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)