SAI KRIPA (September 1983) - K.L.V.S. SARMA

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SAI KRIPA (September 1983)

Shri Sai Baba is watchful on His devotees. He comes in different forms in

order to help His devotees at the time of distress. I would like to share

one such incident that occurred recently.

 

After attending a marriage at Ongole on 25-7-1982 we had to come back to

Nellore on 27-7-1982 in connection with “Sravana Mangala Vara Nomulu” ( a

function which is performed by the newly wedded bride for 5 years on all the

Tuesdays of “Sravana Masam”.) positively. So, we had to start on

26-7-1982. As all the buses were heavily crowded we could not catch the

bus. We had to wait upto 9.00 p.m. My wife and myself could get into the

bus when my mother and grandmother could not. It was decided that they

should come on the early hours of 27-7-1982. They left the bus stand after

we boarded the bus. When the bus was about to start, suddenly my wife asked

me to get down the bus as she felt that the others may not able to catch the

bus on the next day for attending the programme. On enquiry at the RTC

enquiry office, I was informed that the last bus was at 11.30 p.m and there

were no buses till 7.00 a.m. So, we decided to go to the bride’s house at

Kothapet where my mother and grand mother would be staying. We engaged a

rickshaw and went there, where we came to know that they had left for my

grand mother’s friend’s house which was nearby. On hearing the same we

rushed to that house in vain. Then I prayed to Baba that there may not be

any difficulty for the next day’s programme. We came back to the bride’s

residence. As we were engaged in chit chatting, suddenly my mother came

there. We were surprised to see her.

 

Then we rushed back to the bus stand. On the way to the bus stand I asked

my mother how she could come to know that we were at the bride’s house.

Then she narrated the following incident. As the bride’s residence was

full of relatives, they were in a dilemma whether to go to my grandfather’s

house at Ramanagar which is far off. On their way while they were talking

to their friends, a rickshaw wallah came there and asked my mother whether

they would like to have a rickshaw. My mother told him that they did not

need him. He told her that Sundaramma and a man were searching for them

and they were at the bride’s residence at Kothapet. She was surprised to

hear the same and thought that he was lying as she saw us boarding the bus.

So saying he went away. She thought it better to go over to the bride’s

residence along with the grandmother. On coming to the bride’s residence,

she was surprised to see us. Our prayer to Shri Sai was fulfilled and we

cold catch the bus at 10.30 p.m. and came to Nellore by 1.45 a.m. without

any problem. Everything went well on 27-7-1982. On Tuesday we went to

Shri Sainath Mandhir at Gandhinagar, Nellore. I was astonished as to how

the rickshaw wallah came to guide them to us. It is still afresh in our

memory.

 

We are sure that it was Shri Sai Baba who inspired the rickshaw wallah to

inform my mother about our stay at the bride’s residence; or else we would

have been put to a lot of difficulty in searching for each other and could

not have reached for the function in time.

 

K.L.V.S. SARMA,

Karvetnagar 517 582.

 

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

be

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