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“A STRONG WILL IS THE BEST TONIC.

THE WILL BECOMES STRONG WHEN YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE A CHILD OF IMMORTALITY,

OR A PERSON WHO HAS EARNED THE GRACE OF THE LORD.

MEDICINE AND HOSPITALIZATION ARE FOR THOSE WHO DOUBT, HESITATE, AND ARGUE ABOUT THIS DOCTOR BEING MORE EFFICIENT THAN THE OTHER AND THIS DRUG BEING MORE POWERFUL THAN THE REST.

FOR THOSE WHO RELY ON THE SUPREME DOCTOR, HIS NAME IS THE DRUG THAT CURES.”

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Around the year 2010 we were moved from the small country town, where we had lived for twelve years, to a rather veiled little property, not big enough to be a workable farm as such but, because of its reasonable size and isolation it would certainly suit our needs perfectly.

According to the meditations I was having at that time, the moment had come for us to run our “experiments” on a much larger scale. Thus, we not only needed a bigger place, but we also required easy access to clean water to provide for the few animals that lived with us and to also take care of the future veggie patch in which we would grow our food.

“Our little farm” had access to an untreated water source, which could not be consumed by us but that would be fine for the animals, and it could also be used to take care of our crops on this harsh semi-desertic environment, even if we had to go through a long drought, an event quite frequent on this region.

We, the humans in the family, would drink rainwater collected in two big tanks during the wet season, and this water, once filtered, would be empowered by the wonderful energy of the two Lingams we were given while in India, back in 1997.

In the meantime, as the property was once part of a large working commercial farm, the use of chemical fertilizers and other mismanagements had ruined the ground to the point of rendering it almost completely infertile. Furthermore, most of the insects and almost all of the local fauna had been driven away, so now we were given the important task of luring them back.

We were also given the sacred job of restoring the lost relationship between humans and the Elemental Forces of Nature, represented by the Devas living in the forest, something absolutely essential if we were to have the slightest chance of success.

As the former owners of the place used to run sheep on the farm, there was a well-constructed shearing shed with connected electricity which I could use to set up my carpentry workshop.

So, that is how we started our “experiment” on a much larger scale, beginning with the thorough clean-up of the fields surrounding the house that came with the property, and fixing the dilapidated dwelling so as to make it liveable.

Everything we did to reconnect with nature was based on the daily meditations I had early every morning during which I was given some guidance on what was expected of us.

Eventually, the Devas, that we knew resided in the surrounding forest, would come and communicate with us, but that took quite some time to take place as the damage caused to the site, by so many decades of neglect, was enormous.

Thankfully, at the same time our relationship with the Great Avatar was growing rapidly as we were letting go of our last connections with society and becoming totally dependent on our connection with God.

We would get visitations and messages on a fairly regular basis, and every now and then we would be asked to go back to India for a “battery re-charging trip”, but apart from that, we lived a very quiet and isolated existence.

It was around that time that, during my long sessions of meditation, the guides began taking me to wondrous places. I suppose I could call them alternative realities, where I would meet Angelic Beings, some completely unknown to me and some others that I knew quite well as they had visited me in other occasions.

Our life was taking a positive turn towards the mysterious and, as a result, we started to see real progress on the outcomes we were getting from “our work”.

The first thing we had to do was to introduce plants that would attract, through their flowers, the Devic life we knew the place needed.

“WHEN YOU ARE GIVEN SOME WORK, YOU SHOULD PUT YOUR HEART AND SOUL INTO IT, AND DO THE WORK WITH THE UTMOST SINCERITY AND DEDICATION TO THE LIMIT OF YOUR CAPACITY.”

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Eventually, our genuine efforts to contact the different Devas started to be appreciated by them, and the bees and the frogs made a full comeback to the arid ground of this rather harsh region, hopefully as a direct response to our loving care for the environment and everything that lives in it. Thus, our work began to bear some fruits and we felt much better as a result.

A few months into the project, our guides began to call our work the “Narayana Project”, in reference to my personal devotion to the Creator in the exquisite and Sacred Form of Lord Vishnu.

I had always requested the help of Lord Narayana, the one with the Lotus Eyes, during difficult times, and He was responding to my humble call once again.

Once we had a name given, it was as if things accelerated, and the visitations from Angelic Beings became longer and more frequent.

We were learning to establish a very fluid communication with the Elementals of Nature and they, as their trust in us increased, became friendlier and the messages also multiplied.

Then, once we felt a bit more comfortable, the real learning curve started, and the lessons became more complex.

“BE ONLY A BURNING FIRE FOR PROGRESS, TAKE WHATEVER COMES TO YOU AS AN AID TO YOUR PROGRESS AND IMMEDIATELY MAKE WHATEVER PROGRESS IS REQUIRED.”

“Works of the mother, vol.12, P.33.” Pondicherry, india

We were told that if we were to have any substantial success, we would have to learn how to properly set up our primary intent, as a “disorderly beginning” would only take us to a confusing end result.

The clear Establishment of our real Intentions was the basis of the secret behind the success of our work, and our guides assigned a lot of attention to this particular point.

We had to learn to let go of any selfish reasons behind our actions, if we wanted to be able to go all the way and get the results we sought. And we also had to be unreservedly disciplined, if we were to learn so many new skills.

We were now being exposed to the mysterious ways of High Alchemy, and we were told that any unconscious step taken in the wrong direction along the way, would prove to be critical at the time of securing some positive outcomes.

The conclusions we were to obtain would be in direct correlation with our reasons for doing what we had intended to do from the very beginning.

We were told our final goal would be to add our humble contribution to the common effort of the reestablishment of the “conscious mind” in the whole of humanity, for without it nothing could change, and the instauration of the Golden Era would be seriously jeopardized.

There were “right ways” and “wrong ways” of doing what we had to do, and to make sure we got it right we had to let go of the “Old Ways” by un-learning what we thought we knew. That was, at least in the beginning, the hardest part for us, as we had to go against everything society had told us it was the right thing to do.

Our Guides explained to us that if we needed some tool, whether it was for the garden or for the workshop, asking for the money to buy it with would be a complete waste of energy, as that would show a total lack of trust on our side. So, that was the wrong way of doing it.

“IF YOU NEED A HAMMER, ASK FOR A HAMMER”, was the message given to us on one particular day. This was the right way and we had to incorporate it to our normal behaviour. It had to become a natural part of our way of doing things from that point on.

And there were so many more lessons that we had to learn before we could get any visible results, but we were determined to finish what we had started as it was our understanding that it was important that we did.

Many months went by but, eventually, our rusty heads and hearts commenced to be loosened by the unconditional love coming from the Devas, and in due course things got a little easier.

“DOING THE SAME THING YOU DID YESTERDAY WILL PRODUCE THE SAME RESULTS AS YESTERDAY.”

Said our beloved Master on one occasion.

So, we knew that changing the way we look at things would cause them to change their shape, literally, and that was the main target at the beginning. We had no choice but to develop a new way of thinking that would, eventually, change the physical world around us.

And then there was the all-important issue that we at first couldn’t comprehend, “YOU ARE NOT THE DOERS.”

“NOT EVEN A SINGLE BLADE OF GRASS WOULD MOVE WITHOUT GOD’S ALMIGHTY WILL.”

Over and over again, we were told that we were nothing but humble, absolutely inanimate instruments that needed to be guided by the Almighty Hand that Does Everything, but we just couldn’t see it that way. Even when a lot of time and effort was invested in getting us ready to do the work, it could not happen if we were unable of letting go of the mistakes of the past.

You see, society told us so many times that we are the ones doing things.

It particularly made us feel responsible for doing all the wrong things but, in general terms, we as a society, decided to believe that somehow, we humans, were the doers.

Our guidance was clearly saying the opposite, and that created a dichotomy that we could not solve.

If the guidance was right, and we knew it was, if we were not the doers by definition, how could we undo something we had not done?

Our doubts were logical and understandable but, unless we could untie the conceptual knot, there was not a way out for us. So, we had to initiate the developing of our own brains in order to be able to comprehend what was presented to us by our Divine Master.

At this point, it was clear that we had to solve the mystery before we could continue on our way to real freedom.

Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

There was one contentious point that we had to understand really well in order to perform the work we were given to do. To be able to introduce our new way of working, we had to undo the damage that was done in our heads through generations of misinformation and lies.

It was essential for us to forget all those things we thought we knew and eventually replace them with the new material coming through.

“NO MATTER HOW FAR YOU HAVE WALKED, IF YOU HAVE TAKEN THE WRONG PATH AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR JOURNEY, YOU WOULD UNAVOIDABLY HAVE TO GO BACK ON YOUR STEPS AND START AGAIN.”

Your Baba

The Devas were more than willing to help, but many a time our silly habits got in our way and we couldn’t understand the guidance, because we were trying to compare what we thought we knew with the information we were now getting and, no matter how hard we tried, the two wouldn’t match.

Having gone through over more than two hundred years of industrial revolution, the “new inventions” had done irreparable damage to the ancient knowledge, and if we were to really make a change for the better, we had to undo the harm done and start again.

At the very beginning, and in relation to the essential issue of growing our food, there was of course the matter of ploughing the ground in order to add on oxygen to it and to get rid of weeds, as most farmers do.

Well, the truth is, there are no weeds.

A weed is a perfectly good plant that grows where we don’t want it to grow.

Our generous and wonderfully intelligent Mother Nature doesn’t make mistakes.

Obviously, this way of thinking goes against everything the big monsters, like Monsanto and others like them, would want you to believe, because, if there were no weeds, the need for weedkillers would become obsolete overnight and we would witness the abrupt collapse of one of the biggest money making machines, apart from cancer obviously, that the dark side of mankind has ever created. And the only way to undo such a well-oiled and established machinery is to dismantle the rigid structures of our brain and to provide it with new data.

There is no ploughing in nature, as there is no waste in nature, where everything happens for a reason. And it is always a good reason.

It took us some time, but we proved to ourselves that ordinary vegetables can grow well in a field where there are other plants growing also very well. There is no competition, but only a gracious and natural contribution between the different species of plants.

In fact, the very idea of companion planting comes from the primary concept of one plant protecting the other and the two happily sharing the physical space and soil nutrients.

“ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER AND THE TWO, TOGETHER, WASH THE FACE,”

Swami told us once

We needed a “new way” of doing things, if we were to go back to the older days when cancer, AIDS, and many other man-created diseases did not exist.

So, we asked many questions and, eventually, we got many answers from different sources that helped us to untangle so many myths that nowadays the obscure minds use freely, in order to control modern society.

We needed to return to the sacred ground we were given to work so many nutrients that had been lost due to the use of many chemical poisons. This way, we collected manure from various sources, and from it we began to produce organic fertilizer so as to help the ground to hold on to its natural resources.

We planted sacrificial crops such as broad beans, not so much for us to eat, but because they would help to establish nitrogen on the ground to enrich it and to prepare it for planting what we wanted to consume.

Once the life cycle of the plants came to an end, we would leave the dead bush in place to rot away and, by so doing, they would enrich the sacred ground, just like Mother Nature would do.

Seaweed was brought in from the seashore and it was used to make liquid fertilizer. Once we had finished the preparation of it, we would add the resulting debris of the operation to the compost heap, and so on and so forth.

Once we began to understand the reasons why we were performing our labour, in only a few short months we managed to get the ground to breathe again. Besides, the organic matter called back earthworms and insects of many different kinds, and because these attracted back the so many different varieties of birds, we were able to complete the wonderful symphony of nature without effort.

Now, once the field preparation was underway, the real work could start as we were able and ready to become a part of the landscape once again.

We knew that we would find some trials and tribulations along the way, but we never felt better in our lives, and the would-be challenges had not a chance of making us go back to what we thought was a sick society.

We were never big fans of doctors and medicine in general, but as there were no doctors nearby, the “temptation” of getting sick was not a possibility we would ever consider, and even those “chance” accidents that would occur from time to time were not a part of the complicated equation that was our life.

“IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO A PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY.”

Jiddu krishnamurti

“FOOD IS YOUR ONLY MEDICINE.”

Getting things done required us to do a lot of walking and other physical work and that was enough to keep us healthy and fit, so there were no concerns on that field.

One day Swami said, “NO ILLNESS CAN ATTACK A HEALTHY BODY,” so we knew we were protected from the many common ailments most people suffer from.

But that is another story to be told in another chapter.

“SATTVIC, (PURE, HEALTH PROMOTING) DIET DOES NOT MEAN SIMPLY THE FOOD WE TAKE THROUGH OUR MOUTH BUT IT ALSO MEANS THE PURE AIR WE BREATHE THROUGH OUR NOSE, THE PURE VISION WE SEE THROUGH OUR EYES, THE PURE SOUNDS WE HEAR THROUGH OUR EARS AND THE PURE OBJECTS WE TOUCH THROUGH OUR FEET AND HANDS. ALL THAT WE TAKE IN THROUGH THE DOORS OF THE SENSE ORGANS MAY BE DESCRIBED AS DIET. LISTENING TO BAD SOUNDS, LOOKING AT BAD SIGHTS, TOUCHING BAD THINGS DO NOT CONSTITUTE A SATTVIC DIET.”

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.