Mr Robert A.Bozzani from U.S.A his experience. (SSS-Volume-5) P-164

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spiritual quest. he had heard about Bhagavan Baba from his wife, Barabara, whose

Yoga- teacher was devotee of Baba. He had also seen His picture and listened

so soulful bhajans sung by Him on the gramophone, but he did not evince any

interest. Finally the 'call' came to Bozzani on 9Th December 1973. Baba

appread before him that night at his home in America. It was neighter a dream

or a vision. He was there in person! Baba spoke to him in the voice of his

departed father, "Don't worry"...everything will be alright" and disappeared.

But that was not enough for Bozzani! He tarried till his wife

announced him, "I am going to see Sathya Sai Baba whether you come or not." He

was left with no option but to travel with his wife, though reluctantly, in

February 1974. They went in a group with the yoga teacher as the guide. At

Bangalore, Bozzani told his wife, "I will drop you at Prashanthi Nilayam,

arrange for your needs and come back to Bangalore for sightseeing." He did not

even checkout of the hotel since he wanted to return the same day! They

arrived at Prashanthi Nilayam quite late in the evening, and so he decided to

stay back and travel to Bangalore the next day. Next morning Bhagavan called

their group for an interview and spoke to them for twenty mintues. As Bozzani

started listening to Him,

there was a deep stirring in his heart, and there came in a flash three

questions which had bothered him when he was a boy of twelve. These questions

were provoked in his young mind in a religious class when a teacher had said,

"God will be very angry if you attend any other church!." The first question

was, "If there is a God, He should be a God for everyone. How can it Be

otherwise?" The Second was, "if there is God, why couldn't He have come

before Jesus Christ and why not after Jesus Christ?". The third was, "Should

there not be much more to this world and the universe than what man thinks there

is?". The answers also came to him from within as he listened the ethereal voice

of Bhagavan.- "Yes there is a God and He is for everyone. Yes' He has come

before and also Jesus Christ, and right now, He is here! Yes there is much more

to the universe that what man thinks there is." After that interview, Bozzani

went to his wife and told her, "Sathya Sai Baba is God. I will not go back to

Bangalore.Let us stay." Thus began their wonderful journey with their beloved

Lord. In one of their later meetings with Swami, He continued that He had

visited their home on 9Th December 1973. Their love for Him became the sheet

anchor of their

lives. "In the presence of love, miracles happen! declared Robert Schuller.

Many miracles happened in their lives including the cancellation of Bozzani's

cancer by one word of Swami. Both of them feel that the greatest miracle is the

constant flow of grace and love in their lives, which keeps them unperturbed in

the ups and down of life. Robert Bozzani who is presently the chairman and

Trustee of Sathya Sai Book center of America and his wife Barbara who is the

editor of Sathya Sai News Letter, U.S.A, recall how they experienced Swami,

calling to him' many people during the period 1980 to 1986. During the early

1980, we moved to Phoenix, a large metropolitan city with a population of over

one million and a half. Before moving there we asked Swami if we should start a

Sathya Sai Baba Centre in Phoenix. Baba said very emphatically, "Yes, many will

come." We were very happy that we could serve His mission even in the new

place. Following Swami's instructions, we opened a Sathya Sai sai Baba

centre. Both of us are not musicians, nor we lead bhajans, so we started the

meetings in the centre every Thursday evening with just the two of us trying to

sing Indian bhajans with a tape recorder as our lead singer! We did have a pet

cat and a dog in our household, and both of them seemed to enjoy listening to

those songs! "After some weeks, a young lady knocked on our door. She had

just moved to Phoenix from New York and she wanted to join the centre. She was

a graduate from a famous School of Music in the country; she could sing bhajans

and also play on several instruments. "With a competent and experienced bhjans

singer in place, Swami began sending more and more people to the centre. They

seemed to come out of nowhere, just arriving on Thursday evenings. Increased

attendance at the bhajan prompted us to have a public meetings once a month on

Sunday afternoon at the centre. We had as speakers Elsie Cowan, Charles Pen,

Jack Hislop and

few others. These gatherings grew larger and the centre developed, just as Swami

had said, many did come. "During this period, there was an amazing expansion

of Sai Centres in the USA. and other parts of the world. During the 1970, there

were no more than 20 Sathya Sai Baba Centres in our country. However during the

1980 they began to grow rapidly and now there are more than 225 centres. Here

is one more of Bozzanis experiences as to how Swami called His devotees to

Himself and His centres during the early 1980. At the meetings in the Sathya

Sai Baba centre at Phoenix, Bozzani gave packets of vibhuthi to those who asked

for them. Two couples, who attended one of the meetings returned home and opened

these packets. To Their utter amazement they saw vibhuti transforming itself

into many small and beautiful flowers. This sign of grace affected the two

couples quite differently. One was thrilled by the grace of Baba and became

staunch devotees. The other got so frighten and confused by this experience

that they never came back. Many other signs of grace manifested in the life

of the first couple. The wife, who was an executive working for a chain of

restaurants, quit her job and became a very active member in the centre; she

also became the first Balvikas teacher in Phoenix. The husband was a chain

smoker and would finish several packets of cigarettes in a day. In spite of

knowing that Swami would not like him to continue with this undesirable habit,

he could not eschew it despite his best efforts, which included prayers to

Swami. But Swami helped him in an amazing way to give up the bad habit. He

made one of the cigarette packs with that man inexhaustible! This gentleman

smoked continuously for three days from that pack, which provided him as many

as cigarettes as he desired! Only on the third day fallacy of the

inexhaustible pretexting him out of the ruinous habit!. (Sharing With SAI

Love) Ram.ChuganiRam ChuganiKobe, Japanrgcjp

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