Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 147 :  Even if the devotee forgets his word..

This silk merchant was an old friend of this Charanadasa. However, till very recently I never had an opportunity to discuss with him about his experiences with Gurunatha. When we met recently he started recounting his experiences like this...

“Probably it was in 1997, I met Gurunatha for the first time. I had gone with one of my relatives and I had no belief in him. But, the sequence of incidents that happened after that made me completely surrender myself to him.”

“As soon as he saw me he said, “You seem to have pain in your legs isn’t it?” With those words he gave me two bananas. That was the last day; I never suffered that pain again. Prior to that I could not sit on the floor for even 10 minutes, with one move he had changed the speed and direction of my life, I am still trying to understand the power of the word “Guru”.

In another instance, Gurunatha had come to our town and from there he was going to my wife’s town. Though Gurunatha specifically told me not to come there, I took my family along in my car there. Left my family there and went to Sakharaya Patna with Gurunatha. He kept me for 4 days with him and sent me back. On my return I got my family from her native place and was returning home. My kid who was on my lap went to the rear seat. Immediately after that a speeding truck hit our car head on. The car was mangled but all of us survived. I returned to Gurunatha’s house later then he told me...”Ayya I saw blood in your car, so I asked you not to bring it.” My faith and respect for him grew even further after he saved us from this mishap.

In another instance, he had come to my house. He asked my daughter who was in 8th standard then to sit on his lap and gave her some milk and sugar and told her she will secure 98% in 10th and 97% in 12th. Thanks to his grace today she is studying MBBS. When he was at our house unable to decide what to offer him, I offered him a silver tumbler we had in our house. lmmediately he said, “this was a gift from your sister, you take your sister’s consent and offer this to the seer of advaitha peetha and request him that he should drink milk in this at least once.” But, due to some reason I could not visit the advaitha peetha.

Later Gurunatha made arrangements at the advaitha peetha so that I could offer the tumbler to the seer and asked me to go over there. I had never seen a Guru who would not just stop at making a suggestion but go out of his way to make sure it is implemented even when the devotee has forgotten about it.

“I may not trust Gods at times. But, I cannot live without him. Even today he is still in our breath” he concluded.

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