RE: Story on Faith

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This story is all about a devotee who was very close to Swami. Nearly 20 years back Swami was physically very close to devotees. He used to go to devotees houses and eat food with them and take them to Chitravathi ( River near Parthi) for moon light play. (I will talk about those in due course ).One day he was walking along with some devotees behind Prasanthinilayam campus, which was full of bushes and shrubs. One of the devotees started talking about his family problems and said that he needed lot of money for his daughters marriage and for son's education. Listening to all this Swami suddenly showed a huge snake near by and told,if you want the money, well, go and catch the snake at the tail you get gold. The devotee perplexed. He thought swami was joking. He pleaded Swami saying that he was in dire need of money and hence he needs money sincerely. Bhagawan again with a smile said Go and catch the snake you would get the money you need. The

devotee could not belive that Swami was seriously asking him to catch the tail of poisonous snake to get money. Finally Swami told look the snake is going in to the hide out. Go and catch it immediately, failing which you will not get the money. Reluctantly he went and caught the tail of the snake which had pushed 80% of its body into the anthill. To the astonishment to all the people around the visible part of the snake turned into gold.The surprised devotee pleaded "Swami get the snake back I want to hold it completely". No use. He had to contend with the small piece of the snake part only.There are many instances Swami stressed the importance of developing sincere faith in God. Certainly, it is not easy to develop unflinching faith in God, but SADHANA, not meditation, will give the faith.

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