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    Let Spring Soon Come
    Let Spring Soon Come
    Let Spring Soon Come
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    Let Spring Soon Come

    By Ramu Mahanthi

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    The author recently journeyed from his native India to the United States to stay with his son in Salt Lake City for five months. During this brief period, he became intuitively and then progressively more aware of the challenges faced by women in America and by single women in particular. He was startled by the increased evidence of abuse and domestic violence and by the fact that Government, community leaders, and media all continue to contribute to women’s plight in this country.

    Written as a story about three young women who come together through their acquaintance with the “nameless” man who they agree to call Fitzwater, this e-book is about the impact that reflection, introspection, meditation, and listening to our heart can have upon our ability to gain clarity and to use as tools to correct our faulty thinking. Samantha, Amanda, and Betty initially lived in an ‘outside reality’ that included busying themselves with novel reading, playing video games, and not allowing themselves time to spend in solitude for reflection or introspection. These tendencies prevented contact with their “inner reality” (sometimes called “spiritual reality”), and fueled their subsequent movement toward the “outer reality.”
    Unbeknownst to them, Fitzwater’s presence in their lives would become the catalyst that spurs them into alertness, and into an awakening to greater ‘mindfulness’. Fitzwater’s influence through his actions and character influences the three girls to forego seeking live-in and often abusive relationships with men in the hopes of ‘fixing’ their problems or mending themselves emotionally as they had done in the past. The three, after introspection and reflection, decide to come together under one roof to support each other in all aspects of their lives. And so, the innate ability to look into one’s own heart has been restored.

    Let Spring Soon Come is more than just a story about the benefits of meditation and how it can affect or improve our lives. It is the author’s intention that through this e-book women will become aware of and will use their power of intention, in combination with meditation, to attract the favorable forces of nature necessary to peacefully nurture a change to restore the dignity of women.

    In summary, as we are presented with the countless choices we encounter during our lifetimes, both women and men need to develop our own abilities and turn our attention to the innate wisdom or inner compass we all possess to choose the right one. As the author describes, heart is the only instrument that can help to steer us through life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRamu Mahanthi
    Release dateMay 20, 2012
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      Let Spring Soon Come - Ramu Mahanthi

      Let Spring Soon Come

      By Mahanthi Ramu

      Copyright 2012 Mahanthi Ramu

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. Thank you for your support.

      Dedicated to the better half of the being, the feminine, the mother principle, the daughter principle, the sister principle

      Foreword

      Those of us who practice the method of Raja Yoga meditation or pursue a similar spiritual path, gradually begin to notice and then become increasingly aware of the meaningful ‘coincidences’ that seem to occur in our everyday lives. We often become sensitive to our ability to ‘manifest’ that which we dwell on, and that which we intentionally put our energy and focus upon. Let Spring Soon Come and the story within are meant to nurture a great movement that is about to take place in North America through a paradigm shift from ‘seeing is believing’ to ‘believing is seeing.’ This change can and will be made possible through the use of intention and meditation.

      After practicing the Sahaj Marg method of Raja Yoga for more than ten years, I had the honour of meeting Brother Mahanthi Ramu , who years before in Hyderabad, India had become a trainer in this style of meditation. Brother Ramu recently journeyed from his native India to the United States to stay with his son in Salt Lake City for five months. During this brief period, he became intuitively and then progressively more aware of the challenges faced by women in America and by single women in particular. He was startled by the increased evidence of abuse and domestic violence and by the fact that Government, community leaders, and media all continue to contribute to women’s plight in this country.

      Written as a story about three young women who come together through their acquaintance with the nameless man who they agree to call Fitzwater, this e-book is about the impact that reflection, introspection, meditation, and listening to our heart can have upon our ability to gain clarity and to use as tools to correct our faulty thinking. Samantha, Amanda, and Betty initially lived in an ‘outside reality’ that included busying themselves with novel reading, playing video games, and not allowing themselves time to spend in solitude for reflection or introspection. These tendencies prevented contact with their inner reality (sometimes called spiritual reality), and fueled their subsequent movement toward the outer reality.

      Unbeknownst to them, Fitzwater’s presence in their lives would become the catalyst that spurs them into alertness, and into an awakening to greater ‘mindfulness’. Fitzwater’s influence through his actions and character influences the three girls to forego seeking live-in and often abusive relationships with men in the hopes of ‘fixing’ their problems or mending themselves emotionally as they had done in the past. The three, after introspection and reflection, decide to come together under one roof to support each other in all aspects of their lives. And so, the innate ability to look into one’s own heart has been restored.

      Let Spring Soon Come is more than just a story about the benefits of meditation and how it can affect or improve our lives. It is Brother Ramu’s intention that through this e-book women will become aware of and will use their power of intention, in combination with meditation, to attract the favorable forces of nature necessary to peacefully nurture a change to restore the dignity of women.

      In summary, as we are presented with the countless choices we encounter during our lifetimes, both women and men need to develop our own abilities and turn our attention to the innate wisdom or inner compass we all possess to choose the right one. As Ramu describes, heart is the only instrument that can help to steer us through life.

      Molly V. Legge, CCRC, CPRP

      Abyhasi of Sahaj Marg Meditation

      Vancouver, Canada

      April 4, 2012

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - The encounter

      Chapter 2 - Dialogue

      Chapter 3 - Coming together

      Chapter 4 - Union

      Chapter 5 - Threat of separation

      Chapter 6 - Harmony

      Chapter 1: The Encounter

      1st January 2012 8:00 a.m.

      New Year’s Day brought winds at 10 miles per hour to this ski resort town of West Jordan. Twenty-six year old Samantha reached her hair salon at the intersection of 9000 South and 1510 West. She opens promptly at 8 a.m. and stays open until 8 p.m. As owner and manager of the shop, Samantha accepts the responsibility willingly. Still, it is uncommon for anyone to venture out this early in the morning during winter, especially in the midst of a storm. She is dubious that customers will appear.

      Samantha has managed the salon by herself, since a break-up with her boyfriend. Sam’s father, knowing the freedom-loving and independent nature of daughter, has invested in her by purchasing the shop and giving her full power to run it as her own. She now has only to pay rent and utilities for the premises every month.

      Despite her good fortune, 2011 was not a profitable year for Samantha or for businesses in general, whether they be small, medium, or large. Very little snow has fallen in West Jordan and the ski resort business has not picked up. This means a shortage of customers; not one day have all 6 of her salon chairs been occupied. With the economy throughout discouraging, Samantha also feels the crunch; she experiences difficulty making or saving even a little extra money each month.

      Samantha opens the salon early and begins to wait for customers to arrive. The other stylists don’t arrive until around 10, so she has an opportunity to take in extra earnings from customers who drop in during these early hours. At other times, she waits until all the chairs are full of customers and all the stylists are engaged in work before starting herself. $10 is charged for each haircut. But Samantha only charges $2 towards rent for overhead from the other stylists. The remaining $8 is designated to the stylist who completes the work.

      Five women work in her shop. Most experience similar or even worse difficulties in their financial and personal lives. Most are single mothers or have live-in relationships. Some are raising both biological as well and step-children. Some of these women are ongoing victims of domestic abuse and violence. This is an unfortunate social problem faced by women in North America. Susan, who had regularly worked for Samantha for two years has recently disappeared; neighbors speculate, perceiving the strained relationship between her and her husband after having heard loud arguments and seeing police come to their door repeatedly due to domestic violence reports.

      Samantha is empathetic toward the other stylists and, in an attempt to minimize the difficulties these women share, she employs them as contractors, as sort of equal partners . None of them are treated as employees. On an average, each woman makes anywhere from $24 to $40 a day, including Samantha. That’s not a big amount, but the freedom and non-judgmental companionship the women enjoy at her shop attracts them to come to work there with her.

      Samantha stops during her day to reflect for a moment. She is a woman who worries more about the self-respect and self-esteem of the other women who work for her than she does about her own. She observes that the media continues to blame mothers and that they raise the argument that women now suffer from an excess of liberation. All the media hype and slanted stories have contributed to the guilt that single mothers already feel. Mothers are blamed for detached and poor parenting. But a single woman, whether she be the mother of biological or step-children, has to successfully multitask and manage the multiple demands of work, housekeeping tasks, feeding her children, and child care.

      This is never highlighted by the media. The fact remains that neither the Government nor Corporations are interested in child care. Corporations have chosen automation, robotics and mechanization to such an extent that in manufacturing there are already too few

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