Final Part - Ramana Maharshi Devotee V. Kameswara Rao Shares His Experiences

(From ‘The Mountain Path’, April 1966)

Some elderly persons suggested that the moment Bhagavan saw my letter
he received a mental picture of my son bedridden with smallpox.

Later, however, Sri Bhagavatula Annapurnayya Sastri of Tenali gave an explanation that appealed more to me. “Was it necessary for you to write to Bhagavan in order for him to know what was happening in your house? Is he not all-pervading and all-knowing? But he does not interfere unless asked to and called upon.

If a man is singing in Bombay and you want to hear him you must switch on
the radio. If you don’t, the radio will not receive his song and you will not hear it, although he is singing just the same. Similarly if you want Bhagavan’s
blessings you must establish contact with him in the right way.”

Came the fateful year 1950 when Bhagavan left his body. Physically he is no more with us. But he remains forever in our hearts. There are thousands of humble folk like me who received from beloved Bhagavan things they could never return. Nor was any return expected. God fulfils human needs so that man may develop divine discontent. It is human nature to get and forget; it is divine nature to give and forgive.

Man is God’s child. Just as a parent satisfies the childish needs of a child, even though they may be ultimately unnecessary, so does God satisfy the immediate though temporary needs of man so as to stimulate a desire for the ultimate and eternal need the need to attain Godhead. Arthur Osborne wrote in The Incredible Sai Baba that Baba used to say: “I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them.”

Source: http://www.sriramanamaharshi.org/pdf/Saranagathi_eNewsletter_October_2010.pdf