SRI SATHYA SAI HRUDAYA NIVASI

SRI SATHYA SAI HRUDAYA NIVASI (INDWELLER OF HEARTS) CHAPTER 22 ANOTHER MIRACULOUS CURE Swami often says that divinity is inherent in all His creation. Service to mankind should be spontaneously offered realizing this resident divinity principle. Such Seva becomes the highest form of worship "Hands that help are holier than the lips that Pray" is the oft-repeated advice of Swami. He further provides confidence that when we engage ourselves in seva activities as advised by Him, He would look after all our other cares, concerns and welfare. When somebody feels served and happy by our devoted and loving seva, it gladdens Swami. Being a Sai devotee, what else could be our ambition than making Swami happy? When Swami is happy, all the creation is happy and the Grace automatically accrues to us. Selfless seva pulls Swami to us in our own crisis needs even without a call or payers. This has been the experiences of many a devotee.

By His Grace, I have been very fortunate having experienced or having come to know the experiences of others in my life. In some of the earlier chapters, attempts have been made to inform the readers of few instances of flow of grace to the Seva Dal for selfless service. Yet another such an instance is described in the following pages.

Mr. Balaji is a Seva Dal volunteer in T'Nagar Samithi in Madras. All his father, mother, brother, wife are very much devoted to Swami and are active workers participating in service activities. They are also the ardent worshippers of Lord Ayyappa. Both father and son used to undertake pilgrimage to Sabari Hills every year. One day I went to their flat which they had recently purchased to discuss something about Samithi affairs. Only Balaji and his wife were there. I enquired the whereabouts of his father and mother. I learnt that his mother had been admitted into a hospital. She had been suffering from some stomach ailment having frequent loose motions.

In spite of the doctor's attendance and consultation and medication, there was no improvement and her health had been deteriorating day by day. As such she had to be hospitalized. Before taking leave, I told him not to worry and that Swami would look after his mother. During the next two weeks I did not meet him and was hoping that the mother would have recovered.

We missed them in Samithi Bhajans during the next two weeks I was very happy to see them again later on, when the entire family attended the weekly bhajans. After everybody had left, I casually enquired Balaji as to how was his mother. He replied that due to Swami's Grace she had turned around and for the next fifteen minutes, he was explaining to me how Swami's Grace had restored life to his mother.

After admitting her into the hospital she was under the constant care of the doctors, but she was not responding to any medication. Being an acute diabetic it complicated matters. Day-by-day she was sinking. A number of tests (including blood rests) revealed no clue or any cause for her present condition of health disorder. By the end of the week, her condition was still very bad and she was lapsing into a coma stage. She was very weak and the pulse also started dropping causing anxiety to everybody. The condition became so critical that ultimately one evening the doctors pronounced that she might not survive the night.

Meanwhile, the doctors were making all efforts to identify the reasons for and diagnose her sickness. One day during the casual enquiries and discussions with Shri Balaji, the doctors came to know that there was a 'slum' opposite to their residential flat. On this information, the doctors further enquired into the environmental condition of the locality. Pursuing further, the doctors found out that pigs used to roam in the nearby places of the flat. On a doubt, they took some more blood sample of the lady and the same was sent to veterinary hospital for analysts. Their fears were confirmed. She might have placed her feet on the excretion of the pigs and could have contact the virus of the animal. Being a diabetic patient, the matters had got complicated.