In plain words
All these people came running there. They decided: 'He must not stay there any more; he must go to Puttaparthi.' At that time there were no buses to Bukkapatnam. The bus went only as far as Penukonda. From there one had to come by bullock cart. Such was the state of things in those days. All these children set out, saying, 'We too will come with Raju.'
A very sad thing happened there. Three boys used to sit at the same desk; one boy was the son of a sheristadar. Another boy was the son of a revenue inspector. They had to work hard to some extent. I used to sit in the middle. One sat on this side, one on that side. Through such seeing, touching and talking, the hearts of these boys were changed. The outer bond grew day by day. The day I left that school, both those boys grew restless, as if their minds had gone astray: 'Raju, Raju.' I got on the bus. He saw Me vanish. He went and fell into a well; saying, 'I cannot live without Raju', he died. The second boy, crying 'Raja, Raja', did not eat, took no water, and without food became completely numb. Such loftiness is the nature of the spiritual. But many think that loftiness means forgetting the outer delusion of the world. Only because the two boys were lost in this way was the school closed that day. They called that desk 'the Sathya Sai Baba desk'.
There was a headmaster known as Lakshmipathi garu. That Lakshmipathi too, the moment I came to school, would ask Me to come to the office. It is not given to everyone; such feelings come from what is gained over many births. The moment I went in, he would shut the doors. He would tell Me to sit on his own chair. He himself would sit below and press My feet. 'Sir, you must not do this', I would tell him, like an innocent child. That Lakshmipathi would say: 'I do not know. I know: nēdivyatvamu.' In this way, in those days, all these experiences took place in Uravakonda. This twentieth of October is the day that brought the complete change at Uravakonda. That day a great change came over all the students.
Their affection, their Prema for Me, grew so much; here is one small example. On the second day a new boy went up on the platform to lead the prayer. He began to lead the prayer. He burst out weeping loudly. That boy remembered Swami. As this boy wept, everyone wept. The whole prayer turned into weeping. Then the headmaster said, 'Go inside. The weeping we have wept for His sake is our prayer.' From that day they locked that room and made it into a big Showroom.