Guest guest Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Swami's Chosen Doctors ---------------- I, have been practiciting medicine for 32 years. I quilified as a doctor in 1968. Since 1974, I have specialized in Ophthalmology. I love restoring sight. After surgery, when the bandages come off, and the patient's open their eyes and can see nature---A gift of God they had been deprived of,,,they totally believe that God exists. In 1974, I had the wonderful oppertunity to come to UK to do my studies and continue my prectice. My work is divided into three areas: I work for the national Health Service, a government hospital; I have private practice in Harley street and I devote a large amount of time travelling aboard to developing contries . I arrange eye camps in many parts of the world including Africa, Russia, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and many other areas where there is need. We have wonderful team of volunteers. They go out with me and experience that service to man is service to God. IT was in 1970 when I came face to face with the reality of Sathya Sai Baba for the first time. I was working in the Himalayas with a colleage who was a radiologist. It was extremely cold and in the winter months the temperature fell to well below zero. We lived in bunkers in the very ordinary condition. In order to prevent the loss of heat, these bunkers are lined with parachute material, and to keep the bunkers warm, we burned kerosene in drums. On a shelf, my friend had a picture of Sai Baba and some deities. I also worshipped Rama, Krishna and Shiva and after bath, offered my prayers and chanted Gayatri Mantra. But somehow, I could not believe that Sai Baba was a divine and God incarnate. My friend told me it did not matter who I believed in. He said that as long as I followed the right path, Sai Baba would be happy with me. He gave me vibhuti daily, which I took reclutantly. I took it because I had been taught to respect all faiths and religions, because they imbibed the principle of love all and serve all. One day, when we returned to our bunkers, we found that there had been a fire and everything had been burned. We had some metal trunks where we kept our valuables. Even those were completely melted and nothing was left. I was very surprised to see that only Sai Baba's picture and couple of other pictures as well as my Ophthalmology book where I had kept a picture of Baba that my friend had given me were still intact, As a doctor and a scientist, I thought there must be something very significant about a fire where each and every thing, including a metal truck was destroyed and where only these few items remained. This event brought about a sight change of heart about Baba, but I was still not 100% convinced. A year passed and I was posted in central India, as a part of our training. We had to go into villages and help in the medical camps. I did not realize that working in these camps and helping the poor would become the ultimate reality of my life. It was during this period that I had two serious accidents which could have left me paralyzed or with heaad injuries. Although my motor bike was destroyed, I received no permanant injuries. It was then I realized I was under a divine umbrella and God was protecting me. It was 1982 that I came face to face with the Lord. The first time I went to Prashanthi Nilayam I did not get interview, but Swami gave a diccourse in the afternoon that changed my life. I had so many questions and thought if I had a chance to speak to Sai Baba, I would ask him these questions. To my utter surprise, He opened His discourse with a beautiful Telegu poem and then He said that there were many people present who had doubts about His divinity. He told us that we are all the emboidment of the same divine power; that is why He calls us emboidment of divine love. The problem was that we were all all looking for God outside. He said that we waste our time searching for God by going to the mountains and caves and seeking information from sages and saints. He said that He has realized He is God but that we still doubt our divinity. I was shocked because this was excatly what I felt. One of the reasons I wanted to be posted in the gigh altitude regions was that I wanted to meet some sages and people who had been doing penance in the Himalayas. I wanted to sit down and ask them how I could realize divinity. I had also womdered how Sai Baba, who is like any other human being walking on this planet could be God?. Here was Sai Baba answering my questions. It was an eye opener for me. Since then I have never looked back ***Since talk is still long we will continue again with same title*** (Sharing with Sai Love) RamChugani Ram Chugani Kobe, Japan rgcjp Everyone is raving about the all-new Mail Beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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