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Articles: Devotion | Wa all and God
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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It was three score and five years ago, India’s independence was still in the womb of time. The state of Tamil Nadu never existed and most of South India was part of British India’s Madras city (now Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu) were part of the composite Madras. And for Bhagavan, who was just sixteen years then, Madras was almost like an extension of Puttaparthi. Given the scores of visits He made very frequently. Not many will know that Swami visited this city as early as 1942,and what happened in those years is really fantastic. In the first year of His visit, He cured the asthma of Sri Parthasarathi who happened to visit Him in a neighbor’s house, by creating an apple for him! And his mother’s cataract was cured amazingly in ten days when the young Sathya applied on her eyes a bandage of jasmine petals! What happened in 1943 is even more completely mentally changed when an illegal occupant of his land, who was also a notorious occultist, cast evil spells on him. The doctor had, in fact., advised his family tio admit him in a mental hospital .And then, suddenly something wonderful happened. Swami appeared in Mudalayart’s dream and gave him ’Thulasi (basil) water’ saying,“ Take this. You will be alright. ”Next morning, his madness had vanished.
Cut to January 19, 2007, after more than six decades, the Lord played a similar drama, although in a totally different scale and dimension .Now it was not ‘Thulasi water’ for one Mudaliaf, but the torrential flow of Sai Ganga for multitudes, which cured the “madness of disunity and malaise of disbelief in God” that unfortunately had plagued this holy State. And the cure came not via ‘dream’ but a dream-visit of the Lord to this ‘land of temples, after a hiatus of ten years. Now, to heal the current ‘cataract of narrow vision, it was the ‘jasmine of joy’ that the divine enveloped the whole city with fourteen days. Just as Mudaliar had then fallen at His Feet and cried,” Lord, You are my all” when Swami visited his house the next day of that dramatic dream, the Chief Minister of the State was completely bowled over. While his wife touched His Feet, Dr. Karunanidhi casting aside completely his six-decade-long sworn atheistic image, said, “The question is not whether God exists or not, but whether our deeds are pleasing to Him.”
He continued, ”For me… the blessed Sai Baba … is equal to God.” And Swami, the ever-compassionate one, referring to Karunanidhi said,” I give Him My heart.” Imagine the charismatic and outspoken Union Railway Minister Sri Lalu Prasad Yadav declaring, “He is not just Baba… He is Bhagavan.” In fact, the modern world needs no more testimonies of the transmitting power of pure love. What happened January 21, 207 in the 40,000-seater Nehru Stadium packed with the who’s who of Tamil Nadu and Chennai, is something which history will cogitate on for years to come.
And it is not only Chennai, it is happening in various corners India and the world in different forms. if you thought Baba’s Hospitals I Puttaparthi and Bangalore which provided the best tertiary health care absolutely free of charge , were role models only in theory and could never be replaced else where, then you must visit Rajkot , a town in Saurashtra, the least developed region of the state of Gujarat. It is incredible how more than six hundred completely free premium cardiac surgeries have been performed. In the Sri Sathya Sai Heart Hospital of Rajkot. When pure love takes over, ’impossible’ becomes a redundant word.
How Sai has entered Uruguay and brought about a au-turn in the lives of hundreds of its citizens is truly fascinating. This is our 12th story covering Latin America in the features section and there seems to be no end to His unfathomable ways.
In the concluded Shivarathri celebrations, Swami said, “Consider love as your every thing. This will not only startle you but also tell you how beautiful and blissful life can be become when real love becomes its only pursuit. Recently the Chinese just finished their grand New Year celebrations at His Lotus Feet. Let us tune our selves to this Universal consciousness that is Sai, feel His love, plunge into The Mission ands redeem our lives. Let us not let the diamond slip from our hands. Let us make our life His message. Let us become just that- Pure Love; completely in harmony with Him
-Prof. Venkata Ramanamurty Mallajosyula.
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