L'articolo che segue, pubblicato recentemente sul "The Post" Sud
Africa, descrive le manifestazioni miracolose che si verificano
nella casa di una famiglia di devoti di Sathya Sai Baba nel
Sudafrica. Questi fenomeni si verificano frequentemente in molte
case e templi dedicati a Sai Baba nei più disparati luoghi della
Terra. Il Prof. N. Kasturi, biografo ufficiale e forse il più grande
conoscitore della vita di Sathya Sai Baba, parlava di "diversi
migliaia di casi nel mondo". Esiste in proposito una ampia
documentazione fotografica. Vibhuti (cenere sacra) e altre sostanze
come kumkum o haldi, sgorgano spontaneamente da immagini di Sai Baba
o di altre divinità. Tali fenomeni sono più frequenti durante la
recita dei bhajans devozionali, per esempio nella giornata di
giovedì, ma spesso sono continuativi nel tempo e possono durare
ininterrottamente per decenni. Spesso si verificano flussi di amrita
(nettare) e talvolta si sono verificate manifestazioni di latte,
burro o altre sostanze succherine. Questi segni, che oltrepassano
ogni spiegazione razionale e scientifica, testimoniano la presenza
in forma sottile di Sai Baba accanto ai Suoi devoti nel mondo,
laddove il Suo nome e la Sua forma sono ricordati.
Om Sai Ram
Articolo pubblicato sul "The Post", Sud Africa il 17 Marzo 2004
Fonte:
http://www.thepost.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=154&fArticleId=375687
http://www.saibabalinks.org/saibabainthemedia.htm
Divine blessing
March 17, 2004
By Prinella Pillay
In what is being described as a divine blessing, a staunch Sai
Baba-devoted Isipingo family is experiencing what they say are
miracles in their home - with the formation of ashes and kungum
around their prayer place and walls, and the appearance of candy and
honey dripping freely from the eyes of a Sai Baba statue.
Widowed Rani Naicker, 50, a factory worker of Egret Crescent,
Lotus Park, who shares a rented home with her three children,
factory workers Sagren, 21, and Kumaran, 24, unemployed Nicole, 25,
and her (Nicole's) three-year-old daughter Shenay, said they were
blessed a day after the kavady festival in February, when Sagren
noticed ashes forming on the top of a poster which featured Sai
Baba's head.
Since then, the family claims, there has been an overflow of
ashes, kungum, turmeric powder, sugar candy and pink sweets,
including the continuous dripping of sweet honey from a statue.
These have mysteriously materialised.
Ashes have also formed on several pictures of Sai Baba, Shridi
Baba, Mother Mary and on the frame of a picture of Naicker's late
husband, Manny Naicker.
Naicker, a Sai Baba devotee for 30 years, and her family have
been living in a single bedroom and kitchen for about 25 years.
They have no running water and rely on neighbours and on an
electricity coupon, for their needs. But their hardships have not
stopped Naicker from holding a daily service in her home and
attending sathsangs at the local Lotus Park Dharma Mandhir.
"I feel Baba's touch and his blessings help me progress in life.
He takes away my problems. I am a plain and simple person but Baba
has blessed me. When I first saw what was happening, I fell on my
knees and prayed, and thanked Baba for entering my home."
Naicker, who was formerly with the Malagazi Sai Centre and is now
with the Mandhir, said she got closer to Baba after her husband
(then 38) suffered a stroke and died about 17 years ago.
Feeling deserted and disconnected, Naicker said she received a
"message" from Baba telling her that she would not be alone "when I
am here for you".
"I never expected that Baba would visit me. As a mother I am
alone with my children, but Baba is our guardian and protector and
he is now showing us his presence." With the dream of one day
travelling to Sai Baba's ashram in Prashanti Nalayam, India, an
emotional Naicker said she would continue serving Sai Baba.
South African Sai Organisation president Dr Reggie Reddy said the
"miracles" were for the people of the house and their particular
spiritual relationship with Sai Baba.
"It is a personal and unique occurrence for their particular
spiritual evolution. It is for the family to realise the
omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience of Sai Baba."
Reddy added that these manifestations "were to realise the
comforter more than the comforts - and the comforter is the Purna
Avtaar of the age of Kaliyuga, which is Sai Baba himself".
