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Excerpts from Students Talk
Sri Deepak
Divine Concern
Each one of us is in the very same situation. Any little
accomplishment, any little deed is always supported by the
unseen hand of our Beloved Lord. When I look back into the face
of time, I find a rainbow of memories flashing before me. There
is one thing I never failed throughout. It is the presence of
Bhagavan, saturated by His Love. Every moment is filled with His
omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience. However it is for us
to recognize this truth A couple of years ago, my parents along
with my brother and I were taking a walk down the shopping lanes
of London where we intended to make our purchases. On our way
out one of the supermarkets, my father accidentally happened to
put his hand into his hand baggage and to our dismay he found
all our passports missing!
We were initially panic stricken, but our faith in Bhagavan
removed all our fears. We searched all around the place,
retracting our steps but there was no sign of any of our
passports. My father went down the lane making inquiries, but
none of them brought us anywhere close to our passports. My
father finally decided to register the problem with the police
and started looking out for police officer.
As he proceeded, a young Englishman whom he saw for the first
time came straight to him and said. "You must be looking for the
lost and found department. Sir it is right over there," and gave
him some landmark. My father walked into the office of the
British cops, as he had been directed to. As he opened the door
of the lost - and found department, he saw the officer in-charge
just placing all our passports in a bag "Thanks God" His
exclamation was enough to inform the officer that those
passports belong to us.
Nevertheless he looked at my father with a smile and asked, "Are
these your passports? The answer of my father in the affirmative
seemed to delight the officer and on being asked how the
passports landed there, he said. "Didn't you meet anyone on the
way up?
My father said that there wasn't any one he met. But the officer
was not satisfied. He went on and said that the man who gave the
passports just left a few seconds before my father came in and
he said that he was the owner of the shop. My father just posed
one last question on his way out with passports. "How did he
look like? The reply to the question was enough to throw us back
in our seats and start thinking. Every single description
matched the splendor of our Beloved Bhagavan and we were deeply
thankful for all that he had done for our family.
It was about nine months after that Bhagavan appear in the dream
of my father and confirmed His presence at London in a very
unique way. The amount of concern Bhagavan has for each of us in
much more than what the word concern literally means. The
unfathomable ocean of His love goes far beyond our mind's
comprehension's. There is lot we students to learn from His
actions, from His words and lot to learn from His love.
We have to travel far beyond to be able to know actually how
fortunate each of us is to be with Bhagavan. What we see of Him
today is a very minute spectacle of what He actually is. Each
one of us is on a long journey, "from us to ourselves" and we
are immensely fortunate to have our goal. Bhagavan as our guide.
And on this journey, it is my constant prayer to Bhagavan that
He be with us and guide us throughout so that I may be an
instrument in His hands.
OM SAI RAM
Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saibabanews/message/29040
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