Being There for Beloved Baba Ram Dassji!

       One of the truly great men of our time needs our help. Dr. Wayne Dyer wrote STARDOVES
       these words to encourage your generosity and support for a mutual friend of ours, whom we
       believe is also a mutual friend of many of our readers. Back in the 1960's a Harvard professor
       named Richard Alpert left behind the hectic world of academia and traveled to India - there he
       was to meet his spiritual teacher who gave him a new purpose to fulfill along with a new name.
       He of course is Ram Dass.

       His guru told him love everyone, feed people and see God everywhere. Ram Dass became a
       person who lived out this mandate - he did what so many of us could only dream. He
       connected to his spirit and devoted his life to serving others.

       In 1969 he wrote and published the signature book on spirituality and applied higher
       awareness, Be Here Now. In keeping with his commitment to love everyone and feed people,
       he donated all of the royalties and profits to foundations that did just that. With millions of
       dollars at stake, Ram Dass simply chose to live his life as a man of service to God.

       After years spent in India in pursuit of a higher more enlightened consciousness for himself
       and for our troubled world, he returned to the United States to lecture throughout the
       country. He spoke to packed venues wherever he went, and as always he donated the
       proceeds to such causes as would keep him in harmony with his mandate to serve. He
       co-founded the Seva Foundation (www.seva.org) and his writing and lecture fees were
       primary sources for this compassionate and inspired work.

       Dr. Wayne Dyer told us that he felt Ram Dass was and is the finest speaker he had ever heard
       in his life, period! STARDOVES remembers hearing Baba Ram Dass speak way back in 1991
       in Miami, when we were operating the Temple of Light in the Florida Keys. He was very
       inspiring! Dr. Dyer said he was his role model on stage; always gentle and kind, always
       speaking without notes from his heart, sharing his inspiring stories and always with great
       humor. Dr. Dyer told us this from his own heart; that he could listen to his lectures for hours
       and always felt saddened when they would end. He was the voice for Applied Spirituality -
       his life was the model. When he was threatened by having his own private sexual preference
       exposed, in a time when a closet was the only place that was even mildly safe, Ram Dass
       called a press conference and proudly announced his preference to the world. He paved the
       way for tolerance and love when no one else would dare to do so.

       Most of us could only dream of defying the conventional life and living out our inner callings
       to promote a cause that was bigger than our own lives - to leave the security of a guaranteed
       career - to leave a country where comfort was ensured; all to live in a foreign land with few
       conveniences, traveling and meditating for a more peaceful world. It is what St. Francis did in
       the 13th century and what Ram Dass did in our lifetime. Though many did criticize him for
       that, including his own father.

       When Ram Dass' own father, who had largely criticized his son's unconventional lifestyle,
       was close to death, Ram Dass devoted himself to 100% service in those final years. He fed his
       father, he bathed his father, he placed him on and off the toilet until the day he died. Why?
       Because he felt this was his mandate. He wanted to experience true service on a 24/7 basis
       and know firsthand the joy that comes from giving one's own life away in the service of
       others. Always, for over 30 years, Ram Dass was in the service of others.

       In 1997 Ram Dass was struck by a semi-paralyzing stroke and became wheelchair bound.
       STARDOVES remember him telling them that he felt he was imagining how it felt to be
       mentally retarded, and all of a sudden he really was! He told about this adventure in a
       powerful book titled, Still Here. He continued to travel, though he could no longer walk and
       continued to speak to audiences, though he spoke from a slowed down body, but still he did
       it to serve others.

       Now it is our turn... Ram Dass' body can no longer endure the rigors of travel. He has come to
       Maui, where Dr. Wayne Dyer lives and writes. STARDOVES  fondly recall the other times
       when they met with Ram Dass. In Pennsylvania at the Rainbow Gathering of 1999, they shared
       oranges with him and became good friends traveling through the woods together talking
       about a world that could be - will be. They met with him again  in Taos at the Hanuman
       Foundation which he helped to found and support. He spoke then from his wheelchair and
       everyone's hearts went out to him. One other time STARDOVES  met with him at his house
       south of San Francisco on the Ocean deep in a twisted tree forest of California, when he
       opened it to the Rainbow Family's Vision Quest 0f 2003. Our friends Djin and Rebecca invited
       us to that council. When STARDOVES spoke with him, they found him to be sadder in many
       ways.  So when Dr. Wayne Dyer wrote us, like him, we are humbled by the tears in his
       beautiful 73-year-old eyes as he apologizes for not having prepared for his own elderly health
       care - for what he now perceives as burdensome to others. He still intends to write and teach;
       however without the travel - we can now come to him. Maui is healing - Maui is where Ram
       Dass wishes to stay for now!

       He is currently living in a home on Maui, which he doesn't own and is currently in jeopardy of
       losing. We are asking all of you to help purchase this home and to set up a financial
       foundation to take care of this man who has raised so much money to ensure the futures of so
       many others. To live out what Ram Dass has practiced with his actions. Please be generous
       and prompt - no one is more deserving of our love and financial support. In the end these
       donations will help ensure that Ram Dass and his work will reach another generation or
       remind a current generation that it is in giving that we receive.

       If there has ever been a great spirit who lived in our lifetime, literally devoting his life to the
       highest principles of spirit, it has been Ram Dass. We love this man; he has been our
       inspiration and the inspiration for millions of us. It is now time to show him how we feel by
       doing what he has taught all of us to do - Just , BE HERE for him, NOW.

       Please make your check payable to Ram Dass and send your donations to:

       Ram Dass
       c/o Mishka Productions
       PO Box 6547
       Scottsdale, AZ 85251
       In love and light,

                                STARDOVES &
                                Dr. Wayne Dyer

                        CALL US IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT THIS

                           520-882-8495 STARDOVES
                           Phone: 480-970-8543 Dr. Wayne Dyer
              CelebrateYourLife.org
 
 



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