Isaac Tigrett of Hard Rock Cafe....

[Guest guest]

who yearn for a little part in Your Avataric Mission, but are unable to do so

for various reasons. So please allow me to return unto You, what You have given

me, on behalf of those thirsting thousands." This was precisely the change of

heart that Swami wanted. Swami's saying "LOVE ALL SERVE ALL" in the cafe at

Las Vegas... HARD ROCK CAFE, LOS ANGELES..... The Founders of the Hard

Rock Cafe, Peter Morton and Isaac Tigrett opened the first Hard Rock Cafe in

London on June 14, 1971. Peter Morton was the restauranteur who created the

business and Isaac Tigrett, a disciple of Sathya Sai Baba, provided the

founding principles of Hard Rock Cafe; mottos that stand as strong today as

they did back then. These mottos are to be found on the walls of every Hard

Rock Cafe around the world. A excerpt of a talk given by Isaac Tigrett...

"I started a business when I was nineteen which I called the Hard Rock Cafe . I

was a devout devotee of Jimmy Hendrix and ???? and Zed Zeppelin and several

other

fellows .... . which I still am actually .... I think they are fantastic ....

and I started this businesses . The Lord blessed me with phenomenal success

..... beyond my wildest dreams .... .... In fact there are many people who ....

later as I became a Sai devotee .. I worried constantly .... I wasn't very

popular in groups such as this .... mainly because people felt like that ....

you .... know .... a bunch of rock and roll .... and drugs .... and crazy stuff

..... and it was .... but you know .... Sai is not going to be in a place like

that (? and he's not going to be using someone like that) .... and I worried

about it a great deal for many many years . I can only tell you that subsequent

to Sai being so

wonderful and calling me in and now spending so much time with me .... which I

am blessed to be able to do .... .... he's told me that the Hard Rock Cafe was

his .... which I knew .... . which I knew. you may know that there is a picture

of Sai Baba in every Hard Rock Cafe and it's very interesting , he said that it

was an "oasis of light in a sea of darkness" .... and I feel that that is

really what all of us are .... and should be .... in this

Kali Yuga .... . a beacon for him ." There were .... it was a Sunday .... there

were probably the usual thousand or so people there and I sat back on the wall

...... if I didn't sit , I stood .... dressed in black of course and Sai Baba

came out and he parted the crowd and walked right up to the wall where I was

standing .... and I had seen him move his hand for a few people ..and they put

their hands out .... so I thought that that was what I was supposed to do . He

made vibhuthi for me and that began my association with Sathya Sai Baba ....

that was 1973 ..in fact, he said to me ,"eat it ... very good " so I did ....

..... . And I didn't speak to him again from 1973, although I went there every

year . I would spend a couple of weeks .... sometimes a month .... sometimes

longer .... between 1973 and 1989 .... in fact , it's sort of interesting. I

became sort of the ashram joke .... to a degree

yes"> .... it's so funny, you go there .... and those of you who've been there

know ..that everyone is totally preoccupied with getting an interview ....

their egos .... I mean .... as they say it's like doing your dirty laundry

being at Puttaparthi .... and it certainly is .... people are certainly

regurgitating all ceilings of desires .... if there's such a thing there ....

and it was quite phenomenal whenever someone was going through a traumatic

state ..which seems to be a regular thing there .... they would

wheel me out because I was the guy who that hadn't had an interview .... or a

glance .... or a look ..or a word … for 5 years .... 8 years .... 12 years ....

and eventually 15 years that I spent going there without a glance from Shri

Sathya Sai Baba .... but I knew who he was and that was all that was necessary

.. I still , to this day, am mystified .... why it's even necessary to talk to

him .... or why he really wants me to be there for him to talk to .... it's

totally unnecessary because he is not what he appears to be at all . He is much

more dynamic than a little man with furry hair running

around building hospitals and universities .... and I mean that quite seriously

..... it's a .... I'll never forget those years .... it was so fantastic .... I

guess .... it was in fact my dear friend Michael Hollander , who kept saying ,"

Hang in there Isaac! hang in there! hang in there !" .... and it was always a

great comfort to see him there , as I did , many many times over the years ....

I was really sort of in a state of shock when he did call me .... I think ....

the reason being is that I had a number of fabulous experiences over that

fifteen year period where he would .... I guess he was forced to reassure me

who he was .... I have to tell you , that fifteen years later, while we are

working on the hospital .... he's so wonderful .... timing of course is

everything with him .... it was quite wonderful that while we were .... I guess

I've been blessed to be with him for a number of hours with a number of

distinguished surgeons who had been gathered together at Whitefield in his home

there to discuss the hospital .... and he got everyone's attention several hours

into this meeting .... and I was sitting next to him ..and he said , " I saved

this mans life two times .... didn't I?" This is fifteen years later. I must

also add that I said ,"Yes of course. " He leaned over and whispered in my ear,

" And many other times too ." As you all know, Sai Baba is hilarious ....

absolutely .... he is quite a miracle to us all .... but his humour

is really something else. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tigrett's master is Sri Sathya

Sai Baba, who counsels followers to "love all, serve all," a credo Tigrett

reprinted on countless T-shirts and caps sold at Hard Rock Cafes around the

globe. He lowers the volume of a blues song playing on the stereo. "I had an

epileptic fit and swallowed my tongue and died on the floor of this hotel room

and missed my flight connections. Suddenly this guru, who I had been following

for two years, named Sri Sathya Sai Baba, appeared in the room. My spirit came

out of the top of my head and I was in some sort of form of giddy electricity,

conscious of myself and of my separateness from my dead body, which was lying

10 feet below me. Sai Baba picked me up, put me on a bed,

pulled my tongue out, pressed on my chest-and my spirit went back inside my

body. I looked up-there he was smiling at me. An inspiration.. Preetham Sai

P.V.