Interview with Narasimha Murthy warden his very touching Story

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"Ramchand Chugani" <rgcjp

 

Interview with Narasimha Murthy warden his very touching Story

 

Here is the story of one such wave, which in its ignorance, was

looking for the ocean! It is the story of foolishness of man and

oceanic compassion of the Avatar. The story also thrpws light on the

baffling mystery of the Avatar and the "yogamaya" that surrounds Him.

 

As willed by Bhagavan Baba, I was on the threshold of a new chapter

in my life on 7th August 1983. I had moved from Sathya Sai Grama,

Muddenahali to Prashanthi Nilayam to serve as warden of the Boys

Hostel, where the students of Sri Sathya Said institute of Higher

learniing and Sri Sathya Said Higher Secondary School resided.

 

That evening around nine o'clock, I was drawn to the mandir premises

in Prashanthi Nilayam. Silence and serenity reigned supreme. I went

and sat near the left pillar of the "Dasvavatram" gate facing the

mandir. Suddebly I remembered that I had sat in the same place at

almost the same time eighten years before as a college student and my

memory rolled back to unfold a significant event which had happened

that evening.

 

I was around twenty years at that time. I sat there praying to the

Lord for succor and shelter at His feet with tears gushing down my

eyes. After few minutes an old man in dhoti and Kurta with a white

towel tied around his silvery hair on the head approached me and

stood by my side.

 

I quickly wiped my tears and looked at him. I could not discern his

features well in the dim light. He said in a very tender voice in

colloquial Telugu. "Nayana! You are very lucky to have come to Baba

at such young age. But many people come and go, the one who can hold

onto the Lord with faith and determination and establish a close

relation with Him, can easily cross over the ocean of Samsara! Don't

give up, hold on!"

 

And then he moved away. At that time, I never even thought as to who

that person could be! As I remembered that incident sitting in the

same place after eighten years, I was overwhelemed with gratitude.

The gift of living and serving in Divya sannidhi was the hightest

blessings bestowed on me. I considered it as the very goal of my

life. Naturally it was my heart's most intense aspiration to retain

it the the very end; that became my constant prayer.

 

Next morning after darshan, an elderly devotee congratuleted me on my

good fortune and said, "Swami is like fire. You have come very close

to Him. Many have come close to Him have fizzled out because of lack

of purity. May Swami help you to sustain yourself to enjoy His

proximity forever.

 

I thanked him for his good wishes. I had heard him to speak even in

the public talks in the divin presence, "Swami is fire. If you go

close to Him, you get burnt; if you are far away, you may not get the

warmth." He used to also speak of the "Yogamaya" that surrounds

the `Avatar' that baffles all men, especially those who live and work

in His proximity.

 

His words of concern, though prompted by good intention, triggered a

chain of thoughts that resulted in cercern and difference in me. Of

course my prayer to Swami continued. I remembered Lord Krishn's words

in the Bhagaved Geeta.

 

"I am not revealed to all since I am surrounded by yogamaya. The

deluded world does not know Me as the Deathless and Birthless of all

existence!

 

When I take recourse to the human form, deluded men do not understand

the supreme truth that I am the Lord of all beings!"

 

Once while speaking about Himself, Bhagavan Baba has declared, "Since

I move about with you, eat like you and talk like you, you are

deluded into the belief that this is but an instance of humanity. Be

warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by my singing

with you and playing with you and engaging Myself in activities with

you. But at any moment, My divinity may be revealed to you, so you

have to be ready, prepared for that moment. Since Divinity is

enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya That

hides it from you.

 

"The Avatar's moments and activities might appear ordinary and common

place, in the life of "Avatar's". The formless being comes in the

form of human being so that He maymingle with mankind" and set

examples and ideals for human beings and convey to them all aspects

that they should learn. The Avatar behaves in a human way so that

mankind feel kinship, but rises to superhuman heights so that mankind

can aspire to reach those heights.

 

This is the 1st part of speach of from Sathyam Sivam Sundaram-5

 

With Sai Love Ram.Chugani