"Your letter has not reached Me yet; but, I have read
it already. You posted it to Madras, not knowing that I have come back
here. I was near you when you wrote it. Your mother must now be very
much better; is it not?" This is what Baba wrote to a devotee, some
years back. He is Sarvantaryami; He is in all places, at all times.
Our letter did not reach Him. Even when it reaches Him, He need not open it and read the contents!
One day, I happened to be in His room when the
post came. When He dropped on the floor one letter unread and unopened,
some newly arrived person muttered, "Swami, you have not read that
letter. It may be some tale of misery." Baba smiled and said, "No, No.
It is a tale of joy, He says that a son has been born to him; but he is
worried that the baby was born with frontal teeth." Then He told us
the whole story with the envelope in His hand.
"A Vaisya couple from a village in Telangana
had come on a pilgrimage to Puttaparthi a year ago; they prayed that
they may be blessed with progeny. I gave the man an apple and asked him
to share it with his wife. He took it in his hand and examined it.
Finding some marks on the skin, indicating that it might have been
bitten by a rat or so, he asked Me what it was, evidently nervous about
eating it. I told him that they both could eat it. 'Only, the baby will
have two frontal teeth at birth. Don't worry.'
He has now written that the child has been born
and (here, He tore open the envelope, took out the letter and turning
over the lines showed us the very sentence) "he has asked Me whether any
shanti has to be performed, to alleviate what he fears be a calamity!"
Looking at that sentence, we stood amazed, in the resplendent Presence of Bhagawan.
Baba is Sarvajna, Sarvasaktha, Sarvaantaryami.
~ N. Kasturi ~
(Sanathana Sarathi - June 1960)
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