Satsang Efficacy of Sai Grace

Satsang Efficacy of Sai Grace

The worse was, however, still in the coming suffering from diabetes for two
decades with daily pokes of insulin and a strict, austere diet, he developed
gangrene of the foot in most pathetic circumstances. He was admitted into
hospital but despite the best of care it grew worse and spread to the entire
area below the knee. Much against his wishes, the affected portion was
amputated. This was a fatal decision which precipitated his end. The puss
reappeared after a few days and all types of complications like
thrombi-phlebitis, Uremia, Septicemia started. His last days were a
miserable sight, with blood transfusions, intravenous feeding of glucose and
saline bottles, and insertion of catheter tubes for-emptying urine and
hourly pokes of injections, all done simultaneously. He went into a coma for
13 days. During his last days lasting four months in hospitals, he was
constantly remembering Shri Sai Baba. My mother, Smt. K. Sunandanamma,
herself a staunch devotee, wept bitter tears night and day before Baba's
photo, pleading for His mercy and did several austerities. They were of no
avail. Just before the final moments my brother, Shri K. Bhakthavatsala Rao
while attending on my father in the night felt drowsy. When he opened his
eyes a little later he saw an old man, the exact likeness of Shri Sai Baba,
serenely sitting on a stool and looking intently at my father's face. My
brother, a maverick by attitude, was pleasantly surprised at the sight; but
he does not know when he sank into drowsiness again. When he re-opened his
eyes he saw my father going into severe convulsions. Minutes later his end
came when a quantity of phlegm coming into his mouth could not be vomited
out. Our urgent efforts failed as it went back and closed his respiratory
system. It was 12.30 midnight of 8/9 April 1963 Chaitra Purnima and Hanuman
Jayanthi day--a divine tribute to a man who celebrated Hanuman Jayanthi
every year. He went in the company of saints as his death closely followed
that of Swami Ramdas of Anand Ashram and Swami Shivananda Saraswati of
Rishikesh.

Looking back, I feel that Shri Sai Baba did not desert my father at any
time. Though he faced a cruel fate all through life, Shri Sai Baba in His
wisdom reserved His devotee the greatest gift of Moksha. An example can be
had from the sacred chapters of Shri Sai Satcharita itself Mhalasapati, His
earliest and most close devotee, was not helped material despite his extreme
poverty, Shri Sai Baba actually forbade his from accepting gifts of money.
Obviously He reserved t highest gift for him. Similarly, Lord Krishna
physically work against the mundane interests of Kama of Mahabharata through
his life but helped him with deliverance when he die manfully on the
battlefield against all cruel odds.

Every person has a carry over of self-imposed Karma injunctions
from previous births in varying degrees. It is closed back
to the mortal eye. Only the Kundalini inside man and a God-realised
Soul, a 'Sarvaantaryami, who can see it and prescribe what is best to each
man. Spiritual austeritie done with the right attitude of sincerity, alone
are the infallible antidote for the exacting processes of Karmic actions.
Else has to undergo sufferings till the account is closed. The ardent
devotees, if they face sufferings and disappointments, should not
blame Shri Sai Baba. Highest good comes only when face difficulties. My
father literally walked on the proverbial razor karmic edge all through his
life; but nevertheless he realised one big ambition though posthumously
and today we are all happy positions as Surgeons, Physicians, Engineers
and Lecturers. The tragedy of his life, however, was all the
more poking because he did not enjoy anything out of our bands. He
went without a debt of Karma to anybody. By his supreme sacrifice my
father consecrated himself to get the ultimate gift of life from the
ever-benevolent Shri Sai who Himself graced to come down to receive my
father personally and to take him by the Celestial Chariot to give him a
royal welcome at the portals His heavenly abode. It is an
inexorable axiom which Shri devotees should know is that His Grace is
always available abundance but it is only our holy which is not big
enough receive it. One should always try to enlarge it!
K. Navin Chand
Hyderabad

Source Shri Sai Leela Magazine June 1982)