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It was in the year 1942 that I first got to know of Sai Baba, when the
revered Narasimha Swami of Madras, perhaps one of the oldest living devotees of Sai Baba, came to my house through the kind offices of a friend. Singling me out from among the six or seven persons who had assembled for his darshan, Narasimha Swamiji took me aside and presented me with his books on Baba and lovely photograph of the Saint with a benediction and words of encouragement and hope. This is my first contact with the Guru. It seemed then to be an accidental contact; but, it appears nothing happens without the consent of the Divine, and very often there is some deep purpose underlying these seemingly coincidental contacts. Strange that this old and illustrious Swami should have come all the way to Bandra during his brief sojourn in Bombay to visit an insignificant and an unknown being, who at that moment had not even conceived of any spiritual values, but lived engrossed in the illusory preoccupations of wordly pursuits! and yet not strange when one recalls the almost peremptory saying of the Master: "I bring my men to me from long distances under many pleas. I seek them out and bring them to me. However distant, even thousands of miles away, my people might be, I draw them to myself, just as we pull birds to us with a string to their feet."