Prof Anil Kumar & Swami's Interview with Doctors & The weeping Saris = talk by Dr John Hislop.

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This morning Swami granted an interview to a group of doctors from

chennai. After wards, addressing the students and teachers, He said:

"Have you noticed that all the people in this group are reputed doctors with

distinguished credentials?

They are doing a lot of service in Chennai especially in the slums.

After conducting free medical camps and extending help to nearly

three thousand patients, they came here for Swami's darshans.

All the way they were signing Swami's glory and spreading Swami's message in

every nook and corner. All of them are well versed in chanting the veda too.

Next Swami called a Lady doctor and asked her to give some details.

Listening to her account, we were taken aback. The guiding principle

of the lives of most doctors today is money is what makes the world go

round. How strange is this!

It is really unbelievable but true that eminent doctors are taking part in

service, singing bhajans, and expounding the VEDA.

The inspiration for all this is, indeed, the embodiment of Compassion.

Swami, I thought to myself what great heights of prosperity our nation

can attain even when a few people witnessing such idealism are

influenced, enthused, and inspired to act.

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The weeping Saris = talk by Dr John Hislop. Dr Hislop was in Bombay with Swami

in Dharmakshetra and he gave account of experience.

Can saris weep ?

It is conceivable that saris , inanimate objects made of cloth , can weep , can

shed tears as real as the tears that flow from ones eyes. ? Yes says Dr Hislop.

He says that he was the first man to notice . There was four rejected saris in

the box on a table. He saw that water coming from the box and called on Baba,s

attention . He removed the cover and we all crowded around to look.

We saw that the water was coming the edges of saris. Dr. Hislop said Swami there

was no water here, and we have been standing around this table for almost an

hour. The table has been perfectly dry.”

Then Swami replied.” They are weeping because I rejected them.

Dr Hislop was surprised and asked Swami, Swami do you mean to say that inanimate

cloth has feelings ?

Then Swami says nothings ever happens, without proper reason, however accidental

or mysterious it might appear.

Here Baba tell the story.= It was included as part of a discourse at P.N

It is printed in Vol.VII of Sathya sai speaks.

Nothing ever happens, without proper reason, however accidental or mysterious it

might appear. The roots go deep and are out of sight. I was telling Hislop, in

Bombay, at Dharmakshetra, the same thing. The bridge towards Sri Lanka was

being built over the straits, so that Rama and his army could march across to

the realm of the demon King, Ravana, where Sita was interned. The valiant

monkeys were plucking mountains and leaping vast distances in space with those

peaks hoisted on their shoulders, so that they could be thrown into the sea to

create a passage for Rama! The monkeys had formed a queue all the way from the

Himalayas down to the southernmost point, where the bridge was fast coming up.

When the causeway was completed, word went fast along the queue that no more

hills were needed, and each monkey placed on the ground, whereewhere everood,

the hill it had on its shoulder at the time.

One hill however, did not sit quietly. It started bewailing its fate! “Why was I

removed from where I was, and why am I now refused? Alas! I was elated that I

was destined to serve a Divine Purpose; I was overjoyed that the armies of

Rama, and Rama, himself, would walk over me. Now, I am neither there, nor where

I was!” It shed profuse tears. News reached Rama, and his compassion was great.

He sent word that in his next Avathara, when he would come again upon his

mission in human form, he would certainly bless the sorrowing hill. This very

hill was the Govardhana Peak which Rama (as the boy, Kirshna) lifted on his

finger and held aloft of a full seven days, in order to save the cowherds of

Gokul from the deluge of rain that Indra dared inflict of them!

I related this story to Hislop when he asked me whether inanimate things, too,

had emotions and feelings of disappointment and despair. The occasion at

Dharmakshetra was, I asked that about a hundred saris be bought, so that I

could select some of distribution to the women workers at Anantapur who are

helping build the Sathya Sai College there. I selected 96 and asked them to

return 4 to the shop. I kept the 4 aside and the 96 were placed in my room.

Later, when I passed the table on which the four discarded saris were kept,

(Hislop was standing by the side of that table), it was noticed that cardboard

box which contained the four was dripping tears! The saris were weeping that

they could not get appreciation from me and were declared unfit. Yes! They had

shed tears! You may ask whether this is even possible. I answer, there is

nothing in this world which has no heart, which is incapable of feeling joy of

grief! Only, you must have the eye to see, the ear to listen, to hear, to

respond. When in the Dharmakshetra in Bombay, Baba had finished telling us the

story about the mountain peak in the time of Sri Rama, some ten thousand years

ago, and of the Govardhana Peak in the time of Sri Krishna, some five thousand

years ago, I exclaimed, “Swami! The self-same drama that occurred in the time

of Rama and again in the time of Krishna was played again here today in this

very room!”

Baba replied, “Yes. And with the self- same Rama and the self-same Krishna here

again today in this very room!” As was the case with the rejected mountain

peak, the rejected saris received the compassion of the Lord, and they were

presented to the ladies in Baba’s party to be used by them. In fact, my wife

received one of the saris, and the sari receives plenty of appreciation from

her.

(Sharing With Sai Love) Ram.Chugani Ram Chugani

Kobe, Japan