Pāhonoa te oro

THE STORY OF THE UTIS TREE... In the Kanchi ashram… There was a big stone... Baba would often sit there... Surrounded by devotees and visitors. Beside the stone... Stood a big Uttis tree. Old... Bent... And dead. People feared... That in a storm... It might fall... And injure someone. One day... While Baba was sitting on the rock... Someone expressed his fear “Baba... Should it be chopped down?”