DR. VINAYAK KRISHNA GOKAK PART-3 (SWAMI'S (CHOSEN INSTRUMENTS)

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Dr. Vinayak Krishna Gokak............Part no.3

--------------------- Baba had already entered his heart. The impact of his first darshan expressed itself as an ecstatic effusion in his poem

'Darshan'. The poem begins and end with the following refrain:

"Have you seen baba

Who sets cities aflame with longing

And drenches them with the delight of existence?

You 've missed the very meaning of your life

If you haven't seen him and been spoken to by him.

A few days later, Baba called Gokak and his wife for an interview. That interview became an important milestone in their spiritual journey. Later, Sharada Gokak wrote in her autobiography.

"It is Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, who made Gokak give more importance to devotion and love in his life. Baba drove home in an important truth to him that devotion was not opposed to an intellectual exploration." Within a year Gokak and his wife had a number of experiences including a few dreams, which convinced them that Bhagavan had in Him both Sri Aurobindo and Mother.

It was demonstrated by Baba in a wonderful way in the pooja room of their house in Bangalore after Dr.Gokak had moved there as the Vice Chancellor of the Bangalore University. During His first visit to their house, Baba went straight to the pooja room. Dr.Gokak felt embarrassed since Sri Aurobindo photo was in the centre on the alter and Bab's photo, which was also there, did not occupy such a prominent place.

Baba picked a rose, which had fallen down from one of the photos and placed it on Sri Aurobindo's photo. Immediately an intense peace descended on Gokak's disturbed mind.

Bhagavan soon became the head of the family of Gokak and His sublime power of transformation influenced the lives of each one members. Gokao's son, Sri Anil who had joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1966 in the State of Maharashtra, was a rationalist who did not believe in God.

When Anil came to meet his parents in 1966, he was pleasantly astonished to find a significant but unexpected improvement in the physical and mental condition of his sister Mala. His parents attributed it to the blessings of Bhagavan Baba. That was his first introduction to Baba and it set him thinking that there should be something superhuman about Baba,

Within few months, when Mala passed away, his parents felt that Baba had taken her away from the world to put an end to the misery and agony that she had been undergoing.

That fact that Gokak had developed such immense faith in Baba despite his emphasis on logic and investigation around in Anil's mind a new chain of thoughts about Baba and the existence of God.

We will continue Dr.Gokak's story part-4 soon.

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