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Shri Kuthymba Rao
Bhagawan Sri Sathya
Sai Baba
Late Kutumba Rao was an
ardent devotee of Baba, he came to Parthi in late
40s to see who this wonder kid is, after being impressed and convinced
by
Bhagawan he stayed back and did a great service at various levels in
the
Trust and passed away in late 80s. I feel this is appropriate occasion
to
say that when he passed away in 1989 (I was a student in Parthi)
Swami had
asked senior students to go for visitation. Usually it was a custom
that
students were not allowed to go out of Hostel and Mandir. Swami
respected
him so much.
Well, this happened in 1950 when Shri Kutumba Rao came to Parthi for
Dharshan enroute to Tirupathi (the abode of Lord Venkateswara). His
intentions were to stay at Parthi for 3 days and from there to go to
Tirupathi for a couple of day's stay. As he spent time at Parthi,
attended
a few sessions of Chtravathi, bhajans he forgot the time. He only
realized
the time when his money coffers became empty. With full faith he
prayed to
Bhagawan for the success of his remaining part of the tour. As a
response to
that he heard a message in the evening that Swami would be leaving for
Brindavan by late evening, which means that he lost the opportunity to
talk
to Bhagawan in the next morning.
The determined Kutumba Rao prayed and
stayed. A few hours passed and Swami left for Brindavan. Shri Kutumba
Rao
was completely at lost as he left with penniless to go home or
continue his
journey. When he was in that dilemma a person came in search of Shri
Kutumba Rao and asked him are you Mr. Kutumba Rao. After hearing in
affirmative the stranger put a pocket in Kutmba Rao's hand, to his
pleasant
surprise, told him, Swami asked me to give you. Shri Kutumba Rao
opened and
found a set of currency notes in that packet.
The overjoyed devotee
thanked
the omniscient Lord and pursued his journey. He never counted how much
money
was there in that pocket. As the Lord sent, it should have sufficient
money
to take care of his journey. As he started spending money to his
delight he
kept on getting money. He reached home and after spending some time
with
family he went inside the Pooja room to open the packet to count the
money.
To his Surprise, there was only a Rupee note left in that.
This note is still in the Pooja room of the family members of Shri
Kutumba
Rao. That was the faith and that was the response of Lord.
Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saisruthi/message/43
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