Shiva’s Grace: A Memoir of Spiritual Adventure

By Savita Hoelke

At the beginning I was mistaken in four respects. I sought to remember God, to know Him, to love Him, to seek Him. When I had come to the end, I saw that He had remembered me before I remembered Him, that His knowledge of me preceded my knowledge of Him, His love toward me had existed before my love toward Him, and He had sought me before I sought Him.
Bayazid Bistami

For as long as she could remember, Savita Hoelke had been a seeker of truth. Nevertheless, in 1994 her subtle call to the renowned Indian master, Sri Sathya Sai Baba, was as unexpected as it was dramatic. Prompted and compelled by a profound vision received during meditation, she travelled to Europe to meet a South Indian saint, and then briefly visited Egypt. It was in the King's Chamber of Cairo's great pyramid of Giza that Sai Baba called her to Him, changing her life forever.

Over the following years, in an unconventional bucking of Western expectations, her numerous trips to India ultimately yielded a move to Sai Baba's home village of Puttaparthi. Blessed with the opportunity of daily basking in her guru's divine presence, her radical pursuit of truth was deepened through informal study, exploration of various parts of India, and the meeting of numerous yogis, holy saints, and realized masters.
Although this memoir primarily recounts events of her last extended period in India before Sai Baba's death in 2011, Savita Hoelke also weaves into it the lives of many of the saints she visited, then and previously. Aspirants will be moved and inspired by the tales of this ordinary woman's extraordinary experiences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BJYJQRYF
• ISBN13: 9798359868051
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"