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Articles: Devotion | The Perfect Guardian
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Ms Arunima studied in the Anantapur campus of Bhagavan’s University from 1982 to 1990, and later served as a Lecturer in the same college for sixteen years till 2006. Presently, she is a Devotional Coordinator at the South Center, Miami , Florida (USA).
The Strength of Unflinching Faith
This is an incident that happened to my uncle a couple of years back. He had developed some problem with his kidney and was suffering from severe pain in his lower abdomen. He consulted the local doctors in his home town. Unable to diagnose him correctly, they suggested that he go to some experienced urologist. My uncle is an active member of the Seva Dal and also a great devotee of Bhagavan. After hearing what the local doctor said, he immediately decided to come to Prashanti Nilayam and get himself checked in the Super Specialty Hospital.
I was working as a lecturer in the Sri Sathya Sai University, Anantapur Campus, at that time. I too went along with my uncle and aunt to the Super Specialty Hospital for his first check up. After the preliminary tests were done, he was asked to see the concerned urologist. As the doctor looked through my uncle’s reports, he became quite serious and thoughtful. Finally, after a while he disclosed that my uncle had a malignant tumor in his kidney and it was in the third stage! The doctor also insisted that the tumor had to be operated immediately, otherwise it would lead to more serious problems leaving even thinner chances for his survival. On hearing what the doctor said, I was extremely shocked! But to my utter surprise, I found that my uncle was absolutely unperturbed about what he had heard from the doctor. We brought him back home. He merely said that now that his days were numbered, he would like to do more and more service at the Sai Center once he went back home.
After two days, my uncle underwent the surgery and the doctor told him to come back within a month’s time to check up on his condition depending on which, they would be able to tell him about the chances of his survival.
“The Lord Has Come”
Next month, once again he came for the check up. He looked quite hale and hearty and one could hardly guess that he was a cancer patient. The day before he was supposed to be admitted to the hospital, he bought a small 10″ by 10″ laminated photograph of Swami and hung it on the wall of his room. It was a beautiful bust photograph of Bhagavan with a smiling face, and in the evening I got a nice garland made for the same. As we had few flowers, it was a blend of white flowers and tulsi leaves. When I put the garland on Swami’s photo, it was so short that it was touching Swami’s chin. Though I was not very happy to keep the garland, still I let it be.
Next day, early in the morning I heard my aunt knocking at my room door. As I opened the door I found her very excited as she called me to her room. What I saw amazed me. The garland on Swami’s picture which was so short the previous night had grown more than four times its size without any gap between the flowers and was swaying with the fan breeze! I could not believe my own eyes! I told my uncle that it was a good indication that Swami had shown concern regarding his health. After sometime, I went for Swami’s Darshan still thinking about the whole incident.
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