Sai Rapture
The Ecstatic Journey of a Modern Day Gopi
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      • Sai Baba Dream, March 9, 2012
      • Heavenly Sai dream, 10/26/12
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      • Sai Baba Dream, 12/22/2012
      • Be Good, Do Good, See Good
      • Divine Sai Dream, 02/10/2013
      • Sai Baba Dream, 4/19/2013
      • Sai Baba Dream, 6/15/2013
      • Shirdi Sai Baba Dream, 9-13-2013
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      • California Sai Rush >
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      • See God in Everything, Sai dream, 1-5-14
      • How to remember your dreams
      • Incredible Sai Baba Dream, 02/03/14
      • Very Strange dream with Sai Baba, 2/13/2014
      • Swami Dream 02-26-14
      • Sai Dream, 4/21/2014
      • Ganesha Dream, 5/1/14
      • The Mysterious Cat
      • Sai Eyes Dream & Leela, 5/20/2014
      • Shiva dream and vision 6/14/2014
      • Om...Beautiful Baba dream, 7/9/2014
      • Kool dream, 7-24--14
      • Amazing Sai spiritual experience 8/28/14
      • Mystical Prayer Leela 9/2/14
      • Divine Meditation, 10/02/2014
      • Cosmic Dive Dream, 10/24/14
      • We Gather the Glory!
      • Kundalini rising
      • sai bus driver
      • baby hercules
      • Sai Greenbay packer
      • Angels in the mist
      • The Moon Goddess Diana Dream
      • "I am going to turn on your Soul!' - Dream
      • Jai Baba Sai Baba dream, 02/11/2015
      • Sea God Dream, 03/01/2015
      • Vibhuti dream 03-10-15
      • Sai Surya Meditations
      • Holy Hand of Sai Meditation, 12/26/15
      • PRESENT MOMENT BLISS
      • Where my Devotees are Gathered There I Am
      • Transcending the Scene
      • Sai Darshan Dream, 04/27/15
      • Swami Please come, 05/15/2015
      • Sai Peacenik Leela
      • Chasing Swami Dream 06/20/15
      • Patty The Vet Matters
      • The Mysterious Double Astral Body
      • Ocean of Milk Lord Sai
      • Hari Om
      • THE CELESTIAL OCEAN
      • Krishna Madhava
      • Val Anderson ~ Swami's Beautiful Leela
      • Love One Another As I Have Loved You
      • Sathya Sai Baba Avatar Declaration Day
      • The Holy Spirit
      • Divine Swami Dream, 01/24/16
      • Nectarine Swami Dream, 11/26/2016
      • Sri Durga Devi Hears our Prayers
      • The Lord's Name is sweeter than His Form
      • You become Baby One With Me
      • Sairam
      • Sathya Sai Baba Darshan dream, 8/21/2016
    • I Am Sai Meditation
    • Courting the Presence of Sathya Sai Baba Meditation
    • Courting the Presence of Sai Avatar Part 2
    • Courting the Presence of Sai Avatar Part 3
  • Ethereal Gardens
    • Sonya ki Poems
    • Sonya Ki Poetry Video ~ Lou
    • Ecstatic Love Poems By Sonya Ki
    • Ecstatic God Poems By Sonya Ki
    • Heart Kiss ~ Ecstatic Poetry recording
    • Lotus Nectar ~ Audio/Visual Poetry recording
    • PURCHASE ORIGINAL ART WORK
    • Mirabai Poems
    • Spirit of Kabir
    • Rumi Ruminations
    • A New Year's Prayer
    • The Mystical Poems of St. John of the Cross
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    • God Speaks in Mysterious Ways
    • Shiva Shakti
    • Healing Light Dream and Reflexology >
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    • Love is the way to God
    • THE EVERLASTING LIGHT
    • Sai Baba's Miracle cure - Ron Mead
    • Raising your vibrations >
      • The Placebo Effect
      • Deathbed Visions By Beverly McLean
    • Sweet Speech
    • MANDALA >
      • God creating with universe with Om cartoon (taken from internet)
      • SSE- Power of the mantra
      • SSE Rules
      • Heavenly Sai Prayer
    • Weight loss - If Lou can do it we can do it >
      • Confessions of a Couch Potato
    • How Does One Reconnect to Swami Within - Talk by Dr. Srikanth Sola
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    • David's Leela Birthday, 8/16/2016
  • Compassionate Communication
    • Compassionate Communication #2
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    • Compassionate Communication #4
    • Compassionate Communication #5
    • Compassionate Communication #6
    • Compassionate Communication #7: The Jack and Geraldine Show
    • ComPassionate Communication #8: Jack & Geraldine: The 4 Choices
    • How to Save your Marriage- a Compassionate Communication Special
    • The Power of Recognizing our Needs
    • What is Empathy Anyway?
    • Pay It Forward
  • ANTI-AMA AYURVEDIC WISDOM
  • Chapel of Love & Music
    • Chapel of Love and Music
    • Swami singing Kodanda Rama
    • My Too Sweet Lord
    • Sai Mata Pita
    • Ganesha Sharanam
    • Be Still My Soul
    • My Eyes are forever seeing Your form
    • Joyful Joyful we adore Thee
    • My Prayer
    • Daya Sudha
    • Let our hearts reflect your love Lord duet- Sonya ki & David
    • Sai Unchained melody (Cover)
    • AKHANDA JYOTI JALAO
    • Come Sai Lord Incarnate~Happy Birthday!
    • Madhusudana
    • HOW GREAT THOU ART
    • All Hail The Power Of Sai Baba's Name
    • MY EYES ARE FOREVER SEEING YOUR FORM VIDEO
    • I Offer myself to Thee
    • Swami You send me
    • Blackbird rising
    • I will follow Sai - audio
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    • MY SAI AMOUR
    • My Sai Amour Audio
    • Love is My Form
    • Love is My Form ~ Part 2
    • GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD
    • Jaya Jagadeesha Hare
    • O Beautiful!
    • Prem Amritha
    • Hanuman Chant
    • JAYA JAYA JAYA AMBE
    • Without Singing to the Lord
    • Ceiling on Desires Bhajan by Renu Gidoomal
    • Prayer of a Sai Child
    • Down Blue Jay Way
    • Sai Mata Pita
    • Sai Ram Murari
    • Will you Love the Poor*
    • Sai Natha
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      • Narayan Narayan
      • Zuni Sunrise *
  • About me
  • Heavenly sai prayer 2
  • Sing, Sing for Swami dream 06/06/15
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  • Untitled
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  • Sai Days
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  • Sai Temple Text- The Purpose of Life
  • Sai Temple Text ~ God's Golden Presence
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Val Anderson ~ Swami's Beautiful Leela

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Yoga Shakti Ma Mandir
Om Sai Ram

What a magnificent day. It started with the Sunday Sunshine Lecture at the Yoga Shakti Ashram.
It was David's birthday and he wanted to attend the 9 AM Sunshine lecture.
The speaker was a Yoga teacher named Val Anderson.

I had met Val before and I recalled her saying that she had visited Sathya Sai Baba in the 1980's,
but, I didn't get a chance to speak in depth with her at that time. Her lecture was intensely inspiring.
It had to do with the power of the words we utter, and how those words can impact our lives
and circumstances in a very real way.

There are so many words that we use out of habit with very little thought on how negative
and self negating they are. Phrases like: "That's unbelievable." "I can't believe it."  I'll try."
"I can't." "No way." "I've lost weight instead of I am slimming" and so on.

After this uplifting lecture I was able to speak with Val at length and she shared some of her
wonderful adventures with Lord Sai Baba:

Val first went to India to see Sai Baba in 1980. On this trip she stayed at the Whitefield Ashram.
During Darshan on one occasion she was at the back of the mandir because a taxi was waiting
to take her to Bangalore to retrieve some delayed luggage.
Swami looked out on the large (2000 devotees) gathering and spotted Val.
He addressed her directly, "You going, you come!" This was her first interview with Sathya Sai Baba.
Once inside the interview room Val said, "Swami held my hand tenderly, He told me,
'You think too much.'" He went on to relate all the thoughts she'd had the previous day in succession.
He then patted her hand and gently said, "Don't worry I will help you."

The second interview:

Val and her group were called in for an interview. Swami materialized vibhuti for all the devotees in the interview. Val perplexed, asked Swami what to do with it, Swami looked at her and commanded, "Eat!" Which she happily did.

In this interview Val's roommate was wearing a birthstone ring and an inexpensive Shirdi Sai Baba ring. Swami took the birthstone ring and blew on it. The stone in the ring turned into Sai Baba's birthstone. He then asked for the Shirdi ring blew on the ring and changed it into a valuable ring with His picture on it.
O the wonders of Sai!

As Val and I shared Baba stories, Val mentioned that she had studied Yoga with Indra Devi!
I was astounded, Indra Devi was the first woman of Yoga in the West. She was also a very
ardent Sathya Sai Baba devotee. Indra Devi relates many of her amazing experiences with
Sathya Sai Baba in the excellent book Sai Yoga.

Val shared something that was not mentioned in the Indra Devi book. It appears that Swami had given Indra Devi a vibhuti box. This box automatically filled up with vibhuti when it was empty. Indra Devi demonstrated this at a gathering in which Val was present. She showed the box to the devotees and distributed vibhuti from it to the awe filled crowd.

Val, lives close to me in Florida, I hope to share more of her thrilling Sai experiences with you.

Jai Sai Ram,

Sonya Ki

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