Ramanatha Brahmachari used to feed Bhagavan with such love and devotion, Bhagavan felt he had been captured by his love. That is why Bhagavan said on one occassion, 'I am only afraid of two devotees, Ramanatha Brahmachari and Mudaliar Patti'. It was not a physical fear, it was more a feeling of helplessness. If a devotee has a strong, burning love for his Guru, the Guru is compelled to do anything that the devotee asks. Bhagavan always felt apprehensive whenever Ramanatha Brahmachari appeared because he knew he would not be able to resist any of his requests. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa once expressed the same idea when he said: 'When you have attained ecstatic love, you have found the rope to tie God with.'
~ from Power of the Presence, Part Three, by David Godman
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'I am only afraid of two devotees, Ramanatha Brahmachari and Mudaliar Patti'. It was not a physical fear, it was more a feeling of helplessness. If a devotee has a strong, burning love for his Guru, the Guru is compelled to do anything that the devotee asks.
That said, Bhagavan has never refused any devotee what they asked for. Even today, He looks after us like a Father taking care of all our needs. Does He not?
Can we forget His love for Lakshmi, for His mother, or the sparrow whoz egg cracked, or the squirrels abandoned by their mother, for Meditator Rabbit, for Annamalai Swamy, or the thousand others who prayed to Him from near and far.
Or His love for all those born after He left His physical body.
Have not the little ones blogging away captured His heart too ? But the Lord need fear us no more, for we will ask nothing, we will gladly accept what He gives us.
Which is so much more than we could have ever even imagined !
Keep smiling, little meditators!
Start the Day with Love;
Spend the Day with Love;
Fill the Day with Love;
End the Day with Love;
This is the way to God.
-Bhagwan Shri Sathya Saibaba
http://sailinks-sathyasaibaba.blogspot.com/
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