The Cosmic Portrait

This is another episode I received from one of the devotees from India. This is collected from "The Living Divinity" written Vu Shakuntala Balu. There a few stories like this, which I promised to tell to you people in the last week Bhajan. This is one of those incidents, which talk about Bhagawan who is different from what we see with naked eye. Signor Dante Bighi is a photographer and graphic artist from Italy. He learnt of Sri Sai Baba from friends.

The first time he went to Parthi was for a week in November, for Baba's birthday. The day he arrived at Parthi, Baba was celebrating a mass wedding for a hundred and fifty couples who could not have afforded grand weddings. That evening, when Baba came near to him, Sr.Bighi experienced Powerful spiritual vibrations He felt a strange new peace and knew himself in the presence of a superior power. Baba materialized vibuthi for him. He accepted gratefully and expressed a birthday greeting. Baba smiled and said, "What is a birthday? The soul has no birthday. It is only the body."

A few months later, he again journeyed to India. His only aim was to meet and photograph Baba. His first meeting had given him so much joy. He arrived in Bangalore with an Italian friend, Sr.Craxi, a businessman and an ardent Sai devotee. Sr.Bighi had the great good fortune to have several interviews with Baba and many opportunities of photographing him. He specializes in outdoor photography using natural light and likes to have unusual and exotic effects.

'I want to take a divine picture of Swami' .Sr.Bighi told over and over again to Shakuntala Balu. "Divine picture? You can only photograph Swami as he is. Don't tell me you will photograph a cross on him with your lens and get a divine Jesus photograph of Sai Baba," said Balu's husband. But Sr.Bighi brushed aside this pleasantry and said, "No, Mr. Balu, I will get my divine picture of Baba and you will see it. I want to photograph the sun and Swami, Oh, it will be fantastic. Swami has such a fantastic personality. Everything about him is captivating to me as a photographer. He is the ideal subject for any photographer, even as he is, but the sunlight streaming down on him, on his crown of hair ... Ah! That will be truly fantastic." Sr.Bighi was imagining how wonderful the photographs would be if only he could take some shots of Baba in The Sun and against the light.

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