How I Became a Sai Devotee (August 1986) - Prabha Gopalkrishna

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HOW I BECAME A SAI DEVOTEE (August 1986)

 

I became a devotee of Lord Sai Nath in the year 1982. I have experienced

many of his leelas since then. Here I am going to narrate my first

experience as to how I became a devotee of Baba My husband is an army

officer. After finishing his tenure at Jamnagar, we wanted a posting in the

South since we belong to that place or wanted a good place so that my

daughter could get admission in a good school. My husband was due for his

posting. During our stay at Jamnagar, we came into contact with one Mr. Nair

who is a great devotee of Baba. We heard many of His leelas from Mr. Nair

and were very keen to go to Shirdi before we left that place. We requested

our friend and he agreed to take us along with him. So in the month of June

1982 we went with him in his ambassador car comfortably to Shirdi and came

back after a good darshan.

 

After a week, my husband got his posting to a remote corner of Punjab. We

became very upset and never wanted to go to that place due to the

unfavourable conditions prevailing there during that period. I told my

husband to meet the higher authorities and try to get his posting changed.

He went to Delhi and met all the concerned persons but they expressed their

inability to do anything in this case since the posting order had been

already issued. He came back very dejected and sad. I also became worried

and I thought of Baba and said in my mind, Baba, we have been to Shirdi only

last week and if you want to strengthen our faith in you, you should change

the place of our posting. I knew it was not possible as my husband had

already knocked at all possible doors for help.

 

My husband brought our train tickets and we packed all our things.

Meanwhile we went to the headquarters for a farewell party. The Chief

Engineer who is a kind hearted person told my husband that he would try to

help him. During our stay there, one senior-most officer came there for an

inspection unexpectedly. Meanwhile one of the civilian officer's premature

retirement came through, creating a vacancy there. So the Chief Engineer

requested the General to have my husband at the headquarters itself. The

General readily agreed and my husband's posting order got changed. This all

happened within a week. So we came to the headquarters with bag and baggage.

We stayed there for 2 years. During this time my husband's promotion also

came We had a wonderful stay there and our faith in Lord Sai has

strengthened after this episode. Our family, my husband, myself and our

daughter became ardent devotees of Baba after this experience. My husband's

articles have already come in the Sai Leela magazine and two of my

experiences had already been published in the magazine two years back.

 

When I write my experiences, tears well up in my eyes and my throat gets

choked with emotion. There is a considerable change in me after I became a

devotee. Earlier I used to get upset and worried for small things. Now I

leave everything to Sai and know he is there to guide us and pull us through

our trying times, pray to Lord Sai to protect his children and shower his

blessings on all his bhaktas.

 

Prabha Copalkrishnan

Srinagar

 

 

The experiences of Devotees as published in Shri Sai Leela Magazine, can be

read at www.saileelas.org/magazines/SAILEELA/exp.htm