Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 54 :  Blisters

Gurunatha had a lot of respect for Shankaracharya Peetham at Sringeri, he was very affectionate towards the seer of that peetham and used to meet him whenever he visited a nearby town/city.

This seer was visiting Hassan once, it was a hot summer afternoon and in order to resolve one of his devotee’s problems Gurunatha was standing on the hot tar road for close to one and half hours. Both his feet got burnt. Unperturbed he continued to wait and meet the seer.

Gurunatha was staying in Chickmagalur during that time for close to two months. I heard it was his wish that, I should take care of him during that time. As I was concentrating on my house and other personal activities during that time I could not be physically with him during those times.

Once he suddenly made a statement “The next three months are the toughest in my life, it would not be a surprise even if my life is cut short”. In the next few days all of a sudden he had a boil on his rear side. The boil got infected.

Then asking me to bring a cup of coffee and drinking about half of it and giving the other half to me he said, “you shall get all the boils l have”. While drinking that coffee I said, “I will happily welcome those”. Within a few hours after this, before I could return from the farm work I had a boil on my right knee and also about seven-eight boils in various parts of the body. Gurunatha’s condition turned serious, he could neither walk nor sit or even lie down. Add to this various treatments tried by the devotees near him, his pain and plight those three months are beyond words. Even then he was totally unperturbed and never objected to any of his devotees who were torturing him with their treatments with the intention of curing his boils. “Pleasure and pain, cold and heat, rain and sun are all same to him “were his words.

During those three months he had not let me near him for about two months. After that he not only let me near him but also let me take care of him till he had completely recovered. Not letting me see the extreme treatments performed by others early on and letting me take care of him completely afterwards was probably my good fortune. When we were alone I asked him why he would not object to those extreme treatments and not tell those devotees to stop immediately. His reply was “It is their only wish to perform treatments on this body; I would not want to disappoint them.” He had totally left feelings about the body behind him.

Sometime later, when Gurunatha was staying in a devotee’s house in Arasikere, famous doctors had come to get his blessings. One of the doctors wished to do a check-up on Gurunatha and asked him to lie down. Gurunatha readily agreed. When the tests started even after trying for hours the doctors could not feel his pulse.

All this while, Gurunatha was discussing doctor’s personal problems and giving him remedies, suddenly he smiled and asked “what doctor, you are unable to get a pulse isn’t it?” Doctors were surprised how a person without a pulse could even be alive. Knowing this Gurunatha closed and outstretched his hand once and asked the doctors to try again. This time the doctors got the pulse.

This incident illustrates that there is a power beyond the feeling of this physical body, isn’t it?

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