Aum Namo Sainathaya
The ‘Sai Aura’ team entrusted me to take fifteen children from Chennai to Shirdi. As the aircraft took off, we chanted Vishnu Sahasranama. As we finished the Sahasranama, Garuda Deva appeared at my window with a group of eagles. Garuda Deva said to me introducing himself as ‘Vainateya’ and has come to navigate the group as per Lord Vishnu’s instructions.
He spoke to me in whispers with a sigh. “You humans are such misguided creatures. You must have some awful teachers.”
Garuda Deva continued – “I’m a soaring eagle, sharp of eye. I smelt smoke even this high, I looked down from the sky. Nests were burning, I asked why, and I got this reply: It is a communal fight, and they are destroying the environment. Sai Baba preached ‘Ram and Rahim are one. Hindus, Muslims, and Christians are all children of one God.” Garuda Deva told me to inculcate among the children that Lord Shiva represents the element of ‘Earth’ at Kanchipuram, ‘Vayu or Air at Kalahasti, ‘Fire’ at Tiruvannamalai, ‘Sky’ at Chidambaram and the element of ‘Water’ at Jambukeshwar (Trichy). Tell these children about these five elements and how to safeguard the natural elements. You are all proceeding to the abode of Sai Baba the Parabrahman and wish you all the best.”
Garuda Deva added – “I can’t understand them at all. For us birds, large and small, Earth, Water, Wind, and Sun, keep every one of us alive. We feel the Wind God under our wings. We see the Sun and other elements as we fly across. But humans kill one another as Hindus, Muslims, or Christians as custodians of God. We birds find it very odd. We can’t understand your hue and cry. We’ve never seen dead birds fly, to come and tell us after they die, about any God in their sky.”
“We birds pray as we wish, and so does every animal and creature like fish. Our ‘Sumurga’ has taught us well, ‘Don’t create heaven or hell.’ A bird who says she will not pray will do as she may. If another says, ‘I dislike the Sun,’ he flies at night for food and fun. Humans go to lands afar. The five elements – Earth, Sun, Sky, Wind, and Water, we wonder at their wanton slaughter.” “Down there, I notice wars are fought in the name of religion, territory, and natural resources.
“If it were indeed true that a merciful God cared for you, he’d have killed these murderers all and made the mildest stand tall. But that has not happened, we well know. These evil ones flourish and grow. Your meekest just sigh and sigh, hoping for better, when they die. And though none has returned after dying, they keep on blindly trying, for heaven promised afterlife, by those causing all this strife.”
As the aircraft was about to land at Shirdi, Garuda Deva told me- “I have settled down at ‘Bendina Navile’ as per our Guru Maharaj – Sri Ramanuja Acharya’s ‘Sankalpa’. Bendina Navile is a small town along the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway. Take a right turn at Mandya to reach Nagamangala and the last few Kilometers to Bendina Navile. Bring these children over there and my two consorts will happily feed and bless them.
“Away from your violence that I see, I stay in the sky, flying free, with our living gods, who I tell, ‘Please keep us birds and animals well.’ Garuda Deva added,
We have thought of Sai Maharaj and what Garuda Deva said, what if we’d been like them instead, and never hated people for how they prayed, what a difference that would’ve made.”
Later Sunanda Aunty took the children to Sai Maharaj’s abode at Shirdi.
THE SAI AURA team
-Dada J. P. Vaswani
– Sri Narasimha Swamiji
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