Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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Now, I shall mention experiences of a few others which had a clearly

spiritual significance. Mr. B. Ramakrishna Reddy who was my student here

reports:

 

“I joined the college at Vidyanagar in 1970 for my intermediate studies.

My father was a devout soul and as per his instruction, I used to worship

Lord Sri Rama since my boyhood. But owing to the influence of the friends

and associates at the college, my faith had all but died. I was afraid of

being laughed at by my fellows. So I used to pray secretly for a short

while (just to keep up my word given to my father) and spent the rest of it

in going to pictures, gossip and wandering. It was in that state that I

came into contact with Sri Bharadwaja. The conversation at the very first

meeting keenly awakened all my devotional instincts and my weakness for

gossip, movies and wandering disappeared. Even without my conscious

striving, right habits made their abode in my being. Therefore I used to

spend some time in his presence everyday.

 

When I was in the ninth standard, my father used to visit a saint, Sri

Avadhuta Venkaiah Swami who stays in a village called Golagamudi in this

(Nellore) district. Once while speaking of me he told my father that I

would persecute my collegiate studies in Nellore Dt. and I would meet my

guru there. When I later visited him, the saint told me the same. His

prophecy came true. I happened to join the college at Vidyanagar and I

contacted Sri Bharadwaja whom I came to consider as my guru.

 

“The object of my master’s worship is Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi, while I

worshipped Lord Sri Rama. One day I said to my Master, ‘Sir, As I have been

coming to you quite often and listnening to the accounts of Baba’s grace,

it has developed in me the urge to worship Sai Baba. What should I do?’

‘You will yourself come to know what you should do’, he replied. So I

continued to worship Lord Sri Rama as usual. With the blessings of my

Master I took the darshan of Avadhuta of Chirala, the Avadhuta of Cuddapah

and others.

 

Source: http://www.saibharadwaja.org