Sai Descends to help Devotee in Distress By Puttanna

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Sai

Descends to help Devotee in Distress

By Puttanna

 

Sri Sai

is ever watchful. He is always with those, who constantly repeat Sai... Sai.... Sai. Not

only that, He helps them. He nourishes their devotion. He takes care of their

worldly needs. He becomes one with them.

 

Poor Swarna

for she lost her husband at the age of 21 or so. Her only daughter, Champa, was three years then. Through somebody's help, she

got employed in the Khadi Gramodyoga

Bhavan and started living independently with none to

help her.

 

It was somewhere in the

beginning of 1996, she started coming to Sri Saipadananda

Satsanga to participate in Sai

Satcharitha Parayana on

every Thursday morning. When she was introduced to the Satsanga,

her daughter, Champa, was

already 20, studying in college. Swarna's worry then

was how to find a suitable boy and to conduct the marriage without anybody's

help and money. She said Sri Sai

was her only refuge and she was sure that parayana of

Sri Sai Satcharitha would

fulfill her desires. She also said she was not poor as Sai

is her father. She was so strong in her faith in Baba.

 

After 2 or 3 months, she

stopped coming. I wanted to know what the problem was. When some devotee took

me to her small house, I was very much pained and moved to see her lying in bed

due to severe pain in the back bone, which had made her unable to sit or walk.

Sand bags had been tied to her legs by the Doctor. During this difficult time,

some of our Satsang members were inspired to help her

by Baba's Grace. After two months treatment she recovered and was able to

attend the office too. She started again to come to Satsanga

for reading Sai Satcharitha.

 

Baba is always aware of

the needs of His devotees. It so happened that she was

invited to attend a relative's marriage where she went with her daughter. When

she was witnessing the marriage, an elderly couple came to her to enquire

whether she would offer her daughter to their son who was working in ISRO. Swarna never expected such a surprising situation. She

believed that Sri Sai only had directed the elderly

couple to approach her. Then and there the boy and the girl saw each other and

consented to the marriage. When Swarna explained

about her health and financial conditions, the boy's father only said

" Don't worry. Everything will be all right by God's Grace. "

 

Now, Swarna

had no money and she has to conduct the marriage. The boy's father also fixed

up the marriage hall and told Swarna to take care of

the expenditure with regard to food only on the marriage day. But Swarna's problem was how to raise money.

 

Lo! Baba's unseen hand

worked. At that time her brothers at her native place decided to dispose of

their father's house. Through this deal, Baba helped her to get a fairly good

amount as her share, just enough to meet the marriage expenses.

 

Thus, Champa was married on 6.12.1996. Sri Sai

will never let down those who surrender and take total refuge in Him and Him

alone.

 

Bow to

Sri Sai - Peace be to All.

OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI

 

(source Shri Saipadananda

Special Magazine)