Kalpa - Vriksha Shri Sai

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Kalpa - Vriksha

Shri Sai

On 29-8-76, I reached

Shirdi at the lotus feet of Shri Sai Nathji Maharaj. It was after a

period of one and a half year that I was allowed by HIM to come to His lotus

feet, my last visit being in March 75.

On reaching there, I contacted Shri Shinde, who very kindly guided me to keep my luggage in

room No. 8, above the parcel cloth depot and that some other room would be

allotted to me after the Noon Aarti. I followed the attendant and when I came

in front of room No. 8, I was wonderstruck and overjoyed to see that Shri Sai Nathji Maharaj was Himself there to receive me. (A big colour portrait of Babaji is

there above the door of this room and no other room). After Noon Aarti, I kept

my luggage in the newly allotted room and then went to Kopargaon

to have the sacred Godavari bath and

returned by evening.

 

On 30-8-76, after

attending Kakad Aarti and Abhishek, I went in Dwarkamai at 9 a.m. and started

my Saptahik Path of Hindi Shri

Sai Satcharita. Before starting reading, I prayed to Shri Sai that this parayan of

mine should not be mere reading, but I must have His Grace definitely. After

bowing at His lotus Feet, I started the Path. Hardly had I read one or two slokas of the first chapter, some flower leaves fell upon

the " Granth " , and when I looked up, an

elderly Mahatman, having Ramuaam

cloth upon his shoulders, was standing there. He applied Tilak

on my forehead too and thus Shri Sai Himself blessed

my Parayan. Later I came to know that the elderly Mahatman was none other than Shri

Martand Bhagat, son of Late Shri

Mhalsapaty, the Great Bhakta

of Shri Sai Baba.

 

How and why I had come to Shirdi and why this Saptahik Path was done by me in Shri

Dwarkamai, all this will be narrated in some next

issue of Shri Sai Leela.

 

While doing the Parayan, I saw that Bhaktas were putting a little part of their offerings to Shri Sai Babaji in the Kolamb kept outside Shri Sai's Dhuni, which was being

taken away as Prasadam by other Bhaktas.

 

And here Shri Sai Baba is " Kalpa-Vriksha " : I demanded from Babaji

this very Prasadam from the Kolamb,

asking Him to give the same to me. And that neither I would pick it up from the

Kolamba myself nor I would demand from any Bhakta, offering the same to Shri

Babaji. I prayed in this manner and was confident

that He will surely fulfill my desire.

 

Here I may point out that daily after the evening Aarti, I used to

go to Abdul Baba's Cottage, opposite Chawadi, for

some time.

 

On 31-8-76 (Tuesday)

evening, one Conductor, who was also sitting in the Cottage, told me that I

will have some unusual experience in Dwarkamai on

Thursday (2-9-76). He

further added that these words should not be taken as untrue, as he was also

son of a PIR-FAKIR and was forced to utter there words.

 

On 1-9-76 (Wednesday)

evening, in the same Cottage, one Panditji

(Astrologer) also said to me that next morning (Thursday) I will have Shri Sai's Grace in Shri Dwarkamai. He too, added

that he did not say this because of his knowledge, but a divine message was

conveyed to me through him.

 

On 2-9-76 (Thursday)

I went lo Dwarkamai at 8-30 a. m, after usual worship

in the Samadhi Mandir and sat there. One Bhakta, Shri A. S. Manohar from Dadar, used to do parayan of

Marathi Shri Sai Satcharita

and after him I used to start my " path " at 9 a. m. Next to Shri Manohar, was sitting another Bhakta,

next to him I, and next to me two other Bhaktas. In

other words out of five, I was in the centre, two being on my each side. Just

at this time one Bhakta comes, places his Thali of Naivedya (Halwa) in front of Babaji in Dwarkamai,

takes a handful out of it and keeps the same in the Kolamb.

Turns back, picks up his Thali and gets down the

steps of Dwarkamai. Walking four or five steps, stops,

turns back, climbs the steps of Dwarkamai, again

places his Thali in front of Shri

Babaji, comes to the Kolamb,

picks up the prasadam (kept by himself), comes

straight to me and offers the same to me. I stretch my hands and accept the

same with reverence, with tears of joy in my eyes (DHANYA DHANYA

SADGURU SHRI SAI NATHAJI MAHARAJ), Again the Bhakta

picks up his Thali, gets down, goes four five steps,

thinking something nods his head and moves on.

 

At the time of the evening Aarti, I again caught sight of that

same Bhakta and approached him and thanked him for

giving me Prasadam in Dwarakamai

in the morning, whereupon he replied that he himself was unable to understand

as to what made him pick up Prasadam from the Kolamb as that is against the usual practice. He thought

over that again and again and came to the conclusion that Shri

Sai Himself had wished all this and got the same done through him accordingly.

 

Shri Sai's

beloved Bhaktas, during this visit, I experienced

that it rained cats and dogs of His Grace and Blessings, which I will try to

narrate by and by through the columns of Shri Sai

Leela.

 

The publishing of all this is of course late, because I thought in

my mind that all this BLISS is my personal property. But after getting

inspiration by reading Shri Sai Satcharita,

I have come to the conclusion that this sort of behavior is narrow mindedness

which should be given up. And such experiences should be given in Shri Sai Leela, so that other Bhaktas

may also enjoy His Grace.

 

Bow to Shri Sai Nathji

Maharaj at His Lotus Feet May He shower His Blessings

upon us all and grant us pure Devotion and Absolute Surrender.

Sai

Charan Das.

Pathankot

 

(Source Shri Sai Leela Jan 1979)