Connecting Enterprises, Culture, and Health
Bapak's Talk: "The real fruit of the latihan" Herk-de-Stad, Belgium, July 16, 1977
For example, supposing we set up an enterprise in the field of music, let's say we have a band or something like that where we play a musical instrument. Through following and receiving the guidance that we get from the power of God we will be able gradually to feel and to be guided how to make a sound with our instrument of such quality that, in the one who hears it, it will awaken a feeling or a wish to worship. God Almighty, and a feeling of happiness.
There is an old story in this connection which relates that once there was a king who had a daughter, and this daughter happened to be sick, very seriously sick. The king had already called many, many doctors to try and cure her, and always they failed. Every medicine they prescribed never had the slightest effect. When the king was about to give up one of his servants told him that he had heard of a man who played the flute, and it was said that people who were sick were able to recover from their illness, whatever it had been, from just hearing the music or sound of his flute. The king was very much excited by this and asked that this man should be brought to him as quickly as possible.
When the flute player arrived the king said: 'Is it true or not that you are able to cure my daughter with your playing?'
And he replied: 'Well, king, I can't say for sure that I can cure her - all I can do is to pray to Almighty God that He will give her His blessing so that by hearing my flute playing her condition perhaps can improve.'
He then played on his flute and because he was guided by the grace of Almighty God, by this that Bapak called the Holy Spirit, through his playing the vibration of this Holy Spirit was able to enter the ear of the princess so that she, in her turn, was awakened inwardly; and, whereas she had been completely paralyzed so she couldn't move at all and was lying on her bed, she suddenly began to move. At first she felt this vibration, and then she was able to sit up and eventually to walk - and she walked over to the king and knelt down before him. The king was overcome with joy and said to the flute player: 'Flute player, I accept this great service you have done me in curing and restoring to health my daughter, and as a reward I am going to make you a very important person at my court.'
This, of course, is just a story, but it, in fact, illustrates what Bapak is trying to explain to us about enterprises."