Prayer service/request

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Kindly note that from today onwards Sister Melody McClarty will

collect prayer requests from .

Anyone can write to Sister Melody McClarty (blngs2sai) or

SBOI group () for a prayer request or

a request to participate in the prayer seva at anytime. The "prayer

group" prayers on Thursdays and Sundays and on Poornima's…

 

SBOI recommends all members to make this prayer service a success. -

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Kindly also read mail below from ananda perera

 

Loving Sai Ram,

 

I fully support this as I am a firm believer in the powerful power

of prayers.

 

It took me a long time, and much agony from being born an agnostic,

to believe in God only by the Grace of Bhagwan Shirdi Sai Baba

through whom I fortunately landed at the Holy Feet of Bhagawan Baba

at Parthi.

 

I will try to make it very short.

 

I experienced the first Physical Darshan of Shirdi Sai Baba, when I

lost my passport, documents and money at the Poona railway station,

on my very first visit to India in 1969.

 

I had absent-mindedly carried my luggage and left these documents

in a wallet on the train seat. The station master told me that there

was no hope of getting such documents back.

 

As I was desolately wondering what to do, without identification

papers and all money lost, an old porter approached me from nowhere

and returned my lost items.

 

Being human, the first thing I did was to check whether my passport

was intact and then count the money. When I turned to thank the

porter and give him a tip, he had vanished into thin air.

 

It was much later, when I saw a picture of the " porter " being

worshiped, I enquired deeply who He was and was told He was Shirdi

Sai Baba. The story, though inspiring is long in detail and I will

write it some day.

 

To cut a long story short,when I was next in Bombay , enroute to

direct a film in Mauritius, it dawned on me that Bhagawan Shirdi

Sai Baba's tomb was within reach at Nasik. So near and yet so far -

as I was on a tight filming schedule to fly the next morning.

 

It was then that I prayed the whole night ,with tearful earnestness

for the first time in my life , without sleep, to show me that God

exists and if indeed, it was He who helped me at Poona, then prove

to me by getting me to His Samadhi soon.

 

To my utter disbelief, the next morning I had a phone call at the

Bombay hotel from Air India stating that all flights are cancelled

as the Santa Cruz Airport was burnt inexplicably due to an

electrical fault.

 

I immediately packed my bags and rushed to Shirdi and literally wept

at the Shirhi Samadhi promising NEVER EVER TO HAVE ANY DOUBTS IN THE

EXISTENCE of GOD and the power of sincere prayers. I stayed a

blissful 7 days and the rest is History as they say.

 

When Bhagwan Shri Satya Sai Granted me an Interview on Thursday 19

August 2004, He confirmed all this and more.

 

I just wanted to share this story briefly to support the inspiring

move by Saibabaofindia (SBOI) to encourage all to pray when

requested by devotees.

 

Yours in Sai Love and Light!

ananda perera