BABA KEEPS UP THE PRESTIGE OF HIS DEVOTEES! (March 1986) - I.R. Laroiya

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BABA KEEPS UP THE PRESTIGE OF HIS DEVOTEES! (March 1986)

 

Innumerable miraculous incidents are experienced daily every moment by

Sai-devotees. In fact, life without His gracious favours bestowed directly

or indirectly, is difficult to think of. One has only to wonder as to how

Baba, the Almighty & Omnipresent, comes to the rescue of His bhagtas

how-so-ever impossible the situation might be.

 

A few years back, I was transferred on promotion from Delhi to a more

important office at Ajmer. I was attached to a very senior, capable, strict

but an honest officer who started liking me and shortly had full confidence

in me in his day-to-day work. Everybody in the office carried an impression

that Laroiya (myself) by his impact could get anything done from that

officer.

As luck would have it, I had to go to Delhi for a few days for some urgent

private work within a few months of my posting at Ajmer. There I had the

opportunity to meet my old friends. It was natural to talk about my official

position in my new office with them. One evening, one of my initmate friends

called on me alongwith a middle-aged man, not known to me and said, "Mr.

Laroiya, this man who is well educated and qualified, is without a job for

the last 2 - 3 years and is in a dire financial set-back. You can help him

by getting him suitably employed in your office as your boss is all powerful

and listens to you sympathetically." I was in a great fix. On the one hand,

I could not disappoint my friend and on the other hand, I knew I couldn't do

anything to help him as, in fact, I had no guts to talk to my officer for

any personal benefit. However, just to tide over the situation temporarily,

I suggested to him to post a written application direct to my officer with a

copy to me and promised to help him as best as possible. The man went away

satisfied and, as per my advice, sent an application for appointment to my

officer within the next few days.

 

Dear readers, I never spoke a word to my officer nor, in fact, to anybody

else in the, lower level in this connection as I knew very well that it

would have been quite futile to do so. I simply prayed to Baba to settle the

matter.

 

One day, late in the evening, when I was about to go to sleep, my door bell

rang up. As soon as I opened the door, I felt a shock when I found the same

middle-aged person of Delhi whom I was supposed to have helped and who, as I

thought, had come all the way to make enquiries from me about his lot. In a

faint and trembling voice, I asked him to step inside when he, with folded

hands, said, "Sir, I have no words to thank you for your kind and timely

help in getting me the appointment in your office for which I have come here

to join tomorrow." He showed me the appointment letter which was issued from

the concerned section of my office and duly signed by my officer.

 

Obviously, it was Baba who had kept the prestige of His humble devotee

though this had all along been kept a secret from the benefeciary.

 

I.R. Laroiya

Noida(U.P.)Pin:201 301.

 

 

 

(The experiences of Devotees as published in Shri Sai Leela Magazine, can be

read at www.saileelas.org/magazines/SAILEELA/exp.htm)