Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 122 :  A Gurus sleep

Recently when l was in Chickmagalur I met a boy who used to frequently come to Gurunatha’s house. When I requested him to share some of his experiences with Gurunatha, he started like this.

Though I got married in 1998, we did not have any children. I used to frequently visit Sakharaya Patna. Once Gurunatha’s feet had burn injuries, somehow and he wanted to be away from the crowd and take some rest. Luckily he chose our house; he stayed in our house for some days. We did whatever little we could. He blessed us and went back. In due course my wife conceived. As my wife was nearing the expected date of delivery Gurunatha showed up again. The day before she was to deliver he slept in our house only. But, the following morning at about 9am he left our house and went to another devotee’s house. Probably half an hour after that my wife was in labor. She delivered a healthy baby at around 10 am. I ran to the other devotee’s house where

Gurunatha was staying to inform him. I heard Gurunatha was sleeping and waited for some time. After Gurunatha woke up, informed him about the birth.

Gurunatha replied.. “Good. But, I feel the doctor acted in haste. If he had waited for some more time she would have had a normal delivery. Anyway it is fine”.

About the ‘sleep’ he told me like this. “See though Gurunatha was sleeping he gave me the description of events at the hospital. So, if Guru is sleeping it means he has gone somewhere else.”lf Sadguru actually ‘sleeps’ probably the time itself will stop.”

So firm is his belief that he has kept a pair of hawai slippers that Gurunatha wore in his puja room. He daily worships them and offers his respects to them before taking every step in his life.

When this Charanadasa wanted to dig a bit deeper into the story behind these slippers, he said “See, these are part of life. They have given me everything I need. I do not feel the necessity to go anywhere else. Please ask me for anything other than this” with his eyes filled.

Gurunatha used to tell me often, “One can learn about true Gurubhakthi(devotion to Guru) from this person”.

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