Life History of H.H. Sri Swamiji 161 Life History of H.H. Sri Swamiji 161 sgslh_raosyama Offline Send Email "Seeing the tail is like seeing the tiger" is a saying. Some people who believe in statements like that, spread the news that the entire city of Mysore was blacked out. Swamy was angry at this exaggeration of facts and said, "I do not touch any wires at all." The elder residents of the colony heaved a sigh of relief on hearing it from Swamy. They were frightened that their stupidity in testing Swamy would lead them to be prosecuted by the officials of the electricity board. Swamy had already said that it was his duty to save them. These events did upset Swamy a lot. He increased his tour programmes of visiting other places. Some days he spent his time in the prayer room of Nagappa's house. When he wanted to spend more time on meditation without being disturbed, he preferred to come to Nagappa's house. Nagappa and his wife Jayamma were always ready to receive Swamy at their house. Jayamma actually looked upon and treated Swamy as her own grandson. Swamy on his part walked around like their child in that house. He addressed Jayamma as "Amma, Amma". Nagappa's car was the disposal of Swamy and met all his travel needs. One or two other cars belonging to the other devotees were also available for the use of Swamy if needed. Nagappa's driver served Swamy with love and devotion. Sometimes Dwaraka would go in the middle of the night on his bike to Nagappa's house to get the car. The driver happily would get up and come to the ashrama and take Swamy wherever he wanted to go. One day there was a violin concert by the famous A.S.Shivarudrappa at Nagappa's house. Shivarudrappa was a great violinist, a scholar and had received honours at the place. He used to attract a number of fans at his concerts. He enjoyed playing for Swamy. That day both Swamy and Shivarudrappa was deeply immersed in the music. Few people sitting near the homa commented, "Who cares for these powers? It is only for the benefit of the rich. These are guises of cheats. (Meaning that the guises are to attract the money from the rich)". Swamy walked towards them angrily, and like a small child rolling his cheeks and lips made a funny noise and spat out a number of loose coins from his mouth. As they had considered Swamy as "Ashadabhootis", Swamy had decided to materialise only loose coins for them. The critics sat quiet and did not even apologise. Swamy went back to his seat. At the end of the homa the devotees came forward to receive the blessing of Swamy. The turn came for the critics to receive the blessings. Swamy stopped them and said, "Why do you want to fall at the feet of Ashadabhootis?" Those critics were sorry and fell at the feet of Swamy and begged to be excused. In view of the demand, the city transport authority had organised special bus services to the ashrama. On the days of sankeertanas, the programme would go late into the evening and the bus drivers waited patiently till the last of the passenger got on to the bus. There was no worry for the devotees about missing the last bus. The final stop of the bus to the ashrama came to be known as the "Swamy's ashrama stop.] An unusual event happened one Thursday. The bhajans finished at about 10pm. Swamy went inside to take rest. Prasadam was being distributed to the devotees. Some youngsters from the colony started a scuffle. The youngsters were complaining that the functions at the ashrama were disturbing this sleep. some devotees tried to object to the criticism by the lads and that ended up in the scuffle that night. Not wanting to see any harm come to Swamy, some of the devotees locked his room from outside. All the houses at the colony were of a stereotype; they did not have a backdoor. There was only one way in and out of the houses. The youngsters started shouting that Swamy was frightened of them and has decided to hide inside. Holding on to their batons and other tools, they started shouting and asking for Swamy to come out and face them. Swamy shouted and asked his devotees to open the door and let him out to face the youngsters. No one took notice of Swamy's request. Suddenly Swamy came out through the solid walls of the room shouting, "Who is the fool that is asking for me?" Hundreds of devotees witnessed this miracle. The youngsters got frightened and some even wet their trousers. Dropping their tools they ran away. Some of them asked Swamy for his forgiveness. The elders in the colony also asked forgiveness for the acts committed by the youngsters. Srikantiah begged Swamy to calm down and took him inside.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sacredlifeofswamiji/ This Yahoo group contains the complete story from the beginning . Satyam, or Satyanarayana referred to here was Sri Swamiji's name as a child. Later references to Swamy are to Him as well. It describes in detail Sri Swamiji's relationship with Ganapathi, His upanayanam, great compassion, commitment to Dharma, His actions demonstrating and other miraculous incidents. Jaya Guru Datta In Datta Seva Hanuman www.dattapeetham.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Drugs Don't Discriminate. Get help for yourself or someone you know. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0I.OUB/ZbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
