My first steps towards the Magnetic Divine...

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Hi Friends, Its me, “Vakkeel again! It is a series of events which first drew me to HIM. Doubt if I can stop once I begin, & I hope I don't bore you with this looooooooong narration – (solla solla inikkudu, sollama irrukka manasu marukkudu J) My first interaction with Baba did not trigger anything within me… (filled as I was with doubts in the name of pragmatism!). After my first meeting (some time 1997) I did not come back till nearly a year. But during this gap I had a dream. The setting of the dream was exotic (purple colored hills, fertile green fields spanning all across, a cool beautiful climate… giving an out-of-the-world ‘floating’ feel..) I walk down a corridor in this backdrop, and find Baba (in white and white) sitting with one hand holding

his chin and smiling at me…. (in the dream, I think to myself ‘intha allu inga enga vantharu?’). On waking up, I remembered this dream vividly. I shrugged it off as just a dream and went straight to switch on the TV… and there behold, I saw the same face delivering a speech! – I switched off the TV and dismissed the whole thing as a coincidence. Later sometime, my mom developed an eye problem and the doctors really scared us (this was the next day after my parents visit to Pondicherry Ashram). Someone had given me a book on “The Mother” which I had passed on to Shankar (Telephone Subramanian Uncle’s Son – it was

their family which introduced us to Baba) – The morning after the diagnosis, the person who gave me this book dropped in home to collect it. As Shankar’s house is just walkable distance from ours, I went over to collect it. Sensing my preoccupation, Subramaniam aunty asked me what was wrong - though reluctant to discuss it, I anyway told her about the issue. She gave me Baba’s prasadam to take home (I had little faith and evaded taking it) she still insisted. On the way back, holding the prasadam in my hand I thought ‘I don’t know what is true, but IF YOU have the power, please take care of mom). Having got back home, I was just preparing for a bath when Shankar’s mother telephoned us. Someone they knew had come over to go to Neelankarai - She asked me if I would like to join them - I hesitated. My mom was upset with me and advised me to go, if only to respect an elder’s advice. I agreed thinking ‘I’d go, if only for my mom’s sake’. When we arrived at the gates of Neelankarai, Baba’s speech was on, and the first words that reached my ears were “Yesunathar, kanparvai illathavangallukku kanparvai koduthar” – something moved within me… That day, Baba was his usual joyful self and told me that everything would be fine and not to worry. Subramaniam aunty asked Baba if she could bring him lunch the next day (Monday) to Kelambakkam and he agreed. On reaching home, I thought ‘all said and done aunty has so much faith, I should respect that and must be of some use’. As she had told me she was going to prepare ‘Bisibellabath’ for Baba, I took a couple of coconuts (home grown) to her to make use of in preparing the food. Next day, (unexpectedly again), aunty called me (the van in which they were traveling had one extra seat as someone could not make it) and asked me if I would like to come with them to Kelambakkam. For some reason I readily agreed. We reached Kelambakkam during lunch time. Baba was his all smiling

self. He showed us around his room and took us for a site visit of the place. (when he told us about his plans for the place – I wondered – 'how long would all this take and is it possible at all?' (Fool that I was). Baba then performed Nithya Homam and we all sat to eat together, Baba was sitting in the opposite side and laughingly looked at me and said “vakkeelukku manda kaiudu illa?” (this is how I became ‘vakkeel’ and every time Baba calls me that I melt) – But at that time, he truly reflected my state of mind. Later that evening everyone in the Subramaniam family (who knew him well) went up to him & took leave before boarding the van. I stood hesitantly away (wishing desperately I knew him well enough to follow suit), and as I turned away to board the van, Baba (sitting in the oonjal far away)

called out “Yenna Vakkeel solikamma poradudan azaga?” – on hearing those words, I rushed to him in relief and happiness (that he had sensed my thoughts) and sought blessings at his feet – on looking up, he had this most beautiful, huge and very fresh Red Rose in hand (and it was quite late in the evening) which he gave me... and from then on I’ve been floating in inexplicable bliss, joy, and happiness whenever I am in the vicinity of His Physical Presence … - the entire journey back home was a breeze… so were the happenings from then on – my mom’s surgery went well, (a duty doctor at Nethralaya prescribed a wrong medicine for a complication 3 days after surgery – the chief doctor, who was on leave that day ‘miraculously’ showed up to collect some file, and on seeing her patient in the crowd called on to us – she checked the medicine – threw it in the bin as a wrong one (took the duty doctor to task) and gave the right

treatment… and all the while my mom was chanting Baba’s name and she till-date remembers that she had just completed chanting his name for the 1000th time when her treating doctor walked in unexpectedly. As Meera said in her mail, there has been no turning point after that, and He IS IN FULL CHARGE OF EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN OUR LIVES. I still have more to share and would do so sometime soon…. In the meanwhile, thank you all for your patience in reading thru this elaborate description on my first

steps towards the Magnetic Divine. Seeking His blessings FOR ONE AND ALL Vakkeel

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