Fwd: Glory of the Divine Names of Sri Sathya Sai – OM SRI SAI LOKA RAKSHÄ PARÄYANÄYA NAMAH - (42)
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Subject: Fwd: Glory of the Divine Names of Sri Sathya Sai – OM SRI SAI LOKA RAKSHÄ PARÄYANÄYA NAMAH - (42)
From: Ramya Sethuratnam <devotion.region9@sssgc-usa.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 5:01 AM
Subject: Glory of the Divine Names of Sri Sathya Sai – OM SRI SAI LOKA RAKSHÄ PARÄYANÄYA NAMAH - (42)
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OM SRI SAI LOKA RAKSHÄ PARÄYANÄYA NAMAH - (42) Salutations to Sri Sai, who is solely devoted to protecting the whole world.
While explaining in the Gita why He incarnates, Bhagawan has declared, 'Paritrânâya Sadhunâm', meaning thereby, 'I am born from age to age to protect the good people'. In His present avatar, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is constantly engaged in the task of protecting good people.
Here is a story about how Swami protected a noble devotee of His. Sri Radhakrishna of Kuppam was an ardent devotee of Swami. He was suffering from flatulence and whenever the problem became acute, he would suffer from unbearable stomach ache and severe vomiting. Once when these symptoms surfaced, the vomiting and pain left him so weak that he could not even walk a single step without the support of two helpers. So, the doctor injected him with a tranquilizer so that he could get some sleep. On seeing him fast asleep, his family members retired for the night. After some time, when one of them woke up, he found that Radhakrishna was not in bed. They started looking for him all over and could not understand how he could have gone anywhere, since he was unable to take even a single step without help.
When they could not trace him in the house, they came out and started calling out to him aloud. There was a response from a nearby well. They all rushed there. The well was very deep and the wall was five feet high. They wondered as to how he could have fallen in, yet could see him standing with both hands raised as if somebody was supporting him from below. So, his son threw in a twenty feet long bamboo for support, but the well was so deep that it fell in the water. Just then a policeman who was on night-duty reached there. He brought a chair from the house, tied it to a rope and dropped it inside the well but in vain, for that too, could not reach Radhakrishna. Finally, his son tried to go down by the steps of the well, to lift him up with His hands but that effort also failed. And then suddenly, as if someone pushed him from below, Radhakrishna was thrown up and he landed exactly in the chair. He was pulled up with the rope.
When he was brought out safely, everyone enquired what exactly happened. He answered, "The agony was so unbearable that I decided to end my life and went towards the well. I don't remember what happened later, but I recovered consciousness with the touch of the cold water and realized that I was standing on some sort of a support". When the family asked the policeman how he reached there, he said, "When I was patrolling in the area nearby, an old man came to me and said, 'Go immediately. Radhakrishna needs your help'. So, I came here." Although he had fallen from such a great height, he was completely unhurt -only the metallic vibhuti case in his pocket was crushed beyond recovery.
The next morning, they hired a cab and all of them left for Puttaparthi, to seek Swami's darshan. The moment they reached Prasanthi Nilayam, they saw Swami standing on the verandah. He smiled and said," My shoulders are still hurting. All of last night, I was carrying you over them!". They all fell at Swami's divine lotus feet...
OM SRI SATHYA SAINATH ARPANAM ASTU
With pranams at the lotus feet of our dear Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai baba,
Devotional Wing, SSSGC USA