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Shirdi Sai and Sathya Sai are One
and the Same
By Arjan D. Bharwani
6. IDENTITY FURTHER ESTABLISHED
One Thursday Baba told Smt. Kashi
Bhatala Ramamurthy, "I have kept a picture in your shrine. Go and
worship it." Hearing these words the lady hurried home, excited
and elated. She took some friends along with her. Before leaving
home she had bolted and checked all the windows and the doors, so
as not to allow ingress to even a small monkey. When she unlocked
the door and entered the shrine room, she found a beautiful
picture of Shirdi Sai. In similar manner Sathya Sai has on several
occasions presented materialized pictures of Shirdi Sai to many
devotees, introducing them to the earlier Form and telling them
other details of His life. He has even shown scenes of Dwarkamayi.
To one such cynic, Baba once gave a conclusive proof by performing
a miracle. He spread out His palms in front of that person and
showed him Shirdi Sai Form on one palm and the Sathya Sai Form on
the other.
Yet another incident concerns a
Tamil gentleman, Shri V. Chidambaram, from Madras, who was
settled in Delhi and earned his livelihood by teaching music to
children. He had visited Puttaparthi a few times and had darshans
of Parthi Sai. He returned therefrom with his mind clouded by
doubts regarding the avatarhood of Sathya Sai. He had entertained
still greater doubts on the f act of the identity of the two Sais.
One morning around 11.00 A.M., as he was cycling, he sensed
somebody pedaling hurriedly to catch up with him from behind. As
the sturdy old man came near, he heard him speak in Tamil saying,
"Can you come along with me to the old tomb yonder? I shall not
keep you long". In the conversation that followed the old man
drew out all his doubts by clever questioning and resolved them
one by one. He told the music teacher that it was a gracious gift
of Providence alone, that he had struck upon a Guru who is Ishwara
Himself. You should not doubt this in the least," he said. "He is
no other than Shirdi Sai Himself. Look '" saying this He spread
out his palms in front of the baffled teacher_once again in one
palm was depicted an attractive and majestic picture of Shirdi Sai
in His characteristic sitting posture and on the other was seen
the beautiful and resplendent Form of Parthi Sai.
Getting on his cycle, the impressive
stranger started to pedal, in the direction from which he had
come, and a little distance further he vanished in thin air.
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