My Humble Pranams At The Divine Lotus Feet Of our Ever Present Beloved Bhagawan
Sri Sathya Sai Baba!
Sairam!
What we ask from Swami has to be really carefully
asked.The following incident teaches all a beautiful lesson.
A few years ago,Dr.Sitaramayya,one of the doctors in the hospital in Prashanthi
Nilayam,was not keeping good health and was bed-ridden.Bhagawan Baba went to
his room to enquire about his health.He sat by his side,cut an apple and fed
him with HIS own hands and left.Sri Kasturi was with Swami all the while.He
thought,"How blessed is this Doctor?Even illness has brought him so muh good
fortune!SWami Himself walked into his room,enquired about him,cut a fruit with
His own hands and fed him pice by piece.How much I wish I had fallen ill!
Sometime later Sri Kasturi too fell ill with pain in his backbone.He could
hardly move.He hoped that Swami might visit him too.But Swami sent a word
asking him to come to His room immediately.Pain or no Pain,there was no
question of disregarding Swami's summons.So ,Sri Kasturi made his way
laboriously to Swami's presence.Swami gave him a bundle of New Year calendars
and ordered him,"Take these calendars and distribute them yourself,one for each
room.Go,"Without a murmur,Sri Kasturi picked up the bundle,went to every room
on every floor of every building in prashanthi Nilayam and completed the
distribution according to Swami's instructions.Seeing his agony some persons
offered to do the work for him but he did not agree.They requested to be
allowed at least to carry the heavy bundle for him but he declined.Shri Kasturi
later said,"How do they know,why I turned down their kindly offer?"This was
Swami's treatment to the pain in the backbone of Sri Kasturi."
