Neem Karoli Baba, a great Indian saint, left his body in September of 1973, but his presence has continued unabated. Even without his physical form, he has appeared to thousands of individuals across the globe, in dreams and visions, in meditation, and out of the blue in broad daylight. He comes to open hearts with a blast of unconditional love, to bring comfort and aid in response to calls for help, and as a reminder that we are, indeed, all One.

But doubt often strikes after an experience in which one feels such profound divine love. It was only a dream. Maybe I imagined it. I never met him in person; how do I know it was him? The mind steps in to discount what the heart knows to be true.

Whisper in the Heart validates these experiences by recounting the stories of over 150 people and the ways in which they “met” Maharajji, as he is fondly known. For some, it was while chanting at a kirtan, while at a spiritual retreat, while looking at a photograph, or as in some of the more extraordinary stories, when he shows up on a desperate woman’s doorstep in France, brings years of abuse to an end for a nine-year-old child in Australia, dances on a beach in Miami, or appears to a policeman in Taos, New Mexico.

Maharajji himself used to say: When you think of me, I’ll be there. In this book you will see how he is fulfilling that promise.