EXPERIENCES (April 1944)

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T.B.Jambunathan, Head Clerk,D.F.O. Madhura states:-

 

For four years, I have been a devout Sai Bhakta. All these years Sri

Sai Baba has protected my family. He has given us four warnings in dreams,

that have helped us in escaping shock and reducing pain. Mostly he appears

as an old man. Subsequent events have proved the truth of the warnings

and intimations given in dreams. I have one daughter. Two years back, Baba

appeared in her dream and told her “Soon you will have a son.” And a

little later, she gave birth to a son who was named “Sai Raman”. Fourteen

months after that birth, she bore another son who was named”Sai Prasad”. In

october 1943 i.e. 4 months after the second child was born, my daughter

dreamed that an old man came to her in her dreaam and said”Will you give me

Sai Raman?”and that she refused. She communicated the dream to me, I said

to her that it was Baba that asked for the child and that is wrong to

refuse when he wants to take back his gift. Nearly two months passed

thereafter. In November, the old man appeared to her in her dream and again

asked for Sai Raman. She again refused. But the old man said that in two

months, he would taake away the boy. That is, the boy was to be taken away

in January 1944 and the hour fixed for his departure, viz., 4-15 Aa.M. by

the old man. That old man was we, knew, Sai Baba, from our past

experience. This Sai Raman was a very precociously devout child. He would

stroke his cheeks standing before Sai Baba’s picture and go to sleep

lulled by Sai Keertanas and would often prosptrate himself before Baba;s

picture.

 

Soon after this dream Sai Raman had enlargement of liver and spleen which

grew worse and worse.

 

Medical treatment was tried- the best we could get there. That was all

invain.

 

His body became yellow and bloated. The day mentioned by Baba in the

dream was 5-1-44. The previous day I mentioned the approaching departure

of Sai Raman to a kinsman. He wondered how calm and unpreturbed I was in

mentioning the approach of such a sad event as though it was some total

stranger that was about to die. The fatal night came. We made Sai Japa.

The mother watched all night by the child’s bed side. Just before the time

the child was to pass away the mother fell asleep, the clock in the room

stopped running and perpectual lamp(Akhandaaa Deepaa) that was always

burning before Sai Baba’s picture in the house was extinguished. She saw

in dream Baba on a peacock taking sway Sai Raman.

 

She cried out, in the dream itself” Aalas, the child is going sway” with

that cry on her lips, she woke up and found the child dead and the lamp

extinguished.

 

Baba by his forewarnings and dream visions softened the blow; and the child’

s mother bore the shock and pain of its departure more easily when

parting is inevitable, see Baba prepare us for eases our pain!

 

 

(Source Sai Sudha April 1944)