Sai Baba Where Not ?

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Sai Baba Where Not ?

Is it not a wonderful thing to

note that Baba's eyes are every where, fulfilling the cherished desires of

devotees sooner or later. One

may shed tears while facing calamities in life but' the same eyes may bring

tears of joy in the long run. This is popularly know as " Sai Leela " . If what

is expected happens then there is no wonder in it If

an unforeseen or unpredicted thing happens then it is a miracle. Some times

with the best efforts put in, people fail and say it is bad luck and on some

occasions with little efforts they get success. This is a matter of luck. If

joys and sorrows are not mixed and interwoven then the very purpose of life is

defeated.

Today Sai cult is spreading far

and wide like passing the that current when the switch

is made on. Why ? The answer is very simple. Sai

Baba's blessings are with those devotees who look to Him and serve humanity

selflessly. Another key reason is that; Sai Baba is easily approachable without

observing any hard and fast dogmas or religious practices. Baba does not have

any faith , of the in caste, creed or isms. .

I for many reasons believe that

Baba's leelas are very strange and He wants things to

take their own course and time whether for good or bad To

substantiate the above matter. I feel here to pen my few but most significant

experiences in recent times.

The first and foremost worth

recording event took place on Thursday 21-1-1982. As usual I applied udi

and prayed to Sai to fulfil my two desires while

leaving home for office. The first desire was that as being the senior most in

my department having j put in service for 19 years I wished for my promotion

and secondly the posting in the same district and office where I am working at

present. To my great surprise and to that of all others, the postman delivered

a cover on 21-1-1982 at 4-15 p.m. When I opened the cover, I found the proceedings of my Head

of the department wherein I got promotion as Statistical Officer and was posted

in the same office where I was working.

Another equally worth noting

miracle is that no sooner I reached my home joyfully on 21-1-1982

at 7.00 p.m.

than my daughter N. Vasanthi handed over a post card

to me. The readers may be very anxious to know what was this

letter. That was an invitation to me from Shri.

K. H. Kakresaheb, the Court Receiver, requesting me

to come to Shirdi as a delegate to participate in the annual gathering to be

held on 31st January and 1st Feb' 1982. You can well imagine what 'were my

feelings on that day. Accordingly I visited Shirdi on 30-1-1982

and participated in the annual gathering on the forenoon of 31-1-82.

While at Shirdi I associated myself with Dr. S. D. Parchure

editor of English Saileela magazine who was kind

enough to inform me that my article " The purpose of,;

Human Life " was under active consideration for publication then (now it is

published in the issue of March, 1982). As already mentioned above I received

my promotion orders on 21-1-1982 but it is after paying homage to Lord Shri Sainath on 30th and 31st

January, 1982 I took charge of the post of Statistical Officer on Thursday i.e.

4-2-1982.

Special mention may be

made of another incident that occurred on 28-2-1982. It was in the last week of Feb' 82 that my

wife having only meagre amount at her disposal,

started renovation of the house. Her financial estimate for the repairs failed.

Consequently worry and anxiety annoyed us. She is a member of Orgallu Chitfund. The lottery draw for Rs. 10.000/-(Ten

thousand) was fixed on 2.8-2-1982 at 2. OO'p.m. On that day before leaving for Chitfund

office to witness the draw, I prayed Sai Baba whole heartedly with a request to

help me at this critical juncture. At 2. 00 p.m. all

the members of the Chit-fund, who optioned for lot, were looking very eagerly

for the result of the draw, for every body present was in need of money. Just a few seconds before the draw I placed the small photo, which is in my fore-finger ring on

the number assigned to us and closed my eyes for a while. The moment I opened my eyes I heard that the

number of my wife was announced. I was taken away by an air of surprise to see

the disappointment of other members and getting the result it my favour. Is it not Baba's presence here to help me ? This being the reason I selected " Sai Baba where

not " as suitable title for article. My joy knew no bounds and really it

was inexplicable. Had Baba not helped me I would have been put to much inconvenience as there was no other alternative of

meeting the financial requirements. From this it can be safely concluded that

Baba's eyes are every where Sai knows what we want and the fulfillment of what

we want depends upon the strength of devotion and time factor. If every body

gets all the things done favourably without making

concrete efforts, then there would not have arisen

human problems. But the pity is that day-to-day affairs do not move in the

direction as desired by us, Some time heavy and strong expectations may prove

futile if these have no divine sanction. Man proposes and God disposes. Let us

all hope and pray that Baba's eyes which are everywhere cannot escape the

attention of true devotees, who are increasing in number day by day. What is

likely to happen may be different from what actually happens.

All depends upon the sincere efforts of human beings and ever increasing faith

in Sai.

Let us hope that with Baba's

blessings the gap between expectations and the attainment will be narrowed

considerably leading to optimistic life. Let Baba help all of us and make

tomorrow better than today and day after tomorrow still much more

better than tomorrow.

N. Machander Oas

Warangal

(A. P.) 506002

(Source Shri

Sai Leela Magazine April 1983)