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Articles: Devotion | Forgorten Anniversary
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Sai Ram and greetings from Prashantinilayam.
Friday, 25th May, 2007 was the sixtieth anniversary on an important event. We wonder how many remembered this Golden Jubilee. For the benefit of those who might wonder what we are talking about, let us take you back to the year 1947. It was the month of May, and the British were still ruling India – Independence was a few months away. But God in human form had already declared Himself free from all the trappings of apparent bondage seven years earlier. We are referring of course to Swami’s declaration of His Avatarhood on 20th October in 1940, when He walked out of the house of His elder brother Seshama Raju, then serving as a teacher in a school in Uravakonda and under whose physical care Swami was studying.
Seshama Raju was devastated by this “walk out”, and he could never come to terms with the fact that his younger “brother” Sathya was in fact the Lord of the Universe. To be fair, achieving that recognition is not easy, even for us today when we “know” so many things about what Swami has done since then. The entire Raju family and Seshamma in particular was pinning its hope on Sathya, who they thought would become a Government Officer, rise to the very highest position and not only do them all proud but end their seemingly eternal poverty. But all that was not to be, their dear Sathya became Sri Sathya Sai to the entire world and promptly started serving humanity.
Many were attracted by the Divine Magnet even in those far off days, and included in this crowd of devotees were Maharajahs and members of the landed gentry. Besides, the Press also began take notice. Elder brother Seshama Raju, not yet fully aware of Baba’s Divinity, began to worry about the impact of the attention that his younger brother was receiving. He wrote to Swami giving expression to his apprehensions and on 25th May, 1947 Swami wrote a reply. Though the letter was intended for Seshama Raju, it was in fact addressed to ‘all who are devoted to Me’. That letter is a powerful declaration of the purpose of the Sai Avatar. In that letter, Bhagavan Baba wrote:
My dear One! I received all the communications that you sent. I found in it the surging floods of your devotion and affection, with the undercurrents of doubts and anxiety.
Let Me tell you that it is impossible to plumb the hearts and discover the nature of Jnanis, Yogis, ascetics, saints, sages, and the like. People are endowed with a variety of characteristics and mental attitudes, so, each one judges according his own angle, talks and argues in the light of his own nature.
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