Dear Ramji,
I want to thank you for today’s seminar. When you touched the subject about the subject of gain and loss, even when you continuously talk about it in practically every satsang, I didn’t realize this subject has had such impact on me until now.
Last Tuesday very early in the morning I almost lost my life. I was driving on an open road on my way to teach the first class of that day when a dog crossed the road and I lost control of my vehicle and did several turns and the car tip over a nearby field. During that few seconds of chaos, when the car was tipping over and I lost control of the car, I just had 2 thoughts: “Surrendering to God’s will” and “Thanks for Ramji’s Vedanta teachings”.
Once the car crashed and finally stopped during this 3 or 4 seconds of eternity I just verbalized in English: “Zero sum game”. The car is in the shop now and I just have literally 2 bruises, that’s it. The doctor couldn’t believe that I walked into the clinic and that absolutely nothing happened to me. I just feel gratitude for still being alive and healthy, but most of all because you put the “zero sum” concept…for every loss there is a gain… in my mind. My gain is a healthier way of life: I realized I need to make some changes. My loss is the car which will affect my job and money.
I want to reserve thank you for the teachings, and thank to Ishwara for letting me be your student. Thanks to that I could see with perspective all this situation and assimilate the experience as part of a lesson. To realize that God (I’m not a religious person) and you (we haven’t meet each other in person yet) was my last thoughts when I believed I was about to die is SO illuminating.
Thank you Isvara.
Love,
James: I’m glad you’re still with us, sweetheart. Pat yourself on the back for sticking with Vedanta. I’m guessing that you were late to work and in a hurry. Most yoga people are very rajasic and don’t manage time very well. The tend to run late because they are trying to cram one more thing into their schedule before the next event. “Time is money,” they think. I hope you learned that you should enjoy yourself on life’s journey. Take your time. The drive to work is as much the Self as working. Anyway Isvara saved you and the dog so that is excellent.
But even if you didn’t learn that the way you get to where you are going is as important as getting there, you learned the most important lesson, gratitude! It makes me really happy to hear this story. It make me happy that you are a true devotee. That is all I want for everyone.
Much love,
Ramji