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Filling the Emptiness
Thereafter He
took each one of us aside for a private interview. We were amazed to find
that He knew all our problems and ailments, and also prescribed remedies
for them. Sri Boken Ette sought His blessings and advice for the
construction of a Sun and Moon Temple in their tribal area in response to
the wishes of the people there. Baba told him that opinions differed
amongst the people as to what should be installed in the proposed temple.
As we were standing, He with a vigorous sidewise circular motion of His
two hands materialised a disc on the spot with the Sun and the Moon
embossed on it. It was a sheet of alloy of five metals, gold, silver,
copper, brass and iron, the Panchaloha, out of which
 temple idols have to
be made. "This disc should be installed in the temple and should be
worshipped on every Sunday as well as on every Full-Moon day. Light a
perpetual oil lamp at the altar." He suggested. "Animal sacrifice does not
propitiate God, Subdue animality, sublimating it with the reason endowed
to man by God. If you must perform the literal ritual, then do so outside
the temple," He said. Advising on the plan for the temple, Baba drew an
outline, drawing a circle in front of the central shrine for the tribal
dances. The Architect in the party was pleasantly surprised."
After a private interview one is left with a feeling that Baba is
certainly with
you. Being All-knowing, Baba told Sri Boken Ette that he had halted at
Calcutta to get himself medically examined by eminent specialists and seek
their help for the cure of a malady that had defied the doctors of
Dibrugarh. He gave him some packets of curative Vibhuti which relieved him
with the intake of the first packet. Since then there had been no relapse.
The tribal leaders were recipients of the love of God. "Love asked, and
Love gave." Baba says: "When father gives gifts to us, he does not give
with pride or in the hope of requittal."
It is this everflowing stream of love that fertilises our desert heart
with faith, hope and charity and culminates in the experience of Bliss.
Dr. B. Janakirama Rao wrote to me about an instance of infinite Love. "At
2 a.m. Dr. K. Bhaskara Rao and I were with a patient whose pulse could not
be felt, blood pressure could not be recorded, and therefore we felt that
he was sinking fast. At this the patient was removed from the general ward
to a room. An injection of Coramine was given to him and we slipped some
Vibhuti into his mouth, out of the packets Baba had given us for him.
Next morning at
8 a.m. we found that his pulse was normal. The patient told us that at
night he had been helped by someone! Who could it be? The nurse and
attendant did not know anything about it, nor had they helped the patient.
What an inexplicable incident at the hospital! We wondered... Needless to
add, the patient recovered soon and went home hale and happy." Sr. A.
Ranga Rao while driving from Madras to Prasanthi Nilayam, noticed sparks
of fire emanating from his petrol. He cried; "Sai Ram" and threw handfuls
of dust. The flames subsided, and he drove merrily to the Nilayam. Col.
Raja told me that a huge
 bamboo cluster near his bungalow at Tezpur, NEFA,
had caught fire. The flames were ascending yards high. His wife ran out in
fear that some huts nearby, where Nepalese lived, might be burnt down. She
shouted, "Sathya Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Baba," and to quote the Colonel, "
The fire got extinguished in five seconds; even a dozen fire engines would
not have succeeded in doing so." Another revelation of the foundation head
of Divinity which is ever-present, everywhere.
"My brother had fractured his thigh bone six months ago. When Baba was due
to visit my house at Trichinopoly, I brought my brother and made him sit
on a chair in the rear hall. When Baba came, the Bhajan was on in the main
hall. But, He quietly went towards my brother knowing that he was still
ailing. Baba materialised Vibhuti and asked him to swallow it, applying a
fraction of it on his forehead. Then He walked into the hall and came near
me and said, "I have set right your brother's leg." Within 3 days my
brother began moving about in the house and in a week he ventured into the
garden without help, and before the month was over he resumed his daily
constitutional walk." This letter is from Sri S. N. K. Sundaram, Founder
and Director of the Pandyan Bank.
Dr. M.S. Ramakrishna Rao, a talented Ophthalmic surgeon writes about the
miraculous effect of Vibhuti, concretised by Baba's love. This doctor was
treating a friend for Conjunctivitis in the routine way. He found in the
course of his treatment that his patient had the much dreaded dendritic
ulcer in his right eye, which is caused by a virus. IDU manufactured in
America was the only drug which can cure this virus. But unfortunately it
was not available in India. In a few days the other eye also got infected,
which was rather unusual. "Efforts were being made to get the IDU, but in
its absence all that I could do was to pray to Sathya Sai Baba, and doing
so I put His Vibhuti into both eyes of the patient and bandaged them. That
very night, my Professor Dr. R. Suryaprasada Rao was able to procure the
precious drug. I felt happy that Baba had responded to my prayers. Next
day when the patient came to me I opened the bandage, anxious to apply the IDU. But to my utter astonishment and joy I found that there was no ulcer
in either eye! I examined the eyes under the corneal microscope, but no
trace of the disease or even a scar was visible."
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