PATIENCE PAYS – BABA ENDS COLD WAR BETWEEN BOSS AND SUBORDINATE

On 2nd July 1979, I was posted in sub-office after working for more than   six years in the   Head Office.   After my transfer I very strongly desired to visit   Shirdi and   therefore, applied for one day’s casual   leave on   the same day,   when I was posted in the new office.   My application was submitted to my officer, who had authority to recommend or reject my leave application.   The officer immediately sent for me.   I entered his cabin and he gave me   a   sound   firing   to   the   effect   that   he   would   tell   higher authorities to post   me back   to establishment   as, in his opinion, I wanted to avail of leave immediately etc. I was dumbfounded by this   reception   on   the   first   day of my posting in a new office. Still I made   bold and   remained   absent without sanction on the scheduled   day   and   applied   for   post-sanction   to   my   absense. Perhaps,   this   irritated   my   officers   and   there continued in our dealings a   sort of cold war.    He   used to taunt me or otherwise show   me   that   he did   not   hold a good   opinion about me.   I however did not react to his retorts for, Shri Baba has commanded his devotees that   they should   never retaliate in words or deeds when someone acted in a provocative manner.

After about five months, I required a long leave and surprisingly the officer recommended the leave for sanction. During my period of leave, on a certain Thursday morning, I got a dream in which I saw that my officer and myself came across each other in a certain temple of Shri Sai Baba. He questioned me surprisingly as to how I happened to visit that temple. To this, I replied that I am an ardent devotee of Shri Baba.

After I resumed duty, I took the first opportunity to inform the officer of the dream.   He displayed no interest   in the matter and simply desired   to know its significance.   I told   him that it meant finally, that Shri Baba desires   that he should   visit Shirdi and secondly it showed that Shri Baba has blessed him.

After about a fortnight the officer again sent for me and after exchange of a few words abruptly told me that he had remained absent on the previous day as his brother-in-law had come from U. S. A. and he strongly felt that he should visit Shirdi. So he told his brother-in-law that I bad a dream to that effect. He therefore, desired to know how they could visit Shirdi. I replied that Shri Baba would arrange the trip so nicely, if. He desired that they should visit the Holy place; and further added that nobody could visit that place unless Shri Baba wanted him to do so. We dropped the topic there.

After a few days once again the officer sent for me and indirectly suggested that I should arrange for reservation of his seats by the luxury buses. I promptly agreed to do the needful. He was surprised to find me agreeable for he thought I would not do the work; but I told him that it gave me much sought opportunity to serve Shri Baba. By Shri Baba’s grace his seats were duly reserved and he very humbly and sincerely thanked me for that. Thus the cold war between us ended on a warm note because Shri Baba made me follow His advice that one should practise patience while dealing with others.

Anil Keshavrao Rasa I

Wadala (East)

Bombay 400037

(Source Shri Sai Leela May 1980)

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