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Bhagawan’s
abounding Love is indeed the cause and the effect is His
creation, and there are myriad ways for Him to express His
bounteous Love to His creation. Every word, every gesture,
every look of His is suffused with His Love and compassion.
Every devotee knows that He cannot endure the pain of
suffering of others that He pours out His heart in sympathy
with the distressed, the weak, the downtrodden and the
afflicted and that, it is this overwhelming Love of His that
binds all to Him, in silken bond of affection.
It was Dasara at Puttaparthi,
long ago, the fourth day, at about 9 P.M. Bhagawan sent word
to a band of young men that they must assemble in the hall
for some urgent work, and within a few minutes, there were
double the number, eagerly awaiting His orders. Everyone
wondered what that could be! Well, Baba came and explained
that the buntings and flags with which the Nilayam and the
garden were decorated since the first day of Dasara had
faded slightly and become dull in colour and so they had to
be replaced by fresh ones, to be prepared and fixed during
the night! The work engaged everyone till the smaller hours
of the night and Baba was with the party all the time,
attending to every details. Some one dared asking Him the
reason for the extra attention upon the 5th day of Dasara
and the reply he got was this: “Don’t you know that tomorrow
your Bandhus come for the feast?” and this everyone knew!
For, the next day was the day the poor, the Daridranarayanas
were coming to the Nilayam to receive Prasadam and Vastram
(clothes) from His Hands! But, who could imagine that His
Love was so great, so deep, so all embracing as to celebrate
the arrival of the poor by this ‘de novo’ decoration? When
some one told Him that the feeding of thousands of people
and the distribution of hundreds of saris and dhotis should
be published in the news papers, He turned towards him and
asked “What! Do you publish in papers the news that your
friends and relatives came to your house?”! We have,
everyone of us, to learn the lesson of those flags.
Verily, it has been truly sung, “Karuna (compassion) indeed
is He; He is indeed Karuna”. In the Viveka Chudamani, the
Guru is described as Ahethukadayasindhu; His Grace is
showered on all without interruption and without cause! Such
is our Master, our Beloved Bhagawan. Truly His Love is all
conquering and His Grace is overwhelming that bind us in
silken bond of affection. |