Guest guest Posted May 22, 2002 Report Share Posted May 22, 2002 SAI SERVICE Newsletter – 07 Issue May 23, 2002 Sai Service Newsletter is a Weekly newsletter distributed every Thursday and is devoted to the life, philosophy and teachings of Sai Baba of Shirdi. Feel free to forward this newsletter to your interested associates. Our contact e-mail address is: essgee This Thursday's Message: (Baba said) My master told me to give bountlessly to all that ask. No one listens to me or wisdom. My treasury is open. Non brings carts to take from it. I say dig; none will take any pains. I said dig out the treasure and cart it away. Be the real and true sons of the mother and fully stock your magazine. What is to become of us i.e. this body life? Earth will return to the earth; and the air (breath) will return to the air. This opportunity will not return. a) Baba's Talk with Devotees b) Divine Dews from our Lord. b) Weekly Article: Healing Powers of Sai Baba c) Devotees Page d) Our Prayers to Baba e) Baba's Help a. Baba's Talk with Devotees Saibaba: (May 1914) addressing Mrs. T., a Bandra lady and her son Master T., : Mother, I have to go thrice a day to your house. Mrs. T: Yes, Baba A local lady was astonished at this statement as she saw Baba daily at Shirdi, and said "Baba what is this strange thing you say? Saibaba: I do not speak falsehood. I am Mahalaxmi. Mother I came to your house. You give me things to eat, is that not true? Mrs.T: Yes, Baba Shirdi Lady: Truly, does Baba go to you and do you feed him? Mrs.T: Yes. Baba to Master T: Do I not come to your house? Master T: Yes, Baba. Saibaba to Shirdi Lady: Yes, mother, I go easily to Bhav's house (i.e., Bhav's house at Bandra). In the middle, there is a wall, Jumping over it, next comes the railway line, and then Bhav's house. (Here Baba described the crow's flight from Shirdi to the lady's house at Bandra). I have to fly across walls and excavations. b. Divine Dews from Our Lord: All your desires will be fulfilled and you will be happy. (SSS Ch.= XVIII & XIX) Go wherever you wish, over the wide world, I am with you. (SSS Ch.= XV) If you listen to me carefully, you will be certainly benefited. (SSS CH. XV) Standing in your place look on calmly at the show of all things passing before you. (SSS Ch. XVIII & XIX) Renounce worldly honours.(SSS Ch.VI) c. Weekly Article: Healing Powers of Saibaba. Several of our great saints are known to have exercised great healing powers; and the `medicines' they used were often surprising. Similar was the case with Sri Saibaba and Mrs. Manager mentions a few such cases in the following statement of her reminiscences. "When we had difficulties to get over, we never had to speak-we had merely to go and sit or stand in his presence. He at once knew what the matter was and gave directions exactly meeting our requirements. We had our servant with us Shirdi. He had acute pain his lumbar region and was sorely distressed. My husband went to Saibaba and was standing. Some others were also present. Baba suddenly said, "Hallo, my leg is paining. Great is the pain". Someone suggested that something should be done to relieve the pain. Green Leaves: "Yes". Said Baba. "If green leaves are heated and applied over it, it will go away". "What leaves, Baba?" was query of someone. "Those green leaves near the Lendi". One suggested one leaf and another a different leaf. One finally asked if it was korphad. "Yes." Baba said. "That is it. The leaf has to be split into, slightly heated over the fire and applied. That is all". The Real Cure: "Saibaba's cure for our servant was not a medicine for all. Korphad was tried for others and failed. It was Baba's special blessing that operated to cure and not the korphad. On other occasions he had picked up a bit of earth and given it as a remedy and it was successfully used. Similarly Madhav Rao Deshpande's inflammation of the eyes was cured by application of pepper. And Dada Kelkar's growth of a film over the eyes was removed by application of a bit of coke crust under a baking pan mixed with water-as prescribed by Baba. Drawing Diseases: "Still more wondrous was his curing deep-seated organic diseases abruptly and suddenly-without any visible application of remedy or treatment. Scientists and medical men may disbelieve this. But having actually experienced it in my own case and noticed that of others who came before Sri Saibaba. I cannot disbelieve such cases and what is most peculiar – the drawing of diseases on to himself by pure will- power. My eyes have been giving me trouble constantly. On one occasion while I was in Shirdi, they were greatly paining me and water was freely flowing from them. In such a condition, I went and sat up before Baba. He looked at me. My eyes ceased to pain and water. But his eyes were dropping tears". (His Highness Pujyasri B V Narashima Swamyji in The Wondrous Saint Sai Baba) d. Our Prayers to Baba: "If My stories are listened to, all diseases will got rid of. So, hear My stories with respect, and think and meditate on them, assimilate them. This is the way of happiness and contentment." – Shri Sai Baba, SSS Ch. III Dear Sai bandhu, I am member of your news letter ,I am forwarding you this mail so that being Sai Baba's children we all can come forward and group pray for Manjunath brother to our Baba and if possible any other help in any form we can do with Baba's grace ..This is a humble request to all the Baba's children to come forward and help in this critical time of our brother undergoing all this, Though we know Baba is there for Him but let us also come together and pray for our Sai brother.....let us know what all can be done .... Baba is Ultimate may Baba guide us all. Sairam. Manisha Bisht Sairam, There is a brother of ours, who is suffering from a paralyzed condition. Sairam, lets all pray for him, so that Baba will remove his pains, listen to our cries for him is unimaginable. There is prayer request going on for him, in saibaba.org (devotee's forum). Sai Baba, please help this son of yours, who is suffering like anything. Sai, please we all beg in front of you for this little son of yours. Please Baba, we beg in front of you, for this son of yours. This is in reference to Manjunath Kalmani who is paralyzed and in the Nashville Hospital. Sairam, I have copied these postings of him, on saibaba.org. Please pray for the young brother who is hospitalized after a terrible accident. He is paralyzed from neck down. He is jobless no insurance and his parents are in a small village in India. Hope our prayers will bring solution. The hospital here has not decided what to do with him. His bills are piled up. He was travelling through this city when he had the accident. He has no family here. Baba, Show that you are the Help of the Helpless. Bless the brother who is paralyzed. But I am humbly asking for your grace for this brother. His family will be devastated. Baba, why this much pain for this brother. It is unbearable. Please listen, I hope, his cries melt your heart. Pardon if any fault on this brother's part and save him. Everything is possible with Your grace. Please listen and respond soon. Baba, please sit by his side, love him, console him and fill him with strength. Do what is good for this brother. Baba, being a human being, it is but very hard to leave hope. Please protect him. >From Satish, This is reference to Manjunath Kalmani who is paralyzed and in the Nashville Hospital. I am his friend far relative. I have seen him in the Hospital on May 3 after 3 days of accident. It was shocking very disturbing when I have seen him in the condition. I live in Philadelphia. I sincerely thank the Nashville Temple authorities all the devotees for taking care of him and pray God for miracle to work on him so that he can overcome the existing situation. Manju as an Achiever and Committed person. He was an employee of "Weather Channel" for a year where his achievement was he won the "EMPLOYEE of the YEAR" award and was rated as one of excellent employee. He was in process of developing a Web site by http//www.basavanna.com. Please visit the site to see his work. Oh God Sai Baba please help him to overcome the existing situation with all your blessings and give him the Power to fight the paralyzed situation. Thanks, Satish. e. Baba's Help: BABA'S HELP IN MARRIAGES People now that the greatest difficulty of a family, at least a Hindu family, is to procure a suitable bridegroom for a girl. But equally, some houses amongst Hindus, and much more amongst Muslims and others, felt difficulty in getting a boy married. Help in discovering a proper match for a girl or a boy is therefore a veritable boon. We will first deal with the marriage of girls. G.D. Pandit of Colaba was greatly troubled for inability to discover a good bridegroom for his daughter. He made a vow that if he should secure a groom in 15 days, he would start on a pilgrimage from Colaba to Shirdi to see Baba and pay his respects. Then, from distant Hyderabad a young gentleman cam of his own accord to Pandit's house, took a fancy for his daughter, and also married within 15 days. Ganesh Keshav Rege, an Amin, and a staunch devotee of Baba, in poor circumstances had the misfortune, as he called it, of having many daughters so much so that he believed that paradise would the only place where a man would be free from the anxiety to dispose of daughters in marriages. He had succeeded in getting 3 daughters married. For his 4th daughter, he was knocking about from pillar to post and post to pillar, and could not find any suitable husband. Sometimes, success seemed to be within reach, but unkind Fate scattered his hopes to the winds at the crucial moment. In great disgust he sat his Anjangaon in deep despair. Suddenly he heard a voice: `Go to Jirapur'. The words were very loud and clear, but there was no person visible who could have uttered them. This, he thought, was Baba's Asariri Vak for his benefit. He felt that Baba had issued this order to settle the marriage problem. But how could a visit to Jirapur serve any useful purpose? There was none at Jirapur whom he knew, and he had no influence there. So, when he was lost in surprise and confusion, he got an order `Transferred to Jirapur. Go and join duty there'. This was Baba's gift. He was going to an official, an Amin there, and a Government post always carry influence with it, however low it might be. So he went and joined in Jirapur, and made enquiries about the matrimonial possibilities of that new field. He found at Soyath, a few miles from Jirapur, that there was an eligible person. He started negotiations quickly, and within a month of that Asariri Vak, his daughter was wedded. Mr. Ganesh D. Vaidya had a daughter to be married. Repeated efforts to find a groom were failures. He was feeling very much worried. As he was sleeping one day, Baba appeared in a dream and said, `Arre, why are you anxious? Keshava Dixit has a son'. Baba showed him the figure of that boy. Then he got up. He had never heard of Keshava Dixit or seen a boy like that shown in the dream. When he mentioned these facts to his son, the latter told him that in his office there was a Dixit, son of Keshava and a boy had the very features described by his father. They found the community to which the boy belongs was just their community, and the boy was good and willing. The marriage was then performed. The cases of Baba's intervention after his Mahasamadhi are similar to those of his intervention and benefit before his Mahasamadhi. So, we shall describe a few post – Mahasamadhi cases of help. A poor orphan girl had innumerable obstacles in finding a match for herself. She was advised to make a pious study of Dabolkar's Sai Sat Charitra, which is called, Sai Ramayana. She sat before Baba's picture and started that study. The next day someone came and saw her at the parayana, took interest in her, made the necessary enquiries, and married her within a week. This had parallel in Madras, which will be mentioned later. But we will first mention the remaining Maharashtrian cases. Gopal Ganesh Shirian, an ardent devotee of Baba, had entered into a "gentleman's agreement" with a friend that Shirian's daughter should wed his friend's son, after both of them completed their education. The agreement was made in 1924. As he has passed, the boy's progress in collegiate education raised his value in the marriage market, and his father resiled from the agreement and was entering into negotiations with other persons who would give a good karini, that is a high bridegrooms price. When Shirian heard of this, he went before Baba's picture and gave vent to his sorrow. Sai in a dream gave him assurance `Do not worry yourself. I will get the same boy for your son-in-law in two years' time'. Meanwhile so many proposals were being made for that amount of karini and this amount of karini, which were all for above the capacity of poor Shiriyan to pay. But each one of these negotiations of his friend fall through for some reason or other, and at the end of two years, the boy felt ashamed and told his parents that they had broken the gentleman's agreement for no benefit at all and had only lost their reputation by their mercenary efforts. At last, the friend confirmed the original pact, and the marriage was celebrated in two years as fixed by Baba. Another interesting case is that of a sister of Mr. Moreshwar Balakrishna Chouhan. In 1923, a certain gentleman had come and seen that lady, and expressed himself satisfied, and said that a formal letter of acceptance would be sent by him to complete the contract in a week. But many weeks passed, and for nearly six months no letter of acceptance came. Mr. Chouhan's mother was despairing of hearing from that gentleman at all. One night she approached portrait of Baba that she daily worshiped and told Baba, `You use your miraculous powers for the sake of all and sundry. Why not give it us? My daughter is still a spinster, and my mind is greatly worried/ If you have any power, then I must get a reply approving of the match by to-morrow.' Then she went to sleep. That night she dreamt that the following morning (9.00 a.m.), while she was serving food to her son to send him to office, the post man dropped the letter of acceptance from the hesitating party. She forgot all about it till breakfast time the next day. And only then she remembered the dream and mentioned it to her son. Her girl was married. Now we shall come to Madras cases. One Ethirajammal is an ardent devotee of Saibaba, and she had two daughters of whom one was marriageable age, but there was very difficulty in finding a match, expenses of the marriage and the cost of presents to made. So they prayed to Baba. Luckily a groom agreed to marry her daughter and a contractor came to the Sai Samaj, Mylapore, behind which she was living, and offered to help. A programme was fixed upon, and Rs.1700 was the amount required for the performance of the marriage. This sum was not with her family but the contractor came to Samaj, learnt of their condition, and was kind enough to promise Rs.1700 for the marriage. So, arrangements were being made for the marriage, and when it was just a few days before the date fixed for the marriage, suddenly the mind of contractor changed. He said that he could not and would not give even a pie. The girl came with her parents to the Samaj thoroughly disconsolate. It was a Thursday bhajan, and she sang in heart-trending tones the well known bhajan song. What, Baba, are you testing us still? It was so heart-melting that Sri B.V.N. Swamy, the President, who was present, earnestly appealed to Baba to help the poor lady. Then they went away. Next morning another contractor came to the Samaj and learning about their pitiable condition at once provided the money. He wrote out a cheque for Rs.2000 odd and placed it in the hands of the President and asked him to give it to the girl. The marriage of the girl was celebrated in the Sai Mandhir (Sai's Help, by His Highness Pujyasri B V Narasimahswamiji) Publisher's Note: Mailing Address: Vasuki Mahal Shri Shirdi Saibaba Trust, Vasuki Mahal Compound, Gandhi Nagar, Edayar Palayam, Coimbatore 641025, India. e- mail to: essgee. To Subscribe Sai Service Newsletter for receipt by Email please contact us in our above e-mail address. Members of http://e at will receive this newsletter regularly. If you are subscribing the newsletter for your friend or a relative, we request that the person concerned may be notified about receiving the newsletter and the willingness to receive the newsletter is confirmed. To Un-Subscribe receipt, reply to the mail and write `un-' in subject column. To make a contribution to any of the sections of Sai Service, please submit Articles to Sai Service through our e-mail address. 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