SREE GURU CHARITRA
Special Thanks to Venkat Ratnam P for his wonderful effort in typing this entire book of Sree Guru Charirta written by Acharya E Bharadwaj
A brief write up by Venkat Ratnam P
Dear elders, sisters and brothers,
SAIRAM. My
humble pranams at the DIVINE LOTUS FEET. Today i wish to dedicate
a small work to HIM.
My
father left most precious property for me and let me tell you that
the only thing i have given by him. Swami gave me education and
father gave me this book SREE GURU CHARITRA by Acharya
E.Bharadwaja. It is a work on compilation of the avatars of Sree
Dattatreya. The author had translated this from the original
marathi version. This particular book has been my strength and
support over the last 7 years since i got in 1997 from my father
when i was in my 2nd year graduation. It is a book with 23
chapters and my parents used to do PARAYANAM (read it in
equivalent proportions over a period of 7 days from Thursday to
Wednesday). I was also asked to do this as the family was
undergoing a turbulent financial crisis. I found it difficult to
read the book in the beginning, so daddy told me to read one
particular para in chapter-9 every day 11 times if i could not
complete the book...................
Now
coming to the book, it was on July 2nd, 2004, i had AKHANDA
BHAJAIN (i.e, from the evening of 1st july - 2nd july evening).
Since i am alone and could not invite anybody else to the bhajain
owing to my situation, i had 4 audio casettes of bhajains which i
was playing and singing along with music. The evening of 1st July
went very well, there was adequate power supply and the whole
night was spent well in singing, in the morning there was power
cut and i could not sing many bhajains on my own, therefore i
decided to stop bhajains and do the parayanam of this book, and
thereby read all the 23 chapters during the day. At the time i was
reading this book, a thought came to me for the first time, "I
must type the entire book and make it available to everybody where
all can have access to it as the book is out of print since 1980s.
And this book is not available at book centres anymore. This is my
GURU DAKSHINA on this holy day to THE ETERNAL GURU"
That night itself after i finished the bhajain and arathi was
shown in the evening, i began to work on this without any delay. I
completed 18 chapters in 6 days, but then all of a sudden i was
unable to sit on the book anymore. Something or the other came up
in my way to finish this book. Now i wish to make it available in
parts which will make it easy for your reading.
Our
Lord SAI is the incarnation of SHIRDI BABA and SHIRDI BABA is an
incarnation of LORD DATTATREYA. To illustrate this with a
testimony, i wish to recollect an incident which occured in the
late 1980s. I was studying at Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar, Ooty.
Ooty school was Swami's summer venue. Swami used to visit the
school regularly every year in the summer. As per the practice,
Swami always halted for refreshments of the devotees accompanying
HIM at the Mudumalai Wild Life Sanctuary on the way from Bangalore
to Ooty. During one such trip, Swami stood for a photo session. As
he stood there, the cool breeze blew and Swami's robe was not in
position owing to the wind. Therefore Mrs.Ratanlal rushed to
straighten Swami's robe at his feet, but swami sighed her not to
come near HIM. Later when the photo was developed, SWAMI was seen
as DATTATREYA standing with a cow behind him. This was later
narrated to us children at the school by our
Teachers...................... I
thank our beloved LORD to give me this opportunity.
Regards
Venkat
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