Short Story: A change in health led to a change in career. The eyes saw more than they saw.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23747)
Australia
August 15, 2020 2:28am CST
Lionel was a librarian, who loved his job, but his eyes were starting to fail, and he was very worried about this.
He got his eyesight checked at his local optician, who confirmed that he had a type of eye disease, rare and degenerative.
Within 6 months, he would be totally blind.
Lionel quit his job, and he got a second opinion.
This only confirmed the worst.
Lionel was distraught.
He felt gutted, at every level.
Then, he had a dream.
In the dream, he met an old Indian shaman, who applied a mixture of mud and herbs as a compress on his closed eyes.
"They will heal now," he told Lionel.
Sure enough, Lionel's sight was soon recovered, and he never looked back again.
But his job was gone, so he now studied homeopathy, and having now an inner contact with his inner shaman, this healer, he was able to heal many other people too.
Sometimes, a bad change can turn into a good change.
Lionel had learnt to see with his real eyes, his inner eyes to truth.
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An old Indian Shaman healed Lionel's vision, in more ways than one.
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@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
15 Aug 20
There is a picture of him there.
It was Chief little bear, of the Sioux tribe. He was their medicine man.
"shaman"
A person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practise divination and healing.
Definition from Oxford Languages
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@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
15 Aug 20
@piyushbhatia1 Yes, I think that every culture has a name for them. I have heard them called a, magi, too.
@yoalldudes (35028)
• Philippines
15 Aug 20
I have learned about life's nature to be like this and so I am more at peace now, not worrying too much like I was before.
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@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
15 Aug 20
Yes, life will always come up with unexpected surprises for us.
@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
16 Aug 20
@yoalldudes l hope the last laugh is not on us too though.
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@Shiva49 (28409)
• Singapore
15 Aug 20
Yes, there have been a few blessings in disguise in my life like Lionel experienced.
That has led me to remember the core of Bhagavad Gita's teachings;
"action should be done with dispassion and without worrying about the outcomes. Performance of one’s duty is in all respects better than inaction. We have to do our duty and leave the outcome to the will of God."
I have not been fixated on preconceived outcomes but I keep in my mind the best course of action and why I do it. Sort of inspired by the inner voice.
So the effort I put in matters more then the outcome.
We need the breaks in life when we are laid low by life's turns and that opens our inner eye to the reality of life - siva
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@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
16 Aug 20
Nicely put there, siva, and I like that quote from the Gita, too.
You summed it up with the idea that we keep in mind the best course of action, as much as we can determine it to be, whilst also keeping aware of why we are doing things too.
Awareness is half our journey, otherwise, it is mostly only sight-seeing.
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@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
16 Aug 20
@Shiva49 "It is possible for great souls to communicate with anyone, anytime in any form."
I actually think that it is more often the reverse of this, that is more true.
It is the lowest soul that will often communicate to the highest souls, or to God himself.
These so-called higher soul communications, I do not really trust the veracity of, if they are coming from "great souls", who only pretend this is true.
They have eyes, glazed over with their own greatness, and so beam pictures from their own minds, back to themselves, fooling themselves thereby, and anyone else around them too.
It is the truly humble who really see, and connect to these great souls.
"Babaji" is a New Age type of a master, claimed to be seen by many new age teachers, and also by Paramanasa Yogananda himself.
The New Agers claim that he has taken on a new body now, in the Himalayas, somewhere.
I think that he is mostly the figment of somebody's imagination.
If a master appears to someone, it is not usually true, that others can jump on the bandwagon, and then claim visitations for themselves too. They are grandstanding mostly, trying to bask in the glory too.
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@Shiva49 (28409)
• Singapore
16 Aug 20
@innertalks Lord Krishna says in Bhagwad Gita, "Whenever there is a decline in righteousness and an increase in unrighteousness, at that time I manifest myself on earth".
I have heard stories about Mahavatar Babaji who materializes in the eyes of a very few over many generations (see video link below).
It is possible for great souls to communicate with anyone, anytime in any form.
Shakantala Devi, who could mentally calculate the most complex numbers in seconds, had revealed that they appear in her mind in a jiffy. (The correct spelling of the lady is a bad word here, so I have to get around this issue!)
Creation has layers within layers so make it going over billions of years and have many agents doing their part at various levels. Who knows, we could also play another role hereafter - siva
Mahavatar Babaji - The Definitive Documentary of Babaji - An Immortal Master. This is my Mahavatar Babaji documentary. If you have wanted to know the story o...
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