Isaac Tigrett of Hard Rock Cafe

January 2, 2006

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Tigrett"> He was an American philanthropist. For years, He had been coming to

Swami, and praying to Him to accept the resources in his command, for any

project that Swami wished to launch. He thought that it was a noble idea, and

his

generosity would surely make Swami happy. Much to his chagrin, ever time Swami

said, " I want your love not your money". SATHYA SAI BABA'S PICTURE

IN A HARD ROCK CAFE.... Issac Tigrett started searching his heart to find

out where he had gone wrong. He was perplexed; after all, his offer was

generous, yet it was turned down. Slowly, his doubts cleared like the morning

mists that vanish with the sunrise. In Swami's own unique way, he was made to

realize that he had made this offer with the feeling that he was the giver and

that he was going to be the benefactor of countless beings. Tigrett was no one

to linger around once he had understood this error. He went back to Swami and

said, " Swami! There are thousands who yearn for a little part in Your Avataric

Mission, but are unable to do so for various reasons. So please allow me to

return unto You, what You have given me, on behalf of those thirsting

thousands." This was precisely the change of heart that Swami wanted.

MS" color="#212143" size="3">Swami's saying "LOVE ALL SERVE ALL" in the cafe at

Las Vegas... HARD ROCK CAFE, LOS ANGELES..... The Founders of the

Hard Rock Cafe, Peter Morton and Isaac Tigrett opened the first Hard Rock Cafe

in London on June 14, 1971. Peter Morton was the restauranteur who created the

business and Isaac Tigrett, a disciple of Sathya Sai Baba, provided the

founding principles of Hard Rock Cafe; mottos that stand as strong today as

they did back then. These mottos are to be found on the walls of every Hard

Rock Cafe around the world. A excerpt of a talk given by Isaac Tigrett...

"I started a business when I was nineteen which I called the Hard Rock Cafe . I

was a devout devotee of Jimmy Hendrix and ???? and Zed Zeppelin and several

other fellows .... . which I still am actually .... I think they are fantastic

..... and I started this businesses . The Lord blessed me with phenomenal

success .... beyond my wildest dreams .... .... In fact there are many people

who .... later as I became a Sai devotee .. I worried constantly .... I wasn't

very popular in groups such as this .... mainly because people felt like that

..... you .... know .... a bunch of

rock and roll .... and drugs .... and crazy stuff .... and it was .... but you

know .... Sai is not going to be in a place like that (? and he's not going to

be using someone like that) .... and I worried about it a great deal for many

many years . I can only tell you that subsequent to Sai being so wonderful and

calling me in and now spending so much time with me .... which I am blessed to

be able to do .... .... he's told me that the Hard Rock Cafe was his .... which

I knew .... . which I knew. you may know that there is a picture of Sai Baba in

every Hard Rock Cafe and it's very interesting , he said that it was an "oasis

of light in a sea of darkness" .... and I feel that that is really what all of

us are .... and should be .... in this Kali Yuga .... . a beacon for him ."

There were .... it was a Sunday .... there were probably the usual

thousand or so people there and I sat back on the wall ..... if I didn't sit , I

stood .... dressed in black of course and Sai Baba came out and he parted the

crowd and walked right up to the wall where I was standing .... and I had seen

him move his hand for a few people ..and they put their hands out .... so I

thought that that was what I was supposed to do . He made vibhuthi for me and

that began my association with Sathya Sai Baba .... that was 1973 ..in fact, he

said to me ,"eat it ... very good " so I did .... .... . And I didn't speak to

him again from 1973, although I went there every year . I would spend a couple

of weeks .... sometimes a month .... sometimes longer .... between 1973 and

1989 .... in fact , it's sort of interesting. I became sort of the ashram joke

..... to a degree .... it's so funny, you go there .... and those of you

who've been there know ..that everyone is totally preoccupied with getting an

interview .... their egos .... I mean .... as they say it's like doing your

dirty laundry being at Puttaparthi .... and it certainly is .... people are

certainly regurgitating all ceilings of desires .... if there's such a thing

there .... and it was quite phenomenal whenever someone was going through a

traumatic state ..which seems to be a regular thing there .... they would wheel

me out because I was the guy who that hadn't had an interview .... or a glance

..... or a look ..or a word … for 5 years .... 8 years .... 12 years .... and

eventually 15 years that I spent going there without a glance from Shri Sathya

Sai Baba .... but I knew who he was and that was all that was necessary . I

still , to this day, am mystified .... why it's even necessary to talk to him

..... or why he really wants me to be there for him to talk to .... it's totally

unnecessary because he is not what he appears to be at all . He

is much more dynamic than a little man with furry hair running around building

hospitals and universities .... and I mean that quite seriously .... it's a

..... I'll never forget those years .... it was so fantastic .... I guess ....

it was in fact my dear friend Michael Hollander , who kept saying ," Hang in

there Isaac! hang in there! hang in there !" .... and it was always a great

comfort to see him there , as I did , many many times over the years .... I

was really sort of in a state of shock when he did call me .... I think ....

the reason being is that I had a number of fabulous experiences over that

fifteen year period where he would .... I guess he was forced to reassure me

who he was .... I have to tell you , that fifteen years later, while we are

working on the hospital .... he's so wonderful .... timing of course is

everything with him .... it was quite wonderful that while we were .... I guess

I've been blessed to be with him for a number of hours with a number of

distinguished surgeons who had been gathered together at Whitefield in his home

there to discuss the hospital .... and he got everyone's attention several hours

into this meeting .... and I was sitting next to him ..and he said , " I saved

this mans life two times .... didn't I?" This is fifteen years later. I must

also add that I said ,"Yes of course. " He leaned over and whispered in my ear,

" And many other times too ." As you all know, Sai Baba is hilarious ....

absolutely .... he is quite a miracle

to us all .... but his humour is really something else. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Tigrett's master is Sri Sathya Sai Baba,who counsels followers to "love all,

serve all," a credo Tigrett reprinted on countless T-shirts and caps sold at

Hard Rock Cafes around the globe. He lowers the volume of a blues song playing

on the stereo. "I had an epileptic fit and swallowed my tongue and died on the

floor of this hotel

room and missed my flight connections. Suddenly this guru, who I had been

following for two years, named Sri Sathya Sai Baba, appeared in the room. My

spirit came out of the top of my head and I was in some sort of form of giddy

electricity, conscious of myself and of my separateness from my dead body,

which was lying 10 feet below me. Sai Baba picked me up, put me on a bed,

pulled my tongue out, pressed on my chest-and my spirit went back inside my

body. I looked up-there he was smiling at me.

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alt="Issac Tigrett" coordsize="21600,21600" o:allowoverlap="f"> He was an

American philanthropist. For years, He had been coming to Swami, and praying to

Him to accept the resources in his command, for any project that Swami wished to

launch. He thought that it was a noble idea, and his generosity would surely

make Swami happy. Much to his chagrin, ever time Swami said, " I

want your love not your money". SATHYA SAI BABA'S PICTURE IN A HARD

ROCK CAFE.... Issac Tigrett started searching his heart to find out where he

had gone wrong. He was perplexed; after all, his offer was generous, yet it was

turned down. Slowly, his doubts cleared like the morning mists that vanish with

the sunrise. In Swami's own unique way, he was made to realize that he had made

this offer with the feeling that he was the giver and that he was going to be

the benefactor of countless beings.

FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Tigrett was no one to linger around once he had

understood this error. He went back to Swami and said, " Swami! There are

thousands who yearn for a little part in Your Avataric Mission, but are unable

to do so for various reasons. So please allow me to return unto You, what You

have given me, on behalf of those thirsting thousands." This was precisely the

change of heart that Swami wanted.

FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Swami's saying "LOVE ALL SERVE ALL" in the cafe

at Las Vegas... HARD ROCK CAFE, LOS ANGELES..... The Founders of

the Hard Rock Cafe, Peter Morton and Isaac Tigrett opened the first Hard Rock

Cafe in London on June 14, 1971. Peter Morton was the restauranteur who created

the business and Isaac Tigrett, a disciple of Sathya Sai Baba, provided the

founding principles of Hard Rock Cafe; mottos that stand as strong today as

they did back then. These mottos are to be found on the walls of every Hard

Rock Cafe around the world.

'Comic Sans MS'">A excerpt of a talk given by Isaac Tigrett... "I started a

business when I was nineteen which I called the Hard Rock Cafe . I was a devout

devotee of Jimmy Hendrix and ???? and Zed Zeppelin and several other fellows

..... . which I still am actually .... I think they are fantastic .... and I

started this businesses . The Lord blessed me with phenomenal success ....

beyond my wildest dreams .... .... In fact there are many people who ....

later as I became a Sai devotee .. I worried constantly .... I wasn't very

popular in groups such as this .... mainly because people felt like that ....

you .... know .... a bunch of rock and roll .... and drugs .... and crazy stuff

..... and it was ....

but you know .... Sai is not going to be in a place like that (? and he's not

going to be using someone like that) .... and I worried about it a great deal

for many many years . I can only tell you that subsequent to Sai being so

wonderful and calling me in and now spending so much time with me .... which I

am blessed to be able to do .... .... he's told me that the Hard Rock Cafe was

his .... which I knew .... . which I knew. you may know that there is a picture

of Sai Baba in every Hard Rock Cafe and it's very interesting , he said that it

was an "oasis of light in a sea of darkness" .... and I feel that that is

really what all of us are .... and should be .... in this Kali Yuga .... . a

beacon for him ." There were .... it was a Sunday .... there were probably the

usual thousand or so people there and I sat back on the wall ..... if I didn't

sit

, I stood .... dressed in black of course and Sai Baba came out and he parted

the crowd and walked right up to the wall where I was standing .... and I had

seen him move his hand for a few people ..and they put their hands out .... so

I thought that that was what I was supposed to do . He made vibhuthi for me and

that began my association with Sathya Sai Baba .... that was 1973 ..in fact, he

said to me ,"eat it ... very good " so I did .... .... . And I didn't speak to

him again from 1973, although I went there every year . I would spend a couple

of weeks .... sometimes a month .... sometimes longer .... between 1973 and

1989 .... in fact , it's sort of interesting. I became sort of the ashram joke

..... to a degree .... it's so funny, you go there .... and those of you who've

been there know ..that everyone is totally preoccupied with getting an