Sai Ram to all of you..!!!
I am an engineer and by habit late riser. Since last 4-5 years, I have never got up before 8'O clock in the morning. However just on the morning of "Guru Purnima", me and my wife got up at 3:30 in the morning. We did not try to sleep as both of us were feeling quite fresh. We were just chatting and thought that as we are not able to sleep and neither we feel the necessity of sleeping, we would get ready and go to Sai-baba temple which is around 3 km away.
My wife said that she has promised to offer 11 litres of milk to lord Shiva. I said we will do that in the coming weekend. However somehow my wife said that she wanted to do it that day itself. I said, there is a shiva temple besides the Sai's temple and we would ask the priest of that temple and offer milk some other day. After lot of arguments, she finally agreed.
So we went to Sai temple at 6:15 a.m. in the morning and had darshan and we just asked the priest of Sai temple regarding the procedure of offering milk. He assumed it as offering of milk to Sai baba for "abhisheka". He asked us to bring the milk. It was a pure delight for me and my wife as we were not aware of "abhisheka" of Sai. So we came out of temple and purchased 12 litres (11 + 1) of milk. We offered 11 litres of milk for Sai abhisheka and 1 litre for Shiva temple. This was a great experience for both of us. We felt really happy.
This is an amazing experience for me, because I could never imagine that I would get up at 3:30 am in the night and would not feel sleepy afterwards. It was amazing that the milk was offered to Sai baba. It was even amazing that Sai-baba and Shiva temple are so close to each other. It was even more amazing that my wife had become adamant on offering milk on the same day.
Sai ram to all of you. Keep smiling and have fun in life.
regards,
Ashok Jain
Bangalore
India