BY THE NAME OF SAI BABA

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DO EVERYTHING BY THE NAME OF SAI BABA

Baba said, "Nothing will harm him, who turns his attention towards Me" in Sri Sai Satcharitra Ch.III

Mrs. R Farnandes of Nambhai Manji, No 5, A.I.J Road, Mahim, Bombay is a Catholic

who prays with devotion to Mary. Her son Anthony was in the II year B.Sc., in

1981. He started getting headache and fever. They tried several doctors but the

fever did not subside. Even after two weeks, he was getting fever on alternate

days. The boy’s urine, blood and chest X-ray were taken for examination. The

report in the X-ray showed a slight patch in the chest. Medicine for this was

taken, but there was no relief. The boy was afraid to take bath as that would

result in shivering and more fever.

Then Mrs. Fernandes remembered the Homeopathy doctor Mr. Chaudhuri, a Sai

devotee, who had cured her of an ailment earlier, when no other doctor had done

so. Mr. Chaudhuri examined all the reports, and suggested to do sputum test to

find out if there is a symptom of T.B. Mr. Chaudhuri said, patting the boy, "Do

the sputum test and show it to the doctor who examined you earlier. If he cannot

give you medicine for this, then I will give you medicine by invoking the name

of Sai Baba." The little words "By the name of Sai Baba, I will give you

medicine" was ringing in her ears, while she returned home with her boy. That

very day she told her son, to take bath by the name of Sai Baba. Though the boy

was afraid to take bath, he took it, by invoking Sai Baba’s name. Mrs. Fernandes

feared that something terrible would happen to her son that night and she got up

thrice to see his condition. But the boy was fast asleep. He got up the next

morning feeling better and quite

refreshed. They stopped all medicines and kept watch on him for the relapse of

the fever. He was free from fever. On the fourth day there was a knock on their

door. A poor man was at the door. A part of his sleeve was torn and he had blue

shinning eyes.

He asked her, "sister give me one white shirt." Mrs. Fernandes had a white shirt

with her, which she thought was little too big for the poor man. So she thought

of altering that shirt and giving it to the poor man. She said, "I shall give

you next time when you visit us." She however went inside to give him some

coin, but when she returned he had left. He was not to be found anywhere in and

around the place. The "poor man" could not be seen again.

After the sputum test the allopathic doctor had given the boy medicine for a

week and had asked him to report to him after that. The medicines however were

not taken but the boy went to the doctor for examination. The doctor was

surprised to find that the previous symptoms had disappeared and prescribed

only B complex tablets. He even advised not to take the earlier prescribed

medicine.

Mrs. Fernandes went to Mr. Chaudhuri’s clinic and related all that had happened.

He told her "Mrs. Fernandes, Sai Baba can work lots of miracles, if you keep

faith in Him."

(From the book ‘The Eternal Sai’)

Thought for the day

Life is too short to be spent in fault–finding, holding grudges or keeping

memories of wrongs done to us.