REFLECTIONS
I WAS A FIG IN A THORNY FOREST
BOBBING UP AND DOWN IN LAKE OF LUST
IN THE THUNDERSTORM WASHED DOWN
ON SIDES OF A SPRING OLD
YEARS PASSED BY
WEATHERING THE WINDS SUN N COLD

ONE BRIGHT DAY PICKED GENTLY
TO BE PLACED IN THE FLOWING WATER
WASHED DOWN IN THE CASCADE
FLOATING N SURVIVING THE TURBULANCE
DANCING ON THE SURF IN THE MILKY WAY

VOYAGE CONTINUES - THE RIVULET TO A RIVER
MEETING THE SEA, CLEANSING ME IN PURE LOVE
SAMARPAN SADHANA ONLY THE SAVIOUR
NOW HAVING REACHED DANDI ASHRAM
ACORN IN ME CARESSED CAREFULLY
I STAND BURIED IN SQUARELY DEEP DIGGED EARTH
BURNED OFF ALL THE IMPURITIES AND DIRT
PLANTED WITH LOVE, ROOTS GROW DEEP DOWN
WATER SPRINKLED DAY IN DAY OUT

I GROW TO BE A COCONUT TREE BY THE SIDE OF KUTIR
IN JOY WHEN FIRST TENDER DRINK QUENCHES HIS THIRST
YEARS GO BY - STEADILY GROWING FIRM AND TALL
SWAYING IN THE SALTY WINDS KISSING THE CLOUDS

SADHAKS RESTING THEIR BACKS IN THE COOL SHADOW
FULL MOON SHIMMERING IN THE SKY
I BASK IN THE CHAITANYA AT HIS LOTUS CHARAN
AT LAST THE DROP HAS MET THE OCEAN

HEMANT RAMANI, GOA

I just wanted to share a unique experience with Samarpan meditation. My 3 year old grandson is extremely very spiritually elevated. He has been meditating with me for almost a year now. He has a certain disability that makes this a more difficult task for him. However, to my amazement, he is doing it. And more than that he understands what he is doing. Children with this condition often have multiple handicapps. He has very few. One condition he has had is silent aspiration. His fluids had to be thickened so that they would not drain into his lungs. This condition has disappeared completely! And he was recently tested for a cervical spine condition that a great number of these children suffer and does not have it. I feel that he has been so blessed at his young age. At 8 months of age he almost died of heart failure due to 2 large holes in his heart (another side condition to Down.) They were repaired and now there is no sign of these holes or his surgery.

Also one year ago I was crippled literally. I had severe spinal conditions, one spondalythesis, one stenosis, one lower ruptured disc, and a condition where one vertiebra overlapped another due to an injury. A major nerve down my left leg and the muscle in that leg was permanently damaged (or so doctors told me). The pain was horrific. I was in this condition for 6 months, not being able to walk, sit or stand. During meditative state I started to go very deep in the gap. At that time then after 7 months there was a tingling in my lower spine that rose upwards. After that a feeling of cold and then heat. I was able soon to walk again but with a very bad limp. I so wanted to be able to run and play with my grandchildren, or even hold them in my lap. Again, during meditative state I started to feel something in that muscle. The muscle came back to life and I stopped limping. Recently since August, the nerve in my left leg has come back to life as well. This is amazing to me and my doctors. One more thing, while doing all the xrays and MRI's and CAT scans last year it was discovered that I had a tumor in my right adrenal gland. They could not remove the tumor and felt that it might be benign. The only thing they could do was remove the gland itself, but there was a danger of the other adrenal not pulling its weight or doing its job. So we left it in. My medical doctor was opposed to this as she completed her study on adrenal gland and said that it often would turn to cancer. Yesterday late, I went for followup CAT scan and MRI of upper abdominal. No turmor can be seen! So blessed again. What do you think of all these miracles.

Great regards,
Diane, USA