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The Kailas Committee
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
The late Sakamma used to tell this
strange experience. One day
at her bungalow in Somwarpet, Coorg, when she was engaged in
worship, a servant disturbed her and announced that a car had
come into the compound, and that the person inside insisted on
seeing her immediately. She was rather upset, but nevertheless
went to find out who would take such liberty with her time. She
found in the car a tall, fair, old man with a very reverent
looking beard, sitting on a deerskin, his whole body bathed in
ash. She was struck by the age of the car also, for it matched
the age of the owner or occupant. It was driven by a weak little
boy in his teens, and Sakamma wondered how he could have managed
to secure a license or whether he had one at all. The car had a
name plate in front reading, "The Kailas Committee." She invited
the old man inside, did homage by touching his feet, placed a
newly plucked rose at his feet, and offered him some fruits. He
said he would not eat the fruits there, because he did not cater
to the tongue at all times and all places. "Jihvachapalya"
- that is, tongue cravings - was the word he used. He wanted her
to contribute to the Kailas Committee and become a member by
donating a thousand rupees.
She signed a paper on which the sum and her name were written,
and when she proffered the amount, the old man said, "Keep this
also with you. I shall come and take it later." With those words
he put the signed sheet on the table, got into the car and drove
away. The teen-age driver did his work remarkably well, for the
car was out of sight in a moment.
Years later, when she saw Baba
in a house to which she had gone, He appeared to her at one
moment like the young driver of that mysterious car, and in the
next moment like the hoary occupant who had taken so much pains
to make her contribute to the Kailas Committee, and then had
asked her to hold the cash in her own keeping! Sai Baba
surprised her when they met by telling her, "Come on, give the
one thousand rupees you promised that day!" and then described
in her presence the entire story, correct to the minutest detail.
From: N. Kasturi, Sathyam, Sivam,
Sundaram, The Life of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
http://www.saibaba.ws/avatar/sss/sss1.htm
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