Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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On 22-5-78, he wrote to me :

 

“Since 20th I have been longing strongly to visit Vidyanagar. The reasons,

I feel is your spiritual energy. On Tuesday, 21st at 7-40 p.m. when I was

meditating, I had your darshan. I then meditated intently on the Mother,

she at once appeared to me and said, ‘You go there at once’ I was very

happy…. On 22nd at 9-10 p.m. I opened your book Sri Sai Leelamritamu’. I

again had your darshan. I then remembered that I have to visit you … On

Thursday the 23rd at 5-54 p.m. I finished reading four Chapters of Sri Guru

Charitra and I was about to commence the 5th chapter. A passing thought of

visiting Vidyanagar flashed. Immediately I heard a few words: ‘Do not worry

about money … You start at once for Vidyanagar’. These were not the words

of the Mother. They were very majestic and profound. It occurred to me that

they were the words of Sri Sai Baba. Soon after I experienced the state of

profound samadhi for four hours.

 

Accordingly, Venugopal came and stayed with me for a week. During this

stay, he studied the life-histories of great saints like Sri Manikya

Prabhu, Sri Swami Samarth, Yogi Milarepa of Tibet, and of a few mystics I

had visited. One day the Goddess ordered him to visit the mandir site here

and giving him yellow rice (akshatas), asked him to sprinkle them around

the site. She told him that the mandir construction will be successfully

accomplished and that it would rise into prominence.

 

One day I had a dream in which I was shown a copper plate on which was

inscribed the messages in Telugu, “Venugopal is most likely to be caught in

the snare of miracles and fall spiritually”. After much thought, I felt

obliged to write the same to him. On 22-5-78 he replied :

 

“In your letter you wrote of the likelihood of a fall through miracles.

You are quite right and I am very happy for it. In the course of sadhana,

miracles do manifest. In order to attain perfection, they have to be left

off. A higher stage should be attained. I have a little experience of that

state above miracles. But I can stay in that state only for a short while

and I at once return to the stage of miracles. Again with a little effort I

regain the higher state and so on. In that higher state, the body, world

and mind do not exist (for me). It is empty. This state lasts only for an

hour in a day. I have read in the lives of perfect sages that they exist in

that higher stage always. Sri Purnanandaswami told me that it is nirvikalpa

samadhi. I have been trying to be in this state. When I asked Mother about

it she told me that I would attain this state after some time. Sri

Sivabalayogi also told me the same…..

 

 

(Source : http://www.saibharadwaja.org)