| April 2009 - Letter from India - It started with a kiss.. |
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It started with a kiss, I never thought that it would come to this - as the old song goes (Hot Chocolate -1982). Or in this case it started with a date. Or a date stone to be more exact. As a result of which I have spent the last 3 months visiting the Seema Dental Hospital in Rishikesh. About 15 visits so far and hopefully my teeth will be well and happy by the time I leave for the UK on the 23rd April. It must have been 10 years ago that I broke my tooth on a date stone and needed a filling. Of course when I went to Sainsbury’s to complain that the pack of stoned dates in fact had a stone in it they pointed out the small print on the packaging – no guarantee that there would be no stones in the stoned dates. But they did pay the £14 dental bill. So now, about 10 years later the repercussions filter through - decay deep in the tooth and in the adjacent tooth too, and the threat of root canal treatment. So now after numerous drillings and fillings and a minor gum operation it seems we may be coming to the end of a rather uncomfortable road, without root canal treatment (or rct as I now know it to be in dental-speak).
I received an email from Bharat Cornell of Ananda Village in California. He wrote of his own physical challenges a few years ago when he was quite unwell. And he reminded us that these challenges are sent for a reason and we can deal with them more easily if we remember that Divine Mother is with us. He suggested a visualisation which some people have found very helpful. You can read more in his article by clicking on this immensely long link. http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001G_yCfAcJQejzzEKszNa1H4JxUX9ZhEJBBO96shzcODcdQXJHAlzh-Y2yGGoTL2x2OI-cUoyTf2OYCZGqniQvG8L8SG0qVgMiad2zbVHmVwR4nOFfPYrMRaDH2wsIeGomBwLMC2L_DBE%3D As for myself, I have spent a lot of time in the dentist’s chair visualising Divine Mother or Paramhansa Yogananda, and knowing that beneath all the discomfort there is a reason. And any discomfort is ultimately for my learning or benefit. How often do you hear people say, after some trauma or illness, that they valued the experience, and that it was ultimately a positive experience for them, or catalysed a positive change in their lives. Yes, isn't hindsight a wonderful thing! You see, everything is in order. Or, as someone once said to me "Divine Mother has got it covered." It’s just that often we don’t know the big picture.
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