FROM PUTTAPARTHI...EGO,MUSIC,VEDAS & LOVE !!!

July 4, 2008

EGO: Prof. KASTURI at the request of the devotees went to give a talk in West Bengal. He gave a wonderful talk and everything went well.

When he came back, he thought Swami would pat his back and say, "What a wonderful job you did." Instead, Swami completely ignored him and didn't talk to him and he got the opposite treatment. This went on for a couple of weeks. He was shocked. He thought, "I went and did service, I talked about Swami, I shared His Love, and He ignores me."

His mother took the liberty of telling this to Swami. Then Swami called him. He went there and got on his knees and said, "Swami, what did I do wrong?" Swami said, "You went to Bengal and you talked." He said, "But what did I do wrong, Swami?"

There he showed the invitation which said 'Professor Kasturi talks about SWAMI and arranges the interviews'. Swami said: "You gave interviews to people. I don't need to give interviews; now you give interviews to people!!!"

He said, "Swami, I didn't do that. People put it without my knowledge."

"But you were happy inside. Oh! They are doing this to me. So this ego – rogue – plays the trick!!!"

MUSIC: Swami is the source of all music. A number of great musicians of India come and perform at the Feet of Swami.

Once a music teacher, who was an expert in Saint Tyagaraja's music went to Prasanthi Nilayam. He heard all these bhajans & thought these people don't know what music is. So Swami called him for an interview & asked this man to sing some songs which he did.

Then Swami suddenly started singing some rare compositions of Tyagaraja. This man was amazed. "Swami, how do you know this Tyagaraja kirtana?"

SWAMI replied, "Who do you think taught Saint Tyagaraja?" He was amazed and he became a lifelong devotee of Swami!!!

THE VEDAS: Even Vedic pundits; who came to scoff at Him & test Him, stayed at His feet .During Dasara time, one of the Vedic pundits was admitting that He came to Swami about 40 years ago. At that time Swami was very young and not well known.

The pundit was withholding some mantras as he wanted to test Swami whether He would discover this since SWAMI wasn't present there at all at that time. Later, Swami asked him, "Did you chant those mantras?" He said, "Yes, Swami!" Swami asked him 3 times. Every time he said, "Yes, yes." Swami didn't say anything. The pundit thought, "Oh, Swami doesn't know."

Then Swami took him behind the curtain and scolded him. "If you skip those mantras again you can never come back to Prasanti Nilayam!!!" Then he fell flat at Swami's Feet and now he has been coming for the last 40 years!

LOVE: Once when we were staying in Prasanti Nilayam and in our room these lizards were bothering us. It was okay with me, but my daughter was scared of them. So I told our boys, "Just take them but don't kill them. Just put them in the garden outside."

Then I asked Swami, "Swami what should we do with these lizards? Should we throw them out?" Swami said, "Why should you throw them out? Think they are also worshipping me in the puja room with you. You should have that broad kind of feeling. You should not only love all human beings, you should love all the creatures as well." (3 photos attached)

http://media.radiosai.org/Journals/Vol_04/01NOV06/Reddy.htm

Gist of a talk delivered by Dr. Narendranath Reddy in USA. (Member of the Prasanthi Council which oversees the activities of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations the worldover)

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