An experience I recently had with Baba.

[Guest guest]

3rd September 09

Jai Sai Ram

I wanted to share an experience with you all. This is the

only way for me to express my gratefulness towards my Shri Guru, my Baba.. I am

very happy today. It is Thursday today and Shri Ganesh festival’s last day for

visarjan/nimarjan.

(I apologise if this is a bit lengthy but I couldn’t express

it any other way) So, after I did my Certification for Financial Planning (here

in Sydney), I was unable to get any job for a long time due to the Financial

Crisis; I had strange things happen to me and somehow a few of my Sai devotee friends

started to share some miracles of Shri Tirupati Balaji. I don’t know why I felt

that maybe I should vow something to Balaji Maharaj so that I can get a good

job. That night I opened a random chapter of Shri Sai Satcharita (as usual) and

got Ch 26 which was about 2 Goa Gentlemen where one of them had vowed to God

Datta that he would pay his first month’s salary if he got a job; and he got

the job and consequent promotions as well but he forgot to fulfil his vow and

Baba asked that first salary’s amount from him as dakshina. I vowed that I

would also give my first week’s pay

to Balaji Maharaj by keeping that money aside and then donating it in the

temple when I go to India. Within a short time I got a job in one of the

biggest banks in Australia and I was ecstatic.

I was in dire need of money and I spent the first week’s pay

thinking that I will withdraw the first week salary’s amount from my account

for when I go to India and then donate it (but I had vowed to keep it aside as

soon as I get it).

For the second week’s pay, I faxed the timesheet to payroll

dept but they didn’t receive it for some reason so when they called me I tried

to fax it again, but they still didn’t receive it; at last I scanned it and

emailed it to them and they received it then but they told me that the cut-off

time to pay for that week has passed and my second weeks’ pay will be given to

me along with the third weeks’ pay. That night I realised that maybe this

incident happened because I didn’t keep my vow of keeping first week’s pay

aside for Shri Balaji and had spent it. My aunty here told me that Shri Balaji

Maharaj is very powerful and he will be behind me until I do what I promised.

So the following week when I received my 2nd and 3rd

weeks’ pay together I took out the exact amount that I had received for my 1st

week’s salary and kept it aside asking  Shri

Balaji to forgive me. 5 weeks later they ceased my employment giving me some

positive & negative feedback. I was so depressed I cannot explain. I was

shocked at why Baba did this. I always told him that it was as if he gave a

crying kid some lollipop candy and as soon as the kid licked it Baba snatched

it away from the kid.

After a few days I spoke with a friend that I had studied

with and was surprised to know that he has already become a Financial Planner

with this medium sized ‘X’ company. I wanted to be where he was. He arranged

for an interview for me with his recruitment manager. I went for an interview

on the 24th of August and it went well but still I was very nervous.

On the 28th of August I went to ISCKON temple to celebrate Radha

Aashtmi. I prayed to Shri Krishna and Radha Maa to ‘set’ (fix) my career and

thanked them for their love. I wished for a fruit that was being thrown by the

priest in the crowd – the 2nd apple that was thrown hit someone on

my right hand side (when I thought, “this apple is also goneâ€L) and it hit someone

then bounced back and landed straight on my left handv(Goodness! I felt

immensely blessed!) On the 30th of August I went to the Shri

Venkateshwara temple (Shri Balaji) at Helensberg with my 1st week’s

pay in the envelope and my uncle asked the priest to touch the envelope and

return it back – then I wished for a flower – the priest touched the envelope

to Shri Balaji Maharaj’s hands, legs and gave it back to me with some flowers

that were near the legs J

I asked for forgiveness and blessings of Shri Balaji that day and vowed to

donate the first week’s salary (but not keep it aside) to the Tirupati Balaji

temple  for when I go to India.

Company ‘X’ had told me that they would call me before the

close of business on the 4th of September; today is the 3rd

of September , Thursday and I was waiting  for their call all day long. At around 5.30 pm

I told my housemate, “Kya yaar, kitni hope liye aaj soch rahatha ke aaj job ka

call aajayega pur nahi aya (With immense hope I was expecting a call for that

job today but it hasn’t come yet)†– then exactly when I finished saying that

sentence my phone rang and they told me that I got the job. I went to the Sai

temple at evening and my heart couldn’t express the gratefulness. My dad called

me later to tell me that he prayed to Baba today that he is coming to Shirdi on

the 7th of September to ask Baba to give me a good job – then I told

him that I got it already and he was ecstatic.

I later realised that what happened was for my good, I just

needed to have some patience. BABA KNEW EVERYTHING> Working for that big

bank would have probably made me a Financial Planner in 3-4 years time because

of the way the career progression is rigidly structured there – I think I

mainly liked more the idea of working for such a huge bank than the actual role

itself; also I found that one learns a lot by working with small and mid-sized

companies because of ‘process-work’ type nature of some big companies which

gives limited exposure to learn. With this company ‘X’ I can become a Financial

Planner in 1-1.5 year’s time, Baba willing. BABA knows exactly what is best for

us.

Ive realised that Shraddha (Faith) and Saburi (Patience)

maybe difficult to follow sometimes, mainly Saburi, but when followed, God

(Baba) will happily fulfil his side of the promise.

May Baba bless all.