Fwd: Dr Hislop

[SAIbalaji]

Hislop returned home feeble and faint.  One morning I called -- he said that he had fallen in the night and was too weak to rise -- so he lay for hours on the floor. I was alarmed and immediately took him to the hospital.  We found out that he had cancer and would soon die.

Dr. Hislop had no fear of death -- Swami was his staff and support.  When asked what he had learned from his long spiritual life and what was giving him strength now, without hesitation he said, "I have practiced many paths -- meditation, service, detachment, -- but of all paths, the most lasting and what I'm holding onto now is devotion!  All other paths -- meditation, service -- have dropped away.  What remains is devotion.  I see Swami -- and I know that He is in me -- and I am in Him."