There will be many people who will call on you for help... once they come to Him, He takes care of them... All you have to do is bring them to Him." - Karl's words, from the afterlife, to his mother Nan.
Nan's story that began with her best-selling book, Sounds of Silence, reached out to touch hearts all across the world. Her journey that started alone has now been joined by countless others whose pain and sadness have been washed away, and their lives turned around, by the healing love of Meher Baba – a spiritual Master from the higher realms.
Her son Karl's loving and caring messages of hope from the spirit world inspire and stir the hearts, and strengthen the resolve of those who come forward to listen to the silence within and find their own answers - through the grace of the Master. Through these answers, Nan's own life begins to take on a deeper spiritual meaning.
Her story moves compellingly forward, interwoven with a collection of personal, heart-touching narrations of the wondrous experiences people have had – when they have opened their hearts to the Master. In Listening to the Silence, Nan shows how the Master works - only and absolutely – through the power of love. She also shares with us her deeper understanding of the evolution of consciousness, life and death, karma, love and forgiveness, and of the onward journey of the soul.
More importantly, Listening to the Silence gives you the strength to triumph over adversity, to evolve your own path and lead a life of self-fulfillment. “Listening to the Silence wraps around the heart of the reader from the first page, drawing you into silent communication with God and the spirit world."
“When the tongue is silent, the mind speaks; When the mind is silent, the heart sings; When the heart stops singing, The Soul begins to experience its original Self."
The journey I have travelled from Sounds of Silence, my first book, to Listening to the Silence, has been a beautiful one. A journey that started alone is now our story and our journey together. This book is about all of you who are now with Baba, and for those of you yet to come, or rather, whom Baba will draw to Himself. As He describes in His own words, “I am the Thief of Hearts." Each story here describes the Divine Thief at work, and after so many years and countless incidents, I still do not cease to be amazed at the perfection of the Perfect One.
My own journey into the Silence began the day my son Karl fell from his horse, one April afternoon in 1979. On the 3rd of May, he passed into the spirit world, and the silence of a great grief fell upon my soul. Then, just when I thought that life would never be the same again, the unbelievable happened. Karl reached out from the beyond and began a chain of communication that described his love for a Master, his “Father in Heaven," and his beloved Meher Baba in the spirit world. He said that he had a new mission and that while the communication between his world and ours may be understood, justified, or interpreted as an experience, this was “no barrier to the energy that belongs to pure selfless love." Meher Baba was going to show us that life, in general, held no barriers to a love that is in our hearts.
Karl said in the earliest of his urgings, “There will be many people who will call on you for help. You must take them all to Baba and know that once they come to Him, He takes care of them and never lets them down. All you have to do is to bring them to Him. Tell everyone that He has made them a part of His Love, and that Love will never fail them. Happiness and joy are waiting for them. Just be with Him. That is all I have to say."
Karl's love for his beloved Meher Baba has reached out to me and to countless others. It is this spirit of love that prompted me to write my first book Sounds of Silence, and now this second book too. This is a book that will tell you more of the love we have and the struggle to love the One who makes it all possible. You may call that One by any name you wish, but for me everything is Baba's. It is Baba's love that has helped me on my way. It is His love that has helped me to emerge from the shroud of silence that had engulfed me and to begin listening to the inner driving urge of the soul; to hear the sounds that have healing messages, the echoes of which still resound in my heart
Today, I too just listen.
In all this time, I have heard many sad and heartrending stories of accidents, tragedies, broken hearts and troubled marriages. Many, whose loved ones have crossed over to the other side, have come to Baba in order to make a connection with them. Through Baba's grace, I have had the chance to help lift their lives by giving them beautiful messages of love and hope, messages that come from Baba, through Karl. I have had the privilege of taking so many to a paradise called Meherabad, to take some of them over the threshold of the Samadhi, and deliver them into the warm and loving embrace of Meher Baba. I have been a witness to the way so many lives have changed. It has given me much joy to see how Baba has washed away sadness and pain, turned lives around, and I have never ceased to be amazed by the way Baba has touched each and every one with His Love.
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