(Minghui.org) The 2024 India Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held at L P Savani School, in Surat on July 28, 2024. Practitioners from India and neighboring countries attended. Nineteen practitioners talked about their cultivation experiences, including how following Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance helped them improve and save sentient beings.

Conference venue

Practitioners talk about their experiences.

The Importance of Looking Within

Alan Sia from Malaysia talked about his experience.

Alan Sia from Malaysia began working for a foreign-owned company in China in 1993. In 2008, he heard about Falun Dafa while he was working in Shanghai.

Alan began to study the Falun Dafa teachings and do the exercises at home, despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution. He wished to tell others about this beneficial practice and began distributing informational materials about Falun Dafa in his neighborhood. He also brought materials with him when he traveled for business to different regions in China.

Word of Alan’s efforts leaked to the authorities, and he was arrested and interrogated for two weeks. While in custody, he began looking inward. He realized that he had been slacking off in terms of living by Falun Dafa’s teachings.

After he realized this and became determined to improve, a police officer called him and asked him to come to the police station. The 610 Office, the extrajudicial arm of the CCP responsible for persecuting Falun Dafa, told Alan that he had to leave China in three days.

Through this experience, Alan realized the importance of righteous thoughts when faced with extreme situations, and understood that when our mindset changes, the situation often changes too.

Improving One’s Character While Translating

Jose Johny talked about his cultivation experiences.

Jose Johny had a long-cherished dream of translating the Falun Dafa books into the Malayalam language. But he was an engineering student and wasn’t confident in his linguistic skills.

Another practitioner mentioned translating the Falun Dafa books to Malayalam. Jose joined the team, and with many ups and downs, they managed to finish translating Zhuan Falun. But when they showed it to other practitioners, they got a lot of feedback and proposed edits. Jose realized this was a test to see if he could accept criticism.

The team finally submitted the draft, but were told they could only publish Zhuan Falun after the introductory book, Falun Gong, was translated. So the team had to translate Falun Gong into Malayalam.

During this process, Jose found that he had attachments to suspicion and doubt. In spite of many challenges, the team remained dedicated and finished the translation right before Jose’s wedding. At the last minute, the coordinator told him that the formatting of the translation was not right, which stirred up Jose’s impatience. His wife, however, urged him to calm down and find a solution, and Jose was able to find software that could fix the formatting.

Both books are published now, and Jose is grateful for the experience, which he said helped him find his attachments and improve his xinxing.

The Most Precious Gift

Prasanta Paik (on right) with his friend, (left) who helped him translate his experience sharing.

Prasanta Paik lives in the suburbs of Kolkata in eastern India. Before he began practicing Falun Dafa, he had a difficult life as a bus conductor.

He had several ailments and was going through a tough financial situation. To try and make some money, his wife urged him to make some investments for high returns. He received the dividends for some time and then all was lost. The COVID pandemic hit soon after that, which pulled him down even further financially.

He left his family and went back to his village to take up farming, where he was fortunate to hear about Falun Dafa. The values of Falun Dafa motivated him to continue, and as he started practicing diligently, his situation began to turn around.

Prasanta soon returned to his job and was greatly appreciated when he returned some valuables left behind by passengers. He’s 54 now, but people say he looks like he’s 35. He feels his life has turned around completely, and he now spends most of his time spreading the gift of Falun Dafa to the people in his village.

Letting Go of Jealousy

Rekha R P talked about her experiences during the conference

Rekha R P began practicing Falun Dafa in 2013. She’s been able to overcome her notions and shortcomings one after the other slowly, and she recently had an interesting experience which touched on her jealousy.

Rekha was deeply affected when her office hired new staff with less experience and at a higher salary than her. She spoke to her boss about the situation, but to no avail. She decided to look inward and soon realized the principle that Falun Dafa teaches—that what each person receives in life is predetermined based on their karma and virtue, and so what’s yours is yours, and what isn’t will not come to you.

This simple change in attitude made her heart lighter. Her work situation also changed: she feels her workload has reduced and she also has more time to do some volunteer work.

A Single Thought Helps a Colleague

Sandhya Rajurkar at the India Fa conference

Sandhya Rajurkar is from Nagpur in Maharashtra. She was first introduced to Falun Dafa in 2009. Back then, she had blood pressure and thyroid issues. But after she began practicing, all of the conditions went away.

Sandhya works in print media, where what she writes is subject to the court of public opinion. Sometimes she gets comments of appreciation and other times she gets backlash. But through her practice, she has learned to not be affected by these opinions and do what she is supposed to do.

One employee who works under her used to come into work drunk and soon started losing focus and interest in his job. He began making mistakes, and he had to stay late at night to fix them. Other employees suggested that he be terminated.

But Sandhya remembered that Falun Dafa taught her to treat people with kindness. She asked the employee to take a few days off to recover and return when he was ready. Her compassion positively effected him, and he no longer had any issues after that.

Correcting Oneself and Stepping out of Distress

Bharath Valechat talks about his cultivation experiences

Managing financial accounts for a media company was a huge chapter in the life of Bharath Valecha.

The company had some difficult times, and the India-specific operations of the company were dissolved—some employees were transferred to the head office. However, Bharath stayed on as a volunteer and continued managing accounts for the Indian staff. Meanwhile, he took on a new job at another firm.

His new boss sought investments from people for huge returns. Wanting to make the media company some money, Bharath saw an opportunity and used the money from the media’s accounts without permission.

It became a nightmare when his new boss refused to return the money, and he also lost his salary. The thought of confronting the media about the debts left him devastated. He eventually gathered up his courage, remembering that Falun Dafa teaches people to be truthful, and told the headquarters about the situation.

Fortunately, the team leader allowed Bharath to pay back the debts in installments. He also noted that he felt resentment towards his boss who swindled money from him, but he decided to let it go based on Falun Dafa’s teachings of compassion. It was difficult at first, so he asked Master for help.

As soon as he let his resentment go, many pending matters at work were resolved. Business deals he hoped to secure were easily closed. It was as if letting go of this attachment allowed everything to fall into place in a very magical way. He truly felt Master’s guidance once he was able to correct himself.