Devotees Experiences - Contributed by V.Vivekanand, Chennai, India

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DEVOTEE'S EXPERIENCE - Contributed by V.Vivekanand,

Chennai, India

 

Prior to last year, my wife and I were not such ardent

devotees of Shri Shridi Sai, though we believed in His

greatness and had pasted His picture with both His

hands raised in blessing, on our bedroom door. In

April 2005, my wife, Lakshmi, had to undergo

neurosurgery for a Pituitary Tumor that had recurred

after about 5 years. Prior to the surgery we were

tense and worried as it was a major and critical

surgery. We requested a dear friend who is a Reiki

sadhak like both of us to come home and join me in

giving Reiki to my wife. After the Reiki session, she

suddenly noticed the picture of Sai Bhagwan and

remarked that when He has been with us in our own room

all the time, there is nothing to fear and the surgery

will be successful. Next morning when I was checking

my e-mails, to my great surprise, I had received a

beautiful picture of Shirdi Sai from someone I did not

know. We both believed that this was His way of

blessing us and telling us not to fear when He is

there in our hearts. The surgery went well. Two days

later, I was returning to the hospital with some food

for my wife and as I turned a corner, I noticed the

image of Shirdi Sai reflected from a shop window. I

had taken this route so many times, but this had never

happened before. It was the reflection of a painting

someone had made recently on the wall opposite the

shop. A few days later, as I was coming out of a

post-office, the first thing I noticed was a car with

His picture on the windshield. After a couple of days,

I had to buy some coffee from my usual coffee shop.

But that day I could not go there, so I stopped

suddenly at another branch on an impulse. I was

astounded to again notice Sai's picture in this shop

whereas in my usual one there were only pictures of

Jesus and Mary.

 

After the receipt of Sai's picture in my e-mail, I did

a Google search for Shirdi Sai's temples. Again I was

surprised to notice that the very first entry was

about 'The Shirdi Sai Temple of Greater Chicago' where

both my son and daughter were living. We had also been

to Chicago many times, but had never heard about this

temple of Shirdi Sai. We immediately rang up our

children and asked them to visit the temple and offer

prayers so that their mother's surgery would be

successful.

 

A year after the surgery, we decide to move to a

better locality in Chennai. We started looking for

suitable places, but could not find any that met our

requirements. Then a relative mentioned a place was

available near his residence. We visited that place

and to our utter amazement we found a big picture of

Sai very prominently displayed in the drawing room by

the current occupants who are also ardent Sai

devotees. Then and there we decided to shift to this

nice place as Sai Himself seemed to be directing us to

this place. We now live here.

 

A few days after we moved to the new place, we went

for our morning walk and noticed a small Shirdi Sai

Shrine in the garden of a house in the next street.

The owner is an ardent Sai devotee and permits people

to worship and offer prayers here. So we go there

often and worship Sai Bhagwan. What more can His

devotees need? We have been extremely fortunate in

this respect - being so close to Him and being blessed

and guided by Him in this amazing way so unique to

Him.

 

All these frequent and quite unexpected sightings of

Shirdi Sai at the time of our greatest crisis made us

believe that it was His way of conveying His blessings

to us and reminding us that He is always with us and

we can all discern His divine presence and power if

only we repose total faith and belief in Him. Such are

the inimitable, divine ways of Sai.

 

My wife is scheduled to have her follow-up MRI. We

pray to Him to bless us as always so that my wife's

tumor disappears forever. We request all our fellow

Sai Devotee friends to pray for my wife.

 

JAI SAIRAM!

 

V.Vivekanand, Chennai, India

 

 

 

 

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