It was the first interview that Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba granted me. I was sitting on the Darsan sands, part of an assemblage for benediction, when I was beckoned to go to the interview room. Immediately something inexplicable began to happen inside me.
could not control the tears that were running down my cheeks in pro-fusion. I was in a daze as I entered the interview room. There were some twenty people, perhaps, in that room. With my moist eyes I could not even recognize my wife who had arrived before I did.
Bhagavan entered the room, made a beeline towards me and asked in Hindi, Kahan se aaya? My Hindi is poor. I thought I under-stood him as, "Where do you come from?" and answered in Telugu, "From Hyderabad." Even in the private interview behind the screen for me and my wife, I continued to be in the same dazed condition. He asked me what I wanted. I remember mumbling something and pointing towards my wife. She was all attention as Baba advised her about her problems. It was different with me. Those sacred words of advice were passing in through one ear and out through the other without anything registering in my brain. You may want to describe my predicament as something akin to devotional fervour. Obviously, Baba knew my condition. Offering His feet for Pada Namaskaram (the privilege of reverentially touching His Feet), He placed His loving hand on my shoulder. I recovered from my emotional upsurge and clearly heard His golden voice, Swami Anugrahamu Unnadi (Swami's Grace is with you). That very moment Swami transformed me. Perhaps, transmuted is the more appropriate word.
That was in the seventies. Through all these years, I realise that I have had Swami's Grace in attempting at answers to His simple but spiritual questions like, "Who are you?" and "Where do you come from?" I am a teacher by profession and I can express better on paper. The first question that came into my mind was, "Is Sri Sathya Sai Baba God?" The answer is my first book on Swami entitled Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The Story of God as Man. The next question on my mind was, "How can I understand God?" The second book, Our God and Your Mind, attempts at an answer-mind is the link between man and God. However, what does God actually want man to do? The answer is outlined in the third book, entitled God and His Gospel-the book formidable task. It was like painting in prose the portrait of an in-visible God. visible momentarily in a human form, but seen mostly in human imagination.
spiritual In spiritual language, man is triune-a three-in-one phenomenon-a combination of body, mind and spirit. The three books are not intended to be spiritual treatises by any stretch of imagination. They are select thoughts culled from Baba literature and collated in a logical sequence, with inspiration from Him. When I offered, in 1985, the draft of my first book in all humility, He blessed it with a comment, Manchidi achchu veyinchuko (Good-go ahead and have it printed). Over the years, He has also helped me with the necessary funds. He is encouraging me constantly in the smooth working of the project. He gives me a helping hand whenever I get stuck. He encourages me periodically with a kind look or a sweet smile in the Darsan lines. More important: He has pulled me out of the jaws of death a couple of times during this period! In spite of my being in the ninth decade of life, He is keeping my mind calm and cool, clean and clear. To help me with my writing, He has blessed me with a quiet room in His Aasram, Prasanthi Nilayam. In short, He has made me a better individual, permitting this change under His benign invisible supervision at the Aasram. To conclude that I am grateful to Him is a gross understatement.
This treatise, 'God and His Gospel' is a systematic literary composition on the Universal God, not belonging to any particular religion or cult. The term Gospel ('godspell") is considered synonymous with the Eternal Truths propounded by prophets in recent centuries and by sages in past millennia. They are also reflected in the basic creeds of all the great religions of the world-Hinduism and Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Sri Sathya Sai Baba has declared:
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