An Interview with David Godman - realization.org

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From then on I stopped caring about money. In the period

that I was worrying about money, all I did was spend. When I stopped

caring, complete strangers would come up to me and give me money.

Whenever I needed money, money just appeared out of nowhere.

When I volunteered to

look after Lakshmana Swamy's land in the late 80s, I had about $20 to my

name. Somebody in Canada whom I had spoken to for about ten minutes two

years before got out of bed and suddenly felt that he should give me some

money. He sent me $1,000, which was enough to get the garden going. I

lived like that for years. When you work for Gurus, God pays the bills.

That's my experience anyway.

 

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http://www.realization.org/page/doc0/doc0097a.htm

 

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From the same site:

 

" I have come to the conclusion that Bhagavan brought me to

Tiruvannamalai to write about him and his disciples. I have learned

this the hard way. I went back to England twenty years ago, hoping to

earn enough money to come back to India and not do any work here.

Nobody was willing to hire me to do anything. I even flunked an

interview for picking up litter in the London zoo. But as soon as I

had the idea of writing a book about Bhagavan, everything fell into

place. Though I had never written anything in my life, I was given a

contract by a major publisher and sent back to India to write about

him. That's how Be As You Are came into existence. "

 

http://www.realization.org/page/doc0/doc0097e.htm

 

I have a personal story of my own. We have a friend named Carlos in

Cambridge Mass who used to give Satsangs. We all regarded him more

as a friend than a guru. After he returned from Ramanasramam he

announced that he won't be giving Satsangs anymore. He also told us

that David Godman sent some books with him to his wife who was living

in Cambridge back then. I was surprised to hear that David's wife

Vasanta lived not far from where I was. I met Vasanta at Carlos'

last Satsang and bought a copy of " The Power of the Presence " . Even

though there was no expectation from me I offered to set up a webpage

for the book. I am always grateful to David because in my personal

research his earlier book " Be As You Are " was the pointer. This is

how the humble one page www.davidgodman.org came about.

 

Hur

 

 

 

Nisargadatta, Jan Sultan <swork@a...> wrote:

> From then on I stopped caring about money. In the period that I

was

> worrying about money, all I did was spend. When I stopped caring,

complete

> strangers would come up to me and give me money. Whenever I needed

money,

> money just appeared out of nowhere.

>

> When I volunteered to look after Lakshmana Swamy's land in the late

80s, I

> had about $20 to my name. Somebody in Canada whom I had spoken to

for about

> ten minutes two years before got out of bed and suddenly felt that

he

> should give me some money. He sent me $1,000, which was enough to

get the

> garden going. I lived like that for years. When you work for Gurus,

God

> pays the bills. That's my experience anyway.

>

> An Interview with David Godman | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

>

> http://www.realization.org/page/doc0/doc0097a.htm

>

> ______________________

> With Love,

> Cyber Dervish

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