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Articles: Devotion | The Secret of Bliss
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Dr. John Hislop, an extraordinary spiritual seeker, was one of the very first devotees to come to Swami from the West. Later, he authored many books on Baba, popular among them being “My Baba and I” and “Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.” He was also instrumental in establishing the Sai Organisation in United States in 1975 and toured the length and breadth of America giving talks on Swami. Below are extracts from a talk he delivered on August 28, 1990.
Pranams at the Lotus Feet. Sai Ram Dear Devotees!
The Bhajans were very nice. I thoroughly enjoyed them - and I am sure that Swami also enjoyed them - since He is here even more real than me, more real than you.
God Loves Giving :
In my early days, Swami used to take me with Him wherever He went – wherever Swami would go in the car, I would go with Him. And one time we came from Bangalore to Puttaparthi and we stopped at the State of the Division District Chief of Police, a friend of Swami’s and a good devotee. And Swami often stopped off there for lunch on the way to Puttaparthi. We went to Puttaparthi and after 2-3 weeks we returned to Bangalore. And again we stopped at the house of the Chief of Police.
Well, as you probably know – many of you do at least – you follow Swami in your car and you’ve seen what happens! When Swami leaves Puttaparthi and starts for Bangalore, there are people lined up on the road along the way till the hill. Then He comes to a village and enters through the back of the hamlet, all the children rush to the car and usually Swami will stop and call one of the mature men and give him some money to buy sweets for the kids.
Dr. Hislop speaking in the Prasanthi mandir :
Well, on this occasion, Swami gave away all the money He had, and there was still some distance to go! So I had a roll of rupees in my pocket – some small stuff like 2’s, 5’s and 10’s – so I said: “Swami, please accept this – it’s a gift from me!” So He said: “All right!” And took the money – which is all His, mind you, not mine – and gave it around until we finally passed all the people who were waiting for money.
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