The entire matter in the universe is a form of thai universal spirit.
Just like our mind takes the form of our dream world, that universal
spirit takes the shapes of all things. ThN spirit also works in our
body. The perfect working condition, of that force in us is the cause
of our good health. The imperfect working of that spirit in our body
due to the karmic effeca of our previous life is called ill health.
This view is declared by all the ancient medical systems. Due to the
penance of Satpurusha, that force will be very vigorous in them and
works] with great power. It commands the natural forces in the forrffi
of miraculous experiences when God wants to accomplish great things
through those satpurusha. We can see such2 miraculous experiences in
the life histories of Akkalkotaj Maharaj, Sainath, Sree Ramana and in
Gurucharitra. In the same way they influence the natural forces in our
body and^ cure the incurable diseases in us. Such people who get such^
help will tread the path ofAtmagnana with great devotion and faith. In
this way satpurusha work for the uplift of human|
race.
I will mention some such experiences in this chapter.
Pallamreddy Krishnareddy used to take the darsan of | Sri Swamy very
frequently. One day one of his friends ;
accompanied him to Sri Swamy. On seeing Sri Swamy he said "what kind of
swamy is he ? He looks like a beggar". He stood there for a while with
these thoughts in his brain. In the meanwhile a person suffering from
scorpion bite came to Sri Swamy for relief.
Swamy:- "What can it do? It will go". We cannot know the miraculous
power working behind these two words. In the next minute he got rid of
all his pain and went home peacefully leaving his grateful heart with
Sri Swamy. On witnessing this miracle, the above stranger prostrated
before Swamy with wholehearted devotion. Soon after their departure,
Sri Swamy said "Ayyaa! is not a scorpion sting very painful. Perhaps
that bhaktha would not have understood how painful it is".
Sri Swamy lost his title "mad Venkaiah" and got the respectable title
"Venkaiah Swamy". When there are diseases like domma, nerini, sorefopL
and such diseases in cattle and cholera, small pox like diseases in
men, a man or two came and represented it to Sri Swamy. Sri Swamy used
to give them incense and thread with his scared touch and blessings and
asked them to put the vapours of the incense to the cattle and get the
pieces of thread tied to the cattle sheds. By next minute there was no
loss of life at all in that village. There are innumerable cases of
cure of scorpion stings and snake bite with a single word of Sri Swamy.
Even today his Samadhi is responding to the call of such people who are
in distress.
Obaiah, the son of Sanjeevaiah (Nagualvellatur) was a play mate of Sri
Swamy. He was suffering from asthma for a very long time. When all the
medical and tantric sources failed, he represented his sufferings to
Sri Swamy. Sri Swamy massaged all his body with his palm. From that day
he got rid of that chronic disease all through his life.
Korrakuti Haranathnaidu was losing blood through his mouth. He used
some allopathic medicine. It was slightly better but after a few days
his suffering began as usual. So he resorted to Sri Swamy. He vowed to
offer Sri Swamy a coconut if his disease was cured. Without any
medicines his suffering vanished permanently.
Vallapureddy Tulasammagaru, one day told Narasamma like this :- once
upon a time a man suffered a lot from stomach ache. All his medical
efforts failed. On hearing about Swamy he came to Sri Swamy and stayed
for some days. His stomach pain was reduced a lot but not completely.
One night he had a dream vision in which Sri Swamy was sitting on the
top of the flames of his sacred fire. The flames were twenty five feet
high. He cried with great fear.
Next morning, Sri Swamy said to him "Ayyaa ! your pain will not
increase or decrease than this. So you better go home". He did so.
One day the bull of Narasareddy was bitten by a snake. With a swollen
stomach it was vomiting saliva without touching fodder and water. The
condition was hopeless. They took the bull to Swamy in a bullock cart.
Sri Swamy touched the wound of snake bite and took a long breath and
released the air. At once the bull got up, passed urine and dung and
began to graze fodder. Every body were astonished at the yogic powers
of Sri Swamy.
One day Sri Swamy gave a chit to this Narasareddy (Kalichedu). He
stated that he has got a "snake- peril", but the Veeraraghava Swamy of
Tiruvulluru will save him from the danger. After some time Narasareddy
got into the gadhe (a mud made structure to store the grain, it is of
six feet height and three feet in diameter) to take the paddy which was
at the bottom of the gadhe. He touched some thing smooth like a frog.
He changed his step and again touched the same, where ever he kept his
leg he touched the same thing. He looked with the help of a lantern. To
his utmost horror, he found that it was a big cobra. At once he jumped
up the Gadhe and killed that cobra. Every body wondered how he was
still alive even after stepping on that cobra. On verification, he
found the chit of Sri Swamy given to him long ago conveying his
blessings through that chit averting the snake peril.
Vakkamma suffered the bite of a bad worm. All her skin was infested
with scars with itching effect. She tried so many Mantras and tantras.
She has eaten a basket full of pepper with mantra but in vain. She
heard of Sri Swamy and came for relief. She stood at Sri Swamy from ten
AM. to four PM. She did not try to tell him a word nor Sri Swamy asked
her. At last Sri Swamy asked Chalamanaidu to ask her what she wanted.
Before she opened her lips Sri Swamy said "Vakkamma had the bite of bad
worm. It will be out with a single stroke. The wonders of wonder is
that Sri Swamy called her by name. It was her first visit. No body knew
her name, there. Sri Swamy called her with her name and also told her
ailment. Her faith in Swamy got deeply rooted in her heart even at the
first sight. Without using any medicine or mantra, gradually with in
three days all the bad effects of the worm bite vanished. There after
she began to spend much of her time in his presence and service. She is
the second women devotee who got the assurance of liberation from the
birth and death cycle.
A five years old child had an abscess, in her stomach and suffered
great pain. All the doctors and quack treatments and tantric treatments
failed. As a last resort they brought the baby to Swamy. Sri Swamy took
her to a well with steps. He held her on his two hands, face and
stomach down wards and dropped her on the water from a height of six
feet. Immediately he brought the child and kept heron the floor and
gently pressed her stomach with his foot. All the bad matter came out
of her mouth, nose and anus. Within a few days, without any medicines
the child picked up good health. In the life history of Baba also,
Abdul stepped on the abscess, of Kaka and all the bad matter went out.
Korrakuti Bujjaiah once suffered numbness all over his body as a blood
vessel on the neck was pressed under a bone in the -back bone. He took
treatment at a neurosurgeon, Ramamurthy, Madras. But he could not get
full relief. Onej day he spoke to Sri Swamy about his suffering. Sri
Swamy ' just pressed his neck with his palm. From that day onwards he
never had that complaint in his
life.
Gutha Narasamma was in the service of Sri Swamy from a long time. Now
and then she wished to go home and see her relatives. But Sri Swamy did
not permit her to go home. One day Sri Swamy gave her a chit saying
that Narasamma and Tulasamma were dead. From that moment she never had
the desire to go home, leaving the service of Sri Swamy. Thus Sri Swamy
cut off her ties with her family.
This Narasamma suffered a lot due to a troubled knee and could not fold
her leg. She had applied "Udhi" but in vain. One day they told Sri
Swamy about her suffering. Sri Swamy asked them to give her a chit
stating that her pain would not come again. There after she never felt
that complaint at all. Eswaramma (Kalichedu) had an abscess in her
stomach and looked like a pregnant lady. The doctors advised her to get
an operation to her stomach. Due to her previous intimacy with Sri
Swamy she petitioned her plight to Sri Swamy. Sri Swamy said "Mother!
if you pay a hundred rupees to the sacred fire you will get rid of your
trouble. At once she took a loan and paid the amount to Sri Swamy even
without going home. On that night in her dream Sri Swamy operated her
stomach. To the utter amazement of all, the swelling in the stomach
vanished and her belly was normal. She was the chosen devotee of Sri
Swamy all through her life.
In 1975 a young man got some mental effect and was very ferocious. He
was tied with ropes and was brought to Sri Swamy when all their other
medical efforts failed. Sri Swamy ordered him to be kept in the smoke
of his sacred fire. By force four men held him in the smoke for one and
half an hour. Within a week he gradually became normal, without any
further medical aid.
In 1979 a lady brought her 22 year old son who had lost the balance of
mind for the last two years. Sri Swamy ordered her to keep him in his
presence for some days. In due course his mind became stable and went
home with the permission of Sri Swamy. Till today his mother worships
Sri Swamy's picture.
One day a leper was in the presence of Sri Swamy. On that night Sri
Swamy was groaning with pain. At midnight Rosireddy held the feet
of'Sri Swamy to massage them for some relief. At once Sri Swamy said
"Abbo! Abbo you should not touch me at this time. Get away from me".
After an hour there appeared a crack with swelling under the thumb of
Rosireddy's feet. It looked like the symptoms of leprosy. Rosireddy
understood that it was the result of touching Sri Swamy when he took on
himself the suffering of a leper for redressel. He took to intense
Namajapa for a few days and by the grace of Sri Swamy he got rid of
that pain without any medicine. Thus the merciful Swamy used to take
the diseases on his body and suffered the pain for the sake of his
devotees who were unable to bear that pain and suffering. He is the
loving mother of all.
The wife ofKaranam Subbarao (Golagamudi) suffered with asthma for a
number of years. In spite of their allopathic treatment with thousands
of rupees of expenditure, she could not improve in her condition. They
brought her to Sri Swamy for his blessings. Sri Swamy said " leave your
building at Anikepalli and live at Golagamudi. You will be all right
with in twenty days. Untill I tell you, do not construct a new house at
Golagamudi". They followed Sri Swamy's advise. The disease which
troubled her for so many years vanished even before twenty days.
In 1981 their thatched shed at Golagamudi collapsed due to cyclone.
With out informing Sri Swamy the Karanam family went into their
building at Anikepalli. At once she was bed ridden and underwent an
operation at Nellore. But yet her health was not recovered. Again they
prostrated before Sri Swamy and begged for his mercy and relief. Sri
Swamy said "If you live in the thatched shed at Golagamudi you will be
all right". He gave them a chit with the above words. Soon after her
stay in the thatched house at Golagam udi her health began to improve.
Every day she worshipped the padukas of Sri Swamy with great devotion
and gratitude. Only a sadguru can make a person observe the code of
conduct in the path of devotion with sradda and Bhakthi !
Talluru sreenivasulu (Nellore) was suffering with blood pressure and
heart pain. He had an inexplicable fear even from his childhood. When
he took the blessings of Sri Swamy he got rid of all these sufferings.
So even today with grateful heart, he comes with his associates and
plays Nadaswaram free of charge for all the functions of Sri Swamy at
Golagamudi.
Maddineni Kamakshammma (Degapudi village) served Sri Swamy for a very
long time. Once she was suffering with pains in the waist. Sri Swamy
prescribed many leaf juices etc. but was not cured. One day Sri Swamy
gave her a chit "By day after tomorrow it will go clean as it is
removed from your body". Even after a number of years she never got
that pain again. One day Sri Swamy advised her "Mother! Veera Raghava
Swamy is your brother, conduct bhajan. You will not get any diseases.
Don't eat fish and mutton". Her son had no issues even after a span of
ten years after their marriage. They asked Sri Swamy about his problem.
Sri Swamy promised them three children. They said "Swamy! they did not
get any for such a long time. How can they get now?" Sri Swamy replied
"Mother! I have stopped children as they belonged to other castes. Now
I am leaving the vysya children of Venkatagiri town". He also gave a
chit to that effect. Within an year he got a male child. But the mother
had no breast milk. They prayed Sri Swamy. On that night in her
dream, Sri Swamy spun a rope wilh his coad piece and asked them to
touch it to the child's mother. By next morning she had plenty of
breast milk for the baby. The whole family is very much devoted to Sri
Swamy.
One day Sri Tallur Sreeruvasulu got a terrible pain in his arm. His
wife and sister brought him to Dr. Mattula Hospital, Nellore. When he
came near the hospital he thought that those medicines would not work
on him. So he came to Golagamudi with full faith in Sri Swamy's mercy.
Mysteriously by the time he got into the bus his pain in the arm
vanished. This resembles the experience of P.Subbaramaih whose
suffering from asthma vanished no sooner did he enter to bus to
Golagamudi for Samadhi darsan. "Faith moves even mountains".
One day Sri Swamy was asking to administer him some Mantra. No body
knew the reason for this behaviour. With in a few minutes Tupili
Pitchemma came to Swamy with a snake bile. Then they understood the
cause for his earlier behaviour. She got relief simply with the
application of Udhi both orally and externally.
Vallapureddy Tulasamma was admitted in American hospital Nellore due to
kidney cancer. After a few weeks treatment the doctors decided that she
will die with in half an hour and compelled them lo remove the patient
at once before her dcalh. Her relatives brought her to Sri Venkaiah
Swamy at Golagamudi and kept her in his presence for three days- Then
Sri Swamy ordered them to keep her at home for three days and bring her
to Golagamudi for her good health. They did so. Without any treatment
for her, she survived and became a staunch devotee. From the next day
she left home and dedicated all her life to the service of Sri Swamy
for nearly thirty years. Sri Swamy said "Ayyaa! is not mother in Bomma
patu". Sri Swamy always called Tulasamma "Mother" In the position of
Bomma means in the presence of mother nature- The new life given by God
should be spent in the presence and in the service of God. This may be
Sri Swamy's view.
An important thing to be remembered is that she never used chapels and
she look a palrnyrah leaf as her bed just like Sri Swamy did. Our brain
may agree lo such things but physically our body does not synchronise
with such things. But as she has truly offered her heart to Sri Swamy
it was possible to her only through the grace of Sri Swamy.
Once Sri Swamy explained the reason Why Tulasamma got the fortune of
spending her life in the presence and service of Sri Swamy for such a
long time. "Ayyaa! Mother has been giving food for the past four
births." Those who serve the Sadguru with love and devotion for some
births alone will be blessed with ever lasting presence and service of
Sadguru in this birth.
One day on seeing the bull of Atmakur Venkaiah Sri Swamy said "Ayyaa!
it has a cart- peril and so please sell it away". He wanted to sell it
but no reasonable price was forth coming for the bull. Time passed away
like this. One day it tried to rub its itching head against the wheel
of a bullock cart. *l inserted its head in the gaps of the wheel leaves
and could not take back its head. It pushed and dragged its head for a
long time and by the morning it died. Kolla Jayarama Raju was suffering
from typhoid fever. When he consulted Sri Swamy for relief Sri Swamy
made him eat a kilo of groundnuts and drink some butter milk. Sri Swamy
ordered him to go and take a head-bath in the river water. He did
accordingly with faith in the words of sri Swamy. From the next minute
his typhoid fever vanished.
All the Avadhutas had a strange method of curing the ailments of their
devotees with forbidden food stuff for that disease. Sri Swamy drags
his sheep into his flock in many ways.'Giving dream invitation is one
such method of attraction.
Munikuti Ramaiah of Mahimalur village was suffering from stomach ache.
Palpitation and weakness and body pains. All his trial's with the
doctors failed. A native of Penna-badwel advised him to go to Sri
Venkaiah Swamy who stays at Penna Badwel for immediate relief. On the
same night in his dream Sri Swamy invited him to Penna Badwel for his
cure. Next morning when he went to Sri Swamy he was wonder struck to
see the same person who appeared in his dream as Sri Swamy.
Sri Swamy ordered him to be in his
presence for a month for his complete cure. With in a few days he
recovered completely with out any medicine. From that time on wards he
allotted a thatched shed for Sri Swamy in his premises and served him
with great devotion even though he was a poor man. One day Sri
Swamy asked Ramaiah to bring some rice. Sri Swamy strew those rice near
the pot of drinking water and said "there will come up a pucca
building, Ayyaa". As per the direction of Sri Swamy, within a short
time this poor Ramaiah became rich and had built a pucca building. With
grateful heart they are visiting Golagamudi even today once in a month.
The only she-buffalo of P. Krishna Reddy, Sangam village was in a
crises of life and death. In despair, he thought, "for keeping faith in
Sri Swamy, he is killing my only buffalo also". With grief stricken
heart he went to bed. In his dream vision Sri Swamy was sitting near
the buffalo. when he woke up and saw, the buffalo passed a bucket of
urine and was eating grass.
One day Sri Swamy was going to some other place. Bag and baggage was
made ready for the journey. Sri Swamy did not start saying "Pain has
come. We can not go". Within an hour a woman brought her son on her
back. He was twisting with terrible stomach pain. Sri Swamy got a chit
written for him. At once he was relieved from the terrible pain. Such
were the yogic powers of Sri Swamy.
Gowni Penahalamma (Golagamudi) had a terrible itching sensation on her
body. By scratching terribly over the itching parts, wounds came all
over her body. She tried all &£ available sources of
treatments but in vain. At last she begged Sri Swamy for relief. Sri
Swamy asked her to offer one thousand rupees in the sacred fire. She
told that she had no such huge amount of money with her. Sri Swamy
asked hsr to offer at least ten rupees. She replied that she had not
even ten paise with her. The merciful Swamy asked her to stand before
him for ten minutes. After that he asked her to go away. By the next
minute all her body troubles vanished permanently. But by next minute
Sri Swamy suffered a lot of itching on his body for three or four days.
Sri Swamy asked his men to scratch his body with a comb.
The same Penchalamma was suffering from terrible asthma for a very long
time. The doctors and the medicine could not give her a permanent cure.
One day she begged Sri Swamy for relief. Sri Swamy asked her to offer
six rupees dakshina. But she stood silently for a long time as a token
of her inability to offer that little amount. Sri Swamy said " Mother!
if you want to get rid of your trouble please shell down one thousand
rupees in the sacred fire. She kept quiet. One day she offered five
rupees dakshina and petitioned her miserable plight to the merciful
Swamy. "Sri Swamy returned that five rupees to her saying " I am not
the person to cure you. You go to Mother. She will cure you. On
hearing, Tulasamma laughed and said "Now and then Sri Swamy will be
saying like that. Really your disease is cured. Within a fortnight,
gradually, all her Asthma vanished permanently.
Once Koduru Venkamma lost her appetite. She got vomiting sensation, on
seeing any kind of food. She became very very weak and was bed ridden.
At that time her age was twenty five years. All the attempts of the
doctors, quack treatments mantra tantras failed. Sri Swamy used to
visit the house of Venkamma. When ever they represent the case, he
simply kept quite. One day Sri Swamy sent a letter to Venkamma's mother
to bring her child to Penna Badwel. Accordingly they took her to Sri
Swamy. As soon as she took the darsan of Sri Swamy she became terribly
hungry. She took two kilos of cooked rice at a stretch for each meal.
Day and night Sri Swamy kept her near him and engaged her in thumb
impression work. On the third day he did not allow her to take food. On
that night of the third day Sri Swamy gave her a plantain and a morsel
of pelapindi (made with fried maize) Then onwards she got normal
appetite. This Venkamma is now in the service of Sri Swamy in
Golagamudi Ashramam.
Velum Ramanaidu (Nagulavellaturu) wanted to go to Madras for the
treatment of his tuberculosis as the doctor at Nellore gave up hope.
Before going to Madras he came for the blessings of Swamy. Sri Swamy
said " Ayyaa there are some spots in your lungs which are of the size
of Chinnadabbu (roughly the size of a rupee). They will not do you any
harm. You need not go to Madras. If you drink the milk of Bonthazemudu,
it will be cured. Bothazumudu milk is very very powerful poison. It
grows in the forest. If the cattle scratch their body against that
plant, the milk of that plant will fall over the body of that animal
and cause bums and wounds. When he told the direction of Sri Swamy at
home. "Don't drink that poisonous milk. If you drink, you will lose
your sight. It will cause bums in the stomach and death. Beware". He
thought "Even if I resort to the doctors at Madras and got the
operation done, I will not survive for long. Instead of dying after
refusing Sri Swamy's advise, it will be better to die after following
Sri Swamy's advice. He came to Sri Swamy at Golagamudi and really drank
that bonthazemudu milk. After that, without any treatment he was
blessed with good health till today.
Sri Swamy was at Venkatareddy palli. A native of Bapana palli (near
Badwel) was suffering with severe typhoid. All the quack treatments
failed. He resorted to Sri Swamy 's mercy. Sri Swamy gave him half a
kilo of ground nuts to eat. He was in a flux to obey or not. "Ayyaa!
all your disease will vanish. You must eat" when he ate that, he gave a
litre (Munta) ofpullaneeru (a type of fermented water used in the place
of butter milk). He drank that with fear. Sri Swamy ordered to bury him
for an hour up to his neck in the wet sand of the river. If he is
buried in the wet sand in such a serious fever, they thought that he
was sure to die. But Sri Swamy compelled them and got him buried in the
sand. The very next moment he was taken out of the pit, all his fever
and body pains vanished in a trice and he took his normal food. We can
see parallel experience in the Gurucharitra, the life histories of Sri
Sai Baba and Akkalkota Swamy.
One day Sri Swamy ordered V. Ramanaidu to go on a pilgrimage for
fifteen days to Tirupathi and other places. Swamy said "Ayya! you tie
these two things in your waist". Swamy told the names of those two
things. He did not disclose the names of those things to me. "The
disease will vanish if you order them to go", assured Swamy. A beggar
in the train was terribly shivering due to typhoid. To his utter
amazement when he ordered the typhoid of that beggar to vanish, the
beggar was alright by the next minute. In the same way he cured the
diseases of a number of patients on the way of his fifteen days tour.
He came back to Sri Swamy after the scheduled time. Within half an hour
a bull was in life-crises and the owner came for the blessings of Sri
Swamy. At once Ramanaidu who was there, went to the bull and ordered
the disease to go out from the bull as usual. But the bull died. He
could not understand how his power of cure failed there. He came to Sri
Swamy and reported the matter. Swamy said "Here after those things will
not work for your word. Their time is over with the completion of
pilgrimage". When he took the darsan of Sri Swamy after his pilgrimage
the power bestowed on him vanished. We must note that the diseases were
cured due to the word of Sri Swamy but not by those two tilings in his
waist.
One day Sri Swamy gave Sri Narayanaiah (a servant) the cloth he used
for administering the mantra to the ailing people and ordered him to
administer mantra to the suffering people there after. He administered
mantra for thirteen snake and scorpion bites. At once. all their pain
vanished. After that, the pain was not coming down immediately but
after taking some time. He came to Swamy and asked the reason for the
present situation. Sri Swamy said "Ayyaa! for one lakh sins we will get
one scorpion sting. Without experiencing at least a little of that
pain, if you immediately remove the pain, the Gods above will again
give him another scorpion sting when you are away from the sinner. Then
he has to suffer the whole lot. So it will be good for him to suffer a
little, now it self. This incident tells us how the principle of karma
works and how the Sadgurus redeem us from that pain.
Sri Swamy was at Mudigedu village. A lady suffering from severe white
discharge, came to Sri Swamy. Till then she tried all the medical
trials and failed. Even though she waited at Swamy for three days he
did not tell her anything. On the third night she decided that death in
the presence of Sri Swamy was better than the suffering. When all
others were sleeping, she jumped into the sacred fire of Swamy. But to
her utter amazement not only her body but even her clothes and hair
were intact, untouched by the fire. With that, her disease also
vanished
permanently.
Palakollu Subbamma got her operation at Rayavellur hospital for her
thyroid cancer. She was afraid of the operation and begged Sri Swamy's
help in the operation. She got a vision that Sri Swamy was by her side
during the operation.