Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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Smt. Kamala of the nearby village writes: “When Sri Narayan Maharaj was

camping nearby, I wished to see him the next morning and I read Baba’s life

to secure his blessing. Early next morning, after ablutions, I worshipped

Baba’s picture and offered him two bananas. Afterwards, when I touched

them, I felt something like an electric shock and passed into deep

meditation wherein I grew oblivious of everything except the picture of

Baba. Then I heard a voice from it. ‘I’ve taken one fruit. Give the other

to Narayana Maharaj!’ When I regained normal awareness, I found one fruit

missing. The one that was left was too black and soft to be offered to Sri

Maharaj. So I gave away a piece of it to everyone in the house. When I

visited him, Sri Maharaj at once said, “Where is the fruit? Hasn’t Baba

told you? Have you lost your head? Why have you done like this?” Then he

recounted everything as it happened at my house.

 

One day, I noticed a cobra moving about the snakepit in our backyard. The

next day, Sri Maharaj said, “It is a great mahatma. It has a ‘gem’ in its

hood. Take care that no one harms it!” Where Baba is, there are all the

mahatmas. Henceforth, I meditated everyday for some time near the snakepit.

 

For sometime, I longed to see Sri Ranganna Babu. On December 4, he visited

Sri Bharadwaja and both of them came to our house. Entering my room of

worship, he said, ‘Your puja room is quite peaceful!’ Once I took darshan of

Sri Avadhuta Venkaiah Swami. He accepted the gruel and biscuits we offered

and gave us a little of it as prasad. I meditated for sometime in his

presence and found that a permanent change for the better had occurred in

my being. So too, when I visited late Mataji Revati Amma in Madras and told

her that I came from Sri Bharadwaja, she lovingly led me into her room,

rested my head on her lap and gave me a little of the betel she was chewing,

as prasad. On another visit, she presented me with her sari and blouse and

blessed me saying, “In such a place as this, you have a special place. You

always have my blessing! Rest content with it”. One day, as I was in bed, I

had a vision in which I saw an announcement in ‘The Hindu’ that Mother

Revathi Amma had taken samadhi. In four days, I came to know that she

passed away precisely at the moment of my vision and it was announced in the

same paper!

 

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