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Articles: My Experience | Super speciality Hospital - Experiences with Sri Satya Sai Baba
- Amrapaali
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Finding Her Spiritual Teacher
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Phyllis Krystal of California had been searching for a true spiritual guide for several years but so far had not found any spiritual teacher she could put her full faith in. In 1972 she went into a bookstore to buy books to read on a forthcoming trip to India and as she reached up to a high shelf to take a book down, a different book fell at her feet, almost hitting her on the head. The book was 'Baba' by Arnold Schulman and Phyllis was surprised to learn of an Eastern teacher she had never heard of. Everything she read in the book attracted her to Sathya Sai Baba and she began to wonder if she had finally found the guru she was searching for.
She and her husband left on their planned trip to India but their agenda was already fixed so, to her great disappointment, they had no opportunity to see Sai Baba. However, by a strange coincidence, everywhere they went they saw pictures of him and also met people whom he had helped. After the trip they began visiting a Sai Baba center in Southern California and she felt an increasing urge to go back to India to see him in person. So she and her husband planned another trip to India.
When at last they arrived in India they proceeded to Prasanthi Nilayam and settled into the lines of the thousands of devotees waiting for the darshan of Sai Baba. Phyllis waited for what seemed like hours and then suddenly a hush came over the crowd and she saw a flash of Sai Baba's orange robe in the distance. She watched as he slowly made his way along the lines of men and women devotees, crossing from one side to another to exchange a word here, take a letter there, or bless some particular devotee. As he came nearer to her, Phyllis felt her heart start to pound and she wondered once again if Sai Baba was the teacher she was destined to meet. She prayed silently for a sign to confirm whether he really was her intended master but otherwise she made no visible movement to attract his attention. She watched as he slowly approached nearer, and then held her breath as he stood at a point quite near to where she was sitting. Although he was very close to her, he did not even look in her direction, and then he began to move away. With a sinking heart she accepted the answer that he was not to be her guru and that she would have to continue searching for her real guru elsewhere. No sooner had this thought flashed through her mind than Sai Baba turned back to face her and said to her: 'So you have come!'. Then he flashed his radiant smile at her and she lost all sense of time and place and her mind went blank while her eyes were locked onto his and time temporarily stood still for her.
Some days later they were called in for a private interview. In his characteristic way, Sai Baba's asked Phyllis' husband: 'What do you want?' and he replied that he would like Sai Baba to heal her of the severe headaches she had been suffering from for years. Baba nodded his head sympathetically saying: 'Yes! Yes!' and proceeded to give a detailed analysis of her physical problems. He told her she was suffering from not one but five different headaches and said gently to her: 'Don't worry. I will help you.' and then manifested some vibhutti for her and told her to make a paste with it and dab some on the bridge of her nose each morning for five days while she meditated on a spot in the middle of her forehead.
But Phyllis spoke up that what she really wanted above all else was not to have her headaches cured but to help her to attain enlightenment and eventual union with God. At that Baba smiled and nodded his head and then said in English: 'Yes, I know. But first the body must be made strong. After that I will teach you.' With that interview, a new phase in her life began. She was healed of her headaches and other bodily problems but more importantly given greater strength to expand her healing practice. She has since written several books about Sai Baba.
Source: Phyllis Krystal writes about her moving experiences of Baba in her book, 'Sai Baba The Ultimate Experience'.
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