Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 58 :  How I met my Guru

It was the burning ambition of my life to join civil services. But, as fate would have it, the exams I had written had become marred with corruption and were entangled in a legal tangle. Through one of my relatives I had a chance of meeting of Gurunatha at his sister’s house in March 2000. When I offered my respects to him the divine figure asked me to offer some fruits and bow to a lady who was sitting in front of him. When I did as instructed, he said “You shall become an officer, let there be no doubt about that.”

He said we shall meet again on 21st June at a proper place and in a proper manner, it was not clear to him about which place it would be at that time. Not knowing the concept of Guru, I did not give it much of a thought, left that place and came to my hometown near Sringeri and was stuck at that place due to various reasons. On the evening of June 20th, I made some arrangements for my journey and started early morning next day. Though I had taken a ticket to Bangalore I suddenly came to Sakharaya Patna around 11.30 in the morning through Chickmagalur. I had no memory of the date Gurunatha had mentioned earlier. When I gave my introductions to the devotees in front of the door, Gurunatha asked one of them to give me some food. That person had a fair complexion and he hesitantly offered me food. As I sat eating that in the verandah, a few more people came in and they were well known to the devotee who offered me food earlier. He directly took them into the kitchen and

offered them food. Gurunatha woke up and suddenly grabbed my hand and took me to the kitchen. He asked me to have my meal there. When I told him I had already finished my meal, he said “OK, just sit here for a few minutes and then come back.”

For a person who knew what was happening around the world, knowing about discrimination based on caste and color happening right next to him would not have been difficult. I stayed with Gurunatha that day and started from there around 11am in the morning. While sending me off he had said, from now on.. we shall meet once every week or fortnight and that happened as he had said.

I had no knowledge of Guru himself or about the concept of Guru yet he had kept me with him for 11 days during my third visit. All the things he had said from those days have been happening as he had said till date.

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