Be sure to set your iPhone reminders or DVRs for Sunday morning at 11/10C because you won’t want to miss this morning’s Super Soul Sunday as Oprah interviews Ram Dass. Plus, viewers get a chance to see the film “Fierce Grace”, which chronicles his journey to consciousness. Enjoy a couple sneak peeks at what is to come.
Learn a little more about how Ram Dass became the man he is today.
Find out how Ram Dass became friends with one of the “most dangerous men in America” and why that led to him losing his job as a Harvard professor.
Please Help! Today when Oprah was interviewing Ram Dass she was also talking to two parents who had lost their child. Ras Dass had sent them the most beautiful letter that it brought me to my knees. My brother lost his only son, my only nephew recently and I would give anything to be able to have a copy of that letter. I don’t have a recorder on my TV, so I can’t retrieve it. I was so hoping that you could send me a copy of that letter. I believe it could help his parents tremendously in their healing. My brother and I lost our parents as children and when his son died I truely thought it might kill him. I just feel the letter could really help. So I make my appeal to your heart and hope you can help me. Thank you so much for your consideration. Sincerely, Lyn Dahm
Hi Lyn. Thank you for asking and for sharing your story. I posted the letter today on our site and I hope it brings your family comfort.
It is in a documentary called “Fierce Grace” which is available in full on Youtube.
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