Abounding Sai Grace

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Abounding

Sai Grace

 

On

5th August 1984, my colleagues and myself were in Bhubaneshwar to

conduct a Product Seminar of our Company (Bharatia

Cutler & Hammer Ltd.) in high spirit.

The assignment over, we checked out of our hotel post-haste to catch the

Puri Express bound for Howrah. When the Express chugged out of the

station, I decided to rearrange my luggage for better convenience,

I discovered then the loss of a pair of my newly-stitched costly dress. My unswerving faith in my Sadguru Shirdi Sai Baba made me cool; but the wisdom of Anandamayi Ma that “one should never bother over

one’s loss and only leave it to one’s Guru if he is spiritually

elevated” rang in my ears.

That made me more calm. When we resumed duty at our Calcuta Office, I decided to try over the S.T. with my Bhubaneshwar Hotel Management, thinking that if my store of

“karma” were good I might get my dress back; if not at least I

would be spiritually elevated.

After 3 days of strenuous effort, I received this message from the hotel

over the trunk-line: “your dress is intact in room No.101”. When we colleagues checked out of the

hotel, 3 unfamiliar brothers were also present. So it sent shivers of joy in me and I

thanked Sai mentally. I got the

dress back in a few days’ time.

 

Saigrace is abounding.

The same August month on 18th, Saideepa,

Saisudha, my wife Lalitha

and self left Calcutta to attend my sister-in-law’s

marriage in Mannargudi and arrived at Madras on 19th evening. I hailed an auto and landed at Foreshore

Estate just to pay our respect to my 84 year old maternal grandfather

there. After discharging the auto,

my wife realised the loss of her handbag, containing

the Calcutta Flat keys. I kept

cool; but not my wife. She could

not bring herself to the new grave situation. On 20th morning an auto

pulled up close to our flat. Its

driver alighted and drilled me with searching questions before he handed me my

wife’s handbag. In gratitude

to Shirdi Sai and his honesty, I gifted the driver with cash and availed the

same auto to catch our train bound for Mannargudi. This trip was as pleasant as one would

feel after a thunder shower on a sweltering day.

 

Did

n’t Shirdi Sai Baba rightly affirm: “do

not be anxious that I would be absent from you”.

 

 

 

T.R.Anand

Calcutta – 700 029 (West Bengal).

(Source Shri Sai Leela July 1985)