Shri Sai Baba's Grace to One And All

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Shri Sai Baba's Grace to One And All

 

During May 1980, I along with my wife and two daughters, studying in school,

had been to Erachakulam which is 3 1/2 miles from Nagarcoil and 9 miles from

Kanya Kumari and which is my second daughter's mother-in-law's place. We

spent the May vacation well there visiting the nearby holy places viz.,

Kanyakumari, Triruchendur etc. along with my wife, daughters, son-in-law and

grand daughter.

 

In front of .my son-in-law's house, there is a " Perumar Koil " viz. Vishnu

temple, where I used to attend pooja and arati every morning at 6.00 A. M.

and 7.00 P.M. in the evening along with other devotees. The temple used

to be closed at 8.00 P.M. on ordinary days after distributing ‘Prasadam’

to those present at that time. Some poor people used to come and sleep

outside the temple in the spacious covered varandah during nights. One

amongst them was a poor farmer, by name Mahadevan Filial, who used to

entertain, others by his jokes upto 11.00 P.M. He was not well educated but

gifted by God to please one and all by his wits and jokes. Being summer, I

used to steep in the verandah of my son-in-law's house, which is very

close to the temple verandah; and I could enjoy his fun for some

time till I got sleep. But from one Monday onwards (I do not

remember the exact date) upto Friday morning, Mahadevan Pillai did not

turn up for the pooja and arathi, both in the morning and

evening and also in the nights for sleeping after meals. I felt

his absence very much for the past four or five days as he had great

regard for me and be used to take my leave before going to his house

after attending the arati in the temple. On Thursday night of that week I

met his son by name Aachi Pillai and I enquired with him about his

father's whereabouts. He was in tears and said, " For the past four days

my father, myself, my brother-in-law are all roaming about without food

and sleep all over the places, nearly 50 miles north, south, east and west

in all directions from our village in search of our one pair of buffalo is

which are missing from Monday evening. " He further said, " There was no hope

of getting them back, if they were already taken to Kerala border (40 Miles

from this place) and sold to butchers there. My father has taken a loan of

about Rs.2.000/- last year from the co-operative bank on

installment basis and has purchased them. We are entirely

depending on them for our daily livelihood. "

 

I was very much moved and told him that there is one Shirdi Sai

Baba who always helps in such crisis and advised him to pray to

Him from the bottom of his heart to get back their lost Buffaloes.

During that night, with tears in my eyes, I stood before 'Baba's photo, kept

in my daughter's Pooja room and pleaded with Him as follows, " Baba, he is

a poor farmer and also a sincere devotee of Lord Vishnu, who is not

different from You. Kindly save him now by helping him to get back his

lost animals " . My prayers were answered by Bhagawan Shri Sai as I had a

dream at 4.00 A. M. on Friday morning in which I saw clearly a pair of

buffaloes eating green grass in a field near Thazhukkudi, a

village which is 2miles south of Erachakulam. At 6.00 A. M.-in the morning I

sent for Mahadevan Pillai. On seeing me, he began to cry. I

immediately consoled him and said, " This Vishnu whom you worship and

Baba are one and the same. " I also told him about the dream and directed

him to proceed immediately to a field near Thazhakkudi as pointed out by

Baba and take over charge of his buffaloes. His son, who came along with

his father, said, " We have already searched many a time all the fields near

Thazhakkudi. " I told them that if they want their buffaloes, they should

immediately go to Thazhakkudi and have them. Mahadevan Pillai told his

son not to argue and away believed in my words. In the afternoon at 3.00

P.M. both the father and the son came in a joyful mood and informed me that

they located their buffaloes in the same place which was pointed out by Baba

in my dream. I immediately remembered Shri Chand Patil of Dhoop village and

his story in Sai Satcharitha in which Baba helped him to get his lost mare.

 

To conclude this article, I pray to Shri Sai Baba, the indweller of all

beings and savior of the whole universe, to give more and more strength to

all his devotees to serve Him and the world at large.

 

R. Radhakrishnan

Hubli 580020

 

(Source Shri Sai Leela Magazine June 1982)