Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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Another student, N. Sridhar writes :

 

“One day I said to Sri Bharadwaja, ‘Sir I always have an inexplicable

fear. Can you suggest a way out?’ ‘Are you sincere about it?’ he asked and

I affirmed. ‘The medicine a doctor prescribes may be bitter but you should

not abandon it on that account’, he said. I agreed. He then suggested to me

to repeat a Divine Name and asked me which deity I love most. I told him

that I love Sri Rama. He then told me to repeat Ramanam. Owing to my

previous prejudices against such practices I asked him, ‘Can you assure me

that my sanity would not be endangered?’ He assured me and said that saints

would grace me with their darshan if I practice it with devotion. Indeed,

after a little practice I happened to see Sri Satchidanande Ganapati who

gave me a rosary. Later I had the opportunity of accompanying my Master to

Jillellamudi for the darshan of the Holy Mother. Subsequently I had the

good luck of seeing Sri Ranganna Babu of Guntur. Yet I could not

concentrate my mind well on Ramanam. Correspondingly the reception I had

from him was not favourable.

 

One day I complained to my teacher, ‘When I contemplate on Sri Rama before

retiring to bed at night as per your instruction, he does not occur to me

as my protector or the manifestation of grace; I am not thrilled. As he is

God, he seems to me the cause of creation and thus of all suffering’. My

teacher then suggested that I had better choose a saint as the object of my

devotion.

 

I used to derive immense peace by listening to the accounts of Baba. I

also heard of the experience of my fellow student Ramakrishna Reddy, a

devotee of Sri Rama, being told by Sri Sai Baba in his dream that He and

Rama were not different. A devotee of Sri Satya Sai Baba was also, in a

dream, given a picture of Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi for worship. One Thursday,

my Master was reading out the experience of Sai devotees Chinna Kisna Raja

Saheb and Nachne and he said to me, ‘This is for you!’ with the blessings

of my Master and by the grace of Sri Sai I had the following

dream one night:

 

I went to see Sri Ranganna Babu, the great Ramabhaktha of Guntur and he

was angry with me for my impure thoughts. He angrily pointed at a road that

was on the right side and said, ‘Go’. As I walked that way as per his

command, I came to a neem (margosa) tree with a platform around it. There

was a picture of Sri Sai Baba. When I looked at it I had a feeling that I

myself had left it there long ago and I had painted the clothes of Baba in

the picture in red color.

 

(to be contd....)

 

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