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To protect herself from mortal fear, A.T. had apparently sacrificed her spirituality, carrying it at a distance from her heart, attempting to keep it isolated from awareness. While in treatment and shortly before the dream, she had asked Sai Baba’s help in awakening her spirituality. In the dream he responded—at first with only a nudge; her intellect struggled, trying to ignore him. But again he intruded, not allowing her resistance to keep him away. Unconditional love finally prevailed, overriding all her barriers, breaking through all her defenses and fears. Finally A.T. could no longer dismiss this intimate and
persistent approach, an irresistible invitation into her own heart. Caught literally with something up her sleeve, she would have to face her fears and reveal her hidden reality. When she reached for what she thought was a hidden, lifeless statue, she found instead her real center, a penetrating and exhilarating burst of innocence, love and joy, which ignited her heart and soul. Sai Baba challenged her mind— her intellectual defenses and mortal fear—made her into an innocent child, and brought her spirituality alive. Love turned fear into love
and revealed itself as supreme.
The belief that this dream represents a real visit from Sai Baba,
who 1 believe is one with our own higher consciousness and manifests to awaken our inherent divine joy and love, represents a real departure from mainstream psychological thinking. It implies that the spiritual dimension is personal and responsive and concretely affects us in everyday life—that transcendental love (represented here by the form of Sai Baba and which is our own innermost reality) is not bound by the laws of duality and can transcend time and place. Unconditional love affects others instantaneously, no matter past, present or future—or whatever distance away.
Experiencing Sai Baba’s omnipresence in this way convinces one of the existence and vastness of the spiritual dimension and quickens one’s interest in it. And Sai Baba’s actual appearance, at the same time both in India and in the mind of a young woman in the U.S., means that at a fundamental level A.T. and Sai Baba are one and the same. Experiencing our inner life and outer world as one in this way brings a whole new insight into the meaning of “oneness.”


































































































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