In Europe there is a belief
that falling meteors are good omens. There is a popular belief that
to think of an idea or wish when a meteor falls is to have it fulfilled in one
year. If a wish should be formulated exactly at the moment of seeing a
meteor, it should have been on the consciousness all the time. Generally we
know that what our hearts are after all the time gets fulfilled. To convert
this experience and the spiritual truth behind it into a method to solve life
problems is possible. Whatever problem one strives to solve, he can try to
bring it to the surface of his consciousness. It can be done, if he can think
of it every hour, on the stroke of the hour exactly. To do so, it should be on
his consciousness all the time.
A tuberculosis patient was
rich but was employed. In view of his illness, he remained unmarried. His
malady was to vomit blood once a mouth. Prolonged treatment had extended the
interval between two such disasters. He sought asylum in his religious centre
which gave further relief but not total cure. He could walk 30 or 50 yards at
the most. To him, those who could run were
a standing wonder.
It was suggested to him that
a lasting cure lay in his invoking his own Spirit. He took a rickshaw and travelled
a mile to visit a man to be initiated into this discipline. While he was
listening to the new method, he felt new energy. The patient agreed to remember
his problem or the Spirit every hour by way of invoking the Inner Divine. On
coming out of that room, he felt like walking. He walked beside his rickshaw and
walked all the way–a mile or so–back to his residence, even before he had practised
the new method.
After remembering the Spirit on the stroke of the hour for 24 hours–-a rare feat–he walked all the way the next day to report his immediate success. Swabhava is said to be unchangeable by all religious traditions. One tradition says it is possible in 35 years of discipline. Coming out of her art studio, a French artist saw a meteor and clearly formulated the idea that her swabhava must change. It changed in one year.