SHRI SAI THE GUIDING FORCE (September 1983)

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SHRI SAI THE GUIDING FORCE (September 1983)

 

“I shall be active and vigorous even from my tomb”, said Shri Baba and the

devotees generally happen to find one incident or the other which proves to

be very helpful for them in future.

 

Further, Shri Sainath has said, “I am ever living to help and guide all who

come to me, who surrender to me and who seek refuge in me”. Once you tell

Him that it is He who has to do a particular work and you will only be doing

whatever He governs, you will only be dancing the way He wants you to, you

will find that the work is done without any efforts or hindrances.

I, like other devotees, experience a number of occasion when the timely help

by Him proves to be very important for me. Rather, He is the doer of my

every big and small work as I do not believe myself as the doer of any work.

However, I would like to share with the Sai-devotees, what I experienced in

connection with Baba’s activity and help.

 

I was married in December, 1982 and like most of the Sai-devotees, the

first thing I wanted to do after my marriage was to visit the biggest

shrine, Shirdi alongwith my wife. So, I chalked out a programme to go to

Shirdi and then, to go to Pune, Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar on a pleasure

trip. A suite was booked for me in one of the best hotels at Panchgani and

everything else was also settled.

 

I, alongwith my wife, proceeded for Shirdi as per my programme. We

dropped at Belapur and got a room in a hotel to keep our surplus luggage.

After taking our bath, we went to Shirdi by bus. Like others, we also went

to Dwarkamai. We had some pooja-rice with us, which we had to offer in the

sacred Dhuni. When we were doing so, a priest came to us and started

talking about the ‘Udi’, the remains of Dhuni. He also advised me to take

some Udi with me. Since, I was having sufficient quantity of it at my

house, I told him that I do not need any more of it. But, as he insisted

that we should take some, I picked up some Udi and kept it with me after

wrapping it in a piece of paper.

 

We returned to Belapur and had to stay there overnight. Next morning, my

wife (who knew very little about Baba before marriage), demanded the Udi

which I brought from Shirdi and told me that we had forgotten to bring it

from our home.

 

 

Pradeep K. Ghai

Haryana State.

 

(to be contd....)

 

 

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

be

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