Sai Baba - The Financier (January 1984)

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Sai Baba - The Financier (January 1984)

 

It was in the month of July 1980 that I first met Pujya Shri

Acharya E. Bharadwaja, who is doing yeoman service for the spread

of Sai devotion, at Chivatam village. It was a

''Mandalaradhana Day” after the Mahasamadhi of "Mother of L.Hivatam"

and a Guru Poornima day too. On that auspicious occasion and in the

presence of so many "Mahatmas", I got an inspiration to start Sai

Satsang at Kovvur. Accordingly we started Satsang with the children of

our surroundings, who belong to the age group of 5 to 15 years. It

is now going on every -day with increasing faith and devotion and

the participants of the Satsang are enjoying the blessings of Baba

as well as the appreciation of the society. It is clearly

evident from our experience that it is His Power alone that enables us

to conduct the Satsang every day without fail. I wish to narrate

here a great miracle which happened at our Sai Kuteer.

 

It was in the month of July 1983 that my sister-in-law. Smt. Lakshmi

Kamamurthy, who is the chief organiser of our Satsang, was worried a lot

regarding how to celebrate the coming Guru Poornima Day. As all the members

of our Satsang are only children, we do not have any patrons to raise funds

for special offerings on that day. So, Smt Lakshmi had decided to celebrate

it in a simple way without much expenditure. But the compassionate Baba

would not allow His devotees to be disappointed in any matter. On 6th July

1983, the postman handed over a registered cover to Smt Lakshmi. It was from

my brother's son, Mr. Satya Prasad, who is working in Hyderabad. Immediately

after opening the cover nineteen ten rupee notes (a sum of Rs. 190/-) fell

down. In utter astonishment, she unfolded the letter inside, in

which she found Rs. 75/- kept separately. Mr. Satya Prasad wrote in

the letter that he used to send Rs.25/- to Shirdi every month. But he

could not do so since three months for unknown reasons. So, he is

sending that amount o( Rs. 75/- for the coming Guru Poornima Celebrations

in our Sai Kuteer. But he did not mention any thing about the other

190/-. Smt, Lakshmi thought that they were put in the cover by mistake

and so she dropped a letter immediately to Mr. Satya Prasad seeking

clarification about this amount. By return post, he confirmed

that he did not know anything about those Rs. I90/- and that he sent

only Rs. 75/-. Then we understood that it is nothing but a "Sai

Leeela". In that way Baba, financing by Himself, got performed Sahasra

Nama Puja, Anna Samaradhana; etc., on a grand scale on Guru Poornima Day.

P. S. R. Vijaya Bhaskai

Kovvur (West Godavari District) A. P.]

 

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

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