This is the biography of Professor N. Kasturi, the chosen biographer of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. This book is his autobiography, his story, his journey to the feet of the Lord, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. In his own words, "Each of us has to live the volume of biography, which we bring with us, as often as we are born, page after page, chapter after chapter, howsoever punctuated with dots and dashes, interrogations and exclamations, commas and colons, until the sentence ends ultimately with a Full Stop. But, luckily, I have as my inseparable companion and counsel, Bhagawan Himself; He dots the i’s and crosses the t’s as I live the lines on every page. He has made the Book of Life, my biography – momentous and meaningful for me. I must, however, confess that I do not deserve this book on me, by me. There are, I know, millions, who are absorbing the Love of the Living Loving God much deeper, who can, therefore, stand forth as messengers of His Love. They can lead the unloved and the unloving with surer and firmer steps, to the Presence of the Redeemer, the Comforter, the Saviour, the Avatar, the Sai. Nevertheless, when Bhagawan manifested a faint, favourable interest, when someone ventured to whisper to me in His Presence, that a bunch of my reminiscences may be welcomed by many, I was promoted by that smile to embark on this audacious adventure. My memory assumed the role of Chief Editor and hence, the chronicle suffers from imperfect chronology. Since the four parts of “Sathyam Sivam Sundram” relate most of that I have yearned to communicate, this book has become a personal testament, often perhaps too personal to be tolerated, for which act of indiscretion, I ask for pardon. Flattery is the food of fools, say those, who are denied that pabulum. I dare not deny my taste, for I have been fooled by flatterers, who threw appellations like poet, scholar, linguist, humourist, philosopher, and even ant-hill sage! Please dear reader, remember that I am struggling my best to eliminate the poison of the ego and sympathise with me, whenever you find the reptile raising its hood between the lines of this book. A few ‘old students’ of my classes at the University, my grandson, his wife, and a few brothers at Prasanthi Nilayam demanded that I should not give up the work and insisted on the completion of the book. As a result, this book, ‘Loving God’ is now placed at the Feet of the Lord and on the palms of those, who live in the Love of the Lord. Jai Sai Ram.
Responding to the yearnings of the people of East Africa for His grace, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba made a divine visit to that place by leaving Mumbai on 30th June, 1968. Sri. N. Kasturi, who was one of the fortunate few to have basked in His divine sunshine during that visit, has brought out this booklet, 'The Light Of Love', in two parts. In the first part, he has given a vivid narration of the places graced by Bhagawan, covering the whole tour, starting from the gathering at Mumbai airport, on 30th June, 1968, till Bhagawan's return on 15th June, 1968, before an assembly of 20,000 eagerly awaiting devotees, including Dr. K. M. Munshi, at the same airport. The author has narrated the tour in such a way that the reader can have the feeling of having visited the places with Bhagawan. The author has also given a couple of responses received from the people of that region, after the return of Bhagawan, to show how Bhagawan's divine visit had impressed that people of East Africa. The second part consists of seven discourses that Bhagawan gave in Nairobi, Kampala and one interactive session with the fortunate lawyers, doctors, Rotarians, and Lion club members of that place and during which Bhagawan was kind enough to answer and clear their doubts.
Prof. N. Kasturi, who had the extreme fortune of being close to Bhagawan Baba, has brought out in this volume the life story of the Divine Avatar from His birth in 1926 to 1961. For those, who are unaware of Baba’s might, this book will reveal His mahimas and leelas.
“I resolved on My birth. I decided who should be My mother.” On December 31, 1970, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba announced thus, in answer to a question from the Editor of ‘Nav Kaal’, the Bombay Daily. “That is to say...,” the Editor stuttered. “That is to say,” Baba interrupted him, “I resolved on My birth. I decided who should be My mother. Mere humans can only choose the one, who is to be the husband or wife. But, the Mother was chosen by the son in the Rama and Krishna incarnations and then too, as now, the task, for which the birth was decided upon, was the same - the conferring of Prema on all and through the fostering of Prema, the cultivation of Righteous Living among Mankind.” The Mother Sai Baba decided upon was Eashwaramma, a poor, middle-aged, tender-hearted, pious, illiterate, rural housewife. She had mothered seven children, three of whom had survived into teenage and beyond. Eashwaramma, like every other Hindu housewife, was conversant with the Telugu ballads, legends, folksongs, and tales that have gathered around Krishna and Rama. Nevertheless, it took years of intimate observation and hundreds of inexplicable incidents and intimations to convince her that this child she had fondled, this boy she had doted on had come to prove the Bhagavata and the Ramayana as true and as valid now, as they were then. This book is a humble tribute to the historic role that Eashwaramma was invested with and the steadfast courage, with which she enacted the role and encountered the challenge.
Gurudev, a beautiful summary of the spiritual life of Prof. N. Kasturi, traces his journey, in his own words, from the divine grace of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to the Lotus Feet of the Compassionate, Merciful, and Divine One, our beloved Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Renowned all over the world as Bhagawan's biographer and the translator of His divine discourses, Prof. N. Kasturi describes, in Gurudev, how our beloved Swami captured his heart and soul and guided him ever onward, towards the Lotus Feet of the Divine.
Prof. N. Kasturi, who had the extreme fortune of being close to Bhagawan Baba, has brought out in this volume the life story of the Divine Avatar from 1973 to 1979. For those, who are unaware of Baba’s might, this book will reveal His mahimas and leelas.
This second volume of “Sathyam Sivam Sundaram” narrates the life history of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, covering the period 1962 to 1968, when He was at the age of 36 to 42 years, in Prof. N. Kasturi’s inimitable, poetic style. Prof. N. Kasturi is the chosen biographer of Bhagawan, who lived with Swami and experienced the Divine Leelas, during these years and it is most appropriate to get this first-hand information from his writings for our benefit. Bhagawan’s historic letter dated 25.05.1947, in His own handwriting declaring His task, vow, and mission is included in this volume. Many incidents and miracles that happened during this period with Bhagawan’s grace are brought out in this volume most interestingly, along with many, appropriate photographs, which will form a garland for the living and loving Divinity, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Prof. Kasturi gives a clarion call to all: “Come! Give me your hand. We shall go along, page after page, sharing the wonder and the wisdom, the awe and the mystery, the truth and the testimony, the glory and the grandeur, and the abundance of the peace.”
“Know Me as the Teacher of Truth, Sathyam Sivam Sundaram” Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba has said. Chronicled by Professor N. Kasturi, the biographer of the Avatar of the Age, this third volume of Sathyam Sivam Sundaram, depicting the Divine life covering the period from 1969 to 1972, highlights a variety of epoch making events, such as the inauguration of Dharmakshetra in Mumbai, in May, 1968, by Bhagawan, after it was built in an incredible hundred and eight days of dedicated work, the first World Conference and the historic public meeting addressed by Bhagawan at Mumbai, in which the then Deputy Prime Minister of India, Sri Morarji Desai took part, and the miraculous cure of Kulapathi Dr. K. M. Munshi from Parkinson’s disease by Baba, as narrated by Dr. Munshi himself. The Divine tour of Africa is unique in its portrayal, as the biographer takes the readers virtually along with him, with his beautiful narration. The establishment of the college for women at Anantapur, for the uplift of women, by Bhagawan in June, 1966, the manifestation of jyotir linga, which lay hidden at the Somanath Temple in Sourashtra, curing a strange malady, with which the doctors of Dibrugarh were afflicted, and the installation of Shirdi idol at Guindy, Chennai are some of the many Divine leelas narrated by the author in his own inimitable style.
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