Sairam Manu ji
Please read this article that was posted in sai vichar yesterday
Am reproducing this here for all of us
You will feel Baba does everything for good !!
See we have none other than him - So we place our selves at his feet
and am sure he wil take utmost care like none else. So lets not worry - let us read Satcharita and chant babas name and he will do the rest - Let us say Baba we are yours and Let your will prevail !
CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: Let Thy Will Prevail
We crave Lord Almighty to solve our problems and grant our desires as per our wishes. Many a time Lord obliges us and concedes our demands as long as they are compatible. All the same God Almighty being our benevolent father or mother, He is also the sole Judge and hence, He decides matters objectively in our best interests and needs. This may not be in accordance with our desires and wants. Enveloped by our biases or vaasanas, we cannot know what is good for us or what we deserve. In our own way thus, we have coined the proverb, " Man proposes, but God disposes", indicating our dismay at God's decisions. We should only appreciate that God disposes in our own interest. This understanding gives us enormous peace of mind and avoids needless frustration and disappointment, when things do not happen as per our wish. That is exactly why our wise saints and elders of spiritual maturity have said, "What ever happens is for our good."
I wish to give one of my experiences in this context. A close friend and colleague of mine Dr E.V.V. Bhaskara Rao for whom I have lot of affection, regard and appreciation was chronically sick. He fractured his thighbone and hip and was bed ridden for quite a few days. He underwent a complicated surgery for bone fixing and was being treated for various other associated health complications in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Kasturba Hospital at Manipal in Karnataka in India. I was very much worried about him and prayed Bhagawan Sai to protect and heal him. I collected udi or vibhuti and prasad from Shiridi and on March 12, 2003 went first to Puttur (Karnataka), the seat of the National Research Centre for Cashew of which Dr Bhaskara Rao used to be the Director. From there, I reached the Hospital at Manipal on March 13, 2003, accompanied by his family doctor and other colleagues. On our way to Manipal, I enquired about Dr Rao's state of health. His family doctor, however, did not give a very rosy picture of Dr Rao's health.
Nevertheless, I hoped that Baba would cure him. After reaching the intensive care unit of the hospital, I was lead to the patient. He had an over grown beard covering half of his face and his entire face was totally covered by oxygen mask. Hence, he was unable to talk. I took his hand into mine and said, " Be brave. You will recover by Baba's grace." I kept a picture of Lord Sai Baba under his pillow and smeared his forehead with Sai's vibhuthi. He held my palm tightly and did not release it as I stood besides him consoling and encouraging him. As it was the ICU, I was not allowed to stay long with him and had to leave after a few minutes. Outside the ICU, I talked with Dr Rao's wife and the attending doctors for quite some time. Again, I felt a strong urge to see Dr Rao once again. At my request, the attending doctor took me inside the ICU to Dr Rao's bed. Amazingly, this was a different bed and I found to my embarrassment that the patient whom I visited earlier and consoled was not Dr Rao, but some one who resembled him very much. The attending nurse also mistakenly showed me the wrong bed. As his face was totally covered with the beard and an oxygen mask and due to the close similarities with Dr Rao, I took him for my friend. Nevertheless, I had another picture of Lord Sai and some Sai udi left with me, which I gave Dr Bhaskara Rao. Dr Rao was cheered up after seeing me and talked with me for a while despite his delicate health. As I smeared udi on his fore head, I told him, "I am praying Lord Sai Baba and I am hopeful that you would get well." That sparked off a cheerful broad smile on his face and he was very happy to have seen me. I returned to Hyderabad on the evening of March 14, 2003 praying for the recovery of both of the patients that I visited in the ICU of Kasturba Hospital at Manipal.
(Contributed by Maddipatla V.R. Prasad)
CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE: continued...
Amazing are the leelas of Lord Sainath. Dr Bhaskara Rao, my friend passed away on the morning of March 15, 2003. It appeared as though he was just alive to see me! I enquired about the other patient whom I visited mistaking him for my friend. I was told that despite a very precariously serious condition through which he was passing through, the patient with whom I spent some time with a mistaken identity, recovered well. Now, I understand that Lord Sai sent me to him purposefully to convey His blessings! Incredible and inscrutable are His ways! Later, upon detailed enquiries about the causes for such a rapid decline in the health of Dr Bhaskara Rao, I was given to understand that he had multiple problems viz., weak heart, high blood pressure, diabetes, damaged liver etc., which made his recovery very difficult. Although I was sad over the demise of my friend, I was happy that the other patient whom I visited recovered due to Sai's grace.
We can see such instances from Sai charitra in the cases of famous Sai devotees viz., Kaka Saheb Dixit, M.W. Rege and Bayyaji Appaji Patil. Despite their personal tragedies, their faith in Bhagawan Sai never wavered. They realized that He is the sole and the best Judge, for He knows what we need that may not be what we desire. Hence, He disposes matters objectively in our larger interest. Hence let us pray, " Let Thy Will Prevail!" That releases us from the earthly bondages and strengthens our faith in Him.
(Contributed by Maddipatla V.R. Prasad)
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