We are the great Self. We are the soul. We are light, love, wisdom, bliss, joy, and peace. We are all that is known and unknown. Everything we seek is within us. The Divine always exists within our heart.

Yet, at times we feel dry and cut off from love. Our mind, through endless experiences, has accumulated many feelings, patterns, conditionings, and negativity. We cannot access our love from our dry heart fields when the filter of the mind blocks the downpour of love and light from our Soul.

Through spiritual practice from any path and through the mysterious power of Grace, we experience the sprinkle, drizzle, shower, downpour, and even thunderstorms of our Soul’s love that is always present upon our once, drought-stricken heart.  The mind is gradually cleaned and cleared through the rainwater of the soul, so that the dry heart can be refreshed by the soul’s love, light, and wisdom. This enlightened experience is the real “us” and manifests more and more in our journey through introspection and contemplation.

This book succinctly reflects upon renewed and refreshed experience, insight, and understanding as our heart reawakens to our soul wisdom. It illustrates through many examples of how our angle of vision changes in our own empowerment, in relationships, spiritual experience, and attitudes in living as we discover that we are indeed, love.

Rama Pemmaraju Rao MD is a board-certified physician who specializes in Internal Medicine and Psychiatric Medicine.  He is currently assistant clinical professor at University of Alabama Medical School/Children's Hospital in Psychiatry/Child Psychiatric Medicine.  He also deals with primary care medical issues as well. 

He continues to deepen his process in training and education in Integrative and Complementary Medicine.  His lifelong goal is to bring the best of East and West into the medical setting, to afford optimal healing.  His ultimate vision is to create a broad new paradigm in health and medicine through teaching, education, and through the manifestation of new clinic models that blend the Orient and the Occident. 

Dr. Pemmaraju Rao is a native Texan born in San Antonio, Texas, and whose parents and ancestry are from South India.  He has blended the best of East and West in his life and has seen first-hand issues in the human condition that warrant a broader outlook and approach to health and healing. 

He completed medical training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, and continued residency in Medicine's Psychiatry, and Child Psychiatry at Baylor Affiliated Hospitals, Harvard Medical School (Children's Hospital), and Dallas Presbyterian Hospitals. 

Dr. Pemmaraju Rao appears regularly on television and radio for all affiliates in Birmingham, Alabama, on health, healing, and spirituality. 

He has had a lifelong background in Yoga and its practices.  His deepest dream is to convey the teachings and principles of spirituality and healing inspired by the ideals of a number of meditation masters he has personally followed throughout the world. 

His original Guru is Swami Satchidananda who is his most revered personal master and mentor he has known since childhood.  Swami Satchidananda is the Guru and founder of Integral Yoga© who came to the United States in the sixties and whose teachings are well known throughout the West. 

Dr. Pemmaraju Rao's spiritual journey has further led him to the intimate quest of the heart and the search for the Divine Mother.  In this process, he has been extremely fortunate to receive the direct energy, guidance, and grace of a number of different embodiments of the Divine Mother around the world. 

These women have included Mother Meera (Dornberg/Thalheim Germany), * Mata Amritananda (MaCenter/San Ramon, CA), Suma Ching Hai, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda^TM (Siddha Yoga^TM lineage, South Fallsburg, NY), Karunamayi Vijayeshwari (SMVA Trust NY), and Anandi Ma (Dhyan Yoga^TM, Antioch, CA).

He is also particularly grateful for the Guidance of Master Subramaniya of the Saiva Siddhanta San Marga Temple in Kaui, Hawaii.

Dr. Pemmaraju Rao's philosophy of life is that we are forever growing and learning on the path to enlightenment.  He feels there is nothing that is "not spiritual" if we simply shift our focus, increase our contemplation and introspection, as well as deepen our insight.  Real spirituality, he feels, is truly being one's Self and accepting everything about others and ourselves in every given moment.  We must be who we are and learn and grow from wherever we are.  One cannot ignore issues in Psychology 101 and claim to be spiritual.  He constantly looks to the enlightened masters as examples of what we must all become.  In fact, he feels we are already enlightened.  Ultimately everything reveals itself to us in its own time when we approach and return to God or Source directly within our own beings.

It is a matter of uncovering layer by layer "that which we are not in order to experience the enlightened state."  Ultimate perfect health is the experience of enlightenment; everything we do represents our quest for health and healing through life's journey of Self-Realization and unfolding.

My soul refreshes me by sending its guidance to my heart and mind.

The comforting words of affirmation and guidance percolate from my soul essence.  They fall as gentle, yet strong raindrops upon the parched fields of my heart.  My divine soul is forever sending in all directions clear and unequivocal healing, grace, bliss, peace, wisdom, light, and joy through the vast mystery of ever-expanding inner consciousness.

Drought is manifested in my heart through the disease of worldliness and through worldly burden.  I became so focused on the outer world that my heart’s fields were parched and barren, longing for comfort, protection, and direct dialogue from my soul’s melodious voice.

This comfort is now arriving as I wake up in enlightenment through meditation upon my guidance and insights, attitude changes and shifts, and deepening peace.  These gifts of awakening drop, drizzle, shower, and downpour from my soul into the blowing dustbowl of my heart created from the burden of my seeming separation from God. 

I simply need to begin collecting the raindrops in the barrel of my being and use this sacred water to refresh my longing to return to enlightenment in Source. 

Each drop of guidance and wisdom that drizzles upon my heart reminds me of what I have done, where I am going, and what is ahead on my journey. The cracked mud of my heart will never again be as dry for the torrent of my soul is truly quenching the once dying fields.

As soothing moisture drenches the dry, cracked sands of my longing heart, I am renewed and refreshed in my ever-increasing realization and remembrance that everything and anything is Divine.

As cool mud is made from the dust of my heart meeting the cloudbursts of my Soul, I rejoice that no matter what has happened, what happens, and what will happen, my union with the Divine is everlasting and is always present.