STORY OF THE SAI BABA IDOL

[Kavitaparna]

OM SRI SAI RAM

Story of the Sai Baba Idol

Dear All, Sai Ram!

Baba has blessed me with a beautiful Idol of his miraculously on the day of Chennai Devotees’ Meet on 01.04.2007. (I am attaching the photo of the same in another post to this below.)

The story behind this idol, the making of the idol and the noble cause behind and above all the series of miracles these idols have been blessing the devotees with …all is amazing.

Thanks to the idea of MAHA UNION that has blessed me the association of a blessed soul like Ankita ji who has invited me to her house for Vaibhava Lakshmi Pooja on a Friday before the Sunday when the Chennai devotees meet had clicked. I was blessed to see photos, pics, several idols of Baba in her house in all most all sizes – smallest to life size. Of them, I liked the most one idol which they had placed separately facing north. Looking like a marble one, the one and a half foot idol was a great attraction of her house. Just before leaving, I asked Ramkiji – Ankita ji’s husband whether I can get a similar idol for me. Without a gap of a second, he said ”you will get it”. I was very happy at his reply and felt blessed.

On the day of meet, Mr &Mrs Ramkiji came to my house (we were to go together for the meet) and Ramkiji said your idol is ready, I will get it to my place on this Wednesday so that you can bring him (idol) to your house on Thursday from my house”. After we drove one fourth of our way to the Sai temple where the chennai devotee meet was planned, Mr.Ramki ji phoned ‘someone’ and confirmed that I was keen in taking and that the same can be delivered in his house on Wednesday.

Within 5 minutes 2-3 calls were exchanged between him and ‘someone’ while me and Ankita ji were busy sharing Baba’s leelas and a light chat with Pravin Bhai who was sitting in the front. At once Ramkiji said to our surprise that the Sai Baba idol has already started and it is on the way to the Sai Temple – from a distance of about 30 kms. The man behind this divine show - an aged man of 7 decades plus – Sh.Jagannathan - himself was coming along with Baba. It was a great shock and pleasant surprise but, surprisingly no tears in my eyes.

We all reached the temple felt happy to meet our other sai brothers and sisters, we went for dhooli darshan and requested the Poojari to place the idol that is on the way in the pooja and Aarati.   At 6.15 the pooja and aarti starts in the temple  while Jagannathan ji entered the temple at 6.05 pm sharp – soon after the Rahukalam had ended. A beautifully gift packed and intactly placed Baba idol was taken out. With  chandan on his forehead and chrysanthimum flowers on his head Baba looked so lovely. We rushed to the Durbar Hall to avoid any delay and handed the idol over to the Poojariji.

Our prior plan of buying a small jasmine garland for Baba idol before placing inside was remembered then. When I said I ‘d ask Suresh ji to get one, Ankita ji said Baba will take care of it. We all entered the prayer hall and found the Idol nicely placed to the left side of  the 6 ft. plus Idol of Baba in the Durbar hall. While several deovtees witnessed the pooja and Aarti we all felt so happy to notice a jasmine garland the poojari ji had already decorated Baba. That  was an excellent moment. There were several varities of garlands available with him. Still Baba has preferred and wore the jasmine garland as per our plan. After our turn of darshan, we performed Archanas as it was earlier decided and went again to Baba for receiving the idol of Baba from the pujari ji.The timely and right advice by Ramki ji to honour the pujariji with dakshina was followed. By then, hardly few devotees were present there apart from 7 of us. All our eyes were stuck on the Baba’s idol since the pujari ji was bending and trying to lift him (Baba idol) to handover to me.

It happened then, no one knew, from where, a garland of pink oleander (ganneru / Arali - telugu) flowers slowly was dropping from the lap of Baba Statue and the Pujari ji exchanged looks of shock with us and was still in the same posture of bending in a shock while we were all too watching it. The garland slided  a little down and then came on to the Right leg and left hand of the Baba statue (sitting posture Baba) and slowly slided into the neck of the Baba idol that was still in the hands of Pujari ji. We all were spell bound and the first one to open the silence was Jagannathan ji saying “blessed are we”.
It became difficult for me to hold my tears while all the gents of our team again took the darshan and went out after bowing to the Lotus feet of Baba.

While we - me, Deepa  ji and Ankita ji were nearing the Lotus feet of Baba for a Namaskar, Ankita ji adviced me not to hold the tears and shed them out happily to enjoy every bit of that moment of happiness. I burst out feeling lighter. Too much of joy too makes  us very heavy but this feeling that too in Baba’s presence is much awaited and desired. There was a flow of joyful tears while I kissed my Baba holding him like a 3 month old baby. He is just like a 3 month old baby by all means.

As we all came out, I felt I should pay atleast a little amount to Jagannathan ji (since I was not having much money) and offered him a Hundred Rupee note. My Thammudu Suresh who was standing at the back of me (rather supporting me) said to me “akka! Let me check if I have....” without waiting for my yes or no, took out his wallet and to the surprise of any one, he had just 5 notes of Rs.500 which was just sufficient to pay. This was another miracle.

Then we all went around – to Dwarakamai etc and read one para from SSC as a start. Suresh , my dear thammudu made few suggestions and others too shared their opinions. Then, We were blessed to hear about a brief story behind the Baba idols that Sh. Jagannathan ji is making.

I am blessed to have his auspicious presence in my house on the subsequent Thursday. He had given me a detailed story and I shall be posting them now on.

Contd....

Baba be with all of us
Baba bless us all


Jai Sai Ram

[Dnarang]

Dear Kavita ji,

Om Sai Ram

Thanku for sharing such lovely leela of Baba. You are lucky to be blessed by him in such way. May baba bless u always.

[Kavitaparna]

OM SRI SAI RAM

Dear All, Sai Ram

I am unable to attach the photo of the Sai Baba idol to my post due to the size of the file.

I have sent a mail to our Ravi Bhai attaching the photo of the idol so that he can help me out to share the same with U all.

As an alternative, I can mail to you individually in case your email ids are given.

Baba bless us all
Baba be with us all

Jai Sai Ram

[adwaita]

Dear kavitha didi,

What a beautiful experience it was. I wish to be in Chennai. Undoubtedly baba has blessed us for the maha union. When your eyes were filled with tears of joy on that day, I am sure baba might have also cried out of joy. All the chennaities are so lucky to gather up at our dwarakamai. Do send the attachment to us, I am eagerly waiting to see our cute baba. my mail id is oysterzzz@yahoo.com. May baba always bless all his devotees. om sai ram.



Gayatri

[sureshsarat]

Om Sri Sainathaya Namaha
Om Sri Sainathaya Namaha
Om Sri Sainathaya Namaha

Gayatri ji Sairam
May baba bless you and be ever with you. You thought and ardent desire will eventually bless you with Sai Darshan.
Suresh

[sushmakomandur]

Sai Ram Kavithaji,
Blessed u re and people who gatherd that day.Baba really showed his presence.Thanks for sharing.I don't have any words to express than feelin how u all must have felt leela of sai ma.
OM SAI NATHAYA NAMAHA.
OM SAI NATHAYA NAMAHA.
OM SAI NATHAYA NAMAHA.
Sushma.

[mysai]

kavitaji,  tears rolled in my eyes while I was reading your post...esp the

paragraph in which u described about Baba's idol, the garland, Baba's blessings.

Blessed are you all to experience Baba's presence and leelas.

Thankyou so much for sharing it with us.

I wish I as in Chennai and was a part of the gathering.

Kavithaji, can you please send the picture of Baba's idol to my

email id : keyrti_g@yahoo.com

Kavithaji, if you happen to have a soft copy of the book,

"Your Questions, Sai Baba's answers" , could you please send

me as an  e-mail attachment?

Thanks a lot.

Baba bless us all.

JAI SAI RAM JAI SAI SHYAM

[kasisri]

Kavitha ji, it is a wonderful experience and thank u for sharing...

Kavithaji, can you please send the picture of Baba's idol to my

email id :sdevi_v@yahoo.co.in

Kavithaji, if you happen to have a soft copy of the book,

"Your Questions, Sai Baba's answers" , could you please send

me as an  e-mail attachment?

Thanks a lot.

Baba bless us all.

[saibetino1]

Om Sai Ram Om Sai Ram,

           SaiRam Kavitha Didi,

                                    Wow!!  Sai Has own way to show his leela .I m very happy to hear tht sai blessed u 'coz so far i read abt u , i always found tht u had too much struggle in ur life n u faced it very strongly . Beside this i read tht u are blessed devotee of sai . I think he must be loving u soo much ... u are so lucky .

           Do u remmber i also had experience during pooja on the day (28 march 07 which we all devotee did) at my place so i felt like he is blessing me n finally i found a pic in which he was really blessing .

           Really god also want us to continue this MAHA UNION ......

MAY SAI  BLESS US ALL.

we all luv u sai ,thnx .
sai sai sai
neelam

[Kavitaparna]

OM SRI SAI RAM

THE STORY BEHIND THE MAKE OF THE SAIBABA IDOL

Dear All, Sai Ram !

I feel blessed to share the story rather the Leelas behind the make of this Idol as narrated to me by Sh.Jagannathan - a staunch devotee of Baba.

This Saibaba idol is one and half foot high weighing 3 kgs. This is made up of fibre, hence, unbreakable and given a coat of white imported paint which is lasting. The idol has been designed and made with the purpose of doing Abhishekam every Thursday or on Pournami days the way it is performed inshirdi to Sai Baba.

Jagannathan ji who is a retired person aged abt seven decades and plus is an ardent devotee of Saibaba. It has been his strong desire to construct a Sai Temple and do annadanam to the poor and serve Baba padathirtham to all the devotees by his hand. His dream is to have such a temple where all the devotees would enjoy love and devotion to the utmost.

WIRE PULLER:

Baba - the wire puller has pulled this sweet hearted sparrow to his Lotus feet in 1991 through his son who had faced a problem in US in getting a job and struggled a lot. At one point of time, when he was surfing the net, the screen became blank and the picture of Shree Shirid Sainath appeared. To his surprise, this got repeated for three consaecutive days and many a time a message in english appeared giving the details of Saptah and Jagannathan ji's son Mr.Balaji who till then has been a devotee of Lord Venkateshwara thought it should be some message from Baba. Then, he decided to do parayan of SSC and downloaded it from the net and completed it within a week. On that fortunate wednesday of his completion of Parayana, he got a dream wherein, Baba appeared and holding the hand of Balaji, took him for a walk. The very next week, Balaji got an excellent job and he conveyed all this to Jagannathan ji on the next Sunday.

Contd...
Jai Sai Ram

[sushmakomandur]

Sai Ram Kavithaji,
What a big miracle.Baba always saves his children in need.Thanks for description of the idol.
BABA BLESS U AND U'R FAMILY.
BABA BLESS US ALL.
OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI.
OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI.
OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI.
Sushma.

[shambi_me]

Om Sri Sai Ram.

dear Kavithaji

what a blessed experience you all had, the way you have put it down,i felt like i too was there at that time.
please do send me a copy of the idol picture at shambi_me@yahoo.com

I Love You Baba.

Om Sai Sri Sai Jai Jai Sai.
shambhavi.

[Kavitaparna]

OM SRI SAI RAM

Dear All, Sai Ram

I request You to follow this story of Jagannathan ji and the miracles behind the make of this idol.

Shambavi ji, i shall mail it to you.

Baba be with us all

Jai Sai Ram

[Deepa Arull]

And to add to this experience, the Chennai meet was postponed by a day, for all these mircales....the postponment was another leela of Baba...

[gaurav_dctm]

Om Sri Sai Ram..

Dear Kavita ji,

First of all, many thanks to you for sharing such a wonderful and touching incident with all of us. This bolsters up our faith in Baba ji all the more now!

U really have been blessed by Him! May He keep on blessing you with more such miracles....

God bless everyone
Gaurav