Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

[Guest guest]

Baba has been keeping up his word as illustrated below.

 

In 1971, I started for Mummidivaram (in East Godavari Dt. A.P) to have

darshan of Sri Balayogi on the holy Sivaratri day. On the way I

stopped at

Guntur to see Sri Ranganna Babu, a great devotee of Sri Rama, and

invite

him to visit Vidyanagar. “I shall seek the permission of my guru Sri

Rama

and, if he permits me, I shall go to Vidyanagar. It is not in my hands

to

say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Many eminent people come from Hyderabad, Madras and

other place to take me there but generally Sri Rama does not permit me

to

go”, he replied. I said, “I shall see you again on my way back from

Mummidivaram. You please ask Sri Rama. If he is pleased with the

devotion

of the students at Vidyanagar, he would agree”, and took leave of him.

All

that I could do was to pray to Baba. He demonstrated while he was in

flesh

that he was all the saints and gods. So he should inspire Sri Ranganna

Babu through Sri Rama to visit my place.

 

Again the response was striking. On the third day, I saw Sri Ranganna

Babu

on my return journey. He was the first to great me gleefully, “Sir,

Sri

Rama has permitted me to go with you! ‘Ranganna’, he said, the

students at

Vidyanagar, are doing bhajan with devotion. Go, see them’. And he gave

me

grapes to be distributed to the devotees!” So saying he at once

started

with me. He had spent two days at Vidyanagar, stepped on a plot of

land

and said, “Here would spring up an ashram and a mandir! Great yogis

will

visit this place and great religious ceremonies like yagnas will be

performed here.

 

Another instance: On the evening of 26th July, 1975, we were doing

satsang

at my house. I was reading out to the gathering the chapter entitled,

“Sri

Sai is in All Saints” from my present book on Baba. Just then we had

finished reading the leela (miracle) of Baba’s transfiguration as Sri

Guru

Gholapswami to one Mule Sastry. A small van stopped before my house

and

some one there announced, “The Swami has come!” When I came out I saw

the

saint Sri Samarth Narayana Maharaj of Harihar. He entered our satsang

hall, sat on my mat (darbhasana) and blessed us with his presence for

full

two hours. He too said, “Here will spring up a fine mandir and great

souls

will come and stay here”. Sri Narayana Maharaj is the twelfth

incumbent of

the seat at Harihar and he belongs to the tradition of Sri Samarth

Ramadas, the guru of Shivaji.

 

(To be contd....)

 

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