A Little Miracle
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A devotee was feeling very
troubled by all the horrible rumours that have been circulating
in recent months about Sai Baba. He felt that it was so sad
that Divine energies were being denigrated by all the unproved
stories being spread by the media. He was wondering how to
reply to them when a friend phoned him and relayed to him the
following story. The friend said that only last week the former
vice chancellor of Sai Baba’s college was giving a talk to their
Sai Baba group in Connecticut and he had related this story.
The vice chancellor said that
recently he was sitting on Sai Baba’s veranda in the ashram in
Puttaparthi next to a very important Indian politician. Sai
Baba came by and called the politician by name and asked him to
come into his private interview room. The man went inside and
came out ten minutes later sobbing. Then the sobbing turned
into deep uncontrolled crying. Sai Baba came by and said to the
man “What’s wrong?”. Then Sai Baba waved his hand and made some
vibhuti (sacred ash) and gave it to the man who took it and ate
it. A short time afterwards when the man had regained his
composure he turned to the vice chancellor and said “Because you
have witnessed all of this, I will explain it to you.”
The politician explained that his
wife had been very sick and she had told him that she wanted to
go to see Sai Baba for one last look, for the very last time.
However the politician had been very busy and while he was away
his wife died. All this had happened ten days previously and
the man was now coming to see Sai Baba after cremating his
wife. When Sai Baba came into the interview room, the man said,
Sai Baba had scolded him and had reminded him what a wonderful
wife he had had, of how she took care of his every need, cooked
his food, looked after the house, even to laying out his
clothes etc. But when she had made her one last request to be
taken to see Sai Baba, he had been too busy. Sai Baba then said
“I went to her and I comforted her, and now she is with me. Here
I will let you see her now.” At that moment the man’s wife
emerged from inside Sai Baba and stood as a live being in front
of him, no longer appearing thin and sickly. She smiled and
took his hand and said “Do not be sad, do not grieve for me, I
am happy, happy.” Then the man’s wife merged again inside Sai
Baba.
I tell you this beautiful story,
because it seemed to come as an answer, just when I was thinking
how best to answer the question concerning all the bad rumours
about Sai Baba that were circulating. It seemed to me that this
was what I would call a synchronous wink from the Lord to help
me have an answer to all these questions. I think the story
speaks volumes.
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I was also misled pl forgive me. I cry and repent at your lotus feet
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