Sai Baba-Kodaikanal trip from 11-may 20-may-03

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Swami came to kodai on 11 th of this month. He reached

madurai at 2.20 pm by flight and from there he proceeded to kodai at 4pm, in his

white Mercedes which has come to the airport.a large continent of foreign

devotees had accompanied him.

As words started to spread people had arrived along the

road sides to have a glimpse of the Bhagawan.

The next day he started his daily darshan at around 8am and

the evening darshan at 3pm and bhajans afterwards.

Devotees from nearby kerala and district of tamil nadu were 

coming in large numbers after the news of his arrival spread. No rooms

were available in any hotels and room rents had sky rocked. in contrast just 2

days prior to saibaba visit, rooms in kodai were seen begging!

It is three years since saibaba has come to kodai.ashram.

Since last so many years it has been the practices of saibaba to spend the

summer in kodai for the benefits of the overseas devotees who cant bear the hot

summer in the plains.sai baba used to stay in the house of devotee Mr srinivasan

and darshan was given from there.Around 7 years back Mr srinivasan donated

around 3 acres of prime land overlooking the lake to the central trust along

with buildings which became “Sai Sruthi” kodaikanal asrham .This asrahm is

very beautiful and full of gardens and chirping birds.

For devotees darshan at kodai is always an experience.

since the number of devotees are less (3000-4000)chances of getting padanamaskar

and interview are more from kodai.for evening bhajans, foreign devotees are

invited to sing bhajans ...

In kodai the business and vendor always pray to saibaba to

come early because when sai comes business booms. The whole kodai becomes alive

with a large influx of people.this time is called baba season.

When baba did not visit kodai for the last 3 years the

business in kodai was greatly hit.

Unconfirmed rumors say that saibaba was dissatisfied

because of the fleecing of devotees by shop establishments and the sky rocking

of the rooms rents when saibaba comes..

 

Last month a large continent of business people from kodai

had gone to banglore to see saibaba and had requested him to come to kodai.

When saibaba came it was heard that he will be in kodai

till 27 th. However saibaba left kodai on 20 th for banglore.For the local

business people it seems that they have not learned there lessons because during

this time also it was fleecing and more fleecing of devotees  

of hard earned money.

 

Photos of Kodaikanal ashram ,and images taken with my

digital camera on 15-5-03 can be viewed at http://saibaba.tk

two Rare sai photo are given as attachment also

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