Guest guest Posted May 11, 2002 Report Share Posted May 11, 2002 Sai Vichaar 4-4-02 Suresh Sydney, Australia My family and I were blessed with the opportunity of visitng Shirdi and have Sai's darshan. I could not express in words the feeling I had and the peace I felt when I had my darshan of our beloved God. We were returning to Chennai after our trip in the train from Pune. Very early in the morning we were all woken by cries of a small baby of 8 months. The baby would not stop crying and the efforts taken by its grand parents did not stop the agony of the child. My wife found out from them they were taking the baby to Channai to look after and the mother is not accompanying them. We told them several suggestions but none of them worked out to stop the crying. It appeared the baby was suffering from some sort of stomach ache as it weiled when somebody touched the stomach. This went on till about noon. Suddenly a thought occured to me which was based on the experiences of several devotees mentioned in Sai Satcharita. I wanted to give the udi to alleviate the pain or any other problem the baby might have. When I expressed this to my wife she approached them and asked them what religion they were and also expressed my idea. Though they were christians they agreed to us applying the udi as they could not think of any other idea. We applied UDI on the baby's forehead and then my whole family prayed to Sai to help this baby. For about quarter of an hour nothing happened. I thought to myself and prayed to Sai" I beleive in you 100 percent. I normally don't attempt these things myslef as I feel I am not qualified to do these acts. But more or less I was forced to do this seeing the plight of the baby. If you do not help the baby now I would start doubting what I read and heard. Please be take pity on me and the baby and ease its pain" Within five minutes the baby stopped crying and for the remainder of the journey, was joyfully playing. We were all moved by this miracle and my faith in Saibaba has grown many folds since then. I thought I must share this with everyone. Dear Sai Devotees, OM SRI SAI RAM, I would like to share my recent experience with Sai Devotees about how Shri Sai pulled my friend from a very critical health condition. It was in the month of April 2000, I called my friend's home in Canada to know that he is in intensive care Unit (for two months) with a massive third Cardiac arrest followed with multiple ailments. Doctors have not given any Hope and are waiting to pass the critical period. I rushed to their house with Sai's picture and Udi (sacred ash) in my pocket and praying Baba. I went to hospital with his spouse and two little kids. I silently prayed in the Heart that Sai if you are Here, You must Help to revive the condition of this patient. I took out the Sai Picture and Udi from my pocket, which was then mailed from one of the ardent Sai devotee in New Jersey, USA I requested the ailing patient's spouse to place the Sai Picture on his chest and sincerely pray Lord Sai "Please reconcile the condition of my Husband and I shall be ever indebted to you". The lady did prayers and took a pinch of Udi and put it in his mouth. The patient was on intravenous and Oxygen pipes then with closed eyes. I prayed in the heart of mine "O Lord Sai, please shower your richest blessing on this traumatic and depressed family. Reassure your faith and miracles on this patient." Doctors are still waiting for countdown at this hour. Trust me, the miracle of Sai happened on the next day, the patient was able to move and open his eyes slightly, which gave everyone a ray of hope for survival. Doctors declared that critical moment is gone now. He should revive in a couple of days. Since then I kept on inquiring about the condition of the patient, One week later I could directly speak to the patient in Hospital over the phone and was glad to hear his Voice once again, "Ravi I am improving now." If BABA had not showered his Blessings, the whole family would have been in distress by now. Now the patient is at home and living a normal life with slight care and supervision on and off from the specialists. However, those moments are unforgettable for me in the Hospital. PRAY SAI THAT RICHEST BLESSINGS BE WITH HIS FAMILY FOREVER AND ALSO SAI DEVOTEES. Ravinder Thota shirdibaba.org I can never forget SAI BABA who saved my daughter who had lost her walking power due attack of paraplegia (bone TB) in backbone. Doctors at AIIMS New Delhi had declared that she could survive only after operation of the backbone considered to be dangerous with lesser chances of success. A friend devotee of Sai Baba for many years came to know about my daughters operation and visited my daughter when I had gone home to fetch breakfast for my daughter. He met me at home and informed that he had been to my daughter and gave Sai Bhabuti (sacred ash) brought from Shirdi and also prayed for her recovery. When I went to hospital in the afternoon my daughter was all smiles and laughing as also other patients. After applying Bhabuti she said she felt like pulling her left leg and little after right one. Both the legs started moving after remaining almost dead for 4 months. Doctors came and declared that only God has to cure her and their operation would not be necessary. It became news in their AIIMS and people did come to us for similar blessings. We advised them to pray to SAI Nath and assured them it was HIS Chamatkar (miracle). My daughter was had lost the job due to illness. Gradually she was discharged from AIIMS in a week and brought home where was bed ridden for over two years. And ultimately with blessing of SAI Baba she regained her strength and we had entire family gone to pilgrimage at Shirdi to thank HIM for his blessings and saving a human being. Now that she is married and has two children I remember Sai's blessings and have been to Shirdi for getting his blessings. JAI SAI NATH. For my daughter she keeps fast every Thursday goes to Lodhi Road Sai Mandir without fail and is leading a happy life. How can we dare to forget HIM? Tilak Bhasker shirdibaba.org My husband had cancer. While going through treatment, he went into semi-coma. He called me and said, I have seen a triangle in the clouds and many white chadars. After that He started going into deep coma and slurpy speech. All the well wisher who was with me at that time, helped me to pray to Sai Baba and we used to put vibuhiti on his forehead everyday in the morning and evening. The day we were told he is no more, we put bhajans of Sai Baba in his ears the whole evening and the following day. On the third day he opened his eyes and also wrote on a piece of paper. After that he recovered, and finally he told us that he had seen Sai Baba's hand with Om sign making him turn his route and he is back with us. This is our experience and we believe Sai Baba is with us all the time. Sai Baba, You are our mother and father, you are our savior. We pray you always remain with us. Rekha Dearest Friends Sai Baba is my source of sustenance. He is ALWAYS there with me and all my friends and loved ones. Most of my friends are now ardent devotees of Sai Baba, and all of us have countless spiritual experiences, and feel the healing touch of Sai so many times a day. I would like to tell you about one event in my life, which, like every other event, reaffirms my Faith in that supreme all-pervasive power. It was the second year of my masters, which I was doing in Jawaharlal Nehru university in New Delhi. I was very worried about what was going to happen to my career etc. after M.A., and I was dejected with the way things were proceeding. But when Sai is with you, life is like a dream. I was in the doldrums and thinking all those things people think when they are in that state, like what is the purpose of all this and what's existence all about and so on and so forth. And Baba was standing there all the time and seeing right through me, and testing my Faith in Him. I must confess here that I think it is Baba who instills 'Shradha and Saboori'. I received 'rejection' letters from Universities where I had applied with such confidence and motivation and I had put my heart and soul into it. And then Baba waved His magic band. Someone passed on a form of the University of York to me and I filled it up expecting nothing in return. I didn't even receive their first confirmation of my acceptance in their MPhil program as it got lost in postal transit. I got that info through e-mail. But then they told me Scholarship was going to be difficult. So life was a roller coaster and I was feeling very sick in the ride. Then one fine day I learnt that I have got the unbelievable...a full scholarship. Here I am now in a computer-room in this wonderful University (which is rated first in U.K. in Language and Linguistic Science, my discipline) and the least I can do is to relate this episode to you and what happiness it brought me, a very deep and fulfilling happiness that miracles happen, prayers can move mountains, and BABA IS THE SOLE DOER. He does what is best for you. Life is still the roller coaster it always was...but with a huge difference, I quite enjoy this superficial ride, for the permanence is the deep calm of the soul within. So for all of you my message is to hang on, things will look up very soon, WHY FEAR WHEN HE IS NEAR? Have total faith in Sai dear friends. Srija Sinha shirdibaba.org July 08, 1999 K.Bharathan, 8, Krishnapuram street, Royapettah, Chennai -14, India I am a devotee of Sri SHIRDI SAI BABA. I have visited six days the meditation program at BABA PRAYER CENTER. I felt peace of mind every time I visited there. Sir Kumar Baba talks to SRI SAI BABA. He has devoted his life to spread the message of SRI SAI BABA. He prays for the health and education of devotees. My daughter has been getting 25 to 30% in school exams. She is a spastic child. She passed in the 10th PUBLIC EXAM with 54.6% marks- all this due to blessings of SRI SAI BABA and prayers of Sri Kumar Baba. I have got severe health problem and retired prematurely from service. I got a peculiar severe problem of choking last year and was unable to breathe. It was only through Sri Kumar Baba's prayer and BLESSINGS OF SRI SAI BABA, I have got rid of this problem. Please contact me at the above address for more information on Baba Prayer Center and the services of Sri Kumar Baba -- July 22, 1999 MRK, Phoenix, AZ, USA I am writing the little I know about Sri B.V.Narasimhaswamyi ji. He was a leading advocate in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. He was related to Sri C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji, eminent freedom fighter, scholar, politician, and spiritualist) who in turn was related to Mahatma Gandhi. From what I was told, Sri Narasimhaswamiji left his lucrative practice as a lawyer in Salem, when a very brilliant young son died. I met him in Madras in thirties when he then was staying with another son who was doing business. After leaving legal work, he spent three years (about) in Ramanashramam with Bhagavan Ramana and wrote his biography. He was more attracted by bhakti marga and became Shirdi Sai maharaja's ardent devotee. He took pains in thirties to personally meet devotees who personally saw Shri Sai Maharaj in physical body and published about eight volumes called Experiences of Sai devotees. I saw these books and read them. He spread Sai Maharaja's name allover south of India. I again saw him in 1937 when he came to our house and addressed series of lectures on Shirdi Sai. My father was his classmate and so he stayed with us. This was in Bapatla, Guntur Dist, Andhra Pradesh, India. It will be not an exaggeration to say that in circar districts of Andhra Pradesh, Shirdi Sai was known only because of him. By 1949 or so, he settled down near and then in Shirdi Sai temple at Mylapore Madras. I met him a number of times in the temple and he did namakaranam (naming ceremony) to my second daughter in that temple. Even now his marble statue is in this temple and worshipped by all devotees. He ordered one late Bapatla Hanumantha Rao to publish Shirdi Sai's books in Telugu and he produced and published numerous books and they are still reprinted by his son Sri Bapatla Parthasarathy who is a very great devotee of Shirdi SAI. I also met Sri Rege, a retired High court judge of Nagpur at Madras Sai Temple.He knew Shirdi SAI IN HIS PHYSICAL FORM and he asserted that till then, and all the time Shirdi SAI IS CONTINUOUSLY BLESSING HIS DEVOUT DEVOTEES. I MET Sri Kesaviah garu who built a Shirdi Sai temple in Shenoynagar Madras and his life is available in book form at this temple I also met Sri U. Sangasmesam garu at madras then living near Vijaya studios, Madras. I also knew late Krishna Priya who was a great Sai devotee. If you thought of any problem and placed bananas, she would place before Shirdi Sai and bring them back to you. Answers were printed on the bananas. I saw this in Madras. Dr. K.V. Raghava Rao, Hyderabad, India [ Close devotee of Baba ] [From Golden Voice and Divine Touch of Sri SAI Baba (1994-95) by Dr. K.V. Raghava Rao] Three episodes described under this section relate to members of an Indian family working abroad (UN). They are ardent devotees of Baba since long. Suddenly the housewife was in critical condition. The doctors diagnosed it as a case of brain tumor and advised immediate operation. They were apprehensive about the possible side effects, such as paralysis of some parts of the body. They contacted me for guidance and blessings from Baba. Baba indicated that the surgery should be performed on a Thursday, but as everything is scheduled in the U.S. the date happened to be thirteenth August 1991. When the first operation took place the surgeons could not reach the tumor site and the operation was stopped. Surprisingly, the follow-up surgery was performed on the following Thursday. It was successful operation with Swami's grace there was no side effects and she gradually recovered. The family members and self offered intense prayers during this period to Baba, both. Subsequently, she visited India (December 1992/January 1993). During this period Baba started indicating to me in meditation about the change of scenario in the health condition of the family members. I cautioned and also advised them to hasten up the marriage of their daughter as indicated by Baba. As forewarned by Baba, she had to undergo another surgery of a different nature when she visited India (June/July 1994). Udi was applied to the patient on the forehead before and after the operation. With the grace of Baba everything went well and the patient recovered to normal condition soon. With the blessings of Baba, things moved smoothly in the right direction and the marriage of the daughter took place in December 1994. One has to measure the benevolence of Sri SAI from His nature to forewarn the events befalling the devotee and other family members and protect them in time. -- Nov 17, 1999 Namasthe to all SAI devotees. Today as per IST is Thursday. May Baba bring happiness and peace to all His devotees. Many of you might have heard about the Nagasai Mandir at Coimbatore, TN. When this temple was consecrated, HH Narasimha Swami was present. When some eternal Doubting Thomases questioned about Baba's acceptance of the Pooja performed that day, Narasimha Swami replied in the affirmative. When the doubts still persisted, Swami told the gathering that Baba would manifest His presence, but the devotees must be prepared to take it with equanimity. The Bhajans continued late in the night and all of a sudden a big cobra entered the hall, went near the lighted lamp and showed its hood. When the devoteed became panicky, Narasimha Swami advised calm. He offered Arathi to the cobra and offered Pranam and requested the Cobra not to frighten the devotees. At the same spot, the cobra dug a pit and disappeared. Narasimha Swami then told the gathering that Baba came in the form of Cobra and His presence in the Mandir confirmed that He had accepted their Pooja. As the temple was associated with this episode of Cobra, the temple was called NAGASAI MANDIR thereafter. An old photo of this incident is available in the rear portion of the Chennai Saimandir at Mylapore. My father narrated this incident to me as he was present in the Mandir on that day. This incident took place around 1948/49. SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM SAIRAM I want to share this little experience of mine with you. This last Saturday I had invited few families over for dinner. I wanted baba to be present there and take care of our guests. I wanted baba to make sure that all come and leave happily with the smiling faces. I wanted the bhojan to be perfect. I had given all these zimavaris to my dearest SAI. As the evening came closer I started getting panic and little nervous. The first guest came and when the second came, she brought with him a very sweet gentle looking Sai's picture in the form of a magnet. She could have put that in the box and rapped it but she put it right on top of her gift box and this was Sai's leela to show me that I am present here and everything will be alright. For some people this might be a small coincidence. But I know for sure that my baba wanted me to know his presence. I want to share my recent experience. Me, my wife and recently married elder daughter of ours were to travel by train to New Delhi. Purpose was for seeing off our elder daughter on her much awaited journey to US to join her husband and start the new phase of their lives. Unluckily my fatherinlaw fell ill and was hospitalized, resulting in my wife canceling her journey.On the day of journey my daughter,with all her baggage, and self boarded 2 tier AC compartment of the train at Hyderabad. As our berths were not collocated, I got down from the compartment seeking the Supervisor for exchange of berth, whereas my wife remained inside spending her last moments with our daughter before her departure. We didn't realize that time for departure of the train had come, the train started moving slowly, I looked and saw that my wife was not on the platform, ran towards the compartment and saw that my wife being scared of getting off from moving train sat on the steps. In my anxiety that she should get down and I should get in, I told her to hold on to me and pulled her on to the platform. We both fell down, I was closer to the platform edge and my legs from knees downwards entered the space between the platform and moving train. I froze realizing that any movement may result in very serious injury and in that state of shock didn't even call out to GOD or any one else for help.In the meanwhile our daughter attempted to stop the train by pulling chain but without any success.Now a miracle occurred, in that Sathya SAIBABA, whom I firmly believe to be incarnation of Shirdi SAIBABA, in the form of unknown people appeared in no time and pulled me back simultaneously lifting my legs from the gap between the platform and moving train thus saving not only my life but also ensuring that I was not injured. I got up immediately and shakily jumped into the compartment passing in front of me where safe hands of Railway staff caught hold of me.When I reached my compartment I found my daughter crying not knowing how her parents were.Luckily my wife had the presence of mind to take an autorikshaw and come to Secunderabad station.Our daughter calmed down after seeing both of us uninjured and safe.THIS INCIDENT PROVES THAT GOD IS ALWAYS WITH HIS DEVOTEES AND COMES TO THEIR RESCUE UNASKED. WHAT IS NEEDED IS TOTAL FAITH AND SURRENDER. I THANK SADGURU SAINATH FOR HIS GRACE AND PRAY THAT HE USES ME AS A TOOL TO SERVE ALL. OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI LOKA SAMASTHA SUKHINO BHAVANTU LOKA SAMASTHA SUKHINO BHAVANTU LOKA SAMASTHA SUKHINO BHAVANTU OM SHANTI OM SHANTI OM SHANTIH A Devotee August 4, 1999 I thought of sharing my experiences but couldn't have dared to share among friends. Now I got the chance to share through this web page. I have firm faith on BABA as He fulfilling all my wishes and this is the way Shri BABA is making my faith high. In Satcharitra mentioned BABA used to ask two APIs Daksina from devotees which are SHRADHA firm faith and SABURI patience. But in my case He has taken those two in the following way MIRACLE-1 Actually before 1993, I didn't make bow before any other God except Lord VenkateswaraTirupati as I had wrong impression on all with name BABA. My cousin used to go to Sai Temple in Rajahmundry A.P and once asked me to have the Darshan but I rejected. After some time went to Hyderabad for job searching and got nothing of some reasons. My mother was worried so much and discussed with our family friends about my position. They told her that if you make your son to read SAI SATCHARITRA one-week parayana, he would get benefit. When I called my home, mom told me about parayana. I agreed and started reluctantly. This time I would like to say sentence mentioned in SATCHARITRA Man will go to Gods feet when he is in troubles and became true for me. I completed and liked the life and teachings of BABA and waited for the Invitation from BABA to go to Shirdi. As mentioned He only will pull us to His feet, suddenly after one week my classmate invited me for Shirdi trip. After 20 days got 2 offers and joined in NOV 1994.But I didn't satisfy with my salary and stopped worshiping. I quit the job in DEC 95.I tried and failed to get another job took training in Software and went to Bombay for the job frustrated in job searching and one night suddenly I thought why dont I start worship BABA from tomorrow. After 10 days Sept 25th 1996 I got one DREAM which changed my entire life. The dream follows We were searching for one WHITE HAND CUFF and after long search my friend got that one and said that SRINIVAS You should have a FIRM FAITH to get any thing you want and because I my friend, Sai devotee, in Bombay have a FIRM FAITH, got this one. Suddenly woke from dream and felt like lively happened to me. After I woke up and stood before BABA photo and prayed that I will have firm faith on you if I get the job in today's Interview. My friends wanted to shift to company in Hyderabad having real experience and myself having zero experience attended the interview. Here BABA listened my urge and made a miracle. After written test and interview my name only is there in the final list. Immediately I cried in front of all b'coz I couldn't stop and remembered the dream. I got the offer letter within two days And started Hyderabad via Shirdi from Bombay. I joined the job on NOV 1st 1996 and on NON 6th BIG Cyclone washed out my village and our lands. Every body in my family prayed SAI BABA in helping to get the job and then He is protecting my family through retaining my job. SHRI SAI BABA is sole protector of our family. By this he took FIRM FAITH and created PATIENCE in me. MIRACLE-2 As I mentioned above, from NOV 1996 I don't have any hitch in my life. In 1997,Aug got visa and selected client interview in India itself and till now going smooth by His grace. When called one of my college senior s in U.S., I came to know that he is also staunch devotee of SAI BABA. We discussed our experiences and how he blessed by BABA.While this chat I got attention to one of his experiences and follows Being staunch devotee, he got lot of visions and used to get sudden solution when he thinking about some problems. He got fixed his marriage Feb1998 and prayed BABA how He is going to bless him while marriage function. On marriage day everybody is busy and one man came with beard and maroon cloths, looks like sadhu, was asking about bridegroom. Nobody is caring about this man, as they are involved with their work. Then finally asked his father and said that I want to bless bridegroom and dakshina and his father called him. He immediately realized that BABA came to bless him in this form and took blessings and gave dakshina to him. He sadhu left that place with happy. After hearing this one thought arose in my mind that how BABA will bless me in U.S. At the end of the Feb98, when called my friends house in Hyderabad, came to know one of my classmates is coming to NewYork and wanted to meet him. Whenever I go out, worrying about not reading parayana as daily reading one chapter. I went to NewYork to meet him On last weekend of Feb98 and on Saturday morning woke up and asked about his trip and about any thing for me. Actually I don't want any thing from him but as being classmate just for sake I asked. He opened his briefcase and took out one large portrait asked do want this When I wrapped paper out of that, wonder of wonders for me, It was SAI BABA photo. I really much excited and stared thinking inside that in this way You have blessed me and I got for all these years worship. I asked my friend why did u bring only BABA photo. He said that he got info from other friend that I'm going to meet him in NewYork and when he went to Shirdi he bought that extra picture and he knew before that I'm BABA devotee. I never expect that my friend will come to NewYork as I'm staying in Connecticut near to NY and will give BABA picture. This is all because of BABA'S Miracle.When my sisters wedding fixed on March 6th 99, I thought that You blessed my friend mentioned above in Marriage function, Ill see how going to bless me and how You see that marriage will go without any hitch went to India and very busy with wedding work as I'm the brides brother. The Muhurtham is at 345 a.m.. At 1 a.m. I wanted to take some money from my suitcase that is put where all necessary marriage items located and while coming out from that room suddenly noticed COCONUT decorated with small chamak items. Because I never seen decorated Coconut that will be in Brides while marriage. Then I took the Coconut and observing the design made on Coconut and noticed one small size photo 25 np size and found that It was SHIRDI SAI BABAS photo. At that BABA only knew how much I excited and cried for this wonder. I enquired my mom about this and how it happened to be there. My mom said that my aunt housewife took that Coconut on marriage day evening and gave it back with that decoration. But here mystery is, at that even my mom didn't notice that small photo as busy with work. After marriage I asked my aunt the reason why she put the photo there. As she is also BABA devotee at the end of decoration got a thought to put small BABA photo in the center of Coconut and she didn't tell any body that she is going to put photo. So in the presence of BABA, my sisters wedding went fine. I told this wonder to every body in family and they also got FAITH in SAI BABA and have feeling like He is sitting in every body's heart. JAI SAINATH MAHARAJ A Devotee September 26 1999 I would like to share with other devotees an experience that I had many years ago. One night in 1976, Shridi Baba blessed me by appearing to me in a dream. It was a dark night and I was standing in the open along with Baba who held my left hand with his right hand like a small child held by an adult. I was about 32 years old at that time but in the dream, I had the physical stature of a small boy say about 45 years old. Mentally, I was conscious of the fact that I was an adult. Baba did not talk to me but led me towards a single stored house that appeared to be several hundred feet away. The rooms of the house were lit with electric lights. As we neared the house, I saw that it had a front verandah and three rooms, one adjacent to the other. Each room had a window and a door that opened out to the verandah. It appeared that the rooms were not inter connected. Each room was full of people sitting on the floor. Baba led me along the verandah. Baba stooped in front of the door of the first room. I could see a figure of Jesus Christ on one wall. The people in the room were singing hymns. Baba said to me, "To Christians, I am Isa Christ". Next, Baba then stopped in front of the second door. The people in this room appeared to be Muslims and they were also offering namaz. Baba said to me, " To Muslims, I am Allah." Next, Baba then stopped in front of the third door. The people in this room appeared to be Hindus who were singing bhajans. He said, "To Hindus, I am Shiva or Vishnu. But to the whole world, I am Sai". Saying this, Baba disappeared. At that very moment, I woke up. Something had stung one of my fingers sharply. I switched on the light and I saw a big bumblebee flying away from me. I do not know how the bumblebee got there. I was in pain and in my anger, I hit the bee with my pillow and it fell down dead. Somehow, I immediately fell asleep. When I got up in the morning, I remembered the dream and I was very angry with myself for having been so immature as not to realize the wonderful dream that I had. The pain in the finger had all but disappeared. The dead bumblebee was still on the floor. Sairam. BHAGWAN SAVES A DISTRACTED SOUL A woman has narrated this incident from Thane, Maharashtra. " One of my friends Mrs. Parab (true name withheld for reasons of anonymity) residing at Andheri, Mumbai has a brother in Pune. Due to the bad company, his drinking habit went beyond control and none of the relatives could persuade him to give up this bad habit. His health complaints increased but it was very hard for him to abstain from drinking. One day in the month of May, 99 he collapsed and was admitted in the hospital in the state of coma. Mrs. Parab visited Pune and was extremely sad when the Doctor mentioned to her that her brother could hardly survive for a month or so. Her trips to Pune became quite frequent and on my inquiry she revealed the condition of her brother which she had been hiding all along for the fear of disrepute to family name. Upon my advice, she visited Shri. Bandekar's house in Vile Parle - a suburb of Mumbai- and collected Baba's Vibhuti, which flows from all the photos in the shrine of Shri. Bandekar. Her husband being a non- believer ridiculed her for this as he was relying more on the Doctor's verdict. Nevertheless, MrsParab took Vibhuti to Pune and applied on her brother's forehead. Initially the failing health of her brother was steadied which itself came as a surprise to the medicos. In a week's time her brother came out of coma. She is ever thankful to BABA for saving the life of her brother and plans to visit Puttaparthi with her brother as soon as he regains some strength. Not to mention that her husband also has decided to accompany them. Movielike projection by Swami in 1948 The author Dr. A.V. Lakshminarasimhan, is a Faculty Member in the Department of Bio-Sciences of the Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning at the Prasanthi Nilayam Campus. This is one of the miracles mentioned in his article. "Way back in 1948 when Bhagawan was 22 years of age in this beautiful physical frame, a certain wealthy man visited Prasanthi Nilayam along with his twin sons who were born blind. This wealthy man had toured the world over and had consulted great eye-specialists but all of them had said unanimously that it was impossible to provide eyesight to the blind twins. Hence the wealthy man had come to see the young Bhagawan. Bhagawan did not see them for seven long days. When the devotees, who had brought this family to Prasanthi Nilayam, prayed to Bhagawan for an interview, He called the wealthy man and his family along with the devotees. Bhagawan gave them all a profound discourse on the law of Karma and human dharma. At the end, when the devotees prayed and almost persuaded Bhagawan to grant sight to the twins, He said, 'Look, what these twins have done in their past life' and asked the devotees to look towards the corner of the interview room. What they saw was like a movie. These twins appeared as two cruel dacoits. They appeared to be tying two other persons to a tree in the forest and plucking out their eyes and robbing them of their wealth. The devotee was perplexed and disturbed seeing this incident taking place before his eyes. Bhagawan asked the devotees.'Tell me, shall I grant sight to these boys? If you are in My place what will you do?' The devotee had no answer. He fell at Bhagawan's Lotus feet and cried, 'Baba, pardon me for my audacity. You are God, being ever present in the past, present and future. You are our destiny. Please save us all.' Bhagawan with all His Love lifted the devotee and said that the twins had repented for their evil deeds and prayed to God for forgiveness. Their lifestyle had changed. They served the poor with the robbed money and as a result of which they have been born in the house of the wealthy man. They cannot, however, escape from the evil act of blinding two innocent persons and hence had to be born blind. Bhagawan assured that now that they had come to His divine presence, their future would be good and that He would take care of them and would bless them." A Devotee October 7, 1999 Dear Shirdi Sai, I am grateful to you for the miracle. My Son Rohan was brought into this world in an emergency situation when Doctors started to realize that his heartbeat was crashing. When they got him out he was not alive and the doctors revived him to life for 30minutes and his heart started to beat, they put himeon the ventilator for next few days. Within few hours of his birth we found out that due to lack of Oxygenation during the revival period there is a possibility that he sustained Brain Damage.he had all signs that and next 2 days they did an MRI and confirmed that he suffered extensive Brain Damage and he may or may not walk. All the doctors could tell was the Damage was extensive and it could mean anything. As parents we did not know what to pray for as he was still on the Ventilator not breathing by himself. We finally decided to take him of the ventilator, it was very hard choice, but we thought what life will he have, if he is a vegetable, but as we decided that, Rohan Raghav decided to breath by himself and survived without machines. We did not know if we should be happy or cry for his ill fate, He was the cutest boy I have ever seen and we went through hell making the decisions we were making and analyzing what went wrong without any notice in matter of minutes. Anyway, we got him home and as my brother who is a doctor and I am grateful to him suggested I started stimulating him every 1 to 2hrs by moving him showing colors, touch and feel for the next 3 months. The Neurologist would not commit what the outcome is other than his damage is extensive. My sisterinlaw gave me the Sai Charithra and I read the Sai SatCharithra during this time, I don't remember how long I took, but I used to read every night and write Guru Raghavendra swami's name as much as I can. I put all my faith in God and my mother prayed a lot to Sai. Today my Son is 10 months old and he is crawling and taking few steps, which according to doctors is actually advance for 10 month old, if not have any issues walking crawling or sitting. I cannot say what this means to us. Neurologists were very surprised to see Rohan when he was about 6 months to see him sit and crawl. He said I guess it proves Doctors are not Gods one more time and said Rohan has overcome any Motor issues. But as parents we are still worried because we won't know his mental abilities till he grows up and as usual the doctors say, we cannot predict, brain grows for 18 years and we won't know until we see him grow up. He also suffered Moderate hearing loss due lack of oxygenation and wears hearing aids, but right now he is the miracle kid doing things faster than a normal kid does. We are very very very grateful Shirdi Sai, my family and me is planning to visit Shirdi this December to offer our prayers to Lord Shirdi. Hope Lord will not have any more obstacles for us to come see him in Shirdi. I was always believer in God, but this incident makes me think Gosh God is really there. But I also get scared that all my problems are not over. I know I should not feel like that, but what we have gone through has made very skeptical of everything. I cannot believe God is actually listening to my prayers and I really deserve his blessings. I am grateful to Sai's Grace and Well-wishers prayers. Hope no parents go through this kind of Turmoil with their children. I pray for the whole world's children suffering. God don't let any child suffer. Ohm Sai Shri Sai Jaya Jaya Sai. A Devotee I'd like to share the following moment, one of the innumerable times that I have felt close to Baba. I am a student, and had some extra classes on a Sunday Afternoon. On my way back home my car broke down in an absolutely isolated place, there was no petrol pump, garage or even a phone booth within several kilometers. If that is not synonymous with being helpless what is? Or rather, with Baba always with me I can never be helpless. Just when I was on the verge of tears, a motor bike with two men stopped next to my car on an otherwise quite road. They were both mechanics and offered to help me. Without any hesitation, I allowed them to check my car, to realize that one spare part was missing. So one of them stayed back with me and the other rushed to the nearest shop to fetch the part. When all was done and my car alright, I thanked them and asked them how much they had spent. I realized that I didn't have enough money to pay them, so I took the address and phone number of the workshop that the man belonged to and promised to pay him the balance. His name was Iqbal and he said that he was from Ganga Mechanics in Nizamudin. I then went home and related the incident to my family and called up this place to locate Iqbal. To my surprise they said that no one with that name had ever worked for them. I then went to another mechanics shop in Vasant Kunj where there was an Iqbal, but he turned out to be someone else. Till today I haven't been able to meet that person who I am sure was a roop of Sai Baba. I just wish I had been able to express my profound gratitude that day. Jai Sai Ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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