From "Dead-In-The-Water" to Alive,
By Grace

Charles Syrett


Charles Syrett has been a devotee of Adi Da since 1980. He is a mapmaker by profession, and the owner of Map Graphics, which makes street maps, some of which you may actually have in your glove compartment or telephone directory. His company also makes maps for websites, CD-ROMs, PowerPoint presentations, etc. His clients are from all over the world, and have included Comcast , L.L. Bean, Oracle, and Reader’s Digest. Charles has also put his mapmaking skills to good use in his service to Adi Da, mapping the Adidam Sanctuaries in support of the ongoing process of Sanctuary development.

Charles SyrettAll praise to the Giver of Grace, Parama Sapta-Na Adi Da Samraj, Whose All-Accomplishing Power and unwavering Compassion Lightens this entire domain.

I do business under the name Map Graphics, creating custom maps of all kinds for clients all over the world. For many years, this business has been internet-based, with almost all of my work coming from people who find me on the internet.

In 2002, I had become dissatisfied with the kinds of projects that had been coming to me this way, because most of them were small "one-off" projects that required almost as much administration time as large projects, but made less money. I found myself working late and on weekends, processing orders and setting up jobs for my workers to work on. The pattern was out of balance, and I wasn't making enough money to make it worthwhile.

Resorting to the "religious means" Beloved Adi Da has Given us, I began to engage the Devotional Prayer of Changes, affirming a more balanced and lawful business pattern. I knew that with the random element of the internet, there was plenty of room for the psycho-physics to respond to Beloved Adi Da's Grace and to change.

A couple of weeks before the Prosperity Puja in 2002, I received an email from a client in Florida who is a web developer. One of his clients is one of the largest home builders in the United States, and he had been trying to secure a contract for me to create maps for their website.

In the email, he said "I just wanted to let you know, that my client has officially closed the door on doing maps for each branch office. . . So after much debate with them, it appears that this isn't going to happen." I called him and discussed it with him, but he assured me it wasn't just a pricing matter; they just flat didn't want to do it!

I persisted with the Devotional Prayer of Changes, certain that a change would appear somewhere.

On the morning after the Prosperity Puja at The Mountain of Attention Sanctuary on Beloved Adi Da's Jayanthi, I received a very different email from my client: "Good News! I have gotten approval for you to do all of the locator maps, as well as maps for one of their subsidiaries." They had somehow reversed their decision that very morning.

This is one of the largest single orders I have ever landed from my website business — and it went from being "dead-in-the-water" to being very much alive! All of this occurred without any significant effort on my part. What's more, this order enabled me to go on retreat for several weeks, while one of my employees kept the project going.

There is no doubt in my mind about the efficacy of Prayer and Puja that is based on invoking Adi Da's All-Accomplishing Power. May all beings be Blessed to come to the Feet of the Divine Person Incarnate, Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

 

This story appears in sections:
Money and Service and

Practical Lessons in the Way of Adidam



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