Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 79 : Grace can make barren land fertile

Once Gurunatha sent me on a visit to a village in Tamilnadu, along with few of his devotees staying in Bangalore, we were to visit the tomb of a saint and offer our respects.

The saint had taken a Sajeeva Samadhi (on his instructions, his devotees probably had constructed a tomb around him when he was still alive.) and his devotees had planted a neem tree on his tomb according to his last wish it has grown as a big tree today. During our visit we found that the tree had started withering and growing dry. When we finished our rituals as per Gurunatha’s instructions, the priest who was taking care of that place showed us the tree and requested we make the tree bloom again by Gurunatha’s grace.

Getting to know this Gurunatha instructed one of the devotees to keep certain things at the bottom of the tree in certain directions and said the tree will bloom back. Few months later when one of the devotees visited the place again, the priest there happily showed them the tree that had bloomed.

The seer of a famous advaitha math kept a practice of coming to Gurunatha’s residence once a year. On one such visit the care takers of the peetham visited Gurunatha’s house in advance to make sure the necessary arrangements were in place. During this one of the care takers objected to a few of the arrangements, requested a large portion of bilva leaf(an auspicious leaf offered to Shiva) to be kept ready. Gurunatha did not like extravagance or showoff, a little upset with the demands made, asked the care taker “With Eshwara’s grace I can rejoin the cut bilva leaves back to the tree, whether you will be able to do it? This house does not belong to me, it belongs to the Guru, if he wishes to come here, he may come”. The care taker who was taken aback by those harsh words of Gurunatha left the place without a single word. Later on the seer visited Gurunatha’s place.

A person belonging to a leading audio company from the film industry fell sick; he was admitted to a prestigious hospital and was seen by the famous doctors in the city. However he showed little improvement. When Gurunatha was told about this.. he asked “He is admitted in such and such a hospital and is staying in such a room number is it not?(including the direction he was made to sleep in).” “There is a fan in that room which has a loose bolt, if you tighten the bolt his health shall improve”. When it was done, the person who had not responded to any medicines close to about a month recovered and started walking on his own.

A Tamilnadu government servant had a small kid who was very stubborn and ill-tempered. The kid used to tear apart whatever he got when in that mood, would not listen to anyone including his parents. Controlling this child had become a problem for the parents. Running out of options they came to Gurunatha’s house.

It was morning time and l was getting flowers from a vendor at Gurunatha’s house. This kid walked in and started tearing apart the flowers and the flowers spilled all over the entrance of the house. The parents of the kid rushed to stop him. Gurunatha who observed the whole incident from inside signaled the parents not to intervene and let the kid do what he wanted to. He also looked at the kid intensely for a few minutes. After a few minutes the kid stopped his antics and became normal. His stubbornness ended that day. Later when those parents asked Gurunatha about the kid’s behavior he said “Each living body in this world has a relationship with another disembodied thing. It sometimes causes this kind of abnormal behavior. When he was still in the womb, his mother had seen an incident where a woman jumped into a well screaming. The fear got entrapped inside the kid and is manifesting itself like this.

Once a person who was in a high post in Bangalore came to Gurunatha’s residence, there were about 8-10 of us along with Gurunatha that day. The person had both devotion and curiosity towards Gurunatha. Observing Gurunatha’s mood for sometime he said “I am unable to comprehend a few of things you are saying, if what you say is correct, tell me how many people are currently in this room at this very moment?”.

Gurunatha replied, “See apart from 8 people whom you can see, there are 25 Christian nuns who are disembodied, simultaneously I am conversing with them. This is the reason I tell you, do not come looking for this body, I won’t be here, only the body will be here”.

A little confident now the person asked more questions..”Since, it is said that Guru is ubiquitous, is that true? If so, are you present near my house in Bangalore?

Gurunatha replied, there are two beggars who come near your house. One of them limps and drags his feet a bit,( explained some more features of the beggar) I get into him many times. Whenever you see him, give some alms before you send him away. The person who was asking questions till now was speechless.

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