JAI SATCHIDANANDA !!

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JAI SATCHIDANANDA !!!

Bhishma was a widower who lived in Nagpur. Though he was drawn to Baba he did

not overcome his notion that Baba was a Moslem. As a result he could not take,

as many devotees did, the padateertha of Baba (i.e., water that was consecrated

by being used to wash Baba’s feet). He could not accept, too, the smoking pipe

(chillim) that Baba offered to devotees.

On a full moon day, Bhishma had a dream in which he saw a man with tripundra (or

the vaisnava mark on his forehead) and performed puja (or worship) to the holy

man’s wooden sandal (paduka). The holy one showed him a paper on which a mantra

was written. It was "Satchidananda". As soon as he read it, the mantra

disappeared from the paper and Bhishma woke up from his dream. When he asked a

sadhu about his dream and the mantra he had seen, the latter told him that it

is the name of the guru he had seen in his dream and that the name of a perfect

guru is also a mantra.

After some days Bhishma came to Shirdi. On seeing him Sai Baba smiled and said,

"Jai Satchidananda!" Bhishma immediately nodded and said, "We are moving all

over. There’s Ram (or the Spirit of Lord Sri Ram) everywhere." Henceforth

Bhishma also started accepting such favours from Baba as the chillim from which

he smoked

ALWAYS & IN ALL THE WAYS WITH ME !!!

How closely Baba watches over the comfort and convenience of Shri Sharananandaji

can be seen from a miracle that is narrated by Sri. D. Manganlal Pourohit of

Ahmednagar. In 1963, Sri Manganlal started on a pilgrimage to holy Kedarnath

along with Sri Sai Sharananandaji and Smt. Gouribahen.

The party was to proceed from Mathura to Hardwar by bus and it was necessary to

reserve their seats in the bus three days in advance. If they could not reach

Hardwar by 26th June 1963 they would have to cancel all their subsequent

programmes. But they had no hope of securing seats in the bus just a few hours

before departure time. Yet, as a last effort Sri Manganlal went to the bus

stand at 8 p.m. and the bus had arrived. Sri Manganlal asked the conductor for

tickets to Hardwar for the morning bus.

To the utter surprise of Sri Manganlal, the conductor spoke to him as familiarly

as an old acquaintance and said, "Are there a Swamiji and an old lady travelling

with you?" and then issued him three tickets for Hardwar. He said, "At Aligar,

an old sadhu gave me these tickets and told me to deliver them to you; he said

that you would be meeting me at this bus-stand at 8 p.m. i.e., now."

Who could that old sadhu be? Shri Sharananandaji was travelling. It could only

be Sai Baba who assisted the party. This amply proves what Shri Sharananandaji

said to me when we met him at 1976. "Sai Baba is always with me. I feel his

presence and I ever hear his words."

(Source: Sai Baba The Master, by Pujya E Bharadwaja)

 

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