The more I think of incidents happened in my life with
Baba's Karuna on me, the more I feel like expressing
my feelings to acknowledge Thanks to Baba.
This happened long long ago,almost 30 years ago
while we were in India. Somehow, I was not kriyakandi
religious at all. But at the same time I had
Shradhdhha in GOD. Many a times we , my sisters and
me, were talking about visiting Shiradi for SaiBaba's
Darshan. Only myself was married and 3 sisters were
yet to get married.
Days, months and years passed by but our desire
could not get materialized. On one week end we were
together at my mother's place and my youngest sister
proposed an idea of going to Shiradi. Everybody
appreciated the GOOD idea and next day we got ready to
leave for Shiradi.
Out of nowhere it started raining heavily with
strong wind and thundershowers. Since my 2 sons were
too young at that time, my husband advised us not to
start in such a stormy weather. As we changed our
plan, the sun shown in the Sky and everything was
calm and clear. My youngest sister started dancing
with joy as now we will be able to continue with our
plan for Shiradi.
Again we all were at the door to step out to start
and whoaaaaaaaa...it started raining with extensive
lightning and strong winds. And Bhoooooooooom! the
tree near our house was struck by lightening! We
could not believe our eyes. We had never seen
lightning blow like this!
Now my husband strongly said "NO" for Shiradi
plan but he suggested another idea. He said, ok, if
the weather calms down we shall go to Sea-shore
"Chawpatty"
(We were in Bombay, staying at Byculla).
With no further rains, we went to Chawpatty and
enjoyed the evening with my sons, my sisters and my
mother.
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After a couple of years again there arose an
opportunity . At the marriage event of my younger
sister, after the Kanya Vidaay we all were sitting in
a group and suddenly one of my younger sister said,
why not we ( my two younger sisters, my mother, my 2
sons, my husband and myself) go to Shiradi as we all
were there and we still had some days off and all the
food was there to take with us for the journey. We can
go tomorrow if we all agree.
This time we started as planned. No rain and no
storm! eheh. We reached Shiradi. Since we had gone
with a last minute decision, the Dharmashaalaa was
FULL as there was some special event at Shiradi, . No
single room was available.
All the devotees were provided a locker to keep
their valuables in the safe custody. And in a huge
hall we were provided mattresses to sleep and relax.
We were tired of journey and anyway Mandir was closed
till certain time, we decided to go out for a walk in
Bazaar and have a cup of tea. We stopped by a Tea
stall. The owner of the stall was preparing tea with
so much devotion, one should see! He would attend the
tea pot every second watching over it, adding milk,
sugar, tea leaves ginger and cardamom in measured cups
of water and again let the mixture boiling and boiling
till certain colour is reached, he would pour that in
a glasses. There also he had a way of pouring tea. He
would start pouring tea near the edge of the glass but
would start moving his hand holding the tea container
upward almost upto 2 feet away form the glass and
again bringing it back to glass rim. He was doing this
with so much precision that we decided to have HIS
tea. Since there were many people ahead of us, we sat
on the nearby bench, chitchatting and enjoying the
time.
Suddenly we saw my youngest sister, who has the
strongest Faith in Saibaba, was shivering like a leaf
on a tree in a windy storm. We were all got concerned.
By that time our tea got ready but no one among us had
peace of mind to relish the tea. We requested to serve
our tea in foam cups and started walking straight
towards Dharamshaalaa. The organiser at the Desk saw
my shivering sister and tried his best to help us.
Since is was summer they had only mattresses and no
blankets.
We literally covered my sister under the mattresses.
These mattresses are not the mattresses that we have
here in USA. They are rather thin Gaadi made with
stuffed cotton. Well, the organiser felt sympathy for
my sister and he alotted the room as soon as one got
available.
We thanked him for his generosity. We went to the
room and made my sister lying down comfortably.
Withing 15 minutes, she was up, cheerful and normal
as if nothing had happened! We all got surprised how
come she is up with no trace of sickness which was
bothering her since last couple of hours!!
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We had good Darshan at Shiradi mandir. we visited
various places like Dwaraka mai and Dhuni etc.
and returned home without any further problems.
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I am still puzzled whether Baba himself played all
these Leelas to show us he is in command of
everything.
Everything happens as he WISHES and HE loves and cares
for us all the time, no matter what!
Pranaams Baba. Be with US all the time and shower your
Blessing on us.
Jai Sai Baba.
Meera
JISKE SIR UPAR TU SAI WOH DUKH KAISA PAAYE!
Sai baba let your holy lotus feet be our sole refuge.OMSAIRAM
dipika duggal