Interesting Experiences

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OM SRI SAI RAM

In 1956, a boy of sixteen was afflicted with polio of his legs. His mother took him to Shirdi and there she went round Baba's samadhi several times a day praying for her son's recovery. They boy was carried around the samadhi by a hired person. After a few days the boy felt it embarrassing and stayed back in their room and asked his mother to carry on her devotions. One day "Baba appeared before him physically, lifted him by the hand and led him to the samadhi mandir. There Baba told him to stand leaning against pillar. Then his mother was convinced of the miracle when she saw him walk along with her.

Sri Dileep Kumar Roy of Poona is a famous disciple of Sri Aurobindo and a great devotee of Lord Krishna. He has established the Hare Krishna Ashram in Poona and has been leading several seekers on the path of devotion. Several years ago a friend of him presented him with an idol of Sai Baba. Sri Dileep Kumar Roy had kept it along with several other idols in an open place in the ashram compound. That night Sai Baba. Appeared before him and said, "I am shivering in the cold. Take me inside the ashram and keep me in a comfortable place." Soon Sri Roy kept the idol of Baba inside the ashram and later kept it in a small shrine. This happened some fifty years after Baba's mahasamadhi.


Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
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Sri Devaraj of Coimbatore was a Captain of a ship during the Second World War. Once his ship was attacked by the enemy but he was rescued miraculously by Sai Baba. News of this miracle spread in Coimbatore and may were drawn to Sai Baba. Among these was Sri Soundara Rajan. He commenced the worship and bhajan of Sai Baba in house and he soon constructed a mandir for the public.

One evening a large gathering of devotees was engaged in bhajan. A huge cobra approached them and crept over the foot of a little boy. The boy cried in panic but the devotees remained calm. The snake stood within a few feet of the gathering and was swaying its hood in tune with their bhajan. People wondered why it was not scared by the large gathering. It stayed in the same place from 5 p.m. to 9.p.m. i.e., till the devotees dispersed for that night.

Next morning the devotees were surprised to find it in the same place. This convinced them that Sai Baba himself appeared in that form and they decided to worship it with all ceremony. They fetched several baskets full of chrysanthemum flowers. They all gathered around the snake and threw the flowers on it while chanting the 108 divine names of Sai. Even though flowers were thrown on it in thousands the cobra remained there calm and peaceful.

One of the devotees then prayed to it saying, "If you are indeed sai Baba, you please stay here till we fetch a photographer to take your picture for people may not believe when we tell hem that we had the good fortune of worshipping you inthis manner." It took nearly half an hour for the photographer to arrive and the cobra stayed there and was photographed. The picture taken on that occasion can be seen in the souvenir published by the Naga Sai Mandir at Coimbatore a few years ago. The Naga Sai Mandir which was built there at that spot is a memento of this leela of Baba.


Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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Mankewala of Ahmedabad was laid up with dropsy and intestinal ulcer from 1948 to 1952. He felt it difficult even to drink water. His body weight had increased to 300 pounds and he used to spit blood on account of the ulcer. The doctors who examined him in 1952 had declared that he was sure to pass away in one or two day's time. In a mood of utter helplessness he started worshipping the picture of Baba that his friends had given him. At first he was not so happy to worship the 'moslem saint' which he thought Baba was. Yet Baba's form charmed his heart.


One day at 6 a.m., when he was lying awake in bed, Baba appeared before him and said, "I am not a fakir; I am the avatar of Lord Dattatreya. The same Lord is carrying on his divine mission assuming the different forms of Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur, Dhunivala Dada of Khandwa, Sri Vishnudevananda Saraswathi of Narmads, Sri Swami Samarth of Akkalkot and myself." Next morning his friend gave him two books on Sai Baba written in Gujarati.

A few days later doctors examined him and decided that he had only two more hours to live. As soon as they had left the room a mysterious light appeared in front of Mankewala. Behind it appeared Sai Baba! It was about one p.m. Baba said 'Son, do not fear! I have taken away all your sufferings". The wonder of its is that even the mother of Mankewala could see Baba. He then told them to send Mankewala's son to Shirdi and then walked out of the room.

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Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

Continuation.....

Mankewala was worried whether his son could travel alone to Shirdi safely and, in case he dies, his son's presence was necessary to perform his obsequies. At last he decided to abide by Baba's words and so sent his son to Shirdi. At about 6 p.m., Baba again appeared to him and said," Do not fear! I am with your son. You will receive a telegram that he had reached Shirdi safely by 12 noon tomorrow."


A few minutes later the doctors again examined the patient and thought that he was dying. They mocked at his accounts of Baba's assurance. Indeed, nothing happened to Mankewala and the next day they received a telegram from Shirdi regarding his son's safe arrival there. For 24 hours precisely from the moment of the receipt of the telegram Mankewala passed excess of urin and suffered a severe attack of diarrhoea. Soon his body weight came down to 75 pounds. His pulse and heart beat were normal. The doctors agreed that his recovery was indeed a miracle of Sai Baba. Within the next two months Mankewala regained his normal health. On 23rd of August 1954 Sai Baba again appeared before him. Waving his baton( satka) playfully, he said, "I am always in front of my devotees".

Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

Dear Sai Bandhus,

The following amazing experience is taken from 'Sri Sai Leelamritham by Acharya Shri E.Bharadwaja'.

Sri Seshachalam Pillay was a retired Tahsildar who lived at Tummalagunta village near Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh). On 1-11-1977 his wife Smt. Susilamma came to my (Acharya Shri E.Bharadwaja) house and recounted her experience of Sai Baba's grace.

In 1952 the family was staying at Narsingpur near Chandragiri(near Tirupati) Railway station. Even several years after marriage they had no children and all their relations were pressing Sri Pillay to marry a second time. One day her elder brother gave Smt.Susilamma a small picture of Baba and told her to worship it and said that Baba might bless her with an offspring. She started doing accordingly and in 1954 she was blessed with a son whom they named after Sai Baba.

When the child was eleven months old, it had fever and the mother suffered from severe diarrhoea. All medical aid proved futile and even after living on a diet of arrow-root powder for 21 days she could not go out of her room to answer even nature's calls.

On the 21st day at 4.30 a.m., she had an urge to pass stool, She got down from the cost, sat down just by for the purpose and, reclining her head against the cot, she prayed to Baba to help her. She at once saw Sai Baba entering the room pushing open the main door! He came and sat on the cot just by her head. She complained to him of her miserable plight. Baba said, "Why feel so bad about it? I have kept a talisman in that shelf. You wear it and you will be alright. Throw it off on the third day", and he at once walked out of the room. "Baba, in which shelf do you mean?" she was crying.

Her relations woke up at her cries and asked her what the matter was. When she told them of Baba's words, they brushed it aside as a mere delusion. When she insisted, they searched in the shelf and they did find a talisman with a yellow thread attached to it. They put it around her neck and at once her diarrhoea subsided. On the third day she threw the talisman away in the backyard in a corner. Sri Pillay blamed her for throwing away a thing given by Sai Baba and searched for it in vain. Both Smt. And Sri Pillay sat dejected at not finding it and they even went without lunch. By 6 p.m. her elder brother came and said that she was right in following Baba's instruction to throw away the talisman and that even if she had not done so, Baba could nave taken it away as mysteriously as he had given it.


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Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

This miracle strengthened their faith and they worshipped Baba with great favour. But the younger brother and nephew of Smt. Susilamma used to criticise her for worshipping a 'moslem' like Baba. One day when they sat in the hall, something metallic fell from nowhere, with a noise and they found it to be a picture of Baba printed on a metal strip. Smt. Susilamma picked it up, thought that it was a gift from Baba to her child and, after offering incense to it, put it round his neck.

The same night her youngest brother and nephew suffered from sudden and unbearable pain in stomach and diarrhoea. Smt. Susilamma told Sri Pillay that both of them spoke light of Baba as a Moslem and the illness might be a consequence of that. Sri Pillay reprimanded them for their impertinence and told them to prostrate to Baba's picture in repentance and to promise that they were relieved of their suffering and that they would name their first born after Baba.

As soon as they did so the pain at once vanished. Thus both of them became devotees of Sai and later named their first born after Baba.

Once, one boy aged 16 years related Smt. Susilamma was admanat to get married though Smt.Susilamma and Sh.Pillay tried to convince him that it was not the age for marriage. In a haste, that boy consumed poison and was admitted to a hospital. All the other realtives blamed Smt. Susilamma that she should be held resposible if the boy was dead. By Baba's Grace, the boy survived and admitted his mistake and all the relatives understood that Smt.Susilamma was innocent and only a well wisher of the boy.

Just before Sh.Pillay retired, their son(who was a prasad of Baba) was staying in Thummalagunta (A.P.) in their relatives place trying for  a job (after he completed his M.Sc.). He got a job offer from
Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. Though her son refused to apply for the job stating there may be recommendaitions, Smt.Susilamma forced him to apply which he did and attended the interview. On 24.08.76, Sai gave a Swapna Darshan to Smt.Susilamma and told"your son's posting orders have arrived to Tummalagunta. Arrange to get them and ask him to join". He repeated this twice, thrice. Sh.Pillay wrote to their relatives. Actually, thier relatives in Tummala gunta went to SriKalahasti on a tour. So the house was locked. Baba again appeared in the dream and confirmed the same news to Smt.Susilamma. After they reached Tummlagunta, they found all the letters and gave a telegram to the son of Smt.Susilamma to immediately go and join the duty. Thus, Baba has provided a job to their son before Sh.Pillay retired.

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Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

Continuation....

Smt. Susilamma was suffering from problems of eye sight which was merely due to age advancement. She felt bad for that but, Sai gave her another Swapna(dream) Darshan and told her that "Karma has to be undergone and there is no other go. However, tell me you want to under go this birth or next birth". Before she could reply, she woke up. Again when she was suffering from some other problems, Baba again came into her dream and told her to chant the following sloka:

"Sri Rama Rama Ramethi Rame Raame Manorame,
Sahasra Naama Thattulayam Rama Nama Varanane!"

In the month of March 1978, She underwent an eye surgery and after she was discharged, she was sleeping on the terrace and one bat pulled out her operated eye. She started screaming, crying in pain and was rushed to the doctor the next day. The doctor has confirmed that it is impossible for her to get that eye back since the bat pulled out with minute blood vessels and nerves. She repeatedly requested them to admit her in the hospital and make their trials. So they allowed her in the hospital for 4 days.

On the last day night, Sai again came into her dream and opened the bandage; gave her thirtham and made her chant the above Sloka "Sri Rama..." and asked her "Are you able to see ?". She replied "Yes. Baba ! But, now I am old. I may not live much. Any way, as you told me I may have to undergo my Karma in my next birth. So I am worried". Then Baba shouted at her saying "With you I have all problems only. If I give you vision it is problem and If not also problem"...He shouted and continued "You feed as many blind peopl as possible and help them to the extent possible. Break ten coconuts in the temple for the God. That Karma will vanish on its own". There ended the dream.

The next day, the doctors opened the bandage and IMPOSSIBLE became POSSIBLE. She could see. The doctors were under great Shock and accepted that it is nothing but, Baba's grace only.

THUS, BABA HAS SHOWERED PROGENY, HEALTH, LIVELIHOOD, PROTECTING FROM ALLEGATION / OFFENCE AND KARMA NIVRITTI TO Smt. Susilamma.

Let Baba make our love and devotion stronger and stronger AND shower his greatest blessings on us too.

Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

After Baba's mahasamadhi, shama kept a packet of udi received from him in his shrine. Once when he went to Bombay, one night Baba appeared in his dream and said, "Shama, the packet of udi which I had given you is now lying in the dustbin by the side of your house. Go home at once and restore it." Shama rushed home and looked for the packet in his shrine but it was not there! As the house was under repairs, all the articles in his house were removed and in the process, the packet was missing. Shyama searched for it outside and lo, it was in the dustbin. Thus Baba's appearance even in a dream, is significant.


Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

Similarly, one Mr. Mehrothra, agent of a bank at Bareilly, was suspended from service. He then visited Shirdi, and prayed to Baba. One day the latter appeared in his dream, and gave him in writing "You shall be appointed as an agent; do not fear"! Shortly after, he was appointed as such at Deoria


Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

Smt. and Sri S.N. Pradhan of Bombay (Santha Cruz) were devotees of Sai Baba. Once they were financially hard-pressed and felt that Baba did not grace them with any experience. After reading the life history of Baba they wanted to visit Shirdi but Mr. Pradhan was ill.

On 10-11-1953 before going to bed he fervently prayed to Baba to take him to Shirdi. He felt the inner call too. The next morning, while preparing chapathis, his wife noticed that footprints of Sai Baba were present, mysteriously impressed on the lid of the butter-can. Soon their neighbour who wasn't a devotee of Baba told them that he had a dream on the previous night; "That fakir in that photo in Pradhan's house" came to his house but he drove the fakir out; the fakir then entered Pradhan's house.

This corroborated the fact that Baba did visit Pradhan's house in his subtle form. So, too Baba's footprints appeared in the house of a Sai devotee, Tejaswini Rele. Later Baba appeared to her in a dream and told her that he had granted her in a dream and told her that he had granted her wish to see his footprints.



Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

We shall now note an instance which shows that when a devotee invokes the name of Baba in distress, it could mean the invocation of some other saint. One Mr.R.Morewallah, solicitor of Bombay was going to Thana by train. Owing to crowding he could not board the train properly. The train moved and he slipped and fell down. In fright he cried out "Sai"! An old man pulled the chain and held him securely. The train stopped. The railway guard came to enquire but the old man was nowhere to be seen. Later when Morewallah's son visited a saint, the latter said. "Had I not saved your father's life in 1953?"


Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

Mrs. Mani Sahukar the famous writer of 'Sai Baba the Saint of Shirdi' was a fine songstress. Once she suffered from a strange congestion in her throat which no medicines could relieve. She could not sing even for a short while. She visited Shirdi and prayed to Baba at the samadhi mandir. When she later returned to her room she felt a rustling in her sari. When she looked it up, she found that it was a packet of homeopathic tablets. She took the same as Baba's prasad and soon her throat was cleared!

Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM


On 13-11-1918 Baba appeared to devotee Kaka Mahajani in his dream and said 'Why, are you still sleeping? Wake up and worship me. Today is the thirtieth day ceremony after my mahasamadhi." Kaka woke up and found it to be so. He at once arranged the celebration and invited Kaka Saheb Dixit, Pradhan and Dabholkar for dinner. They all sang Baba's bhajan the whole day.

Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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Mr.Ravindranath Banerjee, Advocate, Howrah Cantonment, has left a note dated 2-2-1975 with a devotee at Shirdi. He writes:-


"One day about a year ago, while I was sitting inside Government pleader's chamber and took me outside and spoke a few words and then I could not see him . probably he had vanished. I then returned to the chamber. The Government pleader sitting in front of me said, to my utter surprise, 'I know that Sai Baba has come to you'. Thereafter many miracles took place in my life. I am an ordinary man. I do not know why God has selected me as His instrument to do some work".

Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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OM SRI SAI RAM

On a Thursday in 1953 prasad was distributed at the Sai Baba mandir in Ahmedabad. They gave different prasad to different people, pedas to some and mangoes to others. Smt. Manorama, wife of Mr. Chandlal Mehta was upset at the seeming discrimination shown to the devotees in the name of Sai Baba. On her way home a stranger met her and gave her a bag containing pedas, mangoes, udi and Rs.1,140.00. The stranger said that her husband had sent them for her. Later when her husband returned home, he heard of the incident and was amazed. For he had sent no such for her., It was evident that sai baba had responded all are equal in his eyes and that he is ever ready to respond to the call of his devotee.

Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!
Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!  Om Sri  Sai Ram!

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