OM SAI NATHA
Dear Sai Brothers and sisters,
For those of you who have not had the glimpse of TV please read the article in the NEWSPAPER
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Sai Baba’s growing garland reaches holy town of Varanasi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Varanasi: From Noida to Varanasi people drew in large numbers to see and marvel at Sai Baba’s “miracle’’. A small shop in the Naya Paan Dariba locality of Varanasi, wholesale market of the ingredients of the famous Banarasi paan, has become a virtual temple of Sai Baba after news got around that the garland around a framed picture of Sai Baba was growing.
As men, women and children poured in to catch a glimpse of the “miracle’’ on Monday, locals rigged up a rope barricade to regulate the entry and exit of devotees. The entire atmosphere echoed with “Sai Baba ki jai’’ and “Har Har Mahadev’’ and prasad was distribution among visitors.
“Ye toh Baba ka chamatkar hai (It is the miracle of Baba),’’ said an elderly woman, who along with a huge contingent of other women and children of her family visited the place.
Shop owner Shravan Kumar Srivastava, popularly known as Mahadev Supariwala in the locality and an ardent devotee of Sai Baba, has put up several pictures of Sai Baba on the walls of his shop. He claimed that the one-and-a-half feet long garland made of “dauna’’ (a shrub) leaves increased to about sixfeet overnight.
“I replaced the old garland with this one on Sunday and when I opened the shop on Monday I found that the garland was touching the ground,’’ said Srivastava.
Though there were several other pictures of Sai Baba in the shop, the length of the garland of a particular picture was found increased. Justifying it, Srivastava said that the picture was brought from the temple of Sai Dham in Basauli village in Jaunpur district.
However, some florists, who sell such garlands at the phool mandi in Bans Fatak area cast doubts over the episode. “The average length of the garland of dauna leaves we sell is three to four feet,’’ said Mithalilal, who sells garlands in the market. Could the length of the garland increase without adding extra leaves?
“It is possible because the garland is made with double knots of thread, and when it dries the knots are loosened,’’ said another seller, adding that there are over 200 such knots, which could raise the length from one to one-and-a-half feet after they get loosened.
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Thanks & regards
Keerthi
JAI SAI NATHA