When the storm of problems and disasters strike with such force  that everything around us collapses, we must depend on our own wings to be safe. But what are our wings? It is not our strength or this body’s ability….  The strength in our wings is our higher Self, our Swami.

If we look back in our lives, we can see the numerous instances  where He has taken care of us. Will He not keep taking care of us? God is taking care. God willtake care.  With this confidence, we can surely soar above the problems, trials and tribulations of this material world and reach our destination.

Professor Kasturi shares the following ​[poem of Swami's], in Sathyam Sivam Sundaram - Volume 4:

“My boys,” [Swami] writes,

“The bird with you, the wings with Me;
The foot with you, the path with Me;
The eye with you, the form with Me;
The thing with you, the dream with Me;
The world with you, the heaven with Me -
So are we bound, so are we free,
So we begin, and so we end,
I in you and you in Me.”

In this bonus episode, we bring you the poem that Swami wrote with a SYAA twist. 

[More on Swami's definition of Self-confidence in Episode 11: Four Fs, a Fearless Test & the Self Reassessed]