Devotee's Experience - By Prasoon K, Mumbai

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Jai Sai Ram

 

Devotee's Experience - By Prasoon K, Mumbai

 

In 1997 I was working for a well known company in Chennai and was executing a

major project. I was from North India and had been specially hired for this

project. Several senior executives of this company had been superseded for this

position and were not comfortable with my quick results and so indulged in

office politics. I had to travel to Mumbai for marketing. I quite liked Mumbai

as a place for professionals. Moreover, my wife was from Mumbai. I decided to

seek a place for myself in Mumbai.

 

My wife and in-laws are staunch devotees of Sai Baba and I too got initiated to

Baba after my marriage. During the 1980s I was in Nasik and Deolali but never

had visited Shirdi despite its proximity. I used to silently pray to Baba to get

me to Mumbai as I was quite upset with the situation in the Chennai company.

Having putting in my best and brought the project to commercial production, I

used to feel choked.

 

I was invited by a Mumbai based company to join them on a senior position and

had to visit them for a preliminary meeting. We used to travel by air for office

work. Since this was personal work I decided to travel by train to save money. I

drove the car to Chennai railway station and parked the car in its huge parking

lot as I planned to return in two days. The meeting in Mumbai went well and it

was decided that I would join the new position in two months.

 

When I returned to Chennai and went to my parked car, I saw a small booklet

inserted below the car wiper and glass on the driver's side. Initially I thought

someone would have put some publicity booklet and was about to throw it. But

then I realized it was in Hindi. Within no time I realised it was a Sai Baba

Aarti booklet. Who and why someone would leave that book for my attention. What

intrigues me till today is how did that person know that this car belonged to a

Hindi speaking devotee, that too in Chennai. There are sometimes as many as 200

cars parked in that railway station.

 

I moved to Mumbai two months later and worked there till 1999. During my stint

with this company we stayed in Pune in the company's house in Viman Nagar as I

had to look after production and had to frequently travel for three to four days

in a week to Mumbai.

 

One night we went for a movie. As we did not have a landline I had given a

mobile to my wife to remain connected. On this fateful day when we were taking

out the car my wife made my three year old son sit on a kiosk and left her

mobile on the plank. Later she realized she had left the mobile on that kiosk.

We came halfway but the kiosk had closed. My wife was very upset; she cried and

prayed to Sai Baba. Despite my best assurances that I would get her a new mobile

she did not sleep the whole night but prayed.

 

The next day I had to leave for Mumbai. During the day she went with the driver

to the same kiosk to enquire if they found a mobile the previous night. As she

approached the shop, before she could ask, an old man asked her if she had

forgotten her mobile phone last night. She said yes and he handed her the

Ericson phone. She thanked him and came home.

 

She called me at my Mumbai office to tell me she had found the mobile. When I

returned to Pune her joy knew no bounds. I asked did you give something as a

token gesture to the old man. She said she was so overwhelmed that she did not.

 

We then drove to meet the old man. We went to the kiosk on MG Road and asked for

the old man who handed over the lost mobile to us. To our astonishment we were

informed that they did not have any old man working for them and did not even

know about the lost mobile episode.

 

Then who was the old who gave back the lost mobile to us? Was it Sai Baba in

person? This is still a mystery to us till today. Thereafter I decided to leave

the job and start my own company. For the last nine years I am on my own in the

field of print media and have a successful business and am well settled in

Mumbai. It was Baba's unseen hand that helped me come to Mumbai. There have been

a few such incidents in our lives that that make us feel that Sai Baba has

always been with us. Now we are regular visitors to Shirdi. Baba is omnipotent

and always with his devotees. But then we need to do good to others and walk on

the path shown by him.

 

Prasoon K, Mumbai

Om Sri Sai Nathaya Namaha