by CH - USA
(Editors Note: The following story is about a Sai
devotee who experienced an amazing transformation while
attending a Sai Baba retreat this summer. Her name has been
altered for privacy reasons. Your comments or reaction to this
story are welcome here. Please let us know if something similar
has ever happened to you. By sharing our "good news", we lift
others.) What an amazing story! Our friend "Linda" just
diagnosed with 4th stage pancreatic cancer just had what looks
to be a wonderful miracle while visiting Wilma Bronkey's July
4th weekend Sai retreat/reunion. Jody and I met her there for
this Sai event. Almost every speaker and nearly every topic
discussed seemed aimed, at least in part at Linda. One of the
principle speakers was Al Drucker. I had arranged to interview
him on video in front of the whole gathering on the last day of
the retreat. It was a wide ranging 90 minute interview that
touched on many Baba miracles, the Course In Miracles and some
important life lessons. Before the interview, Al followed us in
his car from his hotel since he wasn't quite sure how to get to
Wilma's from downtown Grants Pass, Oregon. Linda rode with him
and in the car she asked Al about her cancer. Al told Linda,
"You need to go home, you don't belong here", to which Linda
asked Al, "What about you?" Al's reply was, "I already am home".
Linda had been thinking about many treatment options regarding
her cancer over the last three weeks since receiving her
diagnosis. The medical establishment has nothing to offer her
but she has thought of traveling to China, Germany or the UK for
experimental treatments. When informed about Linda, Wilma had
told Jody and me to bring her to the Grants Pass retreat but she
made no promises. All she said was that Linda would be spared
pain during her stay at the retreat. The retreat was like being
in Parthi, charged up people, interesting discourses and a hot
and dry atmosphere that seemed appropriate to help burn away the
veneer of what we all brought with us. During the hour and a
half recorded interview with Al, Linda needed to leave the
covered deck to be alone. She found a place in the shade where
she could hear the PA speakers and allowed herself to drift into
meditation to Baba. Picking up on Al's comments she told Baba,
"I want to go home". Then she said something that even she was
surprised to hear herself say, "I want to go home. Call me on
the phone if you want me to come to India Baba". Linda had no
idea where such a strange command had come from but she said it
felt like the correct thing to say to Baba. Sunday evening,
after the retreat had concluded Linda was invited to spend the
night at Wilma's. Wilma performed a healing on Limfs, something
she does very rarely anymore and Linda went to sleep very
content. Yesterday morning, upon awakening Linda wanted to make
a call, but as she went to use the phone she noticed that it was
covered with vibuthi. She thought little of it except that it
was odd. The phone wouldn't work and as she lifted it to see
what was wrong she found vibuthi actually growing underneath the
phone. At breakfast Wilma told Linda that even though vibuthi is
common in her home, nothing like this had ever happened before.
She also said that it was most unusual for her phone to be out
of order. It was only at this moment that Linda began to recall
her request to Baba from the previous day. Wilma asked Linda
what she had planned to do next and Linda shared her interest in
traveling to China and elsewhere for alternative treatments for
her advanced cancer. Wilma acknowledged that all of these things
can be helpful but said to Linda, "Why don't you go see Baba?"
And she is. Today Linda is working feverishly using Wilma's
travel agent to arrange to fly to India with her son. She hopes
to go in the next several days or within a couple of weeks at
the latest. I have no doubt she will make it. At the start of
the retreat on Saturday morning Linda was invited to begin the
session with a short talk to the children, with the adults
arranged behind them. She told them many stories about Baba and
led them all on a wonderful guided imagery meditation. She also
told them one thing more, that earlier when visiting with Ama,
India's hugging and loving guru, that Ama had told her that she
would be forever thereafter known not as Linda but by another
name. The name Ama had chosen to be Linda's new name, was
Vibuthi. It is what we all called her during Wilma's retreat. It
is what Linda has become. And it is what has been created for
her in response to her plea to Baba. And today, it is what is
sending her on her way to India. Vibuthi. I'll keep you posted
as the story continues to unfold. Sai Ram.
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