FW:Experiences of bharadwaja garu

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Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:02:53 +0000bharadwaja_sahanamSubject: a_kandukuriSairam Anitaji, Satcharitra is a Treasure gifted by Sri Sai to his devotees.That is why I always refuse to accept any money for the Satcharitra I give to others. Many people ask me for the book. I give them. Immediately they ask how much it costs. We may price a Holy book for its print but can not price its content. This is my strong opinion. Satcharitra is a ocean like the four VEDAS. Once Dr.Mrs.Vinnie Chitloori (author of Ambrosia in Shirdi) in our personal conversation told me that she always prey Baba to give her atleast seven births as His devotee and grant strength to understand the Satcharitra in all aspects and grant liberation in the last birth . Baba makes a devotee to fulfil his vow to other Gods is a known matter from the Satcharitra. Once this happened to me. Five years ago I have copied the Holy Sri Gurucharitra in manuscipt (Master Universal Sai Trust of

Ongole in Andhra Pradesh is constructing an Ashram in Shirdi and they wanted to place the manuscipt books copied by the Sai Devotees in a pillar or stoopa). On copletion of the work while packing the Book for despatch, a thought came to my mind that Lord Dattatreya is incarnation of Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara.....Oh Sainadha....it would be nice to feed atleast three people on completion of my work. The next day morning I went to a post Office and sent the parcel containing the Book to the Organisation and walking through the street. Suddenly one villager with two children came opposite to me and asked for food for his children. I said that my house is too far from that place and expressed my inability to provide food instantly and offered him money to feed children in any restaurant. He refused the money and said that he too possessed money and shown to me. He futher said that he came in search of his wife who came to the city with her parents to work in a

construction project from their village as they had no earnings at their place and children wanted to meet their mother. One child was of 10 yrs and other was of about 8 yrs. He said they came by a train from their village and children are hungry and the money in his possession was required for his return travel. I again insisted him to accept the money instead of food as I was totally helpless to feed them on such a busy street, but he did not yield and requested me to provide food to his children. I was totally baffled at his demand and turned around to relax my self. To my surprise there was an Irani restaurant a 100 yds away. Overjoyed by seeing this, I asked him if any snacks would be alright for them as normally such kind of restaurants serve only tea and snacks. He agreed. I took them to the restaurant and looking at the huge glass box containing bakery biscuits, samosa etc and casually asked the bearer there if cooked rice available. He replied that Vegetable

Biryani was just ready. I enquired the villager whether children eat such spicy food. He said yes and asked me to arrange atleast one plateful to feed his children and he further said that he can resist himself. But I ordered two plates full of Biryani for the children and paid money for it in advance and told the bearer not to ask any money from them and put few steps towards exit.It stuck to my mind that I did something wrong and again I went into the restaurant and saw the children giving spoonful of food to their father.Cursing my self for not ordering food for their father, I approached the bearer and asked him one more plateful of biryani and paid money for it and turned towards the villager. His expression of gratitude for providing meal to them is unexplainable. With great relief I came out of the restaurant and was surprised to see a Baba idol installed in a small portion opposite the restauarant and in a stunning mood looked at my

wrist watch, it was 12.20 . Then I realised what I thought when I was packing the manuscript of Sri GuruCharitra previous night and how Baba made me to fullfil my wish that too in his presence. My faith in him increased multifold with this incident and I have no words to express my condition at that time now. Anitaji if you feel my experiences with Sri Sai are useful to other friends in the group you may forward my mails to the group. With humble pranams in the service of Sai the Supreme Master BharadwajaAnitha Kandukuri <a_kandukuri wrote: Sairam Bharadwaja garu,I agree with you in totality about Satcharita. My life revolves around and I lead my life based on the messages through it. For me it is communication with BABA. I look forwards to hearing from about your experiences. Humble pranamsSairamAnitha Kandukuri http://www.angelfire.com/sd/SaidarbarCanberra ng together - do your thing. Start your group.Check our comprehensive Salary Centre Overpaid or Underpaid?