Neela, an animal devotee

[Guest guest]

Excerpt from Day by Day With Bhagavan

page 333

 

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25-Oct-46

 

For the last three or four days, Mr. Subba Rao has been

reading out in the hall his

"Life of Bhagavan" in Telugu.

He has mentioned various new things in this book.

............

Another thing I have not recorded before is found

in this "Life" by S.

It seems Nayana used to say that dogs cannot long survive contact

with a person like Bhagavan

whose "granthi" (knot) has been sundered;

and that he used to drive away all dogs.

In this connection,

Bhagavan said,"Yes, he used to drive the dogs away.

But there was an exception. It was a dog we used to call Neela.

She used to come and always sit on my lap.

But she would not allow any other dog,

even her own mother or sisters or brothers,

to pass beyond the gate of Skandasramam.

Nayana used to say, "This has been born a dog by mistake.

 

S. has also recorded that whatever Nayana said always came true

and cited an event in his own life to prove this.

 

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