A devotee was feeling very troubled by all the horrible rumours that have been
circulating in recent months about Sai Baba. He felt that it was so sad that
Divine energies were being denigrated by all the unproved stories being spread
by the media. He was wondering how to reply to them when a friend phoned him
and relayed to him the following story. The friend said that only last week
the former vice chancellor of Sai Baba’s college was giving a talk to their Sai
Baba group in Connecticut and he had related this story.
The vice chancellor said that recently he was sitting on Sai Baba’s veranda in
the ashram in Puttaparthi next to a very important Indian politician. Sai Baba
came by and called the politician by name and asked him to come into his
private interview room. The man went inside and came out ten minutes later
sobbing. Then the sobbing turned into deep uncontrolled crying. Sai Baba came
by and said to the man “What’s wrong?”. Then Sai Baba waved his hand and made
some vibhuti (sacred ash) and gave it to the man who took it and ate it. A
short time afterwards when the man had regained his composure he turned to the
vice chancellor and said “Because you have witnessed all of this, I will
explain it to you.”
The politician explained that his wife had been very sick and she had told him
that she wanted to go to see Sai Baba for one last look, for the very last
time. However the politician had been very busy and while he was away his wife
died. All this had happened ten days previously and the man was now coming to
see Sai Baba after cremating his wife.
When Sai Baba came into the interview room, the man said, Sai Baba had scolded
him and had reminded him what a wonderful wife he had had, of how she took care
of his every need, cooked his food, looked after the house, even to laying
out his clothes etc. But when she had made her one last request to be taken to
see Sai Baba, he had been too busy. Sai Baba then said “I went to her and I
comforted her, and now she is with me. Here I will let you see her now.” At
that moment the man’s wife emerged from inside Sai Baba and stood as a live
being in front of him, no longer appearing thin and sickly. She smiled and
took his hand and said “Do not be sad, do not grieve for me, I am happy,
happy.” Then the man’s wife merged again inside Sai Baba.
I tell you this beautiful story, because it seemed to come as an answer, just
when I was thinking how best to answer the question concerning all the bad
rumours about Sai Baba that were circulating. It seemed to me that this was
what I would call a synchronous wink from the Lord to help me have an answer to
all these questions. I think the story speaks volumes.
taken from :
http://www.saibaba.ws/miracles2/alittlemiracle.htm
Sai Ram
