If You Cast Your Burden....(April 1986) - R. Venkata Rao

[Guest guest]

IF YOU CAST YOUR BURDEN.....(April 1986)

 

Reading various articles written by Sai devotees depicting their experience

in Sai Leela Magazine, prompted me to write my experience as to how our Sai

Sadguru helped me when 1 cast my burden to Him. Since I am not a prolific

writer, I sought His help to put before the readers the following incident.

 

Actually this episode started in March 1983, when I was sponsored for a

business trip to Paris by our Department. After learning about this I took

this order and went to Shirdi and thanked Baba for his blessings. But to my

surprise the trip materialised only in March 1984. Though I was frustrated,

I always had faith that our Lord Sai would do everything in the interest of

his devotee and for his welfare. Later events proved that the delay helped

me monetarily. I prayed and thanked Baba silently for his blessing. Before I

actually left for Paris, I prayed and cast my burden on Baba and sought his

guidance and help in discharging my official duties in a foreign land. In

fact everything went off well much beyond my comprehension. Who else could

help but our Sai Nath.

 

Now, I am narrating a miraculous event at Paris and how Baba readily came

to my rescue and saved me of danger in the following manner.

 

I was staying with two more colleagues in a flat near our working place. My

colleagues proposed that we should visit Geneva on one of the weekends.

Since I had already visited that place, they left for Geneva on 3rd March

1984. They were to return only on Monday morning. On 4th March i.e. on

Sunday I was enjoying my holiday in my room and performed my daily chores

and prayers to Sri Sai Baba leisurely. After my break fast, I entered the

bathroom and inadvertently closed the door with some force. Since the door

had a self locking system it got locked and I don't know how, but to my

surprise and despair, the handle inside the bath room fell down and the

outer handle fell in the hall. This meant I had been trapped in the

bathroom. I got really panicky and did not know what to do. I tried several

methods to unlock but in vain. In the process the key also broke due to my

meddling. There was no way to communicate either with the Hotel Manager or

friends. Readers can imagine my plight at this juncture! My friends who had

keys with them would come only the next day morning. As time passed by, I

was getting suffocated and losing hope of getting out. Then whom should I

appeal to? In utter distress we turn only to God and so I fervently started

praying to our Lord Sai Nath to come to my rescue and prayed thus "Baba! you

have promised: If you cast your burden on me, I shall surely bear it". Now

is the time for your to rescue me since I am casting my burden on you. I

know you know everything beyond the seven seas".

 

Like this, I prayed in several ways and invoked His sure help, at the same

time meddling with the system. And lo! to my surprise and relief one of the

latches which was very difficult to come to my hand came through the hole of

the system so easily as if somebody was infact pushing from out side to help

me only. The moment it fell in my hands, I struck the square latch in to the

handle and turned it and the door got opened! I passed through this tension

for at least one hour and the moment I came into the hall. I telephoned my

friend in another flat and also the care taker of the Hotel. When they

heard what I told, they realised the gravity of the situation and they at

once said in unison only a miracle could bring me out of the bath room and

only God could have saved my life!

 

I went to my bed room and kneeled down at Baba's photo and thanked Him

profusely for saving my life. I took Udhi [which I carry always in my

pocket) to calm myself. My faith in Baba was strengthened many fold and

after I returned to India, I went to Shirdi with my family with an humble

prayer in gratitude.

 

 

R. Venkata Rao

Bombay.

 

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