Sai Pearls of Wisdom 44-B  “LOVE - TOLERANCE - POETIC TALENT". (With Subtitles).
Channel: Sai Pearls of Wisdom - Prof. Anil Kumar Kamaraju
Date: 2023-07-01

Bhagavan said that no one can understand His love, His Divinity. On the other hand, one should try to experience it rather than analyze Him. So, Swami’s depth of love is immeasurable and beyond our comprehension.

Swami not only loved everybody; everybody loved Him. There is a song composed during His sixtieth birthday:  

“Everybody loves Sai, Sai loves everybody
Everybody loves Sai, Sai loves everybody!”

It happens; it’s our experience. 

All teachers loved Him like anything, more than their own children! There was one teacher by name Mehboob Khan who taught English and Social Science, who was very popular among his students for his earnest and appealing teaching methods. He was an old bachelor and treated Sathya with unique affection. Sathya would dance, when lovingly compelled by His teacher, Mehboob Khan.

Mehboob Khan used to force Swami to accept sweets and savories that he brought to the school. He would say that his house was specially cleansed for the preparation of that dish, because he knew that Sathya would not eat anything having the remotest contact with non-vegetarian dishes. He would say that he himself had not taken food yet, Mehboob Khan! That he himself had not taken food yet, for he wanted Sathya to partake of it first. 

He would silently prolong stroking Sathya’s hair! Mehboob Khan recognized quite early the great power that Sathya was! His friends, however, treated Him as not different from themselves and Sathya did not harp on any differences. In fact, He believed in sharing. Sathya would bring groundnuts in His pencil box.

Once in the sixth class, when He was not in the classroom, Gajula Krishnayya, one of His schoolmates, stole the groundnuts! When Sathya returned, he asked Krishnayya, “Why did you steal all of them? You should have kept some for Me!” Just He passed a negative remark, that’s all!

Another great feature that we find in Swami is that He is a great composer. He composed many songs and tuned them and made everybody sing along with Him.

At Kamalapuram, a provision store-keeper named Kote Subbana wanted Sathya to write a jingle for the medicine he sold. Sathya would one day speak of him in later years.

This is what Baba said, “Kote Subbana knew that I would compose poems and songs. He would come to our school now and then and tell me, “Such and such a medicine has come. Certain stocks of medicines have arrived. Write some advertisements for them.” I used to write suitable jingles for them and then take the boys along with Me around the town singing the jingles! 

Kote Subbana had a small bamboo mat. We would fix a stick to it and on the mat, paste the written matter to be advertised. We went around the place, singing in praise of the products. Kote Subbana would feel very happy to hear the jingles and he would give Me the articles and books that I needed. 

At that time, a new medicine called Bala-Bhaskara had come. He pressed me to write an advertisement for this medicine. I took up the work and wrote a poem as follows:

I will give you the English translation to the original Telugu version, composed by Baba Himself.

“We have found Bala-Bhaskara!
Come, come O boys!
Illness of all sorts, pains and swollen hands;
Good for all troubles, diseases of worst types!
Come, come, O boys!
If you ask where to get it, everyone knows it.
Look, look here at Kote Subbana’s shop.
Come, come O boys!
Pandit D. Gopalachari’s precious tonic!
Come, come O boys!”

When Swami sang this jingle, Kote Subbana was thoroughly pleased. When the trained boys began to sing in the bazaar, he distributed money to all of them.

“Other shopkeepers who heard the songs written and sung in this manner, began to approach Me. They began inviting Me, while I was in school or in the house, to write jingles for their product. If they supplied the subject matter, I willingly wrote for them the text for the advertisement!” 

An excellent writer His compositions are poetic and the language He used is easily understood by everyone.

Now, His Divinity, declared much later, was indicated quite early. As I said last time, it was His grandfather who recognized His Divinity. 

Later, another incident had happened. One noteworthy incident that took place at Kamalapuram involved a rocking chair. One day, while no one was around to object, young Sathya Narayana sat in the chair, rocking Himself back and forth. Quite unannounced, Seshama Raju’s brother-in-law, Subba Raju, entered the room. He was infuriated to see the boy enjoying the luxury of the rocking chair. 

He shouted at Sathya, “Are you a prince that you want a swinging chair?”

On hearing these remarks, Sathya felt very hurt and immediately resorted,  “You do not understand now who really I am! You shall see in time whether I am a prince or something bigger than that! This Sathya will take His seat on a chair, nay, on a throne, empanelled with silver!” 

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