utilities, and credit cards. Then he looked again at his checkbook balance and projected his income for the month. He felt numb when he discovered he would be short several hundred dollars at least. Even if he paid some of the bills late, it wouldn’t solve the problem. It seemed impossible.
To complicate matters, he soon found
that his position with a large corporation was to be eliminated in several months because of downsizing. The company
had just undergone a merger and was
eliminating duplication. He’d been
working diligently to seek out new opportunities for the survival of his family.
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They loved their little home in the country and the quaint community in which
they lived. But it seemed nothing was
working out.
Finally, he reached a point of surren-
der. “Mahanta,” he said, “I’ve done all I can. I surrender this situation into your hands.” Then he let go of his attachment to all of the problems he faced. He put his trust totally in the ECK and the Inner Master.
When he received his next paycheck,
he discovered to his amazement that it included an extra two weeks’ salary. A note accompanying the check explained
that this was money that had been held out at the beginning of his employ by the old company he worked for before the
merger. To help simplify bookkeeping, em-ployees of that company were being reim-bursed. The check contained enough
money to cover the deficit he faced, with enough left over to get a jump on the
following month.
In addition, he found a new perma-
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nent position with another company that turned out to be the best job he’d ever had. It meant leaving the large corporation, giving up his cherished home, and moving halfway across the country. But it also meant a more secure and spiritually fulfilling future for his whole family.
HU Will Help You
There is little more frightening for a parent than the thought of a child getting lost or disappearing. A family of four was visiting Minnesota for the first time. They were from a small New England town
and were unaccustomed to large, crowded shopping malls. One day during their
visit, they decided to visit one of the huge malls the area had to offer. The two
children, both boys, love to ride escalators. The boys spotted a long one, all silver and glass with black handrails.
Steps rose out of the floor, moving grace-fully and invitingly, one by one, up to the second floor. The boys begged to ride the escalator.
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After they rode the escalator up, the
boys took another back down. Then, amid the confusion of the crowds, the youngest boy got separated from his family. He
disappeared. Dad, Mom, and the older
brother scoured the mall for over a half hour with no success. It seemed an
eternity. Finally, Mom did a spiritual exercise. She sang HU. She took two steps then heard a tearful little voice behind her cry, “Mommy!” Her little boy stood with a security guard in exactly the same spot where she had sung HU.
Use the Shariyat Technique
for Well-Being and Happiness
If you have a problem you’re having
trouble solving using other techniques, this one has proved to be helpful to many ECKists. It’s especially helpful if you are down-to-earth by nature. Called the
Shariyat technique, this is given
in Harold Klemp’s book Unlocking the Puzzle Box.
First, simply look at your problem. What 88
is its nature? Is it a spiritual matter, or does it involve physical health, finances, or a broken heart?
Second, open Book One or Two of The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad at random and read a paragraph.
The third step is to chant HU and
contemplate upon what you have just read in The Shariyat. Don’t contemplate on your problem or try to make some kind
of a bridge between your paragraph and your problem. This is very important. Just contemplate upon the paragraph from
The Shariyat while chanting HU.
After you have completed the contem-
plation, the fourth step is to open The Shariyat , again at random, and read
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