No More Drinking

 

“ My story begins sometime last summer, when I first became aware of Baba. I was invited to visit some Indian friends of a friend of mine and they talked so lovingly and honestly about Baba that I decided to read more about him. I read ‘The Holy Man and the Psychiatrist’ [by Samuel Sandweiss], and in fact used it almost like a Bible, in that I read the writings of Baba everyday. 

At this time I had something of a drinking problem and was consuming far more alcohol than was good for me, but was unable to stop. I decided that I would enlist the help of Baba, so for three nights I sat there with the book, Baba’s photograph and the whisky. I poured my drink on the 27th November at 11:45 p.m. and sat down to watch T.V.  I put my hand on the book, looked at the photograph and said, ‘You really will have to help me to stop this.’

There was an almighty noise and the glass exploded into a million bits. It went everywhere in the room, it was under tables, on top of books in a bookcase and some of it was found by my housekeeper the following day, under the cushion I had been sitting on ....

The most interesting thing for me happened two days later. I was on a train and had not been able to get the sound of this exploding glass out of my mind, when a voice in my head said, “Did you notice that not a bit of it touched you?” I cannot tell you the feeling of absolute joy I experienced at that moment. I suddenly realized that only a miracle could have stopped this glass from damaging me very badly. It was no more than a foot away from my face.

I have now made a firm commitment to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, never to drink alcohol again.

(From the story of Kitty Lamonte of Scotland as related in "Divine Glory" by V. Balu & Shakuntala Balu)