LIVE EXPRIENCES OF THE TARKHAD FAMILY WITH SHRI SAI BABA OF SHIRDI

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Writer's Own Experiences

"Om Shri Sainathaya Namaha."

I am sure that after reading these priceless experiences of my father, you may

be inclined to think that I might have also gathered some experience of my own.

Well once I narrated one of these experience to a lady devotee. She told me that

I might not have come across that kind of rich library of spiritual experiences

like my father, but as I have taken birth through such "Punyatma",! must have

inherited an iota of "Punya" from him, and hence must have come across some

experience certainly worthy enough of narrating to all Sai devotees of the

present era. This way I can also distribute part of that "Punya" to all of

them. This response of that lady devotee gave me a jolt and I decided that,

however small & silly it may be from my point of view, I should be

disclosing to you all whatever I have encountered so far. In this way I can

express my "Sai Preeti" and a token of Saiservice from my side.

My full name is Virendra Jyotindra Tarkhad. There is a small story behind our

names. It goes this way. My great grand father had named all his sons in such a

way that their first name ends with letter "DRA". The originator to this theory

was none other than the Nobel Laureate late Shri RabindranathTogore. lt so

happened that before proceeding to U.K. he had stayed with my great grandfather

in his Choupaty Bungalow. This was with a purpose to acquaint him with English

etiquette, as the Tarkhad family was well known for that at that time. Late

Rabindranath was very fond of Astrology and he had done deep ,study of the

subject. He prepared the 'Kundali' (Horoscope) of my great grandfather and

concluded that the Tarkhad's are originated from Lord Indra and hence they must

identify (the men folk) themselves by that name. He impressed upon my great

grandfather to therefore name his sons accordingly. My great grandfather must

have been convinced and he named his sons as Ramchandra (my grandfather)

Dnyanendra etc. My grandfather entrusted names of his two sons as Satyendra and

Jyotindra (my father). Further Jyotindra named his sons as Ravindra (my elder

brother) and Virendra (myself). Ravindra had named his son as Devendra and I

have named my son as Mahendra.

Offcourse from my childhood I am attending the Aarti of SaiBaba in our house on

every Thursday evening and this ritual is continuing till date. Fortunately my

wife also happens to be a Sai devotee. She has been visiting Shirdi ever since

she was a 5-year-old child. I visited Shirdi for the fist time when I was 18

year old and that too along with my two friends Amar Bhagtani and Shashi

Bhatia. After marriage I started staying in my mother-in-laws flat. My wife had

lost her father when she was 5 years old and they were two ladies who needed the

presence of a man. As my mother-in-law and my wife both were Sai Devotees there

was no interruption in my 'Sai Sanskars' in fact they grew higher and higher.

 

BY

VIRENDRA JYOTINDRA TARDHAD

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With Baba Nothing is Impossible

Baba guide us all

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