Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 154 :  If only I could get a Guru like that...

He started recounting another experience; this was during the time when he met Gurunatha for the first time.

“A few years ago, I read a book about the saints in Himalaya. While reading about their life, and the miracles they had performed I felt, if only I had a Guru like that. Within a few days of that, I met my Gurunatha. He proved that with an incident too. Once we went to a devotee’s house in Chickmaglur. A person in the family was suffering from smallpox. Gurunatha was moved by his suffering. He encircled the person three times and left the place. Later both of us came near Dantaramakki Lake. Both of us were sitting there talking for a long time. Suddenly I could see Gurunatha’s body develop small pox eruptions like the person we saw earlier. Within a few minutes he was very tired and was in great pain as he slept there.”

“Hours passed by and he slowly started recovering, the blisters seemed to subside, Gurunatha started talking again. At about the same time we heard the person we met earlier was recovering as well. This reminded me of a similar miracle I had read earlier about a Himalayan Sadhu who cured the small pox of a child. I considered myself lucky for wishing to get a similar Guru and getting one exactly like that almost immediately.”

This Charanadasa looked at him as if to suggest, can you share a few more experiences... he smiled and started again.

After I got a son, Gurunatha asked me to start looking for an alliance for my sister. Within months we got a suitable alliance and fixed it. Meanwhile, I went to attend a relative’s function along with my sister. Gurunatha came to know about this and advised me not to do it again, “Once the marriage has been fixed your sister is not yours anymore, even to go out of the house she must seek consent from her would be husband. It would be awkward if he calls you when she is not at home, what will you tell him? If you tell him she has gone out, what he might think. You need to think about all these things”.

That day, I realized how complicated ‘dharma sookshma’ (rules laid down by the scriptures for model life) is...

Later just prior to the day of her marriage, I locked up my house, deputed a guard and went to Mangalore. The same day evening, I got a call from Gurunatha, who said,” I am in your house. For all that you have done for me... guarding your house in your absence becomes my duty isn’t it?” and laughed. I did not know how to react and just kept quiet.

Until I made arrangements to host about 25 people there and come back, he was guarding our house. He continues to be here in our breaths... with these words he concluded his experience and bowed to the padukas he had kept in his house.

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