Touch of the Master's Hand (April 1986) - Dr. G.R. Vijayakumar

October 29, 2005

TOUCH OF THE MASTER'S HAND (April 1986)

It was September 1981. Due to reasons known only to Lord Sainath, a Company

for which I was working in Kerala threw me off job. With one strong back and

hardly any money, I had returned to my mother at Bangalore.

Even while on job-hunt, to engage myself, I started a small Clinic in a

village on the outskirts of Bangalore. It was more a 'seva' than earning any

money as the village comprised half-starved agriculturists and factory

workers. At that time my spirits were quite low and I used to carry a small

tiffin-box to sustain myself in the afternoons. Sometimes I did not even

bother to eat anything.

In the very first week after my daily jaunts to that village, one afternoon

an old gentleman visited me. He introduced himself as a retired clerk,

re-employed as an accountant in the nearby glass factory.

On his very first visit, I heard him muttering: "That darn wife of mine.

She must think I am an elephant. I cannot eat all this. Who wants so much

food?" I was only too happy to help him out. Every noon 'thereafter this

gentleman would mutter about the food his wife was wasting as he passed the

excess along to me.

In the first week of December '81 Sainath, blessed me with a job in a

tea-garden in Chikmagalur district of Karnataka. As I was leaving Bangalore,

I wanted to take leave of the Sai-bandhu who used to feed me daily. He was

not to be seen around. So I went to the Class Factory (where he was reported

to be employed) to bid him good bye. The receptionist looked surprised:

"Which old man? We do not have any retired hands working in our factory". I

took a close look but could not locate the person whose divine hands fed me

for a little over two months.

As I am penning this Sai-miracle, I am only reminded of what a great writer

once said:

"No person really understands another. The human personality is a mystery

fully known to Cod alone. Love is but the wish to understand."

Dear Sai Brothers and Sai Sisters: Perhaps Sainath wanted me to learn the

great truth Jesus taught in the Bible: "When thou doest thine alms, do not

sound a trumpet before thee." (Mathew6:2)

Dr. G.R. Vijayakumar

Chikmagatur District.

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