Existence (Asthi)

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She again surprised me by saying after few minutes, " This

time Baba brought new chappals and asked me to wear

them and when I had done so, we both were lifted in the air high from the

earth. He then projected his palm downwards; rays of light spread all over the

ground in which light I saw some children playing. Baba said to me that it was

called 'Bal Vikas' and I can

visit these places when the sun gets cold as it was very hot. " He then

promised her that He will take care of her health and her family affairs and

there would be no worry thereafter. He brought her back to the place where she

was. With this her dream or trancequences ended.

 

Now starts His leela. My wife was running the highest temperature

at that time, when she talked to me all these things and there is every doubt

that delirium might have started, as the other day the Doctor treating her also

expressed her doubt whether it would lead to meningitis. But to clear the doubt

or doubts I had at that moment, she put me a question, " It is Puttaparthi Sai Baba, who started Balavikas

schools for children and why Shirdi Sai is telling that there is Balavikas? When did he start them? " It was really an

intelligent question showing that her brain was working properly. We had not

been to Shirdi till then and in fact I did not read anywhere that Shirdi Sai

started Balavikas schools. I simply interpreted her

saying that it might be Baba once again declaring to me, that He makes no

difference whether He is Shirdi Sai or Puttaparthi

Baba. She was also satisfied then and slept.

 

Next morning as usual I had Thursday pooja and

questioned Baba about the present situation by opening His 'Satcharitra'

as I do usually at the time of doubt or when I require an answer to my problem.

The reply He gave was Dr. Pillai's story, in which

Baba tells Dr.Pillia not to request for postponement

of Prarabdha and then assures him of the cure from

his guinea worm disease within 10 days. It assured me that my wife will be

alright in 10 days.

This was conveyed to my wife and

we were waiting for a change. We never

tried to change the doctor.

 

On the same evening, one

doctor, who is a friend of mine, returned from Iran only on the

last night and came to visit our

house. He being a doctor,

rebuked my negligence for having kept a patient for so many days

in the house, not hospitalizing

her and he never took rest, till she was

admitted to the Hospital the next

day. It was

1st April. Doctors thereafter made a thorough check up and admitted my

wife in the emergency ward, which terrified the lady;

but she took courage on hearing from me, Shri

Baba's assurance and took the medicines

as directed by the doctor, They took all the tests

that are possible in a hospital; but they could not diagnose the disease. The medicine given by them was only nominal; but she started

improving day by day and on the

third day she showed symptoms of

normalcy. She picked up her health and

was discharged on 11th April. See, it was only 10 days she took to regain her health as promised by Baba. It was really a rebirth. The doctors,

who looked after her told me

later that they could not find any

defect in her, but they suspected that the dosage given by the previous doctors

was less, which could not improve her

health. Anyhow, I felt that the disease was cured on Wednesday

night itself by the Divine treatment of Sai and nothing was

left over to doctors to find

out. The question arose what was the

use of our going to the hospital? I

humbly remembered the words of Shri Swamy Ramaadas of Anandashram (Kerala State)

" Human effort is necessary

to know that human effort is useless. Then divine will start working " .

 

In four days after coming back from the hospital, one of my

friends came from his village and after completing his work in the city

suddenly proposed to go to Shirdi, with me. One can imagine my condition. I was

penniless; but he assured me of the expenditure and wanted me to be his guest.

Next, my wife also showed her willingness. My trip to Shirdi was an

unimaginable happiness to my heart and soul. We had a pleasant journey and darshan of the Lord Sai Baba from near,

I dropped off all my anxieties and worries at His feet and made my heart and

mind so empty that I filled it with His grace and prasad. I returned with these

to my wife and children. My wife asked me whether we have seen the things used

by Him. It was surprising to me. She did not tell me in her trance, the stories

about what was worn by Sai Baba and how he was looking like. I told her that

all the things used by Him are preserved in a glass cupboard. She suddenly put

me a question, how His shoes were. With so much curiosity I asked her whether

she saw them, while He was wearing them and how they appeared like. She said,

" Sai wore shoes like those that the Muslim Fakirs wear " and her

description of the shoes was exactly of those, kept in the Samadhi Mandir by the Shirdi Samsthan.

This shattered my last doubts whether Shri Baba

appeared in person before her in her experience and I bowed with reverence at

His holy feet with a humble prayer.

 

In 1978 February my Mrs. could travel to her Ishta

Deva and then she herself saw what was shown to her

in her dream. She recognized the highest place where she was taken as " Bhakta Niwas " top floor,

where we stayed and the " Balavikas " under

the shade of trees by the side of the Bhakta Nivas!

V. Narayana Rao

Hyderabad (A.P.)

(Source Shri Sai Leela August 1980)