|
|
|
|
Articles: Devotion | The Sai movement in Chile
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
| |
Enrique Garrido was a young lad, and in spite of him being just seventeen, spirituality fascinated him a lot. He was in a cabin his family had in these sylvan surroundings. One room was lent to a hermit, called Pablo, who had taken the vow of silence. This ‘silent hermit’, gave Enrique a copy of “Prema Vahini” (Swami’s treatise on divine love), in his own handwritten Spanish translation. Enrique thought it had to be something very special, for the hermit to leave his routine of meditation and spiritual practices and take the trouble of translating this book. He says:
Cajón del Maipo :
“When I was reading this handwritten book I got the feeling, the sensation that God was speaking to me through this book, it was very real, God’s presence was very real for me at that time. Communicating through a handwritten piece of paper, I wrote to Pablo about my experience and feelings on reading this book. He answered me, also in writing, that he would speak to me next afternoon under an ancient almond tree, at 5 pm.
At the appointed hour, under the big tree, the hermit broke his silence vow (at least for this day) and said: ‘Sai Baba is God; He is the only one in this age capable of liberating anyone.’”
This was 1978, certainly a special day for Chileans. Who could imagine Sai Baba’s divine plan would include this far away land? This is as far as you can get from Prashanti Nilayam! But for Swami as He has often said, the whole world is His house and countries are only different rooms therein - so He was just going from one room to another!
Beautiful Beginnings :
Coming back to the story, from then on, Enrique started dreaming repeatedly of Sai. “In dreams, Sai taught me Bhajans, how to sing correctly! He took me to a classroom, sat down and taught me the tones and pronunciation, that is how I learned Chitta Chora Yashoda Ke Bal…I went back to my family in the city of Villa Alemana, about 110 kilometers from the Capital. There I started weekly spiritual meetings, bhajans, meditation and rigorous fasting once a week.”
Enrique maintained correspondence with Arlette Meyer, a translator from Venezuela and it was she who suggested contacting John Hislop who gave official sanction for the first centre in Chile in 1980.
| Be first to comment on this Article!
| |
|
|
|
 |
| Advertisements |
|
|
|
|
| Advertisements |
|
