HOW I BECAME A SAI DEVOTEE

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HOW I BECAME A SAI DEVOTEE"

—Shri A. J. Mehta,

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>From 1956-1960 I was at Surat in service with Divisional Office of Life

Insurance Corporation of India. By the end of the year 1958 I got a severe

heart attack due to overwork in the Office. After a treatment of about three

months my health became almost normal. However, nervousness and lack of

self-confidence, which are the after-effects of any illness, persisted.

Though in the morning, I would feel that I was quite normal, after my

morning meals at about 9-30 a.m. I always felt that I was getting severe

pain in my heart and on most of the days I would avoid attending my office.

Since this became almost a daily affair, my wife used to become nervous on

account of my health and she did not know how to help me to get over my

nervousness and my lack of self-confidence. By God's grace during that time

she happened to meet a friend of ours, and she confided in him about my

illness especially with regard to my nervousness and lack of my

self-confidence and how my persistence in this was affecting her health too.

That friend happened to be a great devotee of 'Our Sai Baba' and he advised

her immediately to get a tasvir (framed picture) of Sai Baba and asked her

to advise me to simply look at HIM in the morning after waking and at night

before going to bed and HE would take care of my well-being Sai Baba's one

of the sayings being "If you look at me, I look at you". We got Our BABA's

taswir and began looking at HIM in the morning and in the night as per our

friend's advice from that day. Believe me from that day onwards OUR BABA's

grace fell on us and I began overcoming my nervousness and lack of

selfconfidence and within a fortnight I became a normal human being. Since

then I have become a SAI Devotee,

 

(Adopted from Sri SaiLeela Special Issue 1973)