But three months into self-isolation, I began to feel disconnected, a ghost in someone else’s hallway, a satellite strayed off course and drifting in space.
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I can remember only two times in my life when I received an immediate, incontrovertible response to a prayer. I am sharing the second incident with Baba. The significance for me lies not in the aid itself, but in the affirmation that even simple prayers are heard and may be immediately answered.
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On a peaceful afternoon at the Divine Lineage Center, it was my turn to do Baba’s Abishek. I felt blessed to have the opportunity to spend some time alone with Baba washing and singing to him. It was early spring of 2015 and the center was quiet. There were no arrivals or departures that day and no one working outside. It was pin-drop silence…
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As we arrived at our house, while getting out of the car I suddenly felt a crushing lightness at my neck. I was missing an important weight. Then I realized, my pendant! It was missing from it’s place at my chest. The chain was there, the pendant was gone. I took a deep breath, I observed that my first thought was panic and distress, oh no! Where could I have lost it?
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It was a peaceful morning, and at this time of year, during the middle of the week, the tasting room is usually quite so I decided not to open the tasting room and concentrate on doing an outstanding cleaning and organization of the winery. I wasn’t gone that long. As I turned back to the winery and walked to the bottling room, I see leaning up against the doors a very tattered backpack with an even more tattered small child’s blanket sticking out of it and a wood walking stick leaning on the door.
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On one of those bright mornings I felt, in my imagination, the image of Shirdi Sai Baba holding up the sunshine. He was energetic and able. I felt that Shirdi Sai Baba could hold up the sunshine as if it was a flashlight. My sense of Shirdi Sai Baba was joyous and radiant like a meaning in the words of the Shakti Gayatri. I learned, separately, that the sun pours forth its life and give its warmth selflessly to life.
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A few years ago when I was still working at the Cincinnati Zoo, I was letting the orangutans outside one November morning when it was unseasonably warm for that time of year. I am very allergic to bees and when I was standing at the orangutan overlook, a bee flew up my sweatshirt sleeve and began to sting me.
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There is a photo of Swami on the front and may photos of Shirdi Baba inside. I showed him the book and said this is Swami and Shirdi Baba. He touched Swami's photo and kissed him. When I showed him Baba's photo he did the same and kissed the photo. He had never done that before.
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I got really excited about the idea that Baba liked chapatis dipped in sugar. For weeks I planned this, the excitement building with each step of the process. I found a recipe that made four chapatis, dipped them in sugar. I was thrilled about doing this for Baba when I offered them on his altar.
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There was a vendor selling earrings outside on the corner. The man selling them was an older rastafari man. He was filled with light and very kind. His name was Baba and he even looked like him.
He looked at me and said, "Sister its time... You have to start meditating".
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