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Mystery of Small Girl Solved

One day Swami was giving darshan (sight of a holy

person) to the devotees in Prasanthi Nilayam. As he

walked amongst them, I saw a small girl, scarcely five

years old, trying to give a letter to Swami. 'Did this

child write the letter? Perhaps her mother would have

written it', I thought. Even as this thought flashed

across my mind, I saw Swami taking the letter,

crumpling it and throwing it down as if it were waste

paper. This strange act of His made me wonder, 'Maybe

Swami meant that the letter was a waste. did it mean

that their prayer was answered? He is compassionate.

He might have answered. Even if He did not, I don't

think he would indicate that.

 

I got my answer when I went home for the summer

holidays. I heard about the experience which threw

light upon that incident. The small girl I had seen

that day had a heart ailment. The doctors in Madras

and Hyderabad confirmed the presence of a hole in her

heart. When they came to the Sathya Sai Baba Super

Specialty Hospital at Prasanthi Nilayam, the same

diagnosis was given. The date of the operation was

fixed. The girl's mother wrote a letter to Swami about

the operation, and asked the girl to hand it over to

Him. This was the scene I had witnessed a few months

ago. The mother saw Swami crumpling the letter and

took it as a rejection. Her heart bled for her child.

The day of the operation dawned. The girl was wheeled

into the operating theater. When the final tests were

done, the doctors could not believe what they found.

They checked again and found no trace of the hole in

the heart. The child was perfectly healthy. They went

home glad and grateful. What a way to indicate

benediction!

 

Only He knows the purpose of what he does. However,

once in a while He does let us peep behind the curtain

of His mystery. He wants to confer joy on us. Perhaps,

he wants us to understand him. But then, why does he

say we should not try to understand; only experience

him? Probably, he gives us these glimpses so that we

will know the inscrutable nature of his deeds, and the

futility of our efforts to comprehend them.

 

 

>From Trayee Saptamayee - the commemorative tribute to

Sathya Sai Baba's 70th birthday celebration. Published

by Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust

 

 

 

 

 

 

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