Sri Sadguru Mahime
Author: Charana Dasa
Translator:Shri.Ganesh Prasad
Chapter 20 : In two bodies
There was a small group of women in
Sakharaya Patna who used to recite Soundarya Lahari (Devi shlokas attributed to
Adi Shankara) everyday. Gurunatha had a practice of visiting these houses where
the recital took place and distributing flowers and fruits and blessing the
devotees who had gathered over there.
Once Gurunatha had gone to
Bangalore, the lady of the house where he stayed had recently read a book called
‘Yogiya atma kathe” (Autobiography of a Yogi) where in one of the chapters it
is described, a saint could be present in two bodies at different places
simultaneously. She was skeptical about that and asked Gurunatha if that was
indeed possible.
Gurunatha asked the lady to call up
one of the houses where Soundarya Lahari recital was taking place and check if
Gurunatha was present there. She rang up a devotee’s house in Sakharaya Patna
while Guru sat before her smiling.
The lady who answered the phone on
the other end said, ”Gurunatha just gave us flowers and fruits and he is walking
back, should I stop him, would you want to talk”? Surprised the lady conveyed
to Gurunatha what she heard from the other side. Gurunatha smiled and asked her
to hang up.
Through this, Gurunatha had cleared
her doubts forever about what she had read.
In another instance, Gurunatha had
been suffering from an outbreak of blisters all over his body and could not
even walk. At a famous Datta temple about 3 and 1/2 hrs from Sakharaya Patna
Gurunatha was seen requesting the organizers of an event not to serve the
prasadam prepared that day as it had been contaminated. Organizers there were
indifferent, “We have prepared food for close to about 2000 people and we do
not have the time to redo it, how shall we believe it is poisonous?” asked one
of them. Then Gurunatha suggested they can feed stray dogs and see what happens
and left the place. Dog that ate the prasadam fell ill and food was not served
to devotees.
One of the organizers later on
realized that, in the confusion they did not even have the courtesy to thank Gurunatha
as he had averted a big accident waiting to happen at their ashram. He traveled
for about 70 kms to visit one of Gurunatha’s relatives and asked about
Gurunatha’s whereabouts.
Surprised on hearing this, they told
him, “It had been weeks since Gurunatha was confined to bed having boils. He
has not left Sakharaya Patna for weeks and it is impossible for him to travel
till here”. That person was astonished on hearing this.
“Almighty Guru alone who is all
pervasive is capable of pulling off these miracles, isn’t it?”
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