Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

[Guest guest]

It was the year 1974. One day an old gentleman named A. Subbarayudu came

to my room. He looked every inch a pious, orthodox brahmin. He is the

father of my friend and colleague, Sri A.E. Purushottam Rao (Department of

Mathematics). He told me that his sacred-thread ceremony was performed in

his ninth year and ever since, he had been assiduously attending to the

japa of the sacred Gayatri mantra. But he complained that his mind was

never still. I then told him of the need to resort to the succour of a

great siddha purusha. Henceforth, everyday he used to visit me and I used

to read to him from my books on Swami Samarth of Akkalkot and Sai Baba.

This devotional reading produced the needed impact and he felt much

elevated spiritually.

 

During our reading of the book on Swami Samarth we came across the

instance of the great saint giving his belongings like the rosary and

sandals (padukas) to his closest disciple and my comment thereon that such

gifts from great saints would be charged with some of their spiritual

vibrations and that they would keep the recipient in good stead.

Then Sri Subbarayudu told me of a moslem saint at his native place. The

saint wandered as a mad man. He often played on a flute-like musical

instrument which wafted his spirit into ecstatic trances for days on end.

While everyone in the village took him for a mad man, one old lady had

recognized the spiritual fire in him and served him food everyday. At last,

one day he called at her house and gave her a staff saying, “Mother, you

have served me with loving care. The time has come for me to quit this

earth. Keep this, my staff, with you as a token of my blessing. It will do

you good”. The lady received the staff reverentially and cherished it for

some time. One day she showed it to Sri Subbarayudu.

 

Sri Subbarayudu recounted the incident and said how blessed the old lady

was and that prior to his listening to the account of Swami Samarth’s life,

he did not realize the value of the saint’s gift to the lady. He added that

the whole episode took place hardly a year or two earlier. A passing thought

came to me that if I had known of the existence of such a saint earlier, I

could have secured the staff myself. And I mentally complained to Baba that

he had not blessed me with it.

 

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