Story of unshakable faith of a devotee

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"TimesNewRoman\,Bold";font-weight:bold">Story of unshakable faith of a devotee

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a lady, a simple illiterate devotee. She stored water in her kitchen in three clean,

brightly polished brass pots from three separate wells and she had named the

pots---Ganga

TimesNewRoman">, Yamuna and Saraswathi.

She always referred to them by those names. Whenever any thirsty wayfarer

called at her door, she mixed water from all three and offered it to the person

as

font-style:italic">Thriveni

mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman\,Italic";font-style:italic"> Theertha (water

from three rivers). Neighbours used to laugh at her

faith, but her belief that the three wells were connected underground with the

three rivers that joined at Prayag, was unshakable. Her

husband started on a pilgrimage to Kaashi. His

mother, while blessing him on his departure, put on his finger her own gold

ring and directed him to take good care of it, for it would be a talisman for

him. When he was taking the ceremonial bath at the Manikarnika

Ghat, the ring slipped into the waters and could not

be retrieved. When he returned and related this story, he said, "

mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman">Ganga

TimesNewRoman"> waned it; she took it," just to console his mother. When the

wife heard this, she said, "No, no! Mother Ganga will not hanker after the

property of a poor old

lady. She will accept only what is offered out of love. She will give us back

the ring, I am sure. I shall ask

TimesNewRoman">Ganga; she is

in our kitchen." So saying, she went in and with folded hands, she prayed

before the particular pot named by her as

mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman">Ganga

TimesNewRoman">. Putting her hand in she searched the bottom and sure enough,

she got the ring back!.

bold;font-style:italic">It is faith that matters; the form and the name on

which it is fixed do not matter. For all names are His (Sai);

all forms are His (Sai).

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font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Sai

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