SHIRDI SAIBABA - Our Protector (June 1986)

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SHIRDI SAIBABA - Our Protector (June 1986)

Shri Sai Baba is always full of Mercy- What is wanted on our part is whole

hearted devotion to Him. When a devotee has got firm Faith and Devotion, His

wishes are soon fulfilled. Whenever a devotee had complete and whole hearted

devotion to Sai

Baba, all his calamities and dangers were warded off, land his welfare

attended to by Baba (See "SAI SAT CHARITA CHAPTER XXV, Page 133 - 9th

Edition 1980).

I would like to narrate here the recent Sai-Leela experienced by me. The 19

year old boy Canesh came to our house at Vijayanagar from M.T.S. Railway

Colony (about 5 Kms. from our house) on the evening of Thursday 7th April,

1985 and told me as follows:

His elder Brother Sri S. Ramani (who is working in Railway Workshops, Hubli

as a Fitter) had left Hubli on the night of 5-4-85 for "TIRUVARUR" (a famous

Town in South India) along with his friends to attend the marriage of his

friend and co-worker Sri. Vijayakumar there fixed on 7th April 1985. After

attending the marriage, he left Tiruvarur by Train all alone on the same

afternoon at 1 p.m. (7.4.85) for Hubli Via. Madras and Bangalore. He reached

Mayavaram Junction at about 3-30 p.m. where he had to change and catch the

train for Madras at 5 p.m. While boarding the train at "Mayavaram" he

slipped and fell down on the platform, his head dashing against a stone. He

was seriously injured on the head and blood was flowing from his mouth and

head. The station staff at Mayavaram identified him from the Railway pass,

he was having in the "Money purse" found inside in his shirt pocket. After

giving First Aid treatment to him, they rushed him to Tanjore General

Hospital by a Special Van. After admitting him there in the Hospital at

about 8-30 p.m., they transmitted the news of the accident to the parents of

the Boy at Hubli through the Railway, 'Microwave', which was received by

them at about 10-30 p.m. on the same night (7-85). As the father of the boy

was seriously ill and bed ridden, his mother with her co-brother's son (Sri.

Natarajan) left Hubli by "Night Bangalore Bus" at 11 p.m. After reaching

Bangalore early morning at about 6 a.m. on 8-4-85, they engaged a Special

Taxi and reached Tanjore at about 9 p.m. the same day. They saw the boy at

10 p.m. in the Hospital. The boy was in a "Coma" (unconscious from the time

he met with the accident) and the doctors did not give any hope of his

survival.

On 10th April ‘85, his cousin brother Natarajan gave an 'Express Telegram'

asking the boy's Father Sri. Srinivasan to immediately proceed to Tanjore to

see his son's face for the last time. The telegram was received by the boy's

father at about 11 p.m. the same day. Sri. Srinivasan a staunch devotee of

Sai Baba, rushed to the Pooja Room and prayed before Baba (his eyes welled

with tears), "Baba, kindly save my son, I am unable to move from the house

as I am severely attacked with Asthama". Then he prostrated before Baba's

photo. He did not have a wink of sleep throughout the night and he was

uttering Baba's name the whole night.

Early Thursday Morning (11-4-‘85) Baba prompted him to send his son Canesh

to our house in the evening (after attending his college studies) and attend

"Baba's Arathi" in our house and pray to Baba to save his son's life.

 

R. Radhakrishnan,

Hubli - 580 032. (Karnataka)

 

(to be contd...)

 

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