For all the students who worked at the Sathya Sai Hill View Stadium weeks and months before it was to be opened in 1982, they will never forget Bhagawan's Love showered upon them every day. Apart from the L&T Engineers, the people who worked the hardest were Swami's students because Bhagawan always drilled the fact into them that it would they who would be using the Stadium the most, so they should work more on it. Apart from Bhagawan's daily trips to the stadium, His giving of sweets and other presents to the boys were imprinted on the minds of everyone concerned.
One wonderful incident happened which left an indelible impression on everyone concerned. There was a dog which used to follow Bhagawan from a distance everyday. It never interfered with anyone; after Bhagawan left, it used to go and sleep in front of the many trees near the High School. Swami never even looked at it once.
As days passed, one day before Bhagawan was about to get into his car, He suddenly stopped and walked a few metres, and stood for a few minutes facing the high school building, Everybody was surprised at seeing Swami standing alone and looking into the distance, then the dog appeared from behind the school building and started running towards Bhagawan. Bhagawan bent down, patted and caressed the dog, gave it a few eatables and after a few minutes, left the dog and went away.
Nobody ever saw the dog again. After a few days someone mustered the courage to ask Bhagawan about the dog. Bhagawan said that immediately after it left Him, it jumped into a well and died because it as Swami said, "It did not want to touch anyone after I had touched it".
We sometimes look down upon creatures, down the line of species, as very inferior to us; this incident proves that everyone and everything has a conscience and every one is equal before Bhagawan.
Bhagawan's Love is for everyone to experience, it is how we experience it is the question.
Om Sai Ram.
(From "Experiences of Devotees of Sri Sathya Sai Baba" - www.saibaba.ws)
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