s Shirdi Sai Baba, Siva and Sakthi together at Puttaparthi as Sathya Sai Baaba and Siva alone as Prema Sai, later. Then Siva remembered the illness that had suddenly come upon Bharadwaja at Kailasa on the eighth day of the waiting in the coldThis is in continuation of the articles, ‘Sri Sathya Sai Baba on Himself’, published earlier. Baaba continues: 33) Eight days passed thus, before Sakthi noticed Bharadwaja standing in the cold. She just cast a smile at him and danced along as before! The sage mistook the smile as a cynical refusal to notice him; so, he turned his back on Kailasa and started to descend. To his dismay, he found his left leg, hand and eye put out of action by a stroke. Siva saw him fall; He came up to him and consoled him; Bharadwaja was told that Sakthi had indeed blessed him and his Yaga. Then, Siva revived him and cured him sprinkling water from the Kamanadalu. Both Siva and Sakthi granted the Rishi (sage) boons; They would both attend the Yaga, they said.

After the Yaga was over, they were so pleased that They conferred even more boons on the sage. Siva said that They would take human form and be born in the Bharadwaja lineage or Gothra thrice: - Sakthi alone as Shirdi Sai Baba, Siva and Sakthi together at Puttaparthi as Sathya Sai Baaba and Siva alone as Prema Sai, later. Then Siva remembered the illness that had suddenly come upon Bharadwaja at Kailasa on the eighth day of the waiting in the cold

as before! The sage mistook the smile as a cynical refusal to notice him; so, he turned his back on Kailasa and started to descend. To his dismay, he found his left leg, hand and eye put out of action by a stroke. Siva saw him fall; He came up to him and consoled him; Bharadwaja was told that Sakthi had indeed blessed him and his Yaga. Then, Siva revived him and cured him sprinkling water from the Kamanadalu. Both Siva and Sakthi granted the Rishi (sage) boons; They would both attend the Yaga, they said.

After the Yaga was over, they were so pleased that They conferred even more boons on the sage. Siva said that They would take human form and be born in the Bharadwaja lineage or Gothra thrice: - Sakthi alone as Shirdi Sai Baba, Siva and Sakthi together at Puttaparthi as Sathya Sai Baaba and Siva alone as Prema Sai, later. Then Siva remembered the illness that had suddenly come upon Bharadwaja at Kailasa on the eighth day of the waiting in the cold

up to him and consoled him; Bharadwaja was told that Sakthi had indeed blessed him and his Yaga. Then, Siva revived him and cured him sprinkling water from the Kamanadalu. Both Siva and Sakthi granted the Rishi (sage) boons; They would both attend the Yaga, they said.

After the Yaga was over, they were so pleased that They conferred even more boons on the sage. Siva said that They would take human form and be born in the Bharadwaja lineage or Gothra thrice: - Sakthi alone as Shirdi Sai Baba, Siva and Sakthi together at Puttaparthi as Sathya Sai Baaba and Siva alone as Prema Sai, later. Then Siva remembered the illness that had suddenly come upon Bharadwaja at Kailasa on the eighth day of the waiting in the cold

attend the Yaga, they said.

After the Yaga was over, they were so pleased that They conferred even more boons on the sage. Siva said that They would take human form and be born in the Bharadwaja lineage or Gothra thrice: - Sakthi alone as Shirdi Sai Baba, Siva and Sakthi together at Puttaparthi as Sathya Sai Baaba and Siva alone as Prema Sai, later. Then Siva remembered the illness that had suddenly come upon Bharadwaja at Kailasa on the eighth day of the waiting in the cold

s Shirdi Sai Baba, Siva and Sakthi together at Puttaparthi as Sathya Sai Baaba and Siva alone as Prema Sai, later. Then Siva remembered the illness that had suddenly come upon Bharadwaja at Kailasa on the eighth day of the waiting in the cold on the ice. He gave another assurance. As expiation for the neglect which Sakthi showed you at Kailasa for 8 days, this Sakthi will suffer the stroke for 8 days, when We both take birth as Sathya Sai and on the eighth day, I shall relieve her from all signs of disease by sprinkling water, just as I did at Kailas to cure your illness.”

It was the working out of this assurance that you witnessed today, just now. This had to happen, this stroke and the cure. The assurance given in the Threthayuga had to be honored. I may tell you now, that, the poor forlorn Bhaktha who had to get the stroke which I took over, was a convenient excuse, which was utilized. You see, a railway engine is not made available to haul just one bogey; they wait until a number of bogeys are to be taken along and then, they put the engine into action. So too, the disease had to be gone through, the Bhaktha had to be saved, the assurance to be carried out, the Mystery had to be cl