OM SRI SAI RAM
Dear Blessed Sai Devotees,
I mentioned about my trip to Srisailam in my above posts and that we had experieced Baba at every point of our trip. I wish to share some of them here.
When two of my friends and I were planning the trip, we thought we should visit all the other places in and around Srisailam since we were travelling a long distance. But there was no direct train till Srisailam. The train goes till Kurnool, at 3.30 am and at 1.00 pm we have a bus to Srisailam. So I proposed that we should hire a taxi from Kurnool and go to - Mahanandi, Ahobilam, Gangapur, and 2-3 other places and reach the Srisailam hill top by night.
But none of us got permission from our respective households since a) it is all a forest area b)there was a threat of Naxalites c) we were all three ladies and should not hire a taxi -safety point of view etc and etc.
We 3 were upset that having gone all the way we should return without visiting all these imp. places. Anyway, our men can never spare time to take us around and on top of it we are bound with our children - their education , exams etc. This is one only oppurtunity. What to do?
Finally, we were permitted to go and come back by Bus only - direct from Chennai to Srisailam - 13 hour journey in which event, we can not visit any other places. Finally, we boarded the bus at 8.00 pm and consoled ourselves that atleast this trip was materialised.
After we reached the hil top, and had our lunch, we enquired whether we can see in and around places on the hill. We came to know that several temples and waterfalls,dam on the river etc. are worth seeing. We again had a problem that it was not safe hiring an auto on our own and go. Luckily, some body told us that RTC bus service is availablw every four hours showing all the places as a package for a very small amount of Rs.23/- and that, the bus would start from the choultry where we stayed. We boarded the bus at 1.30 and came back by 4.30 visiting all the places to our satisfaction praying baba all the time. There was pasted a Baba's photo on the window mirror near our seat.
In the bus, we met a young man of 23-25 year old who asked us whether we visited "Pathala Ganga". We said that we don't have time.
He said we don't have to have much of time and that there is a rope way available and it shuold be seen since it is 800 ft. deep etc. adn etc. My friends started asking me that we should go there and take darshan of Patal GAnga. I told them its Baba who would decide what we should see. We didn't plan this 'site seeing' up hills. But Baba wished it and made it for us. We were talking like this and getting down the Bus while, a middle aged man along with his family of 10-11 asked us whether we would join them for Patal Ganga so that we can save on conveyance. Our joy knew no bounds. Immediately we agreed that closely knit family of brothers and sisters and not only had the darshan of Pathal Ganga but we had the pleasure of going in the rope way and went for boating in Pathal Ganga of 800 ft. deep flowing in between close hills of huge heights.
Even atop hills, we had performed special poojas - Abhishekam for the Lord Shiva and Kumkumarchana for Matha Bhramaramba on the Purnami day - full moon day though, we did not plan the same earlier.
All this was gifted by Baba as a bonus in our trip.
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!
kavita