Alternative Therapies > Letter to Rachel's Parents
By Ram Dass
Editor's
note: This is posted
here in the Kota Loss
Journal with permission
from RamDassTapes.org.
You can find it also
at ramdasstapes.org/articles_final.htm
Dear Steve and Anita,
Rachel finished her work on earth,
and left the stage in a manner
that
leaves those of us left behind
with a cry of agony in our hearts,
as the
fragile thread of our faith is
dealt with so violently. Is anyone
strong
enough to stay conscious through
such teaching as you are receiving?
Probably very few. And even they
would only have a whisper of
equanimity and
peace amidst the screaming trumpets
of their rage, grief, horror
and
desolation.
I can't assuage your pain with
any words, nor should I. For
your pain is
Rachel's legacy to you. Not that
she or I would inflict such pain
by choice,
but there it is. And it must
burn its purifying way to completion.
For
something in you dies when you
bear the unbearable, and it is
only in that
dark night of the soul that you
are prepared to see as God sees,
and to love
as God loves.
Now is the time to let your grief
find expression. No false strength.
Now is the time to sit quietly
and speak to Rachel, and thank
her for being
with you these few years, and
encourage her to go on with whatever
her work
is, knowing that you will grow
in compassion and wisdom from
this experience.
In my heart, I know that you
and she will meet again and again,
and
recognize the many ways in which
you have known each other. And
when you
meet you will know, in a flash,
what now it is not given to you
to know: Why
this had to be the way it was.
Our rational minds can never
understand what has happened,
but our hearts– if we can keep them open to God – will
find their own intuitive way.
Rachel came through you to do
her work on earth, which includes
her manner of
death. Now her soul is free,
and the love that you can share
with her is
invulnerable to the winds of
changing time and space. In that
deep love,
include me.
In love,
Ram Dass
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