Glory That Is Sai

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GLORY THAT IS SAI

 

During the course of his all India tour, Babu Rajendra Prasad,

President of the Indian National Congress held at Bombay in 1934, went to

Ramana Maharshi and to receive his blessings. He stayed in the Ashram for a

few days with his family and friends in the blissful company of the

Maharshi. At the time of taking leave, Sri Rajendra Prasad requested the

Maharshi for a message to Mahatma Gandhi. The Maharshi smiled and said,

“What message can I give, when the same Shakti (spirit) that is working here

is working there”. In this one pregnant sentence, the Maharshi has

propounded a great spiritual truth of universal nature.

 

 

Among the numerous mandirs, numbering about five hundred, Sri

Kanaka Bhavan is the most important in the city of Ayodhya. Tradition has it

that Lord Rama lived with Sita Mata in a mansion constructed of gold and

diamonds,gems etc on the same spot in Treta Yuga. There is a Shayan Kunj

(Bed chamber) of the Lord in the second storey of the Mandir. Every night

the Pujari of the mandir arranges garlands,flowers, scents,sweets,fresh

water to drink etc in this chamber, for the use of the divine couple in the

night, before the mandir is closed. About 25 years back it so happened that

the pujari forgot to provide drinking water. At the dead of the night, Lord

Rama appeared before a Saint, living in chyavani at a distance of one mile

from the mandir, in a vision and told him “I am thirsty. The pujari has not

kept drinking water for me.Please arrange water for us”. The saint at once

rushed to the manager of the kanaka bhavan and woke him up and informed him

of his vision. The manager immediately sent for the pujari and asked him if

he had provided drinking water to the Lord that night. The pujari

recollected for a while and said, “I forgot to place drinking water” and

begged to be excused. Immediately drinking water was arranged in the Shayan

Kunj.

Vedadri is a famous pilgrim centre on the banks of the

river Krishna in Andhra Pradesh.

The presiding diety there is Lord Narsimha. The zamindar of

Muktyala is the trustee of the temple.Every day at the time of Shayan Arati,

the idol (Utsa vigraham) of the lord is places in a cradle and it is swung

until the arti is over. Then the pujari and other devotees retire after

closing the temple. About forty years ago, the threads of the cradle were in

shreda in a part and the idol was in imminent danger of falling down from

the cradle. One night the Lord appeared in the dream of the Zamindar and

said “You are sleeping happily in your cosy bed, while I am laying in the

cradle of shreds. Please get the cradle fitted with new threads without any

delay”. So saying the Lord disappeared. The Zamindar immediately woke up and

recollected the dream. He thought that something was wrong with the cradle.

Next morning he went to the temple and examined the cradle and took the

pujari to task for his failure to report the bad condition of the cradle in

time. He got the cradle immediately repaired.

 

(to be contdd....)

 

(Source Sai Leela Feb 1975 this magazine can be read at

www.saileelas.org/magazines)