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Overpowered by time, yet empowering others

Sharon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:01:12 +0000

This is the story of Mrs. Nirmala Honap who performed spiritual healing on others at the age of 60, despite severe illness.

In our day-to-day life, we often come across people who have to endure illness in their old age. Some illnesses leave people paralyzed, bedridden and even unconscious. Quite often for the aged there is a fear of undergoing such destiny. The kind of thoughts that could plague their minds are, “How will I function in old age?”, “Will I be a burden to others?”, “My life will become totally useless if I fall severely ill and become bedridden”, etc.

To counteract these fears, some people try to take maximum care of their health to the point of being obsessed about it. They continually talk about their high blood pressure, sugar levels or cholesterol highs. Those who are healthier in their old age make every effort to save a lot of money to be able to perhaps one day pay a nurse to take care of them should they become bedridden. For some perhaps the money would be used to assure a comfortable life in an old age home. Their faith clearly rests in their bank account, shares and savings.

For the past 3 years, I have had the unique opportunity of being in the presence of an evolved seeker, Mrs. Nirmala Honap, who at the age of 60 had attained the spiritual level of 66%. Her physical state though, has been deteriorating rapidly due to many illnesses such as diabetes, brain strokes and overall body paralysis. She has been bedridden for the past 2 years. Despite all this, just her presence was radiating so much Divine Consciousness (Chaitanya) that spiritual healing occurred on seekers who would gather in her room, daily, for a couple of hours.

Seekers had various spiritual experiences in her presence. Some felt Bliss, lightness, calmness, seeing a subtle blue and yellow aura around her, an awakening of spiritual emotion, spiritual healing being done on them, etc.

Having been fulfilled by similar spiritual experiences in her presence, a thought came to my mind, that only the spiritually evolved have this limitless potential to help others. Due to their spiritual level acquired by continual spiritual practice, they become beacons of light for us with their spiritual energy and love regardless of their physical disabilities.

I felt that Mrs. Nirmala Honap (fondly called Honap Kaku – Aunty) had truly fulfilled the aim of her life. Instead of feeling useless in her old age, she was able to assist so many seekers by healing them spiritually and thereby removing any obstacles in their spiritual journey. In stark contrast to most people, her faith rested in God and not in her bank balance and she was able to help others far more than the help she needed while being bedridden.

These thoughts left me in a state of gratitude as I felt fortunate to have been guided to make the right choices along life’s path that have enabled me to practice spirituality for the past few years.

I made a fervent prayer that I too be graced to progress spiritually so that when the woes of old age engulf me at a physical level, I would still be of service to others at a spiritual level.

Sharon Clarke Sequeira

SSRF team member

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Special features of His Holiness Pande Maharaj

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:24:35 +0000

We know that God is Omniscient. Saints are the manifest form of God. They have qualities related to spiritual practice, but most Saints do not have knowledge about worldly matters that is useful in spiritual practice. To my knowledge, H. H. Pande Maharaj is the only Saint who is an exception to this rule. Without thinking, He can instantaneously provide new perspectives on any subject like art, sculpting, spreading Spirituality, classes on raising children in a sattvik (spiritually pure) way, satseva related to collecting offerings through advertisements. - Dr. Athavale, 5th November 2009

Special features of His Holiness Pande Maharaj

Spiritual level: 85%

Ego: 8% [Required for the mission of collective spiritual upliftment - H. H. Dr. Athavale]

Spiritual practice:

> He has done spiritual practice in many births. Thus He has knowledge of both worldly and spiritual matters.
> His mind is like small child but has immense maturity in spiritual practice.
> He had a few personality defects but with spiritual emotion and sincere desire, He worked on them and reduced them.
> His individual and collective spiritual practice is good and He has many qualities.
> Due to his efforts and desire for God realisation, He made faster progress after meeting H. H. Dr. Athavale.
> He has immense faith in God and constantly feels gratitude to God.

Features of positive vibrations in Him:

> When spiritual healing is required, Divine energy gets activated and is transmitted through His words and speech.
> When He is in communion with God, manifest and unmanifest vibrations of Bliss (Anand) and Divine Consciousness (Chaitanya) from God are attracted towards him.
> While He talks or walks, vibrations of Bliss (Anand) and Divine Consciousness (Chaitanya) are emitted from each organ.

Knowledge:

He feels that seekers should progress quickly. Thus He gets knowledge from God and H. H. Dr. Athavale in the subtle dimension. This knowledge is inspirational to others. When He narrates it to seekers particles of prīti (unconditional love), knowledge and Divine Consciousness (Chaitanya) are emitted from Him.

Prīti (unconditional love):

His eyes depict prīti (unconditional love) due to immense devotion to God and purity within him. When looking at seekers, vibrations of prīti are emitted from him. He can develop closeness with others through His eyes. He loves each and everyone as a parent. He is in constant communion with God and Guru (H. H. Dr. Athavale).

- Mrs. Yoya Vallee, Subtle Art Department, SSRF, 1st October 2009

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SSRF seeker Satyawan Kadam attains Sainthood

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:00:45 +0000

Today yet another seeker, Satyawan Kadam (fondly known as Satyawan dada), doing spiritual practice under the guidance of His Holiness Dr. Athavale attained Sainthood, i.e. reached the spiritual level of 70%. He is the fifth SSRF seeker to attain Sainthood, the others being Her Holiness Phadke (known as Phadkeaji), His Holiness Deshpande (known as Deshpande kaka), Her Holiness Pethe (known as Pethe aji) and His Holiness Nikam (known as Nikam tatya).

His Holiness Satyawan Kadam started His spiritual practice in 1990 at the age of 27. Today at 44, in a short span of just 15 years He has completed His journey from a seeker to a Saint.

This is His subtle picture as perceived by Madhura Bhosale, a SSRF seeker having advanced sixth sense.

One of His salient features is that because of His low ego, H.H. Dr. Athavale had declared many months in advance that He would be attaining Sainthood. On the other hand the Sainthood of all other SSRF Saints was declared after they had attained Sainthood. He is a beacon of inspiration to all seekers striving for God-realisation.

Dr. Nandini Samant

Spiritual Research Advisor to SSRF

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Overpowered by time, yet empowering others

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