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Shirdi Sai and Sathya Sai are One
and the Same
By Arjan D. Bharwani
58 THE STREAM FLOWS ON....
The river of instance, confirming
the 'Oneness', has already become a forceful flow. However, some
important tributaries that augment the onward traverse, should not
be ignored. One such rivulet is the dream experience of Professor
V. K. Gokak, a near and dear prominent devotee of Sri Sathya Sai.
In a foreward of the book, "Life and Teachings of Sri Sai Baba of
Shirdi" by Shri T.S. Anantha Murthy of Bangalore, Professor Gokak
has narrated his dream in the following words, "I once dreamed
that an old man was pursuing me with two pretty girls by his side,
and he was persuading me to marry one of them. In my dream I did
not wish to marry either of the m. But the old man was running
after me, nimbler than myself and pleading that I should choose at
least one of them. I was so annoyed with him that I lost my
patience and said to him, "Who are you? Why are you pursuing me
and persecuting me in this fashion? Where do you come from? "I
came from Ahmednagar District", said the old man with a smile.
This did not mean anything to me in my dream. Out of sheer fatigue
and in order to get rid of the old man, I said that I would marry
the younger one of the two. It was only when I woke up in the
morning and remember the dream that I realized that it was Shirdi
Baba that had come to me, for Shirdi is in Ahmednagar District, in
Maharashtra. The purport of the dream had something to do with
what Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba was planning for me. It was
registered in a striking manner when the dream took a symbolic
turn, bringing Shridi Baba into the dream instead of Sathya Sai".
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