Can I write an email or letter to Baba

January 28, 2008

Hi All fellow Devotees,

I am going thru a very tough time in my life and as much as i am trying to be nice and let go and sacrifice more on my part, that much people are pushing me to be bad.

Actually, here it goes... the story of my life.

My in laws family is very very big devotee of BABA... in fact all of them and BABA has blessed mostly all of them with either a ling, or a pendal or something or other... my mother in law is blessed with a Jalaram Bapa murti (the diety that she follows and has very firm faith) and BABA has given a JYOTILINGAM to my husband.

Long story short... I was advised by my in laws that i stay back in india for a year (my husband and close family is in the US) if i dont then there would be some calamity in our house and chances are that someone might die. We do get periodic guidance from BABA, but BABA didnt say anything on this issue... (or i am not aware if BABA had mentioned anything) I understood that if i stay back in india, then i would jeopardize my green card and would have to file the immigration process to go back to the USA.

I love my husband very dearly, however, in this separation of about 15 months, my husband came to me on my forth marriage anniversary and told me HE WANTS A DIVORCE. he even told me blackmailed me... that if i sign the divorce papers here in India, only then he will file for my immigration to get back to the US.

I am completely devistated. I want BABA to guide me. I came to know about BABA and HIS AVTAR though my in laws family. I dont have any way i can ask BABA a question or proabbly pass a message to him.

Can anyone suggest me a way how can i write an email to BABA or a letter to BABA?

I dont want to get separated from my husband. however, my husband has possibily tried everything that i have to stay back in india and he can very easily stay in US. all of my family by birth are in the USA ... so in this situation, if i have to stay back in india, then someone from my side has to come her to live with me. I have finished my high school and my college education in the US, i am not aware of the day to day life dealings in india. (however, i love india very much... if need be i can learn)

I sometimes cry like a baby ... i dont want to get separated from my husband, i cant stand the hatred that he has towards me. in fact i have loved him very dearly from last 10 years. we met in college... on my first day of college and we started going out from my second semister.

BABA please help me.... I DONT WANT TO GET SEPARATED FROM MY HUSBAND.

I dont understand that BABA has blessed my husband with Jyotilingam.... then how can he think of doing harm to someone... and that to someone that he has taken wowes to live with in thick and thins of life....

I know i have suffered a lot in the past 15 months that we were separated.... but he does not understand that and dont what to understant that... have you heard the pharase... hate someone with passion... that is how my husband is treating me.

Even with all the things that my husband is doing for me... i litterally do not mean any harm to him. At this point all i want to do is surrender my self totally to BABA, but i guess i have questions... aaisa kyoo... mere saath hi kyoo... why is this happening with me after all my sacrifice for my family and my husband.

I think of my earlier days with my husband (even when he was my boyfriend) I was (still am) madly in love with him that i could not even pass a single day without talking with him or seeing him.

BABA please help.

Can anyone of you suggest me how can i pass my message to BABA.

BABA ki

Mina

January 29, 2008

Dear Mina,

SAi Ram, Please take some time out for yourself and spend it living in

Baba's proximity at Prashanthi Nilayam. Pray earnestly day and night while

you are there. Write to him daily. Let Baba's love transform you so that you

see the Love in all. Let things take their course. Let Swami take care of

you.

Sai Ram

On Jan 28, 2008 4:27 AM, mina patel <pappuandmina wrote:

> Hi All fellow Devotees,

>

> I am going thru a very tough time in my life and as much as i am trying to

> be nice and let go and sacrifice more on my part, that much people are

> pushing me to be bad......

January 29, 2008

Om Sai Ram Dear Mina,

First I would like to say that I, too, had gone through long dark days in my relationship with my husband, but my faith in Baba and my adherence to what Baba calls the "Five Human Values" of Love, Peace, Truth, Right Action and Non-violence, got me through the karmic "test" of my life. It took 4 years, but it was Baba who turned my situation around 180 degrees. Everyone who knew me and the situation I was in with my husband were totally surprised by the positive outcome (after all that I had been through). I will not go into details here, as it is way too long a story, but the point is that Baba took care of it.

Here is the address you can write to Swami at Prashanti Nilayam, His ashram in Puttaparthi:

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Prashanti Nilayam 515 134

Puttaparthi, Anantapur District (A.P.) India

Please know that Baba knows what is in your heart, and He knows what you are going to write before your pen even touches the paper. (But it is still good to write to Him, even if just to "get it off your chest"). Know that Baba is the DOER of everything. He is Director, and we are his actors. All the situations in our lives, although they may not seem so at the time, are really exactly what we need at exactly the time we need it, to learn and grow on to go to the next step in our march towards enlightenment (merging back with Baba - God), by giving us the situations we need to humble our ego, purify our hearts with Love, to balance our karmic debts, and to learn to trust God (Baba). But Baba also tells us to always "Be happy", because everything is always for our own good (even though it

may not seem so at the time).

Here is a story Baba tells about a king who was planning to go on an expedition with his #1 man, a man who always saw the positive in everything. Before the trip, the king cut his finger badly and his #1 man said, "It's a good thing you cut your finger". This enraged the king, who had his #1 man imprisoned for saying that, and the king went on the expedition without him. During the expedition, the king encountered some tribals who captured him with the intent of sacrificing him to their gods. Just as the tribals were about to perform the sacrifice, they noticed the cut finger of the king. Since they saw that the king was not "unblemished", he was no longer considered a suitable sacrifice, so they let him go.

When the king returned home, he had his #1 man released from prison. The king apologized for having imprisoned him, for, after all, he was right - it WAS a good thing he cut his finger. The king then asked him, "You always look at the bright side - but how could you possibly be happy that I had imprisoned you?" His #1 man replied,"Well, if I had not been in prison, I would have certainly gone with you, and when they realized you had a cut finger, then they surely would have sacrificed me instead!"

One can never know why something happens, just be sure it is for the best. Here's another story:

Two angels stopped for rest at the home of mean and nasty, rich old man. Though he gave them shelther his words and demeanor were not that of a kind and gentle person, but rather a cynical, sarcastic, curmudgeon. He allowed them to sleep in his cold, damp and drafty basement, but for an exhorbitant price. During the night, one of the angels found a large crack in the wall of the basement and repaired it. The other angel said, "Why did you fix the wall of that mean old nasty man?" The angel replied, "Things are not what they seem".

The next night the two angels sought shelter at the home of a poor farmer and his wife, who bade them welcome and gave them a hot meal and gave up their comfortable beds to the angels for the night, and themselves slept on the floor. They charged the angels no rent, just asked them to return a good deed to someone else in the future.

The next morning the farmer and his wife found their one and only milk cow dead. The other angel said to the first angel, 'How could you let this happen to these kind and generous people, and you fixed the crack in the wall for that mean old nasty man yesterday?" The first angel replied, "Things are not what they seem. You see, yesterday, I found that there was a great store of gold hidden in the crack in the wall. It would have been found by that mean old man had I not sealed up the crack. As for the cow that died, I learned that the angel of death was to be coming to that farmhouse for the farmer's wife, but Iinstead I intervened so that the cow would meet death instead".

And so it is with our lives - things are not always what they seem!

I have written to Baba many times thanking Him for all He has given me and asking His help with the problems I was facing. Baba NEVER let me down!! He took care of all my problems, although maybe not as immediately as I thought or as I would have imagined , but exactly when the time was right in the absolute best way. There were situations I had to go through - like a test - to see if my faith was really in Baba and His teachings (of Love, Peace, Truth, Right Action and Non-violence), but with adherence to those principles the tests are made infinitely lighter. When you give ALL your burdens to Baba and KNOW that He will take care of them, He absolutely does.

Now, I don't know anything really about your situation, just the synopsis of what you wrote, but based on that, I would like to kindly throw out some suggestions to you that occured to me as I reflected on what you wrote. Please take them or discard them as you see fit. Please look the suggestions as a kind of "brainstorming":

From my perspective, you are Soooo blessed to be in India; the seat of spirituality of the ENTIRE EARTH (maybe even Universe...); the ONLY place God chooses to incarnate (that right there says A LOT!). My daughter (then age 13) and I went to India for the first time this past summer for a month. and stayed the entire time at Prashanti Nilayam - we wished we never had to leave!! (We live in Florida, U.S.A.). Even now, we are planning our next trip, probably summer of 2009. Another friend of mine from Florida, who is retired from the postal service, just purchased an apartment in Puttaparthi. Many of my friends, including myself and my daughter, yearn to be in India, with "The Form" (We know Baba is with us no matter where we are, but we still want to be with Him "in Form").

Perhaps Baba has work for you to do in India, and He has put the feelings in your husband's heart to free you from your strong passion and attachment to your husband, so you could really find out who You really are and what You can really do, to use Your abilites, to become a clear channel of goodness in this world. Perhaps it is Baba as Shiva destroying the old, outdated way of seeing life so that you can experience life in a totally new and wonderful, more spiritual way. Perhaps it is a karmic test to see who you would choose between God or your husband. (Hint: You CAN"T go wrong when you choose God). That was my "Test" and I believe I passed - I choose God- and God gave me everything back - and more- but not in the way I could have ever imagined! (Think of the story of Mirabai).

Baba says, "Love My Uncertainty" and "Always Be Happy". Good advice...!

With Love,

Barbara Joy

mina patel <pappuandmina ; Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:27:02 AM Can I write an email or letter to BABA