Sri Sadguru Mahime
Author: Charana Dasa
Translator:Shri.Ganesh Prasad
Chapter 4 - Meet
him on the way itself
A little later the lady started
sharing another experience.
Once we visited the advaitha peetha
near Tumkur along with some of my friends and we were traveling towards
Sringeri. On the way our conversations were mainly about Gurunatha. One of my
friends asked me... “You were telling us, the last two times you were unable to
meet Gurunatha, I am here for the first time, and do you think we will be able
to meet him this time?”
My reply was... “It all depends on
your luck, if you are lucky you may meet him on the way itself”.
Just then our car reached the spot
where Gurunatha was standing on the road. We could not believe our own eyes. We
jumped out of the car and bowed to him. I asked him “How is this possible?”
Gurunatha’s reply was... “You should
know, you were the one who said”.
Recently, I heard the other side of
this story from a Chickmaglur based devotee. He said, that day Gurunatha asked
us to prepare coffee. Even before we could serve him coffee, he ran out of our
house as if he had remembered something very important, he came to the main
road and stood there. We were not aware then, he wanted to make a devotee’s
words about ‘Meeting him on the way itself’ come true, the Chickmaglur based devotee
said.
What I had said for the sake of
conversation, Gurunatha had made that come true, can you see a similar compassion
anywhere else?
After a brief pause, the lady
started sharing another experience.
Once we had come to Gurunatha’s
residence and along with him we traveled to Chickmaglur. We wanted to visit the
nearby Advaitha peetha’s seer from there. But, Gurunatha was not letting us
leave. After waiting for some time we told Gurunatha we want to go to Advaitha
peetha and the seer may be in fact waiting for us.
Gurunatha replied... “A Guru has to
wait, once a disciple accepts someone as his Guru, it is Guru’s job to take
care of his disciple and wait for him if need be”. Already it was very late.
From there we traveled for about three hours and came to the advaitha peetha.
We saw the seer there waiting for us.
He told us...“Please come, I was
actually waiting for you, by now the math will be closed so I will ask food to
be arranged for you here in the Guru Bhavana itself”
We were surprised to see that... the
seer was actually repeating the same words that Gurunatha had told us a little
earlier and the time then was around 11 pm.
She concluded her experience by
saying. . .”though we have the blessings of many seers, the only one who has
stood by us in our happy and sad times is our Gurunatha, this has been my faith
as well as experience”.
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