Tulsi Leaf to Gold Coin
Swami was walking towards the door opening onto the stage of the Sai Ramesh Hall in Brindavan, in His inimitable gentle majesty. While passing the Tulsi pedestal, He plucked a leaf from the plant and moved on. Sudheendran, a student, was standing nearby. Swami went to him and dropped something in his outstretched palm. I thought it was a Tulsi leaf, but Swami had covered it with His palm and was telling the boy, "Don't show it to anyone."
Shri Narasimha Murthy rushed forward and prayed to Swami to kindly allow him to see it. He lifted His palm for a moment and closed it again. Narasimha Murthy saw a gold coin on the boy's palm. The Tulsi leaf had been transformed into a gold coin. Swami told him again, "Don't show it to others, it has your date of birth on it" and walked on. The boy put the coin in the folds of his handkerchief and very carefully slipped it into his shirt pocket. The matter did not end there. This was just the beginning.
After the bhajans, Swami came to the door of the Trayee compound. He stopped again in front of Sudheendran and asked him to show the coin. With a look of joy, the boy took out the handkerchief and opened its folds only to find the Tulsi leaf. The boy was baffled and his face fell. Swami smiled mischievously and told him to eat the leaf, which he did with grief written on his face. Swami turned back and beckoned to the boy to come near. As the boy rushed towards Him, He said, "Ayyo, papam" and waved His hand. There was the gold coin again. He gave it to the boy whose face lit up with great joy.
After a few days, Swami took the coin from the boy and blew on it four times. It grew four times bigger in size. Swami had granted the boy the golden gift of faith along with the gold coin.
(From the book "Mother Sai's Miracles of Love")
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