25-10-46

For the last three or four days, Mr. Subba Rao has been
reading out in the hall his Life of Bhagavan in Telugu. He has mentioned various new things in this book. One is, that the mongoose which came to Bhagavan when he was on the Hill was golden-coloured. S. also says that Nayana had told him that the mongoose was none other than God Arunachala come to see Bhagavan. Another thing I have not recorded before is found in this Life by S. It seems Nayana used to say that dogs cannot long survive contact with a person like Bhagavan whose granthi (knot) has been sundered; and that he used to drive away all dogs. In this connection, Bhagavan said, "Yes, he used to drive the dogs away. But there was an exception. It was a dog we used to call Neela. She used to come and always sit on my lap. But she would not allow any other dog, even her own mother or sisters and brothers, to pass beyond the gate of the Skandasramam. Nayana used to say, `This has been born a dog by mistake'."

S. has also recorded that whatever Nayana said always
came true, and cited an event in his own life to prove this.