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Stories about Faith Sairam to everyone,
Continuing with yesterdays topic FAITH I have a couple of incidents to
narrate. The first story I have picked up from Bhagawan's interview
with Mr.
John Hislop and the second one happened in Parthi around 20 years
back.
There was a guru and he had a women disciple. The guru worshipped
Krishna
and he had a Lingam which required daily puja. Each day at the time of
Puja
the disciple would bring the required milk. However guru and disciple
lived
on the opposite sides of the river. Heavy rains came, and the river
rose to
flood stage, the disciple waited for a boat, and this made her late
with the
milk to puja. Guru became angry that the Puja was not performed at the
proper time and told the disciple, "You are late because of lack of
faith in
the sacred name of Krishna. With faith in Him and reciting His sacred
name
you could walk across the surface of the river and not have to wait
for the
boat".
The next day, the disciple, accepting the word of her guru as the word
of
God Himself, walked across the surface of the river and delivered the
milk
on time. After two or three days of this, the guru became curious and
asked
the disciple how she had arrived on time even though the river was on
flood.
The disciple replied that she did as instructed by the guru and walked
across the constantly chanting the name of Krishna.
The guru could not accept this story and secretly followed her as she
departed. To his astonishment, the woman never hesitated, but walked
directly across the river.
Instantly resolving to try himself, he pulled up his dhoti above his
knees
and ventured to step on the water. The water failed to sustain him and
he
was instantly immersed.
This story illustrates the vital role of faith. The woman enjoyed full
faith, and it never occurred to her to even lift the hem of her sari
for
fear of the water, where the faith was lacking in guru.
The second story is all about a devotee who was very close to Swami.
Nearly
20 years back Swami was physically very close to devotees. He used to
go to
devotees houses and eat food with them and take them to Chitravathi (
River
near Parthi) for moon light play. (I will talk about those in due
course ).
One day he was walking along with some devotees behind
Prasanthinilayam
campus, which was full of bushes and shrubs. One of the devotees
started
talking about his family problems and said that he needed lot of money
for
his daughters marriage and for son's education. Listening to all this
Swami
suddenly showed a huge snake near by and told,if you want the money,
well,
go and catch the snake at the tail you get gold. The devotee perplexed.
He
thought swami was joking. He pleaded Swami saying that he was in dire
need
of money and hence he needs money sincerely. Bhagawan again with a
smile
said Go and catch the snake you would get the money you need. The
devotee
could not belive that Swami was seriously asking him to catch the tail
of
poisonous snake to get money. Finally Swami told look the snake is
going in
to the hide out. Go and catch it immediately, failing which you will
not get
the money. Reluctantly he went and caught the tail of the snake which
had
pushed 80% of its body into the anthill. To the astonishment to all
the
people around the visible part of the snake turned into gold.
The surprised devotee pleaded "Swami get the snake back I want to hold
it
completely". No use. He had to contend with the small piece of the
snake
part only.
There are many instances Swami stressed the importance of developing
sincere
faith in God. Certainly, it is not easy to develop unflinching faith
in God,
but SADHANA, not meditation, will give the faith.
...
Sairam
From:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saisruthi/message/25
I would like to narrate another story on
faith.
This was narrated to me by an Orissa devotee whose father had
experienced
this.
My friend returned to Parthi after a brief stay of two weeks at his
home
town in Orissa. He was so excited on his return and took our group
aside on
his return and started narrating the story his village had witnessed.
In his small village a new school master came. He was a devotee and
wanted
to talk about Swami to the people around. He started bhajans and
started
telling about Bhagawan and His miracles. Days passed by many people
started
coming to his place and started listening to him talking about
Bhagawan.
Many of them are illiterate and do not know about outside world. They
are
God loving people. Few people started learning Bhajans and following
as the
Teacher sang. Meanwhile, Sivaratri came. The teacher narrated some
stories
about Sivaratri and how swami used to created Sivalingam during that
time.
The people started thinking of Sivaratri and all of them wanted to
stay
awake and sing the glory of Lord all through the night. The biggest
problem
was no one knew more than a handful of songs. Still they thought of
doing
AKHANDA BHAJANA (Bhajan all through the night). They started promptly
at
06:00 pm and continued. Hours passed by the enthu in the people
unabated.
They kept on singing the glory of Bhagawan and continued the bhajans.
In the
midnight it happened. The God who they were singing manifested Himself
in
front of the crowd. He appeared infront of the crowd and moved amidst
them.
He sang bhjans along. He talked to those people. He blessed them. He
talked
to all the people calling them by names. He enquired about the people
who
were absent there at the moment. No one present saw Swami physically
before.
It was a divine experience. They spend talked,joked and pulled Swami
with
love like the Gopikas of Brindavan. Immersing them in his love for
half an
hour the compassionate Lord disappeared. He vanished into thin air.
This happened in early ninties. Like this there are many instances
where
Bhagawan had manifested himself for devotees and gave them in immense
happiness. There was an incident where Swami shouldered his devotee
and
saved him from drowning into water for one whole night. In another
place
Swami saved His devotee from a car accident. In another place He saved
a
pilot from fuel less flight and kept the flight afloat for six hours.
There
are many incidents to narrate. Why is He doing all this. It is only to
underline the fact that He can do anything for the well being of His
devotee. He will never falter in His efforts. What all we need is
simple
faith. From:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saisruthi/message/26 |
