Satsang A story of greed By Sri Narasimha Swamiji

Satsang A story of greed By Sri Narasimha Swamiji

But the old hankering for wealth was still working in Veerabhadrappa and he
appealed to the Fakir Baba to get him wealth. Baba told him to wait, for the
suitable time would be coming soon.

And it came. For that vast stretch of coast land, there was at last a demand
and a sudden appreciation of value. It sold for Rs. 1, 00,000 (just 100
times the worth of the jewels) a moiety of which was paid down in cash, the
rest being payable in 24 annual installments. Now was Veerabhadrappa's
chance. He tried to clutch at that money. Basappa was naturally hostile to
his claims and resisted his efforts.

Baba's intercession was sought and Baba pointed out that Gowri had the right
to the entire money and that none else should interfere. Veerabhadrappa got
angry with Basappa and Baba. He threatened to kill Basappa who, in his
cowardice, sought refuge from Baba. Baba plighted his word that he would
shield him from the wrath of his wicked foe. Then the parties to this feud
died. Veerabhadrappa was born as the serpent and was still unrelenting in
his hatred. The coward Basappa was born as a frog.
Veerabhadrappa tried even in this birth to kill his enemy.
Winding up, Baba said, "Hearing the miserable croaking of Basappa, and
remembering my pledge to save him, I am here. I have kept my word and saved
him." Baba then changed his expression and said "God saved Basappa, his
devotee, by sending me. All this is God's leela or sport."

This may be taken for a perfectly true history. For Baba never spoke
anything but truth. This anecdote has been embodied in grand sonorous
Olivares in Dabolkar's Sai Satcharitra Ch. 47.

That book is read for daily study, "Parayana" by numerous devotees of Sai
Baba. One day, Mr. G. B. Dattar, B.A., LL.B., a Pleader of Thana, was
reading it. A lady in the house was listening to it in a half drowsy
condition. She suffered from periodical internal pains. As she listened, she
burst out half involuntarily, in that drowsy condition, and said "Baba, you
have such pity for a dumb irrational creature. Have you no pity for me, a
human being?"

Then she heard a voice emanating apparently from a peg in the wall saying
"Will you give me Rs. 5 Dakshina for the Dasara?" And she answered she
would, if she was cured. At once she woke up from her dozing condition and
had the money sent up to Sai Samsthan. She began to improve and in some
hours, her agony considerably abated. This was in 1932.

To love God with all your soul: How can you do this if you don't know what
your soul is? Meditation is the way to know your Self as the soul. As you
progress in meditation, you suddenly realize. "I am not this little body
made of flesh. I am not all of these emotions and these habits. I am that
something which is behind this flesh, which is behind these thoughts, which
is surely directing the course of my life." Gradually you see that you are
the master of your own fate. You see you are that which is made in the image
of the Divine-the soul of Self within you. And you feel a sense of expansion
as your soul-awareness unfolds revealing itself as a part of the Infinite.
- Self-Realization

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