Jai Sai Ram .
Many of us will have an introductory moment in our journey with Swami, and I am no exception . But, when one day I started connecting the incidents, I was amazed how he has been silently overlooking me in his own special divine way. I am narrating here the various instances in my life how Swami has been in touch with me, without me noticing it .
The Emblem
All through my growing up years back in Mylapore, we had this bureau made of metal , around 5 feet in height in average condition which we used to store clothes. This was something which was given to us by our paternal aunt, whose husband allegedly had been a swami devotee, which I came to know only in 2020 . That uncle had long passed away. That bureau had this all religion circular emblem which we all identify with Swami's call of One religion [also shown above in this post) . Is that emblem sticker on the bureau not enough for him to watch me grow up when I had no idea about the Avatar ? . The warmer thing to note here is that, thanks to my parents, sister I got tuned to Swami's Shiridi Avatar without reason and somehow his hold on me was established all through my journey up the years in all my good and bad moments.
The College Connect
Fast forward , high school pretty much had me hooked on to my academics and I scored very high marks and got into a good College. I met this guy, who was from a different department and somehow by swami's inspiration we both started talking when we travelled in the college bus. He used to come up and tell me Swami's experiences and I used to tightly hold on to my then Guru and Overall guardian , Shiridi Sai. Internally I used to think, no one can equal my Baba, this guy is just trying to brainwash me with stuff and somehow I never even spared a moment to take interest in Swami. Now, when I look back, my eyes well up with tears, thinking why Swami didn't drag me by the ear through someone , some random person alteast once to Sundaram , in Mylapore to quell the noise and sculpt the misshapen intellect once and for all. But he alone knows what is best for all of us and I just have to accept that as his own will.
The Doctor Connect
I also remember meeting a Doctor Dr .G Sairaman, who used to have a big Smiling Swami portrait as shown above and I have frequented him whenever any of us fell sick including once when I got dengue. The doctor had a calm demeanor about himself and was tall and had a good grip of his medicinal craft. Imagine the odds, when a well gifted doctor was just 10 minutes away from our home who practiced medicine and was a Sai devotee. The familiarity that swami has been silently sowing in my unsuspecting mind. This is still from my Mylapore days.
Enter The Telugu & Andhra Connect
Then came the time of placement when we attended interviews and I had to go to hyderabad for the training period in the company where I got selected. I stayed with my paternal uncle, who is an ardent Iyyappa devotee, and he had so many portraits. In those 3 months of my stay there, so many good things happened. I developed a beautiful connection with my cousin, who didn't have any comfortable vibe towards me though every summer vacation she used to come all our house for stays and bonding over childlike stuff but we never felt any vibe between us. It was so non-existent. But in the time I stayed in their place, now we are so close and it all sounds so crazy how things change between people . My uncle , pretty much leads all the affairs of his house and he had so many photos of all gods in his wall , hung with all old flowers and dried leaves and papers etc . I took interest and devised a plan with my cousin to clean up the entire place . There were 3-4 Swami photos of different sizes and not once did I even register his face or bothered to even look in his eye out of the slightest curiosity. Now in 2020, when I was going through my pictures, I saw his portraits and It all flashed , how he still kept looking out for me when I was in the training period of my very first employment. Also to add here is that, like Swami often says how he will achieve multiple things with one stroke, I also learnt telugu language through my self interests and purely his sankalpa. I speak fluent telugu now orally and we all know Swami's mother tongue is Telugu . In one event in my life, swami made me learn his mother tongue, establish a beautiful bond with my cousin, made me clean up the altar of my uncle which had his photos .
Forgotten Sai Injections
And Now
All through my life, until he officially onboarded me under his wing, his signature of the Silent Guardian has been there all along . These days, I choke up terribly thinking of my missed opportunity of having not seen in his Sagun form of a body, when I could have massaged his legs, washed his feet and drink that water as holy tirth. But, it all happened for a reason. He alone knows when I was ready enough to receive him. The comfort and consolation for me is that, he cared, is caring and will always care about me and somehow he will makeup for the physical intimacy I missed out with him. Until then, sai love continues..
Today is Swami's 95th Birthday Celebrations . May swami Bless us all to make us the ideal devotees who don't get affected by the pair of opposites and maintain singular Devotion and concentration on the Lotus feet of Swamiwaru Bhagwan Baba .
SamasthaLokah Sukhino Bhavanthu
