Divine Anecdotes - Experiences of Late Shri.Karunyananda - 2

June 21, 2008

We would be sitting with Bhagavan at times, and He would be found as if He was somewhere else. He would later say, " I have just returned from Madras. Papum (Alas)! Vijayalakshmi is suffering very much. I went to the hospital. I gave her prasad and there is no problem with her now. She will be all right. "

Thereafter confirmatory telegrams or letters would arrive adding that, " Bhagavan was here but He went away without taking [food or offering] anything. " Take the incident at Tirupati, which happened around 1989-90. It was 10:00 a.m. in the morning and Bhagavan was very much in Brindavan at Bangalore. Yet, He was simultaneously seen at Tirupati! He was given a chair; He was seated. All this happened.

Should Bhagavan put on dramas like others? No, it is all the grace of Bhagavan. [A similar incident has happened in Tirupati again in 1998] In 1971, as we had returned from Ooty to Brindavan, Swami asked a schoolboy to take a photograph of Him, and lo!, He appeared as Lord Dattatreya in the photograph. Everyone saw this miracle and was astonished. Gangadhar Shetty wanted the photograph and I gave Him the photo. He then asked me if it would be all right if he printed it in the Sanatana Sarathi. He wanted everyone to see this beautiful picture. Swami took the photograph and tore it into pieces as He did not want publicity. Gold remains gold wherever it is thrown.

One day Swami asked me, " Karunyananda, from the beginning I have always been simple, have I not? " Swami was then wearing a torn dhoti that day. I did not like this. So, I asked Him, " Swami, why do you wear a torn dhoti when you have so many good dhotis? " I tried to prevail on Swami for removing the torn dhoti. Swami smiled and then pleaded, " Oh? Will you tear it up? Was it not my leela that day when I sought for a handful of atukulu (beaten rise) from Kuchela? [A story from Krishna's life] Are you not seeing me for the last thirty six years like this? "

Once Suri Bhagavantam's wife had paralysis, which Bhagavan took on Himself to alleviate her distress. We were going in a car after the birthday festival of Bhagavan. Bhagavan, Bhagavantam, and I were in the first car. Several cars followed us. We crossed the borders of Andhra Pradesh State and entered Karnataka State when Bhagavan fell ill in the car. On the advice of Bhagavantam I got up and Bhagavan was laid upon the car seat. I got into the next car. Bhagavan got up after sometime. He stopped the car and made me sit again by His side in His car. He then asked me, " Did you worry about me? There is fifty to sixty years more time for this body! " Bhagavan will incarnate Himself as Prema Sai. I will also be there before Him. Bhagavan showed me also the place in which He will take re-birth.

Om Sai Ram

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