so intensely desired the jewels of Krishna that Krishna poured them into his lap’

Walking by 13th and F in Washington, a park, I wondered if I should offer one of the homeless men there a room in our home and opened in the Ramayana to ‘You have not yet learned the mantras with which to expel demons’ Yet several years later, when a man recently widowed asked if we would give a room, we opened in Matthew to “I was a stranger and you took me in.”

On my only trip as of this time to India, in London the question
was’ may I sightsee a little before going to the ashram”’. The
answer in the Bhagavad Gita was
‘Although the Lord is omnipresent he is situated in one place’

 

The trip to Baba was made possible by a round the world ticket from PanAm, $1100 for anywhere from 1 to 12 city stops
around the world.. one had to stay at least 2 days in each city and had to go continuously in either an eastern or western path. On the way home, thinking to get more value out of the ticket
by going to Miami from San Francisco rather than back to Washington, I felt uncentered  and asked if I should return that day to DC. The answer was ‘Uttaryana: today the sun begins its northern journey’ Obviously it is we who move and not the sun. Uttaryana is a special day to Hindus.

Distributing vegan fliers near a meat counter in a Safeway,
afterwards I asked Baba about it and opened to ‘When the fruit is green it will not fall even if you beat it with a sharp
stick.. when it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.’

When G MacCray, a very talented artist, drew a picture of a living
pig in a sandwich so that we could put it on tshirts and
make funds for our fruitarian and animal rights group,
another group began reproducing our design. Feeling uncentered
I asked Baba for comment and opened to ‘The teacher should
be happy when a pupil takes over her work. Why do you want to remain in 1st grade forever?'

 
Watching Cayuga, a German Shepherd with hip dysplasia while her human companion J Freundschuh was at the
ashram, I wondered if it would prevent Cayuga’s muscle development if I always
helped her into the car and opened to
‘be content if your seva is to lift a lame lamb over a stile’

*
I was invited by Henry Spira, guest of honor, to a fundraiser in Manhattan. But he was delayed and there was no ticket at the
door. I went in to the bar to wait for him. The organizer
of the fundraiser didn’t know me and though I had ordered
no drink berated me as a gatecrasher. I left and feeling sad opened in the Gospels to ‘the Son of Man
has no place to lay his head’ The interpretation for me (it would be different for each) was not that I could in any way be compared to Jesus but that if I were more like Jesus I would not be uncentered by the treatment.

Once I asked whether or not to talk to a certain person about Baba.

The answer was ‘Talk to him of Jacob’s ladder, and he would ask the number of steps’, a quote of Shakespeare*

Once when someone I love very much was in the midst of a 24 hour delivery, I asked Baba for guidance and opened to the W B Yeats line: ‘A sudden blow but: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl’
and she gave birth shortly after to a wonderful wonderful child.

 

Baba has said He will answer

Any question if a. one is surrendered in advance to the answer.

b. If it is an immediate fork in the road which must be decided.

c. if it is about ones own path and not another's.

 

 

When one is totally aligned

to God’s infinite heart and will, there is no need to ask.

 

 

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ENDING RELATIONSHIPS

I

It reminded poster of standing
at a North South continental divide
.. watching raindrops falling by her left
foot flow down toward the Mississippi
while those on her right poured toward
the St Lawrence and N. Atlantic.. 2 raindrops falling

side by side on a mountain peak one can flow toward the

Atlantic and the other toward the Pacific

II  In a dream MB of Takona Park Maryland
in the US
said
of an ending relationship
"I fell out of the warp and woof of time".

III  Baba told a woman at the ashram
who was married to a Turkish man to
go home to Turkey for a few days and
then return.  She went home to find
him in an affair.  After that she cam back
permanently to the ashram.

IV Baba in meditation said to An American
having trouble ending
a relationship "As much as possible sleep
under the midnight stars."  She partially
took this
advice... sleeping on the porch... and
found the threads of attachment slowly
dissolving.

V One devotee wanted, after being given
samadhi by Swami, to meditate all the time.
The spouse left.

VI  The self realized have no need
for an earthly partner.

 

Paper in Basement
A woman walked into her basement which was full of unsorted files, newspaper
clippings, paper, magazines, correspondence. She felt a wave of self disgust
at not having thrown anything away. Suddenly one book of many fell from a shelf.
She opened it at random to 'paper is sacred in Tibet'. Baba was helping her in
the gentlest way to love herself, and reminding her of a life she'd had in Tibet.
As recycling paper bins began to pop up, she was able to begin throwing away.

 

Asking Baba if I could chant for a beloved friend of mine whose name begins with W using a word beginning with A I opened to a very old

unabridged dictionary, so big it had a separate table,  to "The W is silent in two, answer, and sword."  May dueling in which 2 swords give violent answers and all other violence disappear from our planet.

 

 

 

 

ENDING RELATIONSHIPS

I

It reminded poster of standing
at a North South continental divide
.. watching raindrops falling by her left
foot flow down toward the Mississippi
while those on her right poured toward
the St Lawrence and N. Atlantic.. 2 raindrops falling

side by side on a mountain peak one can flow toward the

Atlantic and the other toward the Pacific

II  In a dream MB of Takona Park Maryland
in the US
said
of an ending relationship
"I fell out of the warp and woof of time".

III  Baba told a woman at the ashram
who was married to a Turkish man to
go home to Turkey for a few days and
then return.  She went home to find
him in an affair.  After that she cam back
permanently to the ashram.

IV Baba in meditation said to An American
having trouble ending
a relationship "As much as possible sleep
under the midnight stars."  She partially
took this
advice... sleeping on the porch... and
found the threads of attachment slowly
dissolving.

V One devotee wanted, after being given
samadhi by Swami, to meditate all the time.
The spouse left.

VI  The self realized have no need
for an earthly partner.

 

Paper in Basement
A woman walked into her basement which was full of unsorted files, newspaper
clippings, paper, magazines, correspondence. She felt a wave of self disgust
at not having thrown anything away. Suddenly one book of many fell from a shelf.
She opened it at random to 'paper is sacred in Tibet'. Baba was helping her in
the gentlest way to love herself, and reminding her of a life she'd had in Tibet.
As recycling paper bins began to pop up, she was able to begin throwing away.

 

Asking Baba if I could chant for a beloved friend of mine whose first name began with W, opened to a very old and many inches thick unabridged dictionary to "The W is silent in two, answer, and sword."  May dueling in which 2 answer each other with swords, guns etc. disappear.

 

 

 

 

 

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