Om Namo Sainathaya
How Lord Sainath Puts Us To Tests To Correct Us!
On the night of February 19, 2016, as we were traveling by train from Sai Dattatreya Ashram in Denkhanal, Odhissa for Karnataka, we were sleeping. Suddenly Sri Seshadri felt a sharp sting. He thought it was a scorpion and got up and shook out the bedding. A centipede fell out. The sting gave him such intense pain that he could not sit still. He had to keep walking in the compartment to and fro. Something like two hours must have passed, all the while in this intolerable pain. Then at last he lay down again, and his tears overflowed. We thought that his tears were due to the pain and he was around ninety years of age. ‘I am not in pain,’ he said. ‘All of you go to sleep.’
The next morning Seshadri told us his experience. What had happened was this. All this time he had been inwardly repeating to himself a Sanskrit prayer: ‘O Lord Sainatha Parabrahman, give me devotion, cleanse my mind of faults; may it be without sin. O Thou who dwellest in the hearts of all, this is the desire of my heart, I have no other. O God, I am speaking the truth.’ But in fact, while he repeated these words, he had another desire —he longed that the pain of the sting should subside! He was saying Satyam Vadami (he is speaking the truth) but really it was Anritam Vadami (telling a lie). What a display of egoism! In his mind, he was crying aloud: ‘How long are you going to torment me!’ And suddenly, all the pain was gone, completely gone, and he felt himself held in a close embrace. That was when his tears overflowed, and within two minutes he was asleep.
He experienced Lord Sainath then in His quality of mercy. His faith was similar to Chidambara Pillay while suffering from Guinea worm abscess and Baba’s assurance that all will be well after a crow pecks his abscess.
Have Sai Baba close behind your thoughts always.
Yours SAI BABAly
SAI AURA TEAM
“Prayer is the easy way of contacting God. When you raise your heart towards the Supreme Being and commune with him, you feel at first your nearness to Him and then your actual contact with Him, and ultimately your absorption into His Being. Prayer infuses strength, courage, and joy into your heart. It, therefore, teaches you how to bravely endure things and how to draw power and wisdom from the Divine Storehouse.” — Swami Ramdas
“The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.” – Louise Hay
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde
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