Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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After the summer vacation, one Thursday morning, Sri Subbrayudu called at

my house. I was in a hurry to leave for the college and I was slightly

uneasy at the old man’s arrival at such a moment. “I am sorry to call on

you now. I know you would be in a hurry to go to the college. I shall take

only a few minutes’ time…. This is the staff the moslem saint had given the

old lady at my place”, he said, putting the same in my hands! I wondered

how he could get it from the lady.

 

“The old lady at my place had one day come to my house during this

vacation and gave this to me, saying that she was somehow strongly impelled

to do so. I accepted it most gratefully. Eversince it came to me I had a

good push in my meditation. But somehow, since a few days of my coming

here, whenever I tried to meditate keeping the staff with me, I felt a

terrible inner disturbance, much worse than before! I felt that I could not

keep it any longer. It strongly occurred to me that orthodox as I am, the

staff which carries with it the spiritual vibrations of a moslem saint has

no agreed with my vibrations which are tuned to the Vedic tradition. But

knowing the value of a gift from a saint, I could not conceive of throwing

it away or even returning it to the old lady. So I was thinking of giving

it to someone who can cherish it with the devotion and respect it deserves.

This morning, when I sat in meditation, I was thinking of this question and

suddenly you came to my mind. As you belong to the flock of Sai Baba who

has harmonized both the traditions in himself, I thought I should give it

to you. The thought was so compelling that I could not help but come with

it now. Take it”, he said, keeping it in my hands.

 

Think of it all! A pious old man comes, on a Thursday, immediately after I

had finished my prayer to Baba, and gives me the very holy object for which

I had a longing thought for a moment months ago! Is not Baba the harbinger

of grace? The sturdy walking stick stands in my puja room as a testimony to

Baba’s watchful care of his devotees’ holy aspirations.

 

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