Devotees's Experiences - Contributed by Pratik Jasani, United Kingdom

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DEVOTEE EXPERIENCE By Pratik Jasani from U.K.

 

Recently I had, what seemed like a nightmare. Somebody

was beating me and I was not able to see the person's

face. It reached a point when I was in pain and

couldn't do anything to stop this person. The person,

wearing black clothes, continued beating me on the

ribs and arm. The pain that I was suffering soon

became unbearable and I screamed out in utter pain:

" Sai Baba! " Suddenly within seconds the beating

stopped and a person in white kafni appeared from the

side and unfortunately at that moment, my eyes closed

- I had passed out.

 

After a while, as I opened my eyes, I noticed that

there was bruising all over my chest area but the

person in black clothes had disappeared and Baba in

his white kafni stood above me and just smiled for a

while and then vanished. This was not the first time

that Baba has appeared to me - several times He has

always warned me about any mishaps that are about to

happen or has always helped me.

 

I have had other experiences of Baba's vision but the

most remarkable one was few years back, when I left

Kenya and had forgotten to pack my Sai Satcharita.

When I reached London, I remembered it and tried to

get my friend to send it to me but he didn't. So I was

very upset and was not able to find another copy of it

and I said that whenever I could go to Shirdi, I would

get a copy. Then in 1994, my sister got married in

India and everywhere that we went, we either met

people who were devotees of Sai Baba, or we saw his

portraits and photos.

 

After the wedding, I had planned to go to Shirdi but

was not able to do so. But just a few days before I

was due to return to the UK, we got an offer to go to

Shirdi. Upon reaching there, I immediately went to

Baba's mandir and prayed and the guide then asked what

I wanted to do in the short time that I had left. My

immediate reply was to get a copy of Sai Satcharita. I

was told that it would take a while before I would be

able to obtain a copy so I asked the guide to wait for

me. He didn't say anything and everybody else was

forced to wait. But a miracle took place as within

five minutes several copies arrived and one was handed

over to me along with some udi.

 

A few years later as I was going through an old

suitcase of mine, I noticed a book with a red cover

and saw the writing " Sai Satcharita. " I quickly opened

it and saw that it was the copy that I had forgotten

in Kenya and not the one that I had brought from

Shirdi. I could not understand how it reached there

and I still can't. Just a while back I enquired

whether my friend had sent me the book. The reply I

received was that there were so many things that he

 

Pratik Jasani, United Kingdom