Swami's birthday and His miracles: ' The Sunday Leader'

November 22, 2008

Today is the 83rd birthday of Sai Baba

"The Sunday Leader," 23 Nov 2008

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The many miracles of Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba

We leaned towards Bhagavan or Swami (as Bhagavan is affectionately called) in 1981 seeking solace, to put it in my wife's words, 'to save us from further calamity.' Our minds were fraught with distress when my daughter, just 10 years old, was subject to what I deemed was a needless operation.

We therefore in 1981 attended weekly bajan pooja for Bhagavan at a centre at Ratmalana, few doors away from where we then lived.

It was while venerating the Bhagavan at this centre that I was rid of two ailments which I did not know existed within me.

Severe pain in my crown

Late one evening, one day in November, 1981, I felt uneasy. I had a sleepy feeling and went to bed earlier than usual. I may have fallen asleep immediately.

Much later in the night I experienced a severe pain on the crown of my head. The spot that hurt me was very tender. With the tips of my fingers I could push in to the scalp. There appeared to be no hardness of the skull.

It scared me. I looked for my wife. I soon realised I was in another room lying on my son's bed. I hurried towards Swami's picture hanging in the hall, dipped my fingers in the pot of holy ash and rubbed the ash on the spot that hurt.

The pain instantly disappeared and the spot hardened. I returned to bed greatly relieved.

The following morning I felt quite normal. No uneasy feeling but when I rinsed my mouth a hard object fell into my mouth. I spat it out. It was floating in the water, a brown clay marble like object with red, white and brown lines running all over it, like a woolen thread ball.

On explaining this to my doctor later in the day he conjectured it could be a mass forming inside my head. I did suffer from an acute pain in the head for a long period in the past and doctor surmised this to be the reason. As time passed this could have grown in size leading to much discomfort.

In my teenage years my brother and I suffered from that wretched ailment - catarrh for several years. In 1998 my brother underwent surgery for removal of a brain tumour. I believe that in 1981 Bhagavan saved me from such a discomfort. I never experienced a headache of that nature after that.

Strangely for many years thereafter at times when I breathed I felt the fragrance of jasmine pervade my senses. This phenomenon lasted till 1992.

In 1981, arrangements were being made for Bhagavan to visit Sri Lanka in his physical form.

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