AS the rain God showers its blessings we all got into this month's call to share and shower love to all. After Dada's meeting the only word that kept popping in our being was "grace" and so after much brain storming the hearts decided to share our moments of grace with each other and let the blessings flow.

Here's sharing of "grace" from all who were present for all who were present in spirit.

Sheetal (S1) opened the circle with Dada's meeting. Usually, he is so overwhelmed whenver the chance of meeting Dada arises leaving him feeling silent and shied down. But this time he wished to share the joy of meeting with all of us and so he prepared for it. On behalf of the collective wrote questions that Dada can enlighten us with his answers. Meeting with Dada is always dependent upon his health on that day at that hour, it could be a two minute darshan or twenty minute sharing. In our case, it was 20 minute Q&A that s1 moderated and his preparedness met with grace as he felt Dada was with him clearing his doubts. So s1 shared that Grace sets in when you do your homework well, when you are open and ready for it.

Deven & Shalini joined from Goa and shared their experience of hosting gypsy Vipassana course as Dhamma daan is considered to be most sacred. After the last call they were called to share circle space with family and so this time when family was visiting them they hosted it like a retreat for them and there were so many moments of grace of just being able to give them the magical experience of Sangha. They also had Arun Sharma the naturopathy Guru conducting a workshop and it was decided to offer it in the spirit of Gift. In the end, grace flowed in abundance and they were able to offer Gurudakshina of the amount they had thought of.

Dhristi from Mumbai shared her moment in the train with a lady offering her space where she would get access to fan as it was too hot that day. This gesture of a stranger brought her smiles. When she was too angry at home for some reason her father offered an hour of silence and for her it became an hour of grace as he is usually a very busy person.

Gitanjali from Delhi feels that grace is all around her always. She shared her meeting Rose Maria who introduced a doctor to Gitanjali and how a camp for didi's happened on GB road. She was moved by that one meeting with Rose Maria when a deep connection happened between the two.

Harsh from Bangalore was all happy with mangoes being offered to him by neighbors. He in turn shared it at office to the surprise of his colleagues. His meditation circle had a member Jaideep join them. This community building that was happening whether through mangoes or ppl joining was grace for him.

Khushmita shared about how she enjoyed a lot of people coming to the Urban ashram. And she realized grace lied in rejoicing these moments of togetherness without clinging or getting attached to any relationship. Her practice was to observe the pain and pleasure she felt as people came and went. She also shared about meeting with Dada where at a moment Dada was trying to recall name of a writer and his disciple krishnaji was also searching her memory for the same. Dada showed utmost reverence for her by waiting in silence till she came up with the name. In that few minutes of silence Khush was graced to see virtue, patience and love flowing from Dada for his disciple.

Meghna who is in her 3rd week of laddership circle shared how each interaction is moving her to be more humble. She went on to explain of how important she feels it is to hold the grace of what we receive with responsibility and being truthful for it.

PO signed in briefly to share how everyone graced him by surprise visit on completion of his 100 day post transplant. He also shared about Pavi's email mentioning that the very same day John had sent regards and PO and John both feel like the closest animal they relate to is "bear" and such connection being miles apart was grace for PO.

Rahul crossed roads with strangers when they were visiting Sachi's home and realized how helping in such small ways feels like a blessing.

Uma from Auroville had joined on invitation by S1 and she was sharing how she feels that it's not only Auroville but when she interacts with community outside of it also she is filled with blessings and grace. She found it heartwarming to see how the mbl community had come together to celebrate Neerad's 100th day post operation and was Moved by love :)

Paragbhai from Surat shared about a lady who is a regular visitor at awakin's in Nipun Shah's home. Last week she was found asking 'who exactly is the host?' The surat awakin is now so decentralised that there is no central figure and the entire community is hosting it with joy. For him he feels very happy when Nipun's three daughters aged between 12- 18 come to awakin every week without fail and sit.

Nipunbhai signed in from US and on hearing all this he said we are all building the field. The field that will take us further on the path for lives to come. It is not just this life. Even small things like Madhur's cooking class where she extends her circles of sharing is creating a field. He further shared of how a woman came to Awakin; she was a first timer and so no one knew her, and after the hour of silence, she went on to share loss of her husband and broke down, and how the whole circle was holding space for this stranger as she was feeling the grace of a safe space around her.  He also shared a moment of grace in receiving that came from his mom when she was offered a water cooler filled with Jasmine flowers by a Chinese woman. Harshida Aunty loves Jasmine and she was filled with joy and feeling grace in the fragrance of those flowers. She in return offered a mango to the woman and the way it was received with much grace that it felt like some treasure was being shared.
On giving and receiving he shared another story of how they received cushions from someone and they were given to a friend who is going through a health situation. So everything in the flow of grace.

s2 wished to have a "grace bank" where it could be stored and shared as she was sharing about her experiences of everflowing grace in different ways and forms constantly. Po's being alive was grace and sharing screen space with so many people for the sharing was grace. She went on to share a story where Po's mom was visiting Po at hospital. In her bag she was carrying the reading of awakin on "blessings" this passage was read and discussed at hospital and as she walked out at a little late hour skeptical of finding an autorickshaw back home, she sees an auto guy asking her to come. She sat and struck a conversation with him asking why would he take her to other side of where he wanted to go. He said when a person her age walks out late of hospital it means someone very important is hospitalized so only if he can offer his service to drop them to their destination can lift some stress then he would do it. Mom immediately blessed him and deeply felt that this awakin readings have an energy to create this fields of grace around you.

With that we had come to an end of our hour and half of blessings, smiles and grace so all signed off with this video shared by S1



We are all creating a field not for this life but for many lives to come. We invite all of you to join the calls and let the magic unfold.