Is Saibaba more alive now than when He was living?

October 23, 2003

D. Sankaraiah, Hyderabad, India Is Saibaba more alive now than when He was

living? "Was Baba living because He had the body, and was He dead because he

left it. No! Baba is ever alive for He transcends both life and death."

(SriSaiSatCharitra) There is a village named Ventrapaggada in Krishna Dist. of

Andhra, India. There lived a pious couple by name Mr. NagaBhairava Venkata

Ratnam and Mrs.NagaRatnamma. They had no issues. Once she developed skin

allergy, which was troubling her. At that time, one Mr.PallavajjulaRamrao

Headmaster who returned from Shirdi gave them Udi, Baba's photo and Locket. She

applied Udi on her body. To their surprise, she got complete relief from the

ailment. Now let us note Baba's words "I give what they want, so that they

begin to want what I want to give" After solving their problems Baba attracted

them towards him. All the three viz.

Mrs. and Mr. VenkataRatnam and RamaRao gradually developed their place with

Sai's blessing as a center of Sai activities. This incident took place in

January'1940. I.e. 22 years after Baba’s Mahasamadhi. They started doing Sai

Bhajans in their house. Huge crowds gathered and participated in Sai worship.

Sainath in His mysterious way manifested Himself and blessed the participants.

The pious couple wanted to pay a visit to Shirdi and left their village on

26.11.1940. On the way, they had to stay a night at Kopparagaon Rly Station.

That night Sri Venkata Ratnam garu saw a marble Samadhi in a dream. He was

surprised to see the same Samadhi at Shirdi on the next day. It was a clear

indication that Baba was looking after His devotees. Fortunately H.H. B.V.N

Swamiji, founder-President of All India Sai Samaj was camping at Shirdi at that

time. Swamiji took personal interest and showed them Gurustan other places. He

took them to Upasini Maharaj of Sakori, who blessed them. That night he had

a dream in which a Brahman was giving a child. That dream came true on

19-09-1941 as a female child was born. They thought of building a mandhir at

their village. It was completed and inaugurated by BVN Swamy on 22.01.1942.

Sacred Dhuni also started with fire brought from Shirdi Dwarakamai. On

24.04.1943, it appears that was the first mandhir of Sai and the place was

considered as second Shirdi. Is it not a confirmation of Baba's assurance, "I

shall be ever active and vigorous even after leaving this earthly body?

Arun Reddy Nukala

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October 24, 2003

The article is good...but the contents require some modification.

In the article, it is mentioned that "it appears the first temple for sai..was

established at Ventrapaggada,Krishna Dt.Andhra Pradesh.."and the place is

considered second shirdi"

In this connection I would like to bring it to the notice of all concerened that

Pujyasri B.V.Narasimhaswamiji established "All India Sai Samaj(Regd) Madras" as

early as in the year 1941.

The mandir at Ventrapaggada,Krishna Dt., Andhra Pradesh was inagurated only

later..that is on 22-1-942.

Moreover Pujyasri Narasimhaswamiji is mainly responsible for spreading sai

movement to such an extent...due to that effort in the early years..now crores

and crores of devotees in the fold of sai now..and many mandirs exists

throughout the universe...(this is due to swamiji's untiring effort of

propagating Sai prachar during the years 1936-1956.)

Blesssing of Lord Sai to everyone on this happy occasion of Deepavali

yours in sai service,

K.Ramaswamy, former President(1997-2001) All India Sai Samaj(Regd).

Arun Reddy <arunreddy_n > wrote: