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)